Patent ID: 7293240

Claim:
A method of enabling remote conferencing between conference participants, the method including the steps of: providing a participant with at least one conferencing form containing information relating to a remote conferencing session and including coded data indicative of an identity of the conferencing form and of at least one reference point of the conferencing form; receiving, in a computer system, indicating data from a sensing device operated by said conference participant involved in the conference session, said indicating data regarding the identity of the conferencing form and at least one of a position and a movement of the sensing device relative to the conferencing form; identifying in the computer system and from the indicating data, at least one parameter relating to the conferencing session; and providing at least one other conference participant remote from said conference participant with at least one recipient conferencing form containing information representative of the at least one parameter and including coded data indicative of an identity of the recipient conferencing form, the identity of the recipient conferencing form being different from the identity of the conferencing form, wherein the sensing device comprises: (a) an image sensor adapted to capture images of at least some of the coded data when the sensing device is placed in an operative position relative to the form; and (b) a processor adapted to: (i) identify at least some of the coded data from one or more of the captured images; (ii) determine an orientation, within the captured images, of at least some of the coded data; (iii) decode at least some of the coded data; and (iv) generate the indicating data using at least some of the decoded coded data.