Portable television/cellular phone device

• US 6,968,206 B1
• Filed: 03/01/2002
• Issued: 11/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ivy Whitsey-Anderson
• Original Assignee: Ivy Whitsey-Anderson
• Inventors: Whitsey-Anderson, Ivy
• Primary Examiner(s): Trinh, Sonny
• Assistant Examiner(s): DOAN, PHUOC HUU
• Application Number:
  US10/085,772
• Time in Patent Office: 1,362 Days
• Field of Search: 455/550.1, 455/161.2, 455/556, 455/566, 455/567, 455/557, 455/575, 455/556.1, 345/348, 345/339, 345/164, 379/93.12
• US Class Current: 455/556.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3833 Hand-held transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0214 Foldable telephones, i.e. with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0279 Improving the user comfort or ergonomics
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4126 The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications

Abstract

A portable television/cellular phone device for providing a complete handheld entertainment center for a user. The portable television/cellular phone device includes a handheld housing having front, back, top, and side walls; and also includes a housing support member being hingedly attached to the handheld housing for standing up the handheld housing upon a surface; and further includes a display screen being disposed upon the front wall of the handheld housing; and also includes a phone reception/transmission assembly being disposed in the handheld housing and including a power supply being replaceably disposed in the handheld housing and also including an antenna being attached to the handheld housing; and further includes a television reception assembly being disposed in the handheld housing.

Claims

1. A portable television/cellular phone device comprising:

a handheld housing having front, back, top, and side walls;

a housing support member being hingedly attached to said handheld housing for standing up said handheld housing upon a surface, said housing support member being generally a lever being hingedly attached to said back wall of said handheld housing;

a display screen being disposed upon said front wall of said handheld housing;

a phone reception/transmission assembly being disposed in said handheld housing and including a power supply being replaceably disposed in said handheld housing and also including an antenna being attached to said handheld housing, said phone reception/transmission assembly further including a numbers/symbols keypad being disposed upon said front wall of said handheld housing and including a plurality of button-like switches used to dial a phone number, said phone reception/transmission assembly also including a power switch being movably disposed through one of said walls of said handheld housing and being connected to said power supply which is a battery pack, and further including a microprocessor being disposed in said handheld housing and being connected to said numbers/symbols keypad and to said power switch and to said power supply and to said display screen upon which data is displayed, and also including a receiver including a speaker being disposed in said handheld housing for receiving radio waves through said antenna, and further including a transmitter being disposed in said handheld housing for transmitting radio waves through said antenna, and also including indicator lights being disposed upon said display screen and upon said handheld housing for indicating power level for said battery pack and also displaying incoming calls, said phone reception/transmission assembly also including function switches being disposed upon said handheld housing and being connected to said microprocessor for selecting various telephone functions programmed in said microprocessor including caller ID, and further including a phone connect switch being disposed upon said handheld housing and being connected to said receiver and said transmitter for receiving and transmitting phone calls, and also including a phone disconnect switch being connected to said receiver and said transmitter for disconnecting phone calls; and

a television reception assembly being disposed in said handheld housing.

2. A portable television/cellular phone device as described in claim 1, wherein said television reception assembly includes a conventional TV receiver being disposed in said handheld housing for receiving television signals through said antenna with the television signals being conventionally transformed into pictures which are displayed upon said display screen.

3. A portable television/cellular phone device as described in claim 2, wherein said television reception assembly also includes television operation and control switches such as a TV connect switch, a channel selector switch and a volume control switch being disposed upon said handheld housing and being connected to said TV receiver and to said display screen.

4. A portable television/cellular phone device as described in claim 3, wherein said television reception assembly further includes a VCR jack being disposed through one of said walls of said handheld housing and being connected to said microprocessor for receiving input from a remote video recorder device, and also includes a CD player jack also being disposed through one of said walls of said handheld housing and being connected to said microprocessor for receiving input from a remote CD player device.