Patent Document ID: 5500671
Application ID: 08328640
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for establishing a video conference between a plurality of remotely located conference rooms each containing at least one conferee, a video camera, and an image receiver, the image receiver, video camera, and eyes of each conferee associated therewith defining a parallax angle of said each conferee, comprising the steps of: generating, with a first video camera, a video signal representative of a sequence of input image frames of a first conferee; analyzing said input conferee image frames, in real time, to determine a parallax angle in each frame; generating a corresponding sequence of parallax-compensated image frames; and transmitting a signal indicative of said sequence of parallax-compensated image flames to an image receiver viewed by a second conferee, whereby eye contact is provided between said second conferee and a displayed image of said first conferee.