Patent ID: 8644467

Claim:
A video-conferencing device for presenting augmented images, comprising: at least one interface; a network; and a computer processor programmed to receive first information identifying a scene via the at least one interface; detect whether the scene contains at least one marker; identify a location of each detected marker within the scene; augment, in response to determining the scene contains a first marker and based on the location of the first marker, a portion of the scene containing the first marker with second information received via the at least one interface; identify at least one hand gesture of a user from the scene; identify a hand gesture location with respect to the scene containing the second information, wherein the hand gesture location indicates a gesture distance at which the at least one hand gesture extends over the portion of the scene containing the second information; change the second information based in part on the hand gesture location; and transmit the augmented scene to at least one external device via the network.