Patent ID: 8284232

Claim:
A conferencing system comprising: a plurality of conferencing devices, wherein each conferencing device is to bi-directionally communicate one or more video signals across a network, and wherein each conferencing device comprises a video display device; a video capture device; and one or more modules to at least one of modify one or more display parameters of all or a portion of the video signals transmitted by the respective conferencing device and modify one or more display parameters of all or a portion of the video signals received by the respective conferencing device, wherein the one or more modules modify the one or more display parameters of all or a portion of the video signals such that the color, brightness, and sharpness of the video displayed on the video display device of each of the plurality of conferencing devices are substantially the same, and wherein the one or more modules further modify the one or more display parameters of all or a portion of the video signals such that the depth of field of the video displayed on the video display device of each of the plurality of conferencing devices is substantially the same.