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.