1. A video communication system comprising: a video communication device, having at least one image capture device: an image display device into one image capture device, wherein the at least one image capture device acquires video images of a local environment and an individual therein, according to defined video capture settings; an audio system processor having an audio emission device operable to generate sound in the local environment and an audio capture device operable to capture sound in the local environment; and a control logic processor for automatically analyzing the video scene captured by the capture device to determine when an intra-scene transition or in inter-scene transition occurs in the local environment and automatically adjusts the video capture settings of the least one image capture device in accordance with the determined intra-scene transition or inter-scene transition wherein the control logic processor or the audio system processor determines that an intra-scene transition or inter-scene transition has occurred by applying scene analysis rules to determine contextual cues in the video or audio in the local environment.