Patent ID: 8872879

Claim:
A videoconferencing system for a plurality of sources of video data, comprising: a touch screen device configured to display video data and generate touch data with a touch sensor, a tool sensor, associated with a user tool for the touch screen device and generating an indication when the user tool is moved relative to the tool sensor; and a videoconferencing unit operatively coupled to the touch screen device and the sources of video data, the videoconferencing unit configured to: establish a videoconference with one or more endpoints via a network, receive video data from one or more of the sources of video data, send received video data to the touch screen device for display and to the one or more endpoints via the network, wherein when the user tool is moved, the videoconferencing unit receives the indication that the user tool has been moved and is configured in response to automatically: select one of the sources of video data switch from a current source of video data to the selected source of video data, and send video data from the selected source to the touch screen device and to the one or more endpoints.