IMAGE-AREA EXTRACTING METHOD FOR VISUAL TELEPHONE

A visual telephone terminal that allows the user to easily designate any desired area to be extracted from an image being shown on a display portion by an area-extracting frame or form prepared by using numeral keys and stored in storing means, requiring no additional cost. On the numeral keys on the visual telephone terminal, the user selects a numeral key corresponding to a start point of area-extracting frame or form, moves the start point to a desired position and fixes it at the position by pressing the start point key, then performs similar operations for selecting and deciding the second point, thus forming the area-extracting form on the image.