Multifunctional portable telephone
AssigneeAVT Audio Visual
InventorGarry Douglas Robb
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Abstract
A personal communication device includes a display for displaying data and video signals; a loudspeaker for generating an audible signal; a microphone for receiving an audio signal; a keypad for entering data; a telecommunications interface for receiving and transmitting information; and an internal multi-position and multi-function reading head for producing an image signal when in a first position using a first lensing and for reading for image conversion using a second lensing when in a second position.
Claims41
A personal communication device, comprising:
- a display for displaying data and video signals;
- a loudspeaker for generating an audible signal;
- a microphone for receiving an audio signal;
- a keypad for entering data;
- a telecommunications interface for receiving and transmitting information;
- and
- an internal multi-position and multi-function reading head for producing an image signal when in a first position using a first lensing and for reading for image conversion using a second lensing when in a second position.
A personal communication system, comprising:
- a display for displaying data and video signals;
- a loudspeaker for generating an audible signal;
- a microphone for receiving an audio signal;
- a keypad for entering data;
- a telecommunications interface for receiving and transmitting information;
- a first interchangeable reading head for producing an image signal;
- and
- a second interchangeable reading head for one of character reading or encoded material scanning.
A communications system, comprising:
- a plurality of personal communication devices, each of the personal communication devices including:
- a display for displaying data and video signals,
- a loudspeaker for generating an audible signal,
- a microphone for receiving an audio signal,
- a keypad for entering data,
- a telecommunications interface for receiving and transmitting information, and
- an internal adjustable multi-function reading head moveable through a range of 180 degrees and having multiple settable positions, a first of the positions having a first lensing for producing an image signal and a second of the positions having a second lensing different from the first;
- and
- a central processing facility for communicating with the plurality of personal communication devices.
A communications system, comprising:
- a plurality of personal communication devices, at least one of the personal communication devices including:
- a display for displaying data and video signals,
- a loudspeaker for generating an audible signal,
- a microphone for receiving an audio signal,
- a keypad for entering data,
- a telecommunications interface for receiving and transmitting information, and
- a first interchangeable reading head for producing an image signal;
- at least another of the personal communication devices including
- a display for displaying data and video signals,
- a loudspeaker for generating an audible signal,
- a microphone for receiving an audio signal,
- a keypad for entering data,
- a telecommunications interface for receiving and transmitting information, and
- an internal adjustable multi-function reading head moveable through a range of 180 degrees and having multiple settable positions, a first of the positions having a first lensing for producing an image signal and a second of the positions having a second lensing different from the first;
- and
- a central processing facility for communicating with the plurality of personal communication devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.