Patent ID: 7551199

Claim:
In a computing network in which a plurality of computing systems are interconnected so as to be able to digitally communicate among the computing systems, and wherein at least some of the computing systems are capable of communicating by means of digital video, a system adapted to decrease parallax in order to provide improved video imaging and communication, comprising: a computing system that includes a monitor that displays an image; a camera interconnected to the computing system, the camera producing an outgoing image for transmission to another, remote computing system; means for mounting the camera so that the camera is situated relative to a viewed party and relative to the incoming image on the monitor so that the camera and the incoming image are at substantially the same vertical height in order to decrease vertical parallax in the outgoing image produced by the camera; and means for positioning the incoming image on the monitor in response to received information corresponding to the incoming image and in response to a detected position of the camera in order to position the incoming image on the monitor at a location on the monitor that will reduce parallax of the outgoing image produced by the camera.