The invention refers to a teleconference module for exchanging pictures with an opposite communicating equipment through a communication circuit, comprising: communication control means for transmitting and receiving video data through a digital communication channel; a picture codec which decodes a picture signal from said video data received by said communication control means and then delivers said picture signal as an external output, and which codes an input picture signal to-be-coded into said video data and then transfers siad video data to said communication control means; a camera which can photograph an external subject, and by which a picture signal produced by photographing is transferred as said picture signal to-be-coded to said picture codec; and a box-shaped housing in which said communication control means, said picture codec and said camera are housed. <IMAGE>
