Wristwatch-based videoconferencing system
CA 2275784 C · Owner: Mann, Steve · Inventors: Mann, Steve
Overview
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A wristworn videoconferencing system is described. In particular a wearable , camera with viewfinder function incorporated into a wristwatch display screen that also, electronically simulates the hour hand and minute hand of a traditional wristwatch, results in a device that resembles a fashionably modern timepiece but which , also has, the possibly hidden videoconferencing capability. The electronically simulated hands, showing the time of day may be overlayed onto the live video of the viewfinder function, or on live video received from a remote site or a combination of both live , video, feeds. Pressing a SECRET button causes the electronically displayed clockface with, …
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- Filed June 29, 1999 and granted October 24, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 29, 2019.
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