Patent ID: 7224962

Claim:
An apparatus or communication system for screening the incoming visual or video message-content of incoming visual or video message communications by visually projecting said visual message-content outward from said apparatus or communication system onto surfaces external to said apparatus or communication system comprising: portable handheld communications unit an answering means or system for answering and recording an incoming visual or video communication said portable handheld communications unit including a built-in integrated or collectively housed image or moving-image projection means housed at least partially within said portable handheld communications unit for visual screening by image or moving-image projection display the incoming message-content of the incoming visual or video call or message communications onto surfaces external to said portable handheld communications unit wherein the user of said portable handheld communications unit has not yet answered, connected, or linked with the caller or sender and the sender is still communicating the visual message-content of the incoming visual or video communication or still has a link with said communication system.