Abstract: A technique allowing the pictographic characters or the face marks to be converted to, for example, the corresponding, but more expressive and more vivid facial image of high picture quality and thereby to achieve compact but smooth and amusing communication. Images are distributed via e-mail constructed so that, when a text accompanied with pictographic characters is transmitted from a user terminal and received by a communication processor of a server a registering station and an image/text processor read out user-registered images corresponding to the ideographic characters from a user database are then combined these images with the text back such combination sent back to the user terminal via the communication processor. Thus, it is also possible for the image processor to utilize the image database for the purpose of synthesis of a morphing processed image, as a user instruct it, and to distribute the text accompanied with such morphing processed image.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a technique allowing the pictographic characters or the face marks to be converted to, for example, the corresponding, but more expressive and more vivid facial image of high picture quality and thereby to achieve compact but smooth and amusing communication. An system for distribution of images via e-mail constructed so that, when a text accompanied with pictographic characters is transmitted from a user terminal 1 and received by a communication processor 11 of a server 10, a registering station 12 and a image/text processor 15 read out user-registered images corresponding to the ideographic characters from a user database 13, then combine these images with the text and send back such combination to the user terminal 1 via the communication processor 11.