Patent ID: 8848216

Claim:
An image communication apparatus comprising: a transmission control unit that controls an image information communication with a destination device which is another image communication apparatus based on an image information communication protocol; a network control unit that controls a network connection for a public network; a transmission/reception control unit that controls signal transmission and reception of the image information communication based on the image information communication controlled by the transmission control unit and the network connection controlled by the network control unit; a registering unit that registers pieces of communication control information with the transmission/reception control unit, the pieces of communication control information including a signal transmission power level and a minimum signal reception power level when communicating with the destination device, the signal transmission power level and the minimum signal reception power level being determined in consideration of an attenuation of a transmission/reception signal and an echo signal level; a judging unit that judges, when a communication instruction with respect to the destination device is received, whether the pieces of communication control information are registered with the registering unit as corresponding to the destination device; and a communication control unit that controls the transmission/reception control unit based on the pieces of communication control information if the judging unit judges that the pieces of communication control information are registered with the registering unit as corresponding to the destination device.