Patent ID: 8694326

Claim:
A communication terminal which performs audio signal communication with another communication terminal, the communication terminal comprising: a decoding unit configured to (i) decode an input bitstream received from the other communication terminal, to generate an output audio signal and (ii) output the generated output audio signal to a speaker; an echo cancellation unit configured to obtain an input audio signal and remove, for respective subbands, an echo component included in the obtained input audio signal, to generate an audio signal for transmission, the input audio signal representing sound captured by a microphone placed in a space to which the speaker outputs the sound, and the echo component corresponding to the output audio signal generated by the decoding unit; a coding unit configured to (i) code the audio signal for transmission to generate an output bitstream and (ii) transmit the generated output bitstream to the other communication terminal; a control unit configured to control, for the respective subbands, echo cancellation processing of the echo cancellation unit according to a reproduction band of at least one of the output audio signal and the audio signal for transmission; and an instruction unit configured to transmit an instruction to the other communication terminal when an amount of computation in processing performed by the communication terminal exceeds a predetermined threshold, the instruction being an instruction for limiting a reproduction band of an audio signal which is used by the other communication terminal in generating the input bitstream.