Patent ID: 8299979

Claim:
A two-way visual communication system comprising: a visual display device for displaying, at a first location, an image represented by a first signal received from a remote second location; an imaging device having a field of view directed at a user of the visual display device, the imaging device producing a second signal for transmission to the remote second location, the second signal representing an image of the user; at least one image processor, at the first location, enabling analysis of the first signal to determine a location of a facial feature in the image represented by the first signal, and enabling modification of the second signal based upon the determined location of the facial feature in the image represented by the first signal, wherein the at least one image processor encodes the modified second signal at the first location for transmission to the remote second location; and wherein the modification of the second signal based upon the determined location of the facial feature in the image represented by the first signal comprises a closed loop optimization of the modification at the first location.