SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED CREATIVE DESIGN

• US 20120154511A1
• Filed: 12/20/2010
• Published: 06/21/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Northrop Grumman Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Northrop Grumman Corporation)
• Inventors: Hsu, Shi-Ping, Siegel, Neil G., Ferren, Bran, Hillis, W. Daniel
• Application Number:
  US12/973,544
• Publication Number:
  US 20120154511A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/14.03
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/042 by opto-electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/1041 Televoting
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/567 Multimedia conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0024 Services and arrangements where telephone services are combined with data services arrangements which combine a telephonic equipment and a computer H04M7/0012
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/144 camera and display on the same optical axis, e.g. optically multiplexing the camera and display for eye to eye contact
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems

Abstract

Systems and methods for providing geographically distributed creative design are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system is provided for providing directional audio in a video teleconference meeting. The system comprises a high resolution display, an interactive stylus and a plurality of sensors that track movement of the interactive stylus over the high resolution display. A creative design controller is configured to display detailed text and figures and display sketches of context in response to movement of the interactive stylus over the high resolution display.

Claims

1. A system for providing creative design, the system comprising:

a high resolution display;

an interactive stylus;

a plurality of sensors that track movement of the interactive stylus over the high resolution display; and

a creative design controller configured to display detailed text and figures and display sketches of context in response to movement of the interactive stylus over the high resolution display.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is located at a local location and coupled to one or more remotely located creative design systems and/or remotely located teleconference systems over a network.

3. The system of claim 2, further comprising at least one video teleconference camera for capturing images of participants at the local location and transmitting those captured images to the one or more remotely located creative design systems and/or remotely located teleconference systems and at least one microphone for capturing voice sounds at the local location and providing audio data produced by the voice sounds to the one or more remotely located creative design systems and/or remotely located teleconference systems.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the at least one video teleconference camera comprises at least two cameras angled toward a position of a user of the interactive stylus so that an image can be generated and transmitted to the one or more remotely located creative design systems and/or remotely located teleconference systems, so that it appears that the user is looking straight into the eye of remotely located participants when the user is looking toward the high resolution display.

5. The system of claim 2, further comprising at least one video teleconference display for displaying participants from the one or more remotely located creative design systems and/or remotely located teleconference systems and at least one speaker for receiving audio data from the one or more remotely located creative design systems and/or remotely located teleconference systems and providing voice sounds associated with the audio data.

6. The system of claim 5, further comprising a forty-five degree angled mirror placed in front of the at least one video teleconference display and a video teleconference camera located to capture images of the mirror at a ninety degree angle relative to the position of a user of the interactive stylus to provide the appearance that the user is looking straight into the eye of remote participants when the user is looking toward the video teleconference display.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the stylus sensors are cameras and the interactive stylus includes a transmitter located and an end point of the interactive stylus and the cameras monitor movement of the transmitter to determine when to display sketched images in response to sketches by a user on the high resolution display.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the creative design controller preloads and displays the detailed text and figures on the high resolution display and the creative design controller further comprises an image analyzer that analyzes image data from the stylus sensors to determine movement of the stylus sensor and a message engine that receives the determined changes and generates instruction for instructing a video controller to draw sketches on the high resolution display based on movement of the interactive stylus over the display.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the creative design controller further comprises a central controller that packetizes the generated instructions and transmits the packetized instructions to at least one remote creative design system for displaying the drawn sketched on at least one remote high resolution display.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the creative design controller further comprises a design organizer tool that automatically renders a sketched design into an organized sketch.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the creative design controller further comprises a collaborative polling tool that allows users to weight parameters and assign scores associated with prospective decision selections to determine an individual user ranking and display average weight parameters and average scores of a group of users to determine a group decision selection ranking.

12. A system for providing geographically distributed creative design, the system comprising:

a plurality of creative design system coupled together over a network, each of the plurality of creative design systems comprising;

a high resolution display;

an interactive stylus;

a plurality of sensors that track movement of the interactive stylus over the high resolution display; and

a creative design controller configured to display preloaded detailed text and figures and generate instructions to display sketches of context in response to movement of the interactive stylus over the high resolution display.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein each of the creative design controllers are further configured to transmit the generated instructions to other creative design systems to display sketches of context of a given creative design system and further configured to receive instructions to display context from other creative design systems at the given creative design system, the generated instructions being only associated with updates of displayed sketches.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein each of the creative design controllers further comprise a design organizer tool that automatically renders a sketched design into an organized sketch.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein each of the creative design controllers further comprise a collaborative polling tool that allows users to weight parameters and assign scores associated with prospective decision selections to determine an individual user ranking and display weight parameter averages and averages scores of a group of users to determine a group decision selection ranking.

16. A method for providing geographically distributed creative design, the method comprising:

preloading detailed text and figures to be displayed on a high resolution display of a local creative design system;

tracking movement of an interactive stylus over the high resolution display; and

generating instructions to display sketches of context in response to movement of the interactive stylus over the high resolution display.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising transmitting the generated instructions to at least one other creative design system to display the sketches of context on a high resolution display of the at least one other given creative design system and receiving instructions to display context from the at least one other creative design systems on the high resolution display of the local creative design system, the generated instructions being only associated with updates of displayed sketches.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein tracking movement of an interactive stylus over the high resolution display comprises capturing and analyzing images of the movement of the interactive stylus over the high resolution display.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising automatically rendering a sketched design into an organized sketch.

20. The method of claim 16, further comprise providing an individual user input screen of a collaborative polling tool on the high resolution display to allow a user to weight parameters and assign scores associated with prospective decision selections to determine an individual user ranking and displaying a group output screen of weight parameter averages and averages scores of a group of users to determine a group decision selection ranking.