MOBILE TERMINAL AND VIDEO SHARING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20100083137A1
• Filed: 09/30/2009
• Published: 04/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: AN, Young-Soo, SHIN, Hyun-Bin, CHO, Eun-Woo
• Granted Patent: US 8,347,216 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/756
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/56 Arrangements for indicating or recording the called number at the calling subscriber's set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/62 user interface aspects of conference calls
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42203 sound input device, e.g. microphone
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/173 with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal

Abstract

A mobile terminal for providing a video sharing function in a multi-party call state and its video sharing method are disclosed. When a video sharing menu is selected while a user is performing individual call communication or multi-party call communication, one or a plurality of video share keys in relation to a user selected for video sharing are displayed, so that the user can select a desired one of the displayed video share keys to share video with the selected user. In addition, a video share authority change key is disposed on the screen of a terminal set as a video share authority (chief authority) change target, so that a corresponding terminal can select the video share authority change key during individual or multi-party video sharing to acquire the authority of video sharing (chief authority) from a terminal currently having the authority of video sharing, thus perform bi-directional video sharing in real time.

Claims

1. A video sharing method of a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

performing multi-party call communication with a plurality of users;

displaying one or more video share keys in relation to a user when video sharing is selected during the multi-party call communication; and

performing video sharing with a desired user corresponding to the selected one of the video share key.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

when the video sharing menu is selected during the multi-party call communication, displaying a menu for setting a target for video sharing and user information.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the number of video share keys is consistent with the number of users who are to share the video.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the video share key is added or deleted.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the video share key is deleted when it is moved by a certain distance to the left or right through touch-and-dragging or flicking.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the video share key is added in one of the upward or downward direction of the currently displayed video share key through a menu selection.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the video share key is set to be automatically deleted when video sharing is terminated.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein if the number of video share keys exceeds a certain number, the video share keys are automatically integrated into a single multi-video share key and displayed.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein one or more video share keys are integrated into the single multi-video share key through user'"'"'s touch-and-dragging or flicking and displayed.

10. A mobile terminal comprising:

a memory configured to store information in relation to video sharing;

a display unit configured to display information in relation to video sharing and a video shared state; and

a controller configured to display at least one or more video share keys in relation to a video sharing user to share video with a desired user according to the displayed video share keys, when video sharing is performed during multi-party call communication.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein when video sharing is selected during multi-party call communication, the controller displays items for selecting a user for transmitting video and user information on the display unit, and displays information corresponding to the user selected from the items and a video share key on the display unit.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein the video share keys is consistent with the number of users who want to share video, and added or deleted.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the video share key is deleted when it is moved by a certain distance to the left or right through touch-and-dragging or flicking.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the video share key is added in one of upward and downward directions of a currently displayed video share key.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein the video share key is set to be automatically deleted when video sharing is terminated.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein if the total number of video share keys exceeds a certain number, the video share keys are automatically integrated into a single multi-video share key and displayed.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein the one or more video share keys are integrated into a single multi-video share key through a user'"'"'s touch-and dragging or flicking, so as to be displayed.

18. A video sharing method of a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

performing video sharing;

displaying a video sharing authority change key on a screen of a first terminal that receives video when video sharing is performed; and

selecting the displayed video sharing authority change key to request changing of the authority of video sharing from a second terminal that provides video.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the video share authority change key is displayed in the vicinity of the position where counterpart information is displayed on the screen.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the video sharing comprises individual video sharing performed during individual call communication and multi-video sharing performed during multi-party call communication.

21. The method of claim 18, wherein the first terminal is a terminal which has registered as a video share target by the second terminal, and the video share authority change key is displayed only on the first terminal.

22. The method of claim 18, wherein the requesting of changing of the authority of video changing comprises:

transmitting a message requesting changing of the authority of video sharing to the second terminal; and

displaying that the authority of video sharing is being currently changed by controlling a key display of the video share authority change key.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the key display provides a color, a movement, twinkling, and a rotation to the video share authority change key.

24. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

removing the video share authority change key to indicate that the authority of video sharing has been acquired when the second terminal approves changing of the authority of video sharing;

performing video sharing from the first terminal to the second terminal; and

when the video sharing is terminated, displaying the video share authority change key on the screen of the first terminal to indicate that the authority of video sharing is at the second terminal.

25. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

if the video sharing is multi-party video sharing and when the second terminal approves changing of the authority of video sharing, displaying a multi-video share key on the first terminal.

26. The method of claim 18, wherein when the first terminal selects the video share authority change key, the video share authority change key and a message requesting the change of the authority of video sharing are displayed on the screen of the second terminal.

27. The method of claim 18, wherein when the first terminal selects again the video share authority change key, only the video share authority change key is displayed on the screen of the second terminal.

28. A video sharing method of a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

selecting a menu for performing video sharing;

setting a video sharing target and a video sharing authority change target from the menu and transmitting video to the set video sharing target;

assigning the authority of video sharing to the corresponding video share target when changing of a video share authority is requested from the video share authority change target during video sharing; and

receiving video from the video share target having the authority of video sharing.

29. The method of claim 28, wherein the menu comprises an individual video share menu and a multi-video share menu.

30. The method of claim 28, wherein the individual video share menu is displayed on a separate pop-up window and comprises detailed items with respect to designation of a video share target, designation of shared video, and setting of an authority change key.

31. The method of claim 28, wherein the multi-video share menu is displayed on a separate pop-up window and comprises detailed items with respect to designation of a video share target, designation of shared video, setting of an authority change key, and setting of a video share authority change target.

32. The method of claim 28, further comprising:

when changing of the authority of video sharing is requested by the video share target, displaying a video share authority change key and a request message on the screen.

33. The method of claim 28, wherein when the video sharing is terminated, the video share authority change key is automatically removed to have the authority of video sharing again.

34. The method of claim 28, wherein when the changing of the authority of the video sharing is requested from the video share authority change target, a request message is not displayed on the screen.

35. A mobile terminal comprising:

a memory configured to store video to be shared and a video sharing menu;

a display unit configured to display items for setting a video sharing target and a video sharing authority change target from the menu; and

a controller configured to perform video sharing by transmitting video to the video sharing target, and assign the authority for video sharing to the corresponding video sharing target and display a video sharing authority change key, when changing of the authority of video sharing is requested by the video sharing authority change target.

36. The mobile terminal of claim 35, wherein the video share authority change key is displayed only on a terminal which has registered as a video share target when video sharing is performed.

37. The mobile terminal of claim 35, wherein the video share authority change key is displayed near the position where counterpart information is displayed on the screen.

38. The mobile terminal of claim 35, wherein the controller provides a color, a movement, twinkling, and a rotation to the video share authority change key to indicate that the authority for video sharing is being changed.

39. The mobile terminal of claim 35, wherein the video share authority change key is automatically deleted when the video sharing is terminate .

40. The mobile terminal of claim 35, wherein when changing of the authority of video sharing is first requested by the video share authority change target, the controller displays a message requesting changing of the authority of video sharing on the screen, and when the changing of the authority of video sharing is requested again, the controller does not display the message.

41. The mobile terminal of claim 35, wherein the menu comprises an individual video share menu and a multi-video share menu.

42. The mobile terminal of claim 41, wherein the individual video share menu is displayed on a separate pop-up window and comprises detailed items with respect to designation of a video share target, designation of shared video, and setting of an authority change key.

43. The mobile terminal of claim 41, wherein the multi-video share menu is displayed on a separate pop-up window and comprises detailed items with respect to designation of a video share target, designation of shared video, setting of an authority change key, and setting of a video share authority change target.