In such an apparatus including a large display area and a comparatively small camera area the camera produces a picture with a wrong perspective if the object to be picked-up moves to a border of the display area, for example a side view instead of a front view of a speaker directly looking to the display area.It is an object to provide such an apparatus avoiding said drawback and enabling pick-up of the object by the camera area with correct perspective wherever the object is situated in front of the display area.The camera area and the display area are positioned one behind the other and have the same dimensions. Particularly a camera plate (6) and a display plate (7) are displaced in direction of the optical axis one plate including translucent areas enabling transmission of light from the object (12) to be picked-up to the camera plate (6) or of backlight (10) to a display plate (7) including LCD cells.An advantageous field of application is teleconferencing or videophone equipments working with large display screens.
