Patent ID: 7119829

Claim:
A video conference system, comprising: a first conference room and a second conference room, the conference rooms electronically coupled together to permit transmission of images from each room to the other room for viewing, each conference room having: a large format display system for projecting images; and a camera positioned with respect to the large format display system to capture an image of the conference room and a participant in the room, without substantially obscuring the participant's view of the large format display system, so as to provide the perception that the participant in the room is looking directly at a participant in the other conference room; wherein the large format display system defines an aperture, the camera located behind the aperture; wherein the aperture is located so as to coincide with a visually insignificant area of the image of the other conference room as displayed on the large format display system; wherein the visually insignificant area corresponds to an image of an unobtrusive physical object located in the other conference room.