Patent ID: 8902280

Claim:
A node 22 to transmit a media stream 24 having content to one or more other nodes 22 , comprising: a screen to display the content of the media stream 24 to a user of the node positioned opposite the screen; a media device 36 pointing in a direction outwards from the screen towards the user and to capture an image of one or more gestures of the user of the node 22 , wherein the one or more gestures are adjacent to and in front of the screen, and the media device 36 is positioned to capture the image without capturing more than a peripheral view of the screen in that image; a media analyzer 38 to generate a visual representation of the captured one or more gestures, the visual representation being a non-video image graphic that is one or more of shaped and sized in accordance with the one or more gestures; and a compositer 40 to composite the visual representation of the captured one or more gestures with the content of the media stream 24 , such that the visual representation of the captured one or more gestures appears to have been made behind the screen even though the one or more gestures were made in front of the screen.