anand@top.cis.syr.edu (07/25/89)
A while back, while wandering through a shopping mall, some people were
selling a type of picture phone which could be used over ordinary telephone
lines. The picture is not transmitted continuously. When you push a button on
your set, the image scanned by a ccd camera is converted to some digital code
and sent over the telephone line. The other set updates the picture. Of course
you need two sets of the same type. The resoluttion was not great - about 256 *
256. Also I suspect the number of bits per pixel were fairly limited too. I
believe the set was made by Mitsubishi. Would anyone on this group know
anything more about these picture phones?
R. Anand
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