Patent ID: 6278884
Filing Date: 2001-08-21
Classification: B60R,G08B,H04B,H04M

Abstract:
A handheld portable information recording and communication device for communicating with remotely located telephones, comprising:a camera and a cellular telephone electrically connected and mounted in a portable housing of a size and weight for being handheld by a person, said cellular telephone having a microphone, a speaker and a dial pad for selective use by the person for placing and receiving person-to-person telephone calls to and from remotely located telephones;a battery means in the housing for supplying electrical power to said camera, and said cellular telephone;means for selectively activating said camera and said microphone for capturing images and sounds within a range of said housing;means for activating said cellular telephone for wirelessly communicating with a specific remotely located telephone by dialing the number of said specific remotely located telephone and, when said cellular telephone and said specific remotely located telephone are telephonically connected, then transmitting said images and said sounds from said camera and microphone to said specific remotely located telephone concurrently with the capturing of said images and said sounds;a memory means in said housing operatively connected to said camera, said cellular telephone and said battery means for selectively storing said images captured by said camera and said sounds captured by said microphone;means for selectively causing said stored images and said stored sounds to be transmitted by said cellular telephone to said specific remotely located telephone;said memory means including an audio recorder mounted in said housing and having means for selectively recording audible transmissions during the person-to-person telephone calls to and from said cellular telephone and for selectively recording sounds within a range of said housing without a telephone call; andswitch means for selectively and separately operating (a) said means for selectively activating said camera, (b) said microphone, (c) said cellular telephone, (d) said memory means, (e) said means for selectively causing said stored images and said stored sounds to be transmitted, and (f) said audio recorder.