Patent ID: 7545404
Filing Date: 2009-06-09
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A videophone including a videophone unit operable to transmit and receive data including audio and images to and from a different videophone, the videophone comprising: a movement determining section operable to determine whether the videophone unit is moving; a notifying section operable to notify the different videophone located at a communicating party's location of a result of the determination performed by the movement determining section; and a control section operable to direct that, when the notifying section notifies the different videophone that the videophone unit is moving, the videophone unit receives from the different videophone data having an image frame rate lowered less than an image frame rate obtained when the videophone unit is stationary and also having an audio error resilience level raised greater than an audio error resilience level obtained when the videophone unit is stationary.