Telephone with interface linking to television

• US 5,999,602 A
• Filed: 12/18/1998
• Issued: 12/07/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hanger Solutions, LLC (IP Investments Group LLC)
• Original Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Inventors: Yang, Wen-Wei, Hui, Zhang, Lai, Jeffrey
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Wing F.
• Application Number:
  US09/217,310
• Time in Patent Office: 354 Days
• Field of Search: 379/110.01, 379/90.01, 379/387, 379/441, 379/442, 379/447, 379/457, 379/93.05, 379/93.37, 379/93.17, 348/552
• US Class Current: 379/110.01
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/215 by non-intrusive coupling means, e.g. acoustic couplers
• 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 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20

Abstract

The present invention relates to a telephone with an interface connection with the television, which includes a basic telephone set, central processing unit (CPU), display controller and a control program. The control program controls the whole operating procedures of the telephone of the invention. Under the operating procedures, the CPU transmits the phone-call information received by the basic telephone set to the display controller. In accordance to the received information, the display controller generates and transports a corresponding signal to a television. With the telephone of the invention, the information of a telephone call can be displayed in a television.

Claims

1. A telephone with an interface connected to a television, comprising:

a basic telephone set for receiving and transmitting a communication information of a phone call;

a central processing unit for processing the communicated phone call received by the telephone set;

a display controller connected to the central processing unit for receiving a display information and control signals received from the central processing unit so as to generate and transmit an image signal to the television; and

a control program, executed by the central processing unit, for controlling the display controller.

2. The telephone with an interface connected to a television as claimed in claim 1, the display controller further includes a memory unit, a timing generator, a synchronal-signal generator, a control unit and an output unit, wherein the control unit controls all operating procedures of the display controller;

the display information is stored in the memory unit;

the timing generator and the synchronal-signal generator respectively generate a clock and a synchronous signal;

the display controller generates a video signal in accordance with the display information; and

the output unit transmits the video signal to the television.

3. The telephone with an interface connected to a television as claimed in claim 2 wherein the display controller further includes an input unit for receiving an external signal of an external device.

4. The telephone with an interface connected to a television as claimed in claim 3 wherein the external signal is a video signal;

the video signal is then added to the video signal generated by the display controller; and

the combined video signal is transmitted to the television through the output unit.

5. The telephone with an interface connected to a television as claimed in claim 3 wherein the external signal is transformed into a video signal by the display controller;

the video signal is then added to the video signal generated by the display controller; and

the combined video signal is transmitted to the television via the output unit.