Patent ID: 7778444
Filing Date: 2010-08-17
Classification: G06K,G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for processing during a video phone communication between a plurality of participants using handheld video phone systems an image taken by a camera of a first handheld video phone system for playback on a display of at least one other handheld video phone system connected in a network, each handheld video phone system having an image processor, the method comprising acts of: providing the image containing at least a portion of a head of a user of the video phone system to an image processor selected from one of the first and at least one other handheld video phone systems and a server connected in the network; estimating an orientation of said head in said image using a pattern recognition technique, said pattern recognition technique comprises a classification technique; if the orientation of said head is estimated to not be frontal, wherein the camera and the display of the handheld video phone system are integrated into a single unit and wherein the camera is oriented in the single unit to capture the portion of the head of the user during use of the handheld video phone system.