Video-telephone communications system

Telephonic communications – Having light wave or ultrasonic link for speech or paging... – Including fiber optic link within telephone network

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379 96, 455 5, 358 85, H04N 142

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048933260

ABSTRACT:
An auxiliary unit is used in conjunction with a personal computer based work station for interconnecting the work station to an audio-visual communications network. The auxiliary unit includes a CRT, a camera, a speaker phone circuit, and a CPU for interfacing these elements with each other and with the communications network to permit the transmission and reception of voice, video and computer graphics information.

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