Compaq VideoPhone Send & Receive is an innovative application that allows the user to communicate visually with others from their PC desktop. Whether the user is talking to the person next door or someone living in another city, the user can talk to that person face-to-face using their Compaq Presario PC. You can use this application to see others and to let others see you, as well as capture and send video files or video snapshots.

Compaq�s VideoPhone application can communicate with other systems that support the H.324 industry standard for videophone communications. The Compaq VideoPhone application provides send and receive capabilities of video images. As shipped, Compaq VideoPhone can be used as a receive only application, meaning the user may receive video images from any other H.324 compatible videophone system. Only a digital USB color camera is needed for the user to be able to send video images. On the Presario 5600 Minitower Series, you can also use a digital camcorder (1394) to send video images via the Digital Creativity Imaging Center. On the Presario 5000 and 5100 Series Minitower, you can connect the camera to the USB ports in the Creativity Action Center. On other Presario systems, just attach the camera to the USB ports on the back of the system.

The Compaq VideoPhone application combines the Compaq VideoPhone Graphical User Interface Wizard for launching a video Call and Intel�s ProShareÒ technology VideoPhone Version 1.2 application. The Compaq VideoPhone application is specially designed to allow a user to initiate or accept a video phone call.

Capture and Send Electronic Video Snapshots:
Capture video images into a snapshot, and send and receive still images during your call.

A Compaq VideoPhone Wizard is also included and will guide the end user through the VideoPhone experien ce from start to finish. Features include: a Guided Tour, providing an overview of the Compaq VideoPhone application and the necessary hardware setup Call control and handset management. Compaq also provides a VideoPhone Main Window and Wizard to provide videophone call status, times, volume/mute control, preview and receive video windows page, camera controls and on-line help.

Compaq is the first to deliver VideoPhone without the need for a costly telephony modem. The Compaq 56K ITU V.90 modem that Compaq provides with the Presario PC meets the H.324 industry standard for transmitting video signals. H.324 is a standard that defines how to transmit video signals over analog (standard) telephone lines. The H.324 standard specifies a method where video, voice, and data transmissions can be shared simultaneously over high-speed modem connections. In addition, the H.324 standard allows videophone systems from different manufacturers to communicate with each other. The H.324 standard specifies that modems must have speeds of at least 28.8 Kilobytes per second (Kbps) to transmit video images over an analog telephone line. Using a Compaq 56K ITU V.90 data/fax modem, updated ESS Audio drivers, and the Intel audio stack, we can "pick off" the encoded audio from the video stream and route it to the existing audio systems. Compaq supports full duplex videophone audio through the standard WAV table audio systems.

The Compaq VideoPhone application leverages the end user�s existing analog telephone handset to do a voice call first connection. This means that before you try to send or receive a videophone call, you should begin with a telephone call over a standard telephone line. (It does not matter which party begins the telephone call.) The Compaq VideoPhone Wizard will step the user through the necessary steps to switch from a regular phone call to a video call. To initiate a call, the user picks up their telephone handset and dials the number of the person being called. The callers decide who will initiate the transition to video. "Initiate� sends the signals, while "Accept" goes into a listen mode. After initiating or agreeing to accept a transition to video, the user will receive a dialog asking them to "Hang Up" their telephone handset. After hanging up the telephone handset the user will receive the "Starting the Video Call" dialog, which tells them to wait while they initiate the video transition. The Compaq VideoPhone changes to an active video call state. Both callers are now able to view one another. After "Ending" the video call, the user will be asked to either switch back to a telephone call or to disconnect completely.

The Compaq VideoPhone application provides an easy to use and cost effective VideoPhone solution to consumers who want to not only talk to friends and family, but also see them at the same time.

For a live test or demonstration of Compaq�s VideoPhone solution, please call the Intel Corporation at 503-264-5378.