Patent ID: 8817064

Claim:
A television having videoconferencing capabilities, the television comprising: a television receiver that receives television signals and generates audio and video signals that drive audio circuitry and a video display respectively; a video decompressor/decoder residing in the television that receives compressed and encoded video and decompresses and decodes the compressed and encoded video for display on the video display; an audio decompressor/decoder residing in the television that receives compressed and encoded audio and decompresses and decodes the compressed and encoded audio to drive the audio circuitry; a digital interface residing in the television that receives locally generated digital audio and video signals from a local camcorder or digital still camera; a videoconference protocol stack residing in the television that receives the locally generated audio and video signals from the local camcorder; a network interface residing in the television that couples the locally generated audio and the local video signals to the Internet, and that receives remotely generated compressed audio and video signals and passes the remotely generated compressed audio and video signals to the videoconference protocol stack; and where the remotely generated compressed audio and video signals are coupled from the videoconference protocol stack to the audio and video decompressor/decoders respectively, where the locally generated audio comprises acoustic echo cancelled audio, where an acoustic echo cancellation is carried out in an acoustic echo canceller residing in the television, where the acoustic echo canceller receives local uncompressed audio from the digital interface and remote decompressed audio from the audio decompressor/decoder and carries out the acoustic echo cancellation function based upon the uncompressed local and the remote decompressed audio to produce the acoustically echo cancelled local audio.