Patent ID: 8587633

Claim:
A video telephone system comprising: a digital broadcast receiver configured to receive a digital broadcast signal and to reproduce a 2D or 3D video signal and an audio signal from a demodulated signal of the received digital broadcast signal; a display unit and speakers configured to output the reproduced 2D or 3D video signal and the audio signal, respectively, and to serve for a TV phone call; a camera unit and a microphone unit for a TV phone call; a communication unit configured to transmit a 2D or 3D image data taken by the camera unit and an audio data picked up by the microphone unit to the outside, and to receive a 2D or 3D image data and an audio data from the outside; and a controller configured to receive meta-information indicating whether a counterpart TV receiver is in a 3D video displayable state, and to perform a control so that at least one of the 2D or 3D image data, the audio data, and a message is transmitted to the counterpart TV receiver depending on whether the counterpart TV receiver is in the 3D video displayable state, in making a TV phone call.