Patent ID: 8570437

Claim:
A television (TV) set, comprising a display screen, a loud speaker, a display processing unit and a sound processing unit, wherein the TV set further comprises a control unit, a storage unit, an image acquiring unit, a sound acquiring unit, an image/sound processing unit, an encoding unit and a decoding unit, wherein: the image acquiring unit is configured to acquire an image signal of a video message producer and transmit the image signal to the image/sound processing unit; the sound acquiring unit is configured to acquire a voice message signal of the video message producer and transmit the voice message signal to the image/sound processing unit; the image/sound processing unit is configured to process the image signal and the voice message signal and transmit the processed signals to the encoding unit; the encoding unit is configured to encode the image signal and the voice message signal and transmit the encoded signals to the storage unit for storage; the storage unit is configured to store the encoded image signal and the encoded voice message signal as a video message; the image acquiring unit is further configured to acquire an image signal of a person who receives the video message; the sound acquiring unit is further configured to acquire a sound signal of a person who receives the video message; the storage unit is further configured to store a list of the persons who receives the video message and store the image and/or the sound signal of the person who receives the video message as ID identification information of the person; the decoding unit is configured to read and decode the image signal and the voice message signal from the storage unit, transmit the decoded image signal to the display processing unit and transmit the decoded sound signal to the sound processing unit; and the control unit is configured to control the image acquiring unit to acquire the image signal of the video message producer, control the sound acquiring unit to acquire the voice message signal of the video message producer, and control the decoding unit to read from the storage unit a video message for a video message viewer for decoding, the image acquiring unit and the sound acquiring unit acquire the image and the voice message signal of the video message producer by receiving a control instruction of selecting a video message receiving person from the video message producer, invoking the list of persons who receive the video message, receiving an instruction of selecting one of the persons from the list, receiving the image and the voice message signal of the video message producer stored in the storage unit as the video message, and creating a correspondence relationship between the video message and the person selected by the video message producer.