Television – Two-way video and voice communication – User positioning
Patent
1997-06-13
1999-10-12
Woo, Stella
Television
Two-way video and voice communication
User positioning
H04N 714
Patent
active
059661640
ABSTRACT:
A television telephone including a movable head section, a support section and a bottom section. The movable head section includes an imaging device for inputting images and a display for displaying images. The bottom section includes a communication controller for transmission and reception of encoded information of at least one of audio and visual signals to and from a communication network, and a telephone controller for controlling transmission and reception functions and including a key console unit. The support section serves for connecting the bottom section and the movable head section and for supporting the movable head section and includes an image encoder/decoder for encoding image input signals and for decoding received image signals.
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Furuya Jun
Gotoh Hiroshi
Ishida Kiyoshi
Ishinabe Iwao
Matsubayashi Yoshinobu
Hitachi , Ltd.
Woo Stella
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