TELEPRESENCE TECHNOLOGIES

Telepresence systems consisting of equipment for the capturing, transmitting and displaying of live or recorded full motion images of people with synchronized audio with the potential of displaying related text, graphics, images or data; computer equipment using communications software to manage and deliver live and prerecorded content; video compression equipment for the capturing of images, coding image files for transmission and decoding for receiving images; network equipment for the transmission and receiving of video and audio; display equipment for video images of life-size and/or lifelike images of people, namely plasma screens, LCD screens, beamsplitters, semi-transparent screens and optical display systems