Patent ID: 8174556

Claim:
An interactive videoconferencing device, comprising: a telephonic input configured and arranged to receive control signals from a touch-tone telephone; a video input configured and arranged to receive local video images from a camera; a communications port configured and arranged to establish bidirectional video communications with a remote videoconferencing device, the bidirectional video communications including transmittal of the local video images and receipt of remote video images captured by a remote videoconferencing device; processing circuitry configured and arranged to respond to the control signals from the telephonic input by generating a composite image of the target images captured by a remote videoconferencing device and of at least one image from the video images from the camera; and a monitor configured and arranged to display the composite image, wherein the composite image includes a local video portion for displaying live video images captured by the camera, a stored snapshot portion for displaying a still snap-shot image captured by the camera and a remote video portion for displaying image sequences received over the communications port.