APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHARING VIDEO TELEPHONY SCREEN IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL

• US 20080125104A1
• Filed: 07/02/2007
• Published: 05/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/04/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: You, Jin-Woo, Park, Jong-Cheul, Jeong, Wook-Hyun
• Application Number:
  US11/772,690
• Publication Number:
  US 20080125104A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/02 Handling of images in compressed format, e.g. JPEG, MPEG
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/393 Arrangements for updating the contents of the bit-mapped memory
• 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

Provided is an apparatus and method for sharing a screen in video telephony in a mobile communication terminal. The method includes transmitting a screen share request signal to a connected terminal if an event occurs for screen share in the video telephony, and capturing an image displayed on the screen, and transmitting the captured image to the connected terminal, when receiving a screen share acceptance signal from the connected terminal.

Claims

1. A method for sharing a screen in video telephony in a mobile communication terminal, the method comprising:

transmitting a screen share request signal to a connected terminal if an event for screen share occurs in the video telephony; and

capturing an image displayed on the screen, and transmitting the captured image to the connected terminal, when receiving a screen share acceptance signal from the connected terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the capturing and transmitting of the image further comprises:

displaying a screen share region set request on a display unit;

splitting the set region by a constant size when setting a share region of the screen;

generating map information on the split region;

capturing an image displayed in the set region, and splitting and encoding the captured image depending on the map information; and

transmitting the map information and the encoded image to the connected terminal.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the constant size is based on a Quarter Common Intermediate Format (QCIF) supported in H.263 or Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)-4.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the map information includes at least one of a number of the screen regions split by the constant size, a construction sequence of the split regions and position information on the split regions.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein a frame per second of the split image is an integer that is less than or equal to a quotient obtained by dividing fifteen frames per second recommended in H.324M by a number of the split images.

6. A method for sharing a screen in video telephony in a mobile communication terminal, the method comprising:

displaying the screen share request on a display unit when receiving a screen share request from a connected terminal in the video telephony;

transmitting a screen share acceptance signal to the connected terminal when setting a screen share acceptance;

decoding and reconstructing the encoded image depending on the map information, when receiving map information and an encoded image from the connected terminal; and

displaying the reconstructed image in a position of the display unit.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the map information includes at least one of a number of split images, a construction sequence of the split images and position information on the split images.

8. An apparatus for sharing a screen in video telephony in a mobile communication terminal, the apparatus comprising:

a display unit for displaying an image;

an image capture unit for, upon generation of a video telephony screen share event, generating split map information on a share region, capturing an image displayed on the display unit, and splitting the captured image depending on the split map information;

an image processor for encoding the split image; and

a communication module for transmitting the encoded image and the split map information to a connected terminal.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the split map information includes at least one of a number of split screen regions set by a user, a construction sequence of the split screen regions and position information on the split screen regions.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the image processor includes a single buffer, and stores an Independently decodable (I)-frame in the single buffer.

11. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the image processor includes a multi buffer, and stores an Independently decodable (I)-frame and a (P)-frame for Predicting and compensating a motion between I-frames, in corresponding buffers.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the I-frame and the P-frame are alternately stored in the corresponding buffers depending on a construction sequence of the split images.

13. An apparatus for sharing a screen in video telephony in a mobile communication terminal, the apparatus comprising:

a communication module for receiving map information and an encoded image from a connected terminal;

an image processor for decoding the encoded image depending on the map information;

an image reconstruction unit for reconstructing the decoded image by an original image depending on the map information; and

a display unit for displaying the reconstructed image in a set region.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the map information includes at least one of a number of split captured images, a construction sequence of the split images and position information on the split images.

15. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the image processor includes a single buffer, and stores an Independently decodable (I)-frame in the single buffer.

16. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the image processor includes a multi buffer, and stores an Independently decodable (I)-frame and a (P)-frame for Predicting and compensating a motion between I-frames, in corresponding buffers.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the I-frame and the P-frame are alternately stored in the corresponding buffers depending on a construction sequence of split images.

18. An apparatus for sharing a screen in video telephony in a mobile communication terminal comprising:

means for transmitting a screen share request signal to a connected terminal; and

means for receiving a screen share acceptance signal from the connected terminal; and

means for transmitting a displayed image to the connected terminal.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the means for transmitting the displayed image performs the steps of:

splitting a screen share region by a constant size;

generating map information on the split region;

capturing an image displayed in the screen share region, and encoding the captured image depending on the map information; and

transmitting the map information and the encoded image to the connected terminal.

20. An apparatus for sharing a screen in video telephony in a mobile communication terminal comprising:

means for transmitting a screen share acceptance signal to the connected terminal;

means for decoding and reconstructing an encoded image depending on a map information, when receiving the map information and the encoded image from the connected terminal; and

means for displaying the reconstructed image.