Patent ID: 6717607
Filing Date: 2004-04-06
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A video conferencing method in which at least three participants communicate with one another by video conference participant stations of a video conference system, multimedia data being transmitted over a telecommunications network comprising at least one of participant image data and participant audio data, and each of the participants receiving the participant image data from other participants shown at a same time visually arranged on a reproduction device of the respective video conference participant station, whereina direction of view of the participants is registered in each case by an eye tracking system, and eye tracking data comprising at least data about a direction of view are transmitted to a communications unit of the respective video conference participant station, and transmitted with full resolution and video transmission rate in each case over the telecommunications network to the communications unit of a video conference participation station are the participant image data of that participant whose participant image data are shown on the reproduction device of this last-mentioned video conference participant station in a momentary direction of view of the participant of this video conference participant station, while the participant image data of the remaining participants are transmitted in at least one of reduced resolution and reduced video transmission rate.