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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 13, 1997
Hiroshi Gotoh, Yokohama, JP;
Kiyoshi Ishida, Yokohama, JP;
Yoji Shibata, Yokosuka, JP;
Masahiro Takahashi, Hitachi, JP;
Masaaki Takizawa, Suginami, JP;
Kenji Yokoi, Matsudo, JP;
Katsumi Mikamo, Katsuta, JP;
Yoshinobu Matsubayashi, Yokosuka, JP;
Iwao Ishinabe, Yokohama, JP;
Toshiaki Watanuki, Fujisawa, JP;
Jun Furuya, Kokubunji, JP;
Takushi Yoshimaru, Kokubunji, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A television telephone including a movable head section, a support section and a bottom section. The movable head section includes an imaging device for inputting images and a display for displaying images. The bottom section includes a communication controller for transmission and reception of encoded information of at least one of audio and visual signals to and from a communication network, and a telephone controller for controlling transmission and reception functions and including a key console unit. The support section serves for connecting the bottom section and the movable head section and for supporting the movable head section and includes an image encoder/decoder for encoding image input signals and for decoding received image signals.