Patent ID: 8619112

Claim:
A remote control device comprising: a touch screen display; a processor communicatively connected to the touch screen display; and a non-transitory computer readable memory having instructions that when executed by said processor configure the processor to: establish a communication link with at least one remote video conferencing endpoint having a camera and receive an endpoint ID from the at least one remote video conferencing endpoint; generate at least one graphical object in response to receiving the endpoint ID; display on the touch screen display a graphical user interface having the at least one graphical object as part of a videoconference scene used to control at least one setting on the camera; receive touch data in response to an external input applied to a portion of the touch screen display on which the at least one graphical object is displayed and associate said touch data with a camera control instruction; and send to the remote video conferencing endpoint the camera control instruction to remotely control the camera.