Method and apparatus for controlling image data in a wireless terminal with normal video communication mode and image mute mode

• US 20060276126A1
• Filed: 03/08/2006
• Published: 12/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Hwan, Lim, Chae-Whan
• Granted Patent: US 7,768,970 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/3.60
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q

Abstract

A method and apparatus for controlling video data in a wireless terminal having a normal video communication mode and a video mute mode is provided. The wireless terminal can be switched to the video mute mode if a user selects the video mute mode during normal video communication mode, thereby enabling video data preselected by the user to be presented on the terminal'"'"'s display and transmitted to a distant party. The terminal can also display and transmit preselected video data if no video data is received from a distant party within a given time.

Claims

1. In a wireless terminal comprising a display for presenting video data, said wireless terminal having normal video communication mode for transmitting real-time video data to a distant party and a video mute mode for blocking transmission of real-time video data, a method of controlling video data comprising:

switching a wireless terminal to a video mute mode if the video mute mode is selected; and

presenting on a display of the wireless terminal and transmitting video data when the wireless terminal is in the video mute mode.

2. A method as defined in claim 1, wherein said video data comprises video mute mode data.

3. A method as defined in claim 2, wherein the video mute mode data comprises at least one of a still picture and a moving picture.

4. A method as defined in claim 2, wherein the video data comprises at least one of a slide show, a still picture and a moving picture stored in said wireless terminal.

5. In a wireless terminal comprising a display for presenting video data, said wireless terminal having normal video communication mode for transmitting real-time video data to a distant party and a video mute mode for blocking transmission of the real-time video data, a method of controlling video data comprising:

switching a wireless terminal to a video mute mode if the video mute mode is selected;

determining a kind of video data to be displayed in the video mute mode; and

presenting on a display of the wireless terminal and transmitting video data comprising video mute mode data according to the kind of video data.

6. A method as defined in claim 5, wherein the video mute mode data comprises at least one of a still picture and a moving picture.

7. A method as defined in claim 5, wherein the video data comprises at least one of a slide show, a still picture, a moving picture stored in said wireless terminal, and video data stored during normal video communication mode.

8. In a wireless terminal comprising a display for presenting video data, said wireless terminal having normal video communication mode for transmitting real-time video data to a distant party and a video mute mode for blocking transmission of the real-time video data, a method of controlling video data comprising:

determining whether video data is received in a wireless terminal; and

presenting video data on a display of the wireless terminal if no video data is received for a time period.

9. A method as defined in claim 8, wherein said video data comprises at least one of a slide show, a still or moving picture stored in said wireless terminal, video data stored during normal video communication mode, and a still or moving picture for representing no video data received.

10. In a wireless terminal comprising a display for presenting video data, said wireless terminal having normal video communication mode for transmitting real-time video data to a distant party and a video mute mode for blocking transmission of the real-time video data, a method of controlling video data comprising:

determining whether video data is received in a wireless terminal;

presenting video data on a display of the wireless terminal if no video data is received for a time period;

if the video data is received within said time period, presenting the received video data on said display; and

presenting on said display and transmitting the video data if the video mute mode is selected during receipt of the video data.

11. A method as defined in claim 10, wherein the video data comprises at least one of a slide show, a still or moving picture stored in said wireless terminal, video data stored during normal video communication mode, and a still or moving picture for representing no video data received.

12. A method as defined in claim 10, wherein the video data presented on said display and transmitted in the video mute mode comprises the video mute mode data stored in said wireless terminal.

13. A wireless terminal, comprising:

a display; and

a controller for controlling display of video data on the display,

wherein the terminal is configured to enter a normal video communication mode for transmitting real-time video and a video mute mode for blocking the real-time data transmission when the video mute mode is selected.