Method for performing multipoint video conference in video conferencing system

• US 20020033880A1
• Filed: 12/27/2000
• Published: 03/21/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Lee, Kyung-Hee, Sul, Dong-Myung, Hwang, Seung-Ku, Park, Seung-Min, Kim, Doo-Hyeon, Kang, Min-Gyu
• Application Number:
  US09/752,325
• Publication Number:
  US 20020033880A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/14.09
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/152 Multipoint control units therefor

Abstract

In a method for performing a multipoint video conference in a video conferencing system and a computer-readable record media storing a plurality of instructions for performing the method, the floor is given to participants of a conference so that the multipoint video conference can be progressed without a necessity of an MCU, and audio/video streams of the participants who actually utter in the conference can be selectively transmitted according to a capability of a transmission system. In the inventive method and recording medium, the method includes a first step of performing an initializing work so that a chairman of the conference can manage the conference based on a multipoint type; a second step of giving a given floor to a large number of participants who request the floor after the initializing work, through an active multipoint controller (MC); and a third step of selectively transmitting an audio and video stream of the participants who substantially utter in the conference according to the capability of an active transmission system in order to execute the given floor, thereby being utilized in a video conferencing system.

Claims

1. A method of multipoint video conference in a video conferencing system comprising:

a first step of performing an initializing work so that a chairman of a conference can manage the conference based on a multipoint type;

a second step of giving a given floor to a large number of participants who request the floor after the initializing work, through an active multipoint controller(MC); and

a third step of selectively transmitting an audio and video stream of the participants who substantially utter in the conference according to a capability of an active transmission system in order to execute the given floor.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said first step constructs a capability set of the anticipant so that process available stream among the audio and video stream is given and taken.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein said active MC informs all the anticipants of change information in a case of changing the floor, exchanges the capability set so that the audio and video stream of the anticipant, given newly, is selectively transmitted, and performs a control for the floor or a conference mode determination function.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein said second step comprises:

a fourth step of clarifying whether there is a soluble foot in the given foot;

a fifth step of giving the floor right away if there is the soluble floor in a clarification result of the fourth step, informing of a multicast address and a multicast port number for transmitting the stream to a corresponding system, advising a fact for a floor giving to the rest systems, and transmitting the audio and video stream; and

a sixth step of advising a cancel for the floor to a system having the floor given already if there is no the soluble floor in the clarification result of the fourth step, requesting a stopping for a transmission of the audio and video stream, and then returning to said fifth step.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein said participants to try to utter in said third step perform the procedures including:

a fourth step of checking whether or not there is in the participant himself the floor in order that the participant himself utters in the midst of a participation of a multipoint conference;

a fifth step of starting an utterance if there is the floor in said fourth step and inspecting the conference under such a state that the floor is cancelled after a completion of the utterance or the floor exists;

a sixth step of requesting the chairman of the conference to give the floor if the participant himself has no the floor, and checking whether or not the floor is ensured; and

a seventh step of repeatedly performing from said fourth step in which the participant takes part in the multipoint conference if the request is not accepted in a checking result of said sixth step, transmitting the audio and video stream of the participant himself if the request for the floor is accepted, and then, returning to said fifth step.

6. A record media in a video conferencing system having a processor, characterized in that said record media is capable of being read through a computer having a record of a program to realize functions of:

performing an initializing work so that a chairman of a conference can manage the conference based on a multipoint type;

giving a given floor to a large number of participants who request the floor after the initializing work, through an active multipoint controller(MC); and

selectively transmitting an audio and video stream of the participants who substantially utter in the conference according to a capability of an active transmission system in order to execute the given floor.