Patent ID: 7113201

Claim:
Image processing apparatus, comprising: an image data receiver for receiving image data recorded by a plurality of cameras showing the movements of a plurality of people; a speaker identifier for determining which of the people is speaking; a speech recipient identifier for determining at whom the speaker is looking; a position calculator for determining the position of the speaker and the position of the person at whom the speaker is looking; and camera selection means for selecting image data from the received image data on the basis of the determined positions of the speaker and the person at whom the speaker is looking, said camera selection means being arranged to select image data in which both the speaker and the person at whom the speaker is looking appear, and wherein the camera selection means is arranged to generate quality values representing a quality of the views that at least some of the cameras have of the speaker and the person at whom the speaker is looking, and to select the image data on the basis of which camera has the quality value representing the highest quality.