Sony Vaio VGN-SZ71MN with the webcam:
05ca:183a Ricoh Co., Ltd Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC7 [R5U870]
i installed r5u87x in following steps:
1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:r5u87x-loader/ppa
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get install r5u87x
4. sudo /usr/share/r5u87x/r5u87x-download-firmware.sh