Portable audio visual communication system and method

摘要

The present invention provides for an audio visual communication system that comprises a communications network, a first central processing unit housed within a body, a display and an audio and visual capturing apparatus. A link between a first central processing unit and a second central processing unit is established over the communications network and audio and visual data is transferred. The data is compressed before being sent and decompressed after being received. Both the data being sent by the central processing unit and data being received by the central processing unit is displayed to the user.