APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING DISPLAYED IMAGE INFORMATION OF A MOBILE MEDIA DEVICE ON A LARGE DISPLAY AND CONTROL OF THE MOBILE MEDIA DEVICE THEREFROM

• US 20120200571A1
• Filed: 02/03/2011
• Published: 08/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dish Technologies LLC (Echostar Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Echostar Technologies LLC (Echostar Corporation)
• Inventors: Newell, Nicholas
• Granted Patent: US 8,843,358 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/428
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• 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 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/145 related to small screens
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/027 Arrangements and methods specific for the display of internet documents

Abstract

Systems and methods are operable to concurrently present images on a small display of a mobile media device and a large display of a media presentation system. An exemplary method receives emulated information from a mobile media device, wherein the emulated information corresponds to at least one image that is being currently presented on a display of the mobile media device; generates at least one image based upon the received emulated information, wherein the at least one image is configured for presentation on a display of a media system; and communicates the at least one image to a display of the media system. The image presented on the display of the media system is substantially the same image presented on the display of the mobile media device. The image presented on the display of the media system is substantially larger than the image presented on the display of the mobile media device.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving emulated information from a mobile media device, wherein the emulated information corresponds to at least one image that is being currently presented on a display of the mobile media device;

generating at least one image based upon the received emulated information, wherein the at least one image is configured for presentation on a display of a media system; and

communicating the at least one image to the display of the media system,

wherein the display of the media system is substantially larger than the display of the mobile media device,

wherein the image presented on the display of the media system is substantially the same image presented on the display of the mobile media device, and

wherein the image presented on the display of the media system is substantially larger than the image presented on the display of the mobile media device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving at least the emulated information comprises:

receiving emulated display information comprising image data, wherein the received image data is the same as image data used to generate the image presented on the display of the mobile media device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving at least the emulated information comprises:

receiving emulated display information comprising high resolution image data, wherein the received high resolution image data corresponds to low resolution image data presented on the display of the mobile media device.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving emulated active information comprising active link information configured to establish a communication link to a remote device;

establishing the communication link to the remote device in response to receiving the emulated active information and based on the active link information; and

receiving high resolution image data from the remote device via the established communication link, wherein the received high resolution image data corresponds to low resolution image data presented on the display of the mobile media device.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein receiving high resolution image data from the remote device via the established communication link comprises:

receiving a high resolution video image from the remote device via the established communication link, wherein the received high resolution video image corresponds to low resolution video image presented on the display of the mobile media device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving at least the emulated information comprises:

receiving emulated active information corresponding to a virtual touch sensitive controller, wherein the emulated active information comprises image information configured to present a selectable image, and wherein the emulated active information is configured to cause the mobile media device to execute a predefined function;

generating an image corresponding to the virtual touch sensitive controller based upon the received emulated active information; and

communicating the image of the virtual touch sensitive controller to the media system, wherein the image of the virtual touch sensitive controller is configured for presentation on a touch sensitive display of the media system

wherein the image of the virtual touch sensitive controller presented on the touch sensitive display of the media system is substantially the same image of the virtual touch sensitive controller presented on the touch sensitive display of the mobile media device, and

wherein the image of the virtual touch sensitive controller presented on the touch sensitive display of the media system is substantially larger than the image of the virtual touch sensitive controller presented on the touch sensitive display of the mobile media device.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving a user initiated touch signal from the touch sensitive display of the media system, wherein the user initiated touch signal comprises at least touch location information identifying a touch location of a user'"'"'s digit on the touch sensitive display of the media system;

determining whether the touch location information corresponds to a location of a virtual touch sensitive controller;

generating command and control information in response to the touch location information corresponding to the location of the virtual touch sensitive controller; and

communicating the command and control information to the mobile media device, wherein the command and control information corresponds to a function associated with the virtual touch sensitive controller, and wherein the command and control information is configured to operate the mobile media device in accordance with the function of the virtual touch sensitive controller.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving a user initiated touch signal from the touch sensitive display of the media system, wherein the user initiated touch signal comprises at least touch location information identifying a touch location of a user'"'"'s digit on the touch sensitive display;

determining whether the touch location information corresponds to a location of a virtual touch sensitive controller; and

communicating the touch location information to the mobile media device, wherein the touch location information corresponds to a location of the virtual touch sensitive controller presented on the display of the mobile media device.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a user initiated gesture signal from a touch sensitive display of the media system, wherein the user initiated gesture signal comprises at least gesture touch location information identifying at least one gesture touch location of a user'"'"'s digit on the touch sensitive display;

generating command and control information in response to the user initiated gesture signal, wherein the command and control information comprises the gesture touch location information; and

communicating the command and control information to the mobile media device, wherein the user initiated gesture signal corresponds to a function configured to operate the mobile media device.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

modifying at least one image presented on the touch sensitive display of the media system in accordance with a touch based gesture control signal,

wherein the modified image presented on the touch sensitive display of the media system emulates a change on a corresponding image presented on the display of the mobile media device.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a user initiated gesture signal from a touch sensitive display of the media system, wherein the user initiated gesture signal comprises at least gesture touch location information identifying at least one gesture touch location of a user'"'"'s digit on the touch sensitive display;

modifying at least an image presented on the touch sensitive display of the media system in accordance with a touch based gesture control signal;

generating command and control information in response to the user initiated gesture signal, wherein the command and control information comprises an instruction configured to cause the mobile media device to perform a function corresponding to the user initiated gesture signal; and

communicating the command and control information to the mobile media device,

wherein the modified image presented on the touch sensitive display of the media system emulates a change on a corresponding image presented on the display of the mobile media device.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

communicating a plurality of touch sensitive graphic icons to a touch sensitive display of the media system, wherein the plurality of graphic icons are presented as a virtual key pad, and wherein each of the graphical icons uniquely corresponds to an integer from zero to nine;

receiving a plurality of user initiated touch signals from the touch sensitive display of the media system, wherein the plurality of user initiated touch signals correspond to a telephone number; and

communicating command and control information corresponding to the telephone number to the mobile media device, wherein the command and control information is configured to cause the mobile media device to place a telephone call to a remote device associated with the telephone number.

13. A media system, comprising:

a presentation device interface configured to communicatively couple to a large display;

a mobile device interface configured to receive emulated information from a mobile media device, wherein the emulated information corresponds to at least one emulated image that corresponds to an image that is being currently presented on a small display of the mobile media device; and

a processor system communicatively coupled to the large display, and configured to;

generate image information corresponding to the emulated image based on the emulated information received from the mobile media device; and

communicate the image information to the large display via the mobile device interface.

14. The media system of claim 13, wherein the received emulated information comprises emulated active information corresponding to a virtual touch sensitive controller presented as a selectable image on the small display of the mobile media device, and wherein the virtual touch sensitive controller is configured to cause the mobile media device to execute a predefined function, and wherein the large display comprises:

a large touch sensitive display, wherein the large touch sensitive display is larger than a small touch sensitive display of the mobile media device,

wherein the processor system is further configured to;

generate an image corresponding to the virtual touch sensitive controller based upon the received emulated active information; and

communicate image information corresponding to the image of the virtual touch sensitive controller to the large touch sensitive display,

wherein the image of the virtual touch sensitive controller presented on the large touch sensitive display is substantially the same image of the virtual touch sensitive controller presented on the small touch sensitive display of the mobile media device, and

wherein the image of the virtual touch sensitive controller presented on the large touch sensitive display is substantially larger than the image of the virtual touch sensitive controller presented on the small touch sensitive display of the mobile media device.

15. The media system of claim 14, wherein the presentation device interface is further configured to receive information from the large touch sensitive display corresponding to at least touch location information identifying a touch location of a user'"'"'s digit on the large touch sensitive display, wherein the processor system is further configured to:

determine whether the touch location information corresponds to a location of the virtual touch sensitive controller;

generate command and control information in response to the touch location information corresponding to the location of the virtual touch sensitive controller; and

communicate the command and control information to the mobile media device via the mobile device interface, wherein the command and control information corresponds to a function associated with the virtual touch sensitive controller, and wherein the command and control information is configured to operate the mobile media device in accordance with the function of the virtual touch sensitive controller.

16. The media system of claim 14, wherein the presentation device interface is further configured to receive information from the large touch sensitive display corresponding to at least touch location information identifying a touch location of a user'"'"'s digit on the large touch sensitive display, wherein the processor system is further configured to:

determine whether the touch location information corresponds to a location of a virtual touch sensitive controller;

generate command and control information in response to receiving the touch location information from the large touch sensitive display;

map the touch location information from the large touch sensitive display to mapped touch location information corresponding to the small touch sensitive display of the mobile media device; and

communicate the command and control information to the mobile media device via the mobile device interface.

17. A method, comprising:

presenting at least one first image on a display of a mobile media device; and

communicating at least emulated information from the mobile media device to at least one component of a media system,

wherein a second image generated from the received emulated information and presented on a display of the media system corresponds to the first image concurrently presented on the display of the mobile media device,

wherein the display of the media system is substantially larger that the display of the mobile media device,

wherein the second image presented on the display of the media system is substantially the same as the first image presented on the display of the mobile media device, and

wherein the second image presented on the display of the media system is substantially larger than the first image presented on the display of the mobile media device.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the communicated emulated information comprises emulated active information corresponding to a virtual touch sensitive controller presented as a first selectable image on the display of mobile media device, and wherein the virtual touch sensitive controller is configured to cause the mobile media device to execute a predefined function, and further comprising:

communicating the emulated active information from the mobile media device to the at least one component of the media system,

wherein a second selectable image generated from the received emulated information and presented on the display of the media system corresponds to the first selectable image concurrently presented on the display of the mobile media device.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

receiving information generated by a large touch sensitive display corresponding to at least touch location information identifying a touch location of a user'"'"'s digit on the large touch sensitive display;

determining whether the touch location information corresponds to a location of the first selectable image presented on the display of the mobile media device; and

executing the predefined function at the mobile media device in response to the received touch location information corresponding to the location of the first selectable image presented on the display of the mobile media device.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

receiving command and instruction information generated based upon the large touch sensitive display sensing a touch location of a user'"'"'s digit on the large touch sensitive display corresponding to a presented location of the second selectable image; and

executing the predefined function at the mobile media device in response to the received command and instruction information.