Patent Document ID: 20080297587
Application ID: 11756562
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A video communication device comprising: an image display device; a first image capture device that acquires video images depicting a wide field of view within the local environment; a second image capture device that acquires video images depicting a narrow field of view within the wide field of view; a computer in operative communication with the image display device and the image capture devices with said computer causing the first image capture device and the second image capture device to capture video images during the communication event, and with said computer further being adapted to identify a video context for the communication event; and a communication system that is adapted to use a communication network to transmit outgoing video images; wherein said computer uses a scene analysis algorithm to examine the concurrent video images from both the first image capture device and the second image capture device based upon the identified video context to determine the extent to which video images from the first image capture device and the second image capture device are to be incorporated into the outgoing video images transmitted by the communication device.