Patent 7545404 was granted and assigned to Alpine Electronics (company) on June, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A videophone includes a videophone unit, a movement determining section, and a notifying section. By notifying, with the notifying section, a different videophone associated with a communicating party that the videophone unit is moving, the videophone unit receives, from the different videophone at the communicating party, data having an image frame rate lowered less than an image frame rate obtained when the videophone unit is stationary and having an audio error resilience level raised greater than an audio error resilience level obtained when the videophone unit is stationary.