Patent ID: 8363087

Claim:
A television receiver with video telephone function for receiving a digital broadcast program signal and for transmitting and receiving a video telephone signal to and from another television receiver with video telephone function to thereby perform videophone communication, said television receiver comprising: a decoder being adapted to decode the received digital broadcast program signal and the video telephone signal; a display panel being adapted to display a video image upon receipt of a video signal decoded by said decoder and supplied therefrom; a speaker to which an audio signal decoded by said decoder is supplied; a camera; a microphone; and an encoder being adapted to encode output signals of the camera and the microphone and for generating-a video telephone signal to be transmitted for the videophone communication, wherein when the videophone communication is started upon receiving an inbound videophone call from another communication device in the middle of outputting by the display panel and speaker the received digital broadcast program signal in a form of video and audio, the display panel and speaker output the video telephone signal received using the video telephone function, and when the videophone communication is finished, the display panel and speaker stop outputting the video telephone signal received using the video telephone function and output the received digital broadcast program signal.