Video conferencing system
OwnerJeremy Bruce-Smithinventor
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Abstract
A video conferencing system comprises a video codec 24 and an ISDN interface 34 for selectively sending still or video images from a locally attached camera 62 to a remote video conferencing system, and for displaying such images received from the remote system on a local monitor 26. A graphics card 16 also allows a local application program, such as a web browser, to be run and its output viewed on a second local monitor 28. In order to allow the application to be viewed also by the remote system, the output of the application program currently displayed on the second monitor can be transmitted as a still image to the remote system in the same manner as a still image from the camera.
Claims7
A video conferencing system comprising:
- means for receiving a still image or a video image from at least one locally attached camera;
- means for selectively transmitting, as determined by a user, said still image or said video image to a remote video conferencing system;
- means for receiving a still image or a video image from said remote video conferencing system and displaying same on at least one locally attached display device;
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- means for running a local application program and displaying the output thereof simultaneously with the display of the received image;
- the circuit further including means for transmitting, at a time determined by the user, the currently displayed output of the application program as a still image to said remote video conferencing system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.