To provide a technology for reducing an uncomfortable feeling that is given to a user for handling communication equipment.

A display switching section 9 switches display on a display section 4 from the state of displaying an image corresponding to a communication opposite party into the state of displaying an image denoting decoded received image data. In this case, a display switching section 9 makes the display section 4 first display an image denoted by intra image data whose decoding is finished in the data included in the received image data. Thus, in the case of switching the display, a complete image for one image pattern is first displayed without fail and flickering of the image can be prevented. As a result, the uncomfortable feeling given to the user handling the communication apparatus 80 can be reduced.