Patent ID: 8347160

Claim:
An information communication terminal comprising: a receiving unit that received an externally transmitted frame; a correction processing unit that corrects an error in data, said correction processing unit being configured: in a state for performing the error correction, to output said data after performing error correction according to correction information in said frame on the data in said frame received by said receiving unit, and in a state for not performing the error correction, to output said data without performing the error correction on the data in said frame received by said receiving unit; and a determining unit that determines whether the error correction is to be performed on said correction processing unit or not, wherein said determining unit determines, in response to every reception of said frame by said data receiving unit, based on correction enable/disable data whether said error correction is to be performed or not, and causes said correction processing unit to perform the error correction on the data in said received frame when said determining unit determines that said error correction is to be performed.