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Video conferencing apparatus

  • US 6,784,916 B2
  • Filed: 02/11/2002
  • Issued: 08/31/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/11/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An apparatus for facilitating video conferencing between a proximate video conferee and a remote video conferee, said apparatus comprising:

  • a video monitor for displaying an image of the remote conferee'"'"'s facial features;

    a camera for generating an image of the proximate conferee for display to the remote conferee;

    a rotation member for rotating the video monitor, from a landscape position, where a longer side of the video monitor is substantially horizontal, to a portrait position, where the longer side is substantially vertical;

    wherein the camera is fixed to the video monitor along the longer side;

    wherein the rotation member rotates the camera from a position above the image of the remote conferee to a position beside the image of the remote conferee, such that the camera is located within an interocular distance of an anticipated displayed position of at least one eye of the remote conferee when the video monitor is in the portrait position.

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