Portable presentation system and methods for use therewith
First Claim
1. A digital content sharing system for use by a plurality of conference attendees including at least first and second attendees that are locally present within a conference space and remote from the conference space, respectively, the sharing system comprising:
- at least a first large format common display screen supported within the conference space for direct viewing by local conference attendees;
a system processor linked to the common display screen and running a content sharing application for controlling content presented on the common display screen, the system processor presenting content on the common display screen that is received from conference attendees;
at least the first and second attendees operating first and second source devices, respectively, each source device including a device display screen, a device processor and a wireless transceiver, each device processor programmed to perform the steps of;
(i) presenting a graphical user interface via the device display screen including a shared screen field and a toolbar field that includes thumbnail icons, each thumbnail icon presenting an image of content shared by at least one of the conferees during a conference, the shared screen field mirroring the content presented on at least a portion of the common display screen;
(ii) monitoring for user input modifying the content in the shared screen field;
(iii) upon receiving a user input modifying the content;
(a) causing the content on the common display screen to be modified to mirror the shared screen field; and
(b) causing each of the shared screen fields on the other device display screens to be modified to mirror the modified content on the shared screen field.
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Abstract
A method and assembly for sharing information in a conference space, the assembly comprising a display configuration including presentation surface area juxtaposed within the conference space for viewing by an audience, the surface area including at least first and second adjacent presentation sub-spaces, a processor programmed to perform the steps of presenting an interface on the surface area useable to generate session images within at least one of the sub-spaces, the interface including a panel section in which a separate panel icon for each of the session images created during a session is presented, the interface further including a separate space on the surface area associated with each of the sub-spaces, the interface facilitating selection and dragging of panel icons to locations associated with the sub-spaces to control the images presented in each of the sub-spaces, wherein, when a panel icon is dragged to a space, an image currently associated with the sub-space is replaced at the sub-space.
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20 Claims
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1. A digital content sharing system for use by a plurality of conference attendees including at least first and second attendees that are locally present within a conference space and remote from the conference space, respectively, the sharing system comprising:
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at least a first large format common display screen supported within the conference space for direct viewing by local conference attendees; a system processor linked to the common display screen and running a content sharing application for controlling content presented on the common display screen, the system processor presenting content on the common display screen that is received from conference attendees; at least the first and second attendees operating first and second source devices, respectively, each source device including a device display screen, a device processor and a wireless transceiver, each device processor programmed to perform the steps of; (i) presenting a graphical user interface via the device display screen including a shared screen field and a toolbar field that includes thumbnail icons, each thumbnail icon presenting an image of content shared by at least one of the conferees during a conference, the shared screen field mirroring the content presented on at least a portion of the common display screen; (ii) monitoring for user input modifying the content in the shared screen field; (iii) upon receiving a user input modifying the content; (a) causing the content on the common display screen to be modified to mirror the shared screen field; and (b) causing each of the shared screen fields on the other device display screens to be modified to mirror the modified content on the shared screen field. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. An interface device for remotely viewing, sharing and manipulating content that is shared on a large format common display screen that is supported within a conference space, the common display screen linked to a communication network, the common display screen presenting content provided by conference attendees, the interface device comprising:
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a portable source device that includes a device display screen and a device processor, the processor programmed to perform the steps of; (i) enabling the portable source device to remotely link to the network to associate with the common display screen; (ii) presenting a graphical user interface via the device display screen including a shared screen field and a toolbar field that includes thumbnail icons, each thumbnail icon presenting an image of content shared via the common display screen by at least one conferee during a conference, the shared screen field mirroring the content presented on at least a portion of the common display screen; (iii) monitoring for user input modifying the content in the shared screen field; (iv) upon receiving a user input modifying the content, causing the content on the common display screen to be modified to mirror the shared screen field. - View Dependent Claims (19)
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20. A method for digital content sharing for use by a plurality of conference attendees including at least first and second attendees that are locally present within a conference space and remote from the conference space, respectively, the method for use with at least a first large format common display screen supported within the conference space for direct viewing by local conference attendees and at least the first and second attendee source devices, respectively, each source device including a device display screen, a device processor and a wireless transceiver, the method comprising the steps of:
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for each of the first and second attendee source devices; presenting a graphical user interface via the device display screen including a shared screen field, the shared screen field mirroring the content presented on at least a portion of the common display screen; (ii) monitoring for user input modifying the content in the shared screen field; (iii) upon receiving a user input modifying the content; (a) causing the content on the common display screen to be modified to mirror the shared screen field; and (b) causing each of the shared screen fields on the other device display screens to be modified to mirror the modified content on the shared screen field.
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