DEVICE, METHOD AND SYSTEM OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION OF USER INPUT TO A VIDEO SOURCE

• US 20080086749A1
• Filed: 09/25/2007
• Published: 04/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Amimon Limited (Vitec Group PLC)
• Original Assignee: Amimon Limited (Vitec Group PLC)
• Inventors: Geri, Noam, Feder, Meir, Goldberg, Netanel, Nissan-Cohen, Yoav
• Application Number:
  US11/860,893
• Publication Number:
  US 20080086749A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/68
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/282 based on user interaction within the home receiver circuitry for displaying additional information being controlled by a remote control apparatus H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2838 Distribution of signals within a home automation network, e.g. involving splitting/multiplexing signals to/from different paths adaptations of television systems for transmission by electric cable for domestic distribution H04N7/106; hybrid transport H04L12/6418; home network arrangements specially adapted for distribution of digital video signals H04N7/24
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2841 Wireless
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2849 Audio/video appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2383 Channel coding or modulation of digital bit-stream, e.g. QPSK modulation arrangements for detecting or preventing errors in the information received by adapting the channel coding H04L1/0009; analogue front ends or means for connecting modulators, demodulators or transceivers to a transmission line H04L27/0002
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43637 involving a wireless protocol, e.g. Bluetooth, RF or wireless LAN [IEEE 802.11] arrangements for wireless networking or broadcasting of information in indoor or near-field type systems H04B10/114
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4382 Demodulation or channel decoding, e.g. QPSK demodulation analog front ends or means for connecting modulators, demodulators or transceivers to a transmission line H04L27/0002
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/20 Adaptations for transmission via a GHz frequency band, e.g. via satellite

Abstract

Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of wireless communication of user input to a video source. A wireless video communication system may include, for example, a wireless video transmitter capable of transmitting a wireless video downlink transmission representing video data generated by a video source; and a wireless video receiver capable of receiving the wireless video downlink transmission, capturing a wireless user input signal intended for the video source, and transmitting to the wireless video transmitter a wireless uplink transmission corresponding to the user input signal. Other embodiments are described and claimed

Claims

1. A wireless video communication system comprising:

a wireless video transmitter capable of transmitting a wireless video downlink transmission representing video data generated by a video source; and

a wireless video receiver capable of receiving said wireless video downlink transmission, capturing a wireless user input signal intended for said video source, and transmitting to said wireless video transmitter a wireless uplink transmission corresponding to said user input signal.

2. The wireless video communication system of claim 1, wherein said wireless video receiver comprises:

a short range wireless receiver to capture said user input signal; and

a radio-frequency module to transmit said uplink transmission and receive said wireless video downlink transmission.

3. The wireless video communication system of claim 2, wherein a transmission range of said radio-frequency module is longer than a reception range of said short-range wireless receiver.

4. The wireless video communication system of claim 2, wherein said short-range receiver comprises at least one of a Bluetooth receiver, an infrared receiver, a radio-frequency receiver, and a ZigBee receiver.

5. The wireless video communication system of claim 1, wherein said wireless video transmitter is capable of providing said video source with an input corresponding to said user input signal.

6. The wireless video communication system of claim 1 comprising a user input device to generate said user input signal.

7. The wireless video communication system of claim 6, wherein a distance between said wireless video receiver and said user input device is shorter than a distance between said wireless video receiver and said wireless video transmitter.

8. The wireless video communication system of claim 6, wherein said user input device comprises at least one of a keyboard, a mouse, a joystick, a game pad or a pointing device, a remote control device, a microphone, and a remote universal-serial-bus port.

9. The wireless video communication system of claim 1, wherein said wireless video receiver is capable of transmitting said uplink transmission during a vertical blanking period corresponding to said video data.

10. The wireless video communication system of claim 1 comprising a video destination, wherein said wireless video receiver is capable of providing said video destination with an input corresponding to said video data.

11. A wireless video receiver capable of receiving from a wireless video transmitter a wireless video uplink transmission representing video data generated by a video source, capturing a wireless user input signal intended for said video source, and transmitting to said wireless video transmitter a wireless uplink transmission corresponding to said user input signal.

12. The wireless video receiver of claim 11 comprising:

a short range wireless receiver to capture said user input signal; and

a radio-frequency module to transmit said uplink transmission and receive said wireless video downlink transmission.

13. The wireless video receiver of claim 12, wherein a transmission range of said radio-frequency module is longer than a reception range of said short-range wireless receiver.

14. The wireless video receiver of claim 12, wherein said short-range receiver comprises at least one of a Bluetooth receiver, an infrared receiver, a radio-frequency receiver, and a ZigBee receiver.

15. The wireless video receiver of claim 11, wherein said user input signal is out of a reception range of said video source.

16. The wireless video receiver of claim 11, wherein said receiver is capable of transmitting said uplink transmission during a vertical blanking period corresponding to said video data.

17. The wireless video receiver of claim 11, wherein said user input signal comprises a wireless signal generated by a user input device, and wherein said user input device comprises at least one of a keyboard, a mouse, a joystick, a game pad, a pointing device, a remote control device, a microphone, and a remote universal-serial-bus port.

18. A method of wireless video communication, the method comprising:

receiving from a wireless video transmitter a wireless video downlink transmission representing video data generated by a video source;

capturing a wireless user input signal intended for said video source; and

transmitting to said wireless video transmitter a wireless uplink transmission corresponding to said user input signal.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein capturing said user input signal comprises capturing at least one of a Bluetooth signal, an infrared signal, a radio-frequency signal and a ZigBee signal.

20. The method of claim 18 comprising:

receiving said wireless uplink transmission at said wireless video transmitter; and

providing said video source with an input corresponding to said user input signal.

21. The method of claim 18, wherein capturing said wireless user input signal comprises capturing a wireless signal transmitted by a user input device, wherein a distance between said wireless video receiver and said user input device is shorter than a distance between said wireless video receiver and said wireless video transmitter.

22. The method of claim 18, wherein capturing said wireless user input signal comprises capturing a signal generated by at least one of a keyboard, a mouse, a joystick, a game pad, or a pointing device, a remote control device, a microphone, and a remote universal-serial-bus port.

23. The method of claim 18, wherein transmitting said wireless uplink transmission comprises transmitting said wireless uplink transmission during a vertical blanking period corresponding to said video data.