Lighting system for video conference participants

A method comprising:

• providing a plurality of lighting mechanisms arrangeable to provide lighting for a facial area of a video participant from a general direction of a video camera facing the video participant, each lighting mechanism including one or more lighting elements that emanate light;
• receiving a first input from the video participant to adjust a lighting property of a first subset of the plurality of lighting mechanisms;
• in response to receiving the first input, controlling the adjustment of the lighting property of the first subset;
• receiving a second input from the video participant to adjust a lighting property of a second subset of the plurality of lighting mechanisms;
• and
• in response to receiving the second input, controlling the adjustment of the lighting property of the second subset.

A system comprising:

• a device including a video camera;
• a plurality of lighting mechanisms arrangeable to provide lighting for a facial area of a video participant from a general direction of the video camera facing the video participant, each lighting mechanism including one or more lighting elements that emanate light, the plurality of lighting mechanisms including:
• a first lighting mechanism arranged on a left of the device and facing the facial area of the video participant,
• a second lighting mechanism arranged on a right side of the device and facing the facial areas of the video participant, and
• a third lighting mechanism arranged in front of the device, below a height of the facial areas of the video participant, and facing the facial areas of the video participant;
• and
• a control module controllable by the video participant that controls one or more lighting properties of the lighting, wherein the control module includes:
• a first control for controlling a lighting property of the one or more lighting elements of the first lighting mechanism,
• a second control for controlling a lighting property of the one or more lighting elements of the second lighting mechanism, and
• a third control for controlling a lighting property of the one or more lighting elements of the third lighting mechanism.