Patent ID: 8359068

Claim:
A cellphone system for image processing using a cellphone, the system comprising: a first cellphone having an integrated image forming mechanism and image transmission mechanism and having a lens, located on a first surface of the first cellphone, to receive an optically formed image viewed from a first direction and to transmit a representative of the formed image to at least a second cellphone that is spaced apart from the first cellphone, where the first cellphone has an audio/voice input/output mechanism for receiving and transmitting to the second cellphone an audio or voice input signal and has a keyboard input/output mechanism for receiving and transmitting to the second cellphone a keyboard input signal; a rotatable image transport channel, having an image-receiving end with an image-receiving lens thereat, to receive an image, to provide an optically formed image and to transport the optically formed image along the channel, where the image-receiving end is rotatable between a first direction, to receive an image of a user of the first cellphone, and a second direction, distinct from the first direction, to receive an image of a selected object; and an image processing mechanism for receiving the optically formed image from the channel and for producing and issuing an electronically/optically processed image that is transmitted from the first cellphone to the second cellphone, an antenna, associated with the image processing mechanism, configured to transmit a representation of the received image from the first cellphone to the second cellphone; where at least one of the first cellphone user image and the image of the selected object is selectively transmitted from the first cellphone to the second cellphone, wherein said image transport channel comprises at least one image-transmitting optical fiber and said image-receiving end of said channel is an end of the optical fiber with said lens configured to receive and focus said image so that at least part of said image is received by and transported along the optical fiber.