Patent ID: 7755611

Claim:
A decorative, disguised “mirror” interface apparatus for mounting to a building wall such as in a home or office, said disguised interface apparatus providing audio/visual content to a user, and for receiving inputs from the user in response to touch inputs by the user at determined locations of a “mirror” while appearing to the uninformed only as a decorative wall mirror, said apparatus comprising: a housing configured for mounting to and within a building wall; a light emitting display device received in said housing for providing a visual display output; a two-way mirror received in said housing and interposed between said display device and a viewer of the apparatus, so that when the interface apparatus is powered on and active, but said display device is not emitting light a viewer perceives only a wall-mounted decorative mirror and receives only a reflection as from an ordinary mirror devoid of both a visual display output image and of input location indicia, and when the display device is emitting light to provide a visual display output image the image is visible to a user of the device through the two-way mirror; a transparent touch screen apparatus interposed between the user and the two-way mirror so that a user in response to an image provided by said display device and including input location indicia may make inputs by directly or indirectly touching or pointing at an input location of the touch screen apparatus.