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Video telephone

  • US 4,258,387 A
  • Filed: 10/17/1979
  • Issued: 03/24/1981
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/17/1979
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Video-audio communication apparatus comprising in combination:

  • a housing,first means supported by said housing for receiving and predeterminately positioning a telephone mouth-ear piece containing a microphone and speaker,microphone and speaker means supported adjacent said first means and located to be respectively acoustically coupled to the speaker and microphone of the telephone mouth-earpiece when predeterminately located and supported by said first means,a television camera secured to and supported by said housing and directed to scan and generate picture signals of an area adjacent said housing.means for initiating and effecting automatic control of the read means of said television camera and generating a video picture signal on the output of said camera and means for applying said video picture signal to said speaker means supported adjacent said first means whereby said speaker means is modulated by said video picture signal and generates sounds in the vicinity of the microphone defining the mouthpiece of the telephone mouth-earpiece unit supported by said first means.

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