Patent ID: 7679639

Claim:
A system for enhancing eye gaze in a telepresence system, comprising: a plurality of local cameras coupled to at least one local display of a plurality of local displays, each local camera directed to at least one unique local user section of a plurality of local user sections and operable to generate a local video image of the at least one unique respective local user section; a plurality of remote displays, each remote display associated with a respective local camera of the plurality of local cameras and operable to concurrently reproduce the local video image of the at least one unique local user section generated by its respective local camera; and wherein the plurality of remote displays and the plurality of local cameras are aligned such that when a first local user within at least one local user section looks at a target at least one remote display of the plurality of remote displays is operable to reproduce the local video image of the at least one local user section comprising at least the first local user such that the eye gaze of the reproduced image of the first local user is directed approximately at a corresponding target.