A call by a video telephone can be made appropriately. A video telephone
for transmitting and receiving a voice and an image comprising: an
imaging unit for picking up an image of a speaker who speaks by a video
telephone; a displaying unit for displaying an image of the speaker that
is picked up by the imaging unit before starting to call when a video
telephone receives an incoming call; and a transmitting unit for
transmitting an image, which the imaging unit is picking up together with
a voice of a speaker to a video telephone of an opposite party in a state
that speaking is being made.