Patent ID: 7590227

Claim:
A video-ready Internet telephone which is compatible with a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) telephone providing a non video voice communication service over the Internet, the video-ready Internet telephone comprising: a video processing module for converting a digital video signal into an analog video signal by using a communication protocol for video or converting an analog video signal applied thereto into an digital video signal for transmission through the Internet; and a video input/output module operated in cooperation with the video processing module, for receiving an analog video signal from a camera or receiving the converted analog video signal from the video processing module and displaying corresponding analog video data in response to the received analog video signal on a liquid crystal display (LCD), wherein a video call is set according to a selection of a user and a connection state with external video input and output devices detected by the video input/out module, based on a VoIP telephone function in the video processing module and the video call is established through using a central processing unit (CPU) performance of said VoIP telephone.