Patent ID: 8319814

Claim:
A video conferencing endpoint, comprising: a decoder; a virtual decoder communicatively coupled to the decoder; a compositor communicatively coupled to the virtual decoder; wherein the video conferencing endpoint is configured to transmit a video image to an MCU; wherein the video conferencing endpoint is configured to receive a composite video image, through the decoder, from the MCU comprised of at least two video images, each from a respective video conferencing endpoint; wherein the video conferencing endpoint is configured to receive coordinate information from the MCU, wherein the coordinate information includes information on a location of a video image of the at least two video images within the composite video image; wherein the video conferencing endpoint is configured to use the coordinate information to separate each of the video images from the composite video image using the virtual decoder; wherein the at least one video conferencing endpoint is configured to generate a new composite video image; and wherein the at least one video conferencing endpoint is configured to display the new composite video image.