Patent ID: 9538133
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method of executing a virtual conference among a first node, a second node, and a third node, comprising: receiving input indicating a gaze recipient of a first participant associated with the first node, wherein the gaze recipient is associated with one of the second and third nodes; designating the gaze recipient as an active node for the first participant, thereby causing an image of the gaze recipient to be displayed in an active node region viewable by the first participant, and wherein the active node region is fixed at a position close to or encompassing an image capturing device such that the image capturing device captures a watching-you image of the first participant if the first participant looks at the active node region; and dynamically changing the image in the active node region to an image of a different participant in response to change of gaze recipient.