Patent ID: 7441198

Claim:
A system for manipulating virtual objects displayed on a video image for a video conference broadcast, the system comprising: at least one locally arranged video monitor and at least one remotely arranged video monitor and operating as a display for the video conference broadcast; a video camera associated with each monitor for generating a video broadcast signal corresponding to the video image of the video conference broadcast; a manual input device associated with each monitor; and a computer processor system associated with each monitor and communicatively connected to a high bandwidth communication network; wherein each processor system displays a three-dimensional virtual object superimposed on or overlaying the video image of the video conference broadcast on each associated monitor to provide an augmented reality view, and is adapted to detect new position and new rotation of the virtual object corresponding to a local manipulation of the virtual object from each associated manual input device and transmit a signal representative of the new position and the new rotation to the other of the processor systems; wherein the processor systems are capable of generating a plurality of perspective views of the three-dimensional virtual object and upon selection of a first view, the processor systems display the same side of the virtual object locally and remotely and upon selection of a second view, the processor systems display a different side of the virtual object remotely and locally.