Patent ID: 6219695
Filing Date: 2001-04-17
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An audiovisual communications configuration, comprising:a communication link having a first station and a second station, said first and second stations remote from each other, each of said first and second stations coupled to said communication link for communication between said first station and said second station;said first station having circuitry including a CPU for providing display data and controlling said communication link, a video storage device coupled to said CPU and said communication link and having first and second control ports, one of said control ports controllable by said CPU, and a control circuit for controlling said second port;a first display device at said first station;circuitry at said first station for converting said display data to a visual display of said data at said first display device and applying said display data to said communication link under control of at least one of said CPU and said control circuit;a first voice communication device at said first station coupled to said communication link for applying audio data to said communication link;said first display device and said first voice communication device being simultaneously couplable to said communication link for simultaneously sending both audio data and display data along said communication link;a second display device at said second station coupled by said second station to said communication link; anda second voice communication device at said second station coupled to said communication link;said second display device and said second voice communication device being simultaneously couplable to said communication link for simultaneously receiving both said audio data and said display data transmitted along said communication link and simultaneously transmitting audio data from said second station to said first station along said communication link.