Patent attributes
The experience of a user of a computing device for tasks such as videoconferencing and video chat can be improved by integrating a camera in a display screen of the computing device, which can enable the user to appear to be looking at the camera (and thus other users on the video session) while still looking at the display screen. The camera can be configured to look in between and/or through pixel elements of the display screen. In at least some embodiments the camera can be synchronized with the duty cycle of the display screen to capture image information between duty cycles of the display screen, such that the light from the display does not saturate the camera. Microlens arrays, diffractive lenses, and other such elements can be used to capture the light available through the display screen.
