A remote-operation authenticating unit determines whether to permit a
remote operation of the video-phone terminal apparatus by other
video-phone terminal apparatus via a video phone communication. A remote
operation unit receives, from the other video-phone terminal apparatus, a
request for a control including at least a shutter control of the image
capturing device to shoot an image, and executes the control in response
to the request. An image converting unit converts the image into an image
for the video phone communication. A communicating unit transmits the
image for the video phone communication to the other video-phone terminal
apparatus.