METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTINUOUSLY RECEIVING IMAGES FROM A PLURALITY OF VIDEO CHANNELS AND FOR ALTERNATELY CONTINUOUSLY TRANSMITTING TO EACH OF A PLURALITY OF PARTICIPANTS IN A VIDEO CONFERENCE INDIVIDUAL IMAGES CONTAINING INFORMATION CONCERNING EACH OF SAID VIDEO CHANNELS

摘要

A method and apparatus is provided for video conferencing. The method and apparatus continuously receive frames from a plurality of video channels and alternately continuously transmit to each of a plurality of participants in a video conference individual frames containing information concerning each of the video channels. The method and apparatus only transmits at any given instant new picture data for one of the participants in the video conference.