Patent ID: 8243117

Claim:
A video conferencing system comprising: a video capture device operable to provide a captured signal associated with a video conferencing environment, the captured signal including a frame of pixel data representative of the video conferencing environment; a pre-processor component operable to process the captured signal to provide a pre-processed signal, the pre-processed signal including pre-processed pixel data to provide a field of pixel data based in part on aspects of the frame of pixel data, wherein the pre-processor component operates to process consecutive frames of pixel data to provide: a first field of pixel data by discarding a first group of pixels associated with a first frame of pixel data and a second field of pixel data by discarding a second group of pixels associated with a second frame of pixel data; a post-processor component operable to process a decoded signal to provide a post-processed signal, the post-processed signal including post-processed pixel data to provide a post-processed frame of pixel data associated with the video conferencing environment, wherein the post-processed frame of pixel data is based in part on a received field of pixel data; and, a display to display the post-processed frame.