Patent ID: 8279252

Claim:
A communication terminal apparatus, comprising: a storage unit which stores a communication record indicating whether a communication has been performed by a videophone using both voices and images or by a voice phone using only voices, in association with a person to communicate with; a determination unit which, when a call is to be made to an arbitrary person, determines whether to use the voice phone or to use the videophone by referring to the communication record stored in association with that person; a communication control unit which makes a call to that person by either of the voice phone and the videophone that is determined by the determination unit; and a calculation unit which calculates a frequency of use and stores said calculated frequency of use in the storage unit; wherein in a case where a call from a person is received by the videophone, the determination unit determines whether to communicate with that person by the videophone, by referring to the communication record associated with that person, and in a case where the determination unit determines to communicate by the videophone, the communication control unit communicates with that person by the videophone; and wherein, when a communication with a person is to be performed, the determination unit refers to the communication record stored in the storage unit in association with that person, and determines to communicate by a communication method that has a higher frequency of use.