Patent ID: 8615073

Claim:
An image display apparatus, comprising: a communications module configured to transmit and receive call information with a communications equipment connected to the image display apparatus through a network, the call information indicating information to communicate with the communications equipment; an acquisition module configured to acquire environmental information representing an external environment of the image display apparatus; an identification module configured to identify personal information indicating a person existing in the environment or age information indicating an age of a person existing in the environment from the environmental information; and a determination module configured to determine, when the communications module receives the call information from the communications equipment, whether to permit the communications module to transmit and receive the call information with respect to the communications equipment that transmits the call information based on the identified personal information or the identified age information, wherein when the determination module determines not to permit the communications module to transmit and receive the call information, the determination module further determines whether to display on a display module that the call information has been received, based on the identified personal information or the identified age information.