Picture Frame Images

Frame images are images that decorate the pictures you have taken with the camera on your mobile phone. You can use these frame images when taking pictures with the camera on your mobile phone, or when editing the pictures you have taken with the camera on your mobile phone.

Users can combine frame images saved in the terminal with picture images taken with the camera on their mobile phones. The picture image will appear in the transparent area of the frame image. The combined image will be saved in the same JPEG format as the picture image. Frame images are combined with picture images in actual size without being enlarged or made shrunk. Frame images that are different in size from picture images cannot be combined with those picture images.

Besides the pictures that have been taken with the phone’s camera, it is possible to combine frames with any distributable image, including those downloaded from i-mode sites.
Combined files take the attributes of the ones they are created from.

Due to the native function operation of the mobile phone, downloaded frame images by themselves cannot be transferred beyond the mobile phone. However, like picture images, frame images combined with picture images can be transferred beyond the mobile phone. When providing frame images as contents, it is a requirement that combined images are able to be transferred beyond the mobile phone.

Frame images by themselves cannot be transferred beyond the mobile phone regardless of whether or not they have redistribution-proof identifiers1.

1 Redistribution indicates transferring saved files beyond the mobile phone through means such as attaching to mail. Files can be made redistribution-proof by including a redistribution-proof identifier.

Frame images should be created so they conform to the following conditions.
By downloading image files that conform to the following conditions with a frame image download compatible mobile phone, the image will be recognized as a frame image and saved in the data storage area in the mobile phone.

• The extension of the file is ".ifm".
• The image is a transparent GIF file.
• The image size is one that can be recognized as a frame image1.

1 Please refer to the Picture Frame Images chart for information on image sizes that can be recognized as frame images.

Because frame images are determined by their extensions, please be careful when using CGI to provide frame images. The URL or the query must end with "ifm".

Example URL of CGI Providing Frame Image	Frame Image Determination
http://www.docomo.ne.jp/frame/getframe.cgi (no restrictions on the CGI file extension AND the query end)
http://www.docomo.ne.jp/frame/getframe.cgi?filename=frame.ifm (the query ends with ".ifm")
http://www.docomo.ne.jp/frame/frame.ifm (the CGI file extension is ".ifm")
http://www.docomo.ne.jp/frame/frame.ifm?name=abc&id=1 (the CGI file extension is ".ifm" AND the query does not end with ".ifm")

:Compatible with all the handsets
:Not compatible with some handsets
:Not copmatible with any handset

In addition, the Content-Type of files with the extension ".ifm" must be set as "image/gif" on the Web server sending the frame image.

Please refer to the Picture Frame Images chart for handsets compatible with frame image downloading.