Patent ID: 9615053
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A method for operating a robotic stand supporting a computing device, the method comprising: establishing a connection between the computing device, including at least a display and a camera, and a remote device; displaying, by a display of the remote device, a control interface depicting a conference room that includes a schematic of a conference room table and a plurality of attendee positions; providing, responsive to a user of the remote device interacting with the control interface, a positioning instruction to orient the robotic stand about at least a pan axis or a tilt axis so that a display and a camera of the computing device faces at least one attendee position, wherein the robotic stand supporting the computing device is physically located in the conference room depicted by the control interface; transmitting, by the remote device, over a communication network, a signal indicative of the positioning instruction to the computing device; and transmitting the positioning instruction from the computing device to the robotic stand.