Visual and sound communication system with remote control means

• US 5,341,167 A
• Filed: 12/03/1993
• Issued: 08/23/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: France Telecom Etablissement Autonome de Droit Public
• Original Assignee: France Telecom Etablissement Autonome de Droit Public
• Inventors: Buchner, Georges, Guichard, Jacques
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Wing F.
• Application Number:
  US08/161,083
• Time in Patent Office: 263 Days
• Field of Search: 379/96-99, 379/102, 379/440, 455/90, 348/14, 348/16, 348/20, 348/114, 348/734
• US Class Current: 348/14.05
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/247 Telephone sets including user guidance or feature selection means facilitating their use user interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones H04M1/724
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2478 Telephone terminals specially adapted for non-voice services, e.g. email, internet access centralized arrangements where telephones services are combined H04M7/0024; for recording text messages H04M3/5322; for accessing Internet H04M3/4938
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera constructional features concerning the integration of cameras in portable phones H04M1/0264
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/142 Constructional details of the terminal equipment, e.g. arrangements of the camera and the display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q

Abstract

A visual and sound telecommunication system includes an audiovisual terminal, a camera and a handset with earpiece and microphone. The handset has a remote control acting on the terminal and on the camera by way of the terminal.

Claims

1. A visual and sound telecommunication system including a terminal, a camera, and a handset with an ear piece and a microphone, said handset being connected to said terminal by a cord and said handset comprising a means for remote control of the terminal and of the camera from the terminal by a user of said handset thereby making it possible to transmit digital coded remote control signals to obtain remote, X, Y movements of a cursor on a screen of said terminal and to "click" on an area, said means for remote control including operating means which consists of control keys placed on an inside portion of said handset so that it may be easily used by said user when said ear pierce is close to an ear of said user or when said handset is remote from the user'"'"'s face wherein said means for remote control comprises a keyboard matrix connecting the keys of the handset to an encoder for providing a parallel binary word as a function of selected pressed keys, said encoder being connected to a serializer for transforming said parallel binary word into a serial word and to provide a logic signal applied to an input of a modulator and wherein an output of said modulator provides a modulated burst which charges a decoupling capacitor on a power supply line, said means for remote control also including an impact self-inductor placed in a power supply line of a microphone making it possible to protect said microphone from the application of a modulated signal which would impair the quality of sound pick-up and said means for remote control further including a voltage regulator placed between said self-inductor and said microphone and a voltage converter means for providing power supply voltages.