VIDEO CONFERENCE CONTROL METHOD AND CONFERENCE TERMINAL

• US 20130088563A1
• Filed: 11/29/2012
• Published: 04/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honor Device Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: WU, Jiaoli
• Granted Patent: US 8,890,924 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/14.07
• 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: H04N 7/15 Conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/152 Multipoint control units therefor

Abstract

The present invention discloses a video conference control method and a conference terminal. The method includes: receiving multi-video information, where the multi-video information includes videos of at least two remote conference sites; displaying the multi-video information on a display screen, where the display screen includes a main video display area and an auxiliary video selection area; and performing, according to a received conference control operation request, a corresponding conference control operation on a conference site corresponding to a video displayed in the auxiliary video selection area. According to the present invention, the display screen is divided into the main video display area and the auxiliary video selection area, so that a user may perform a conference control operation on a video of a remote conference site through the auxiliary video selection area, a conference site that needs to be viewed is displayed in the main video display area.

Claims

1. A video conference control method, comprising:

receiving multi-video information, wherein the multi-video information comprises videos of at least two remote conference sites;

displaying the multi-video information on a display screen, wherein the display screen comprises a main video display area and an auxiliary video selection area;

displaying a video of a currently viewed remote conference site, wherein the video is in the multi-video information, in the main video display area;

displaying a video of a remote conference site on which a user performs a conference control operation, wherein the video is in the multi-video information, in the auxiliary video selection area; and

performing, according to a received conference control operation request, a corresponding conference control operation on a conference site corresponding to a video displayed in the auxiliary video selection area.

2. The video conference control method according to claim 1, wherein the conference control operation comprises one or more of the following:

previewing the conference site, deleting the conference site, viewing the conference site, broadcasting the conference site and roll calling the conference site.

3. The video conference control method according to claim 1, wherein

the performing, according to the received conference control operation request, the corresponding conference control operation on the conference site corresponding to the video displayed in the auxiliary video selection area comprises:

when receiving a conference control operation request of previewing the conference site by the user, displaying the video of the remote conference site in the auxiliary video selection area in a slide manner.

4. The video conference control method according to claim 3, wherein the displaying the video of the remote conference site in the auxiliary video selection area in the slide manner comprises:

displaying one select box in the auxiliary video selection area, so that when the user slides the select box, the video of the remote conference site is displayed in the slide manner.

5. The video conference control method according to claim 4, wherein the displaying the select box in the auxiliary video selection area, so that when the user slides the select box, the video of the remote conference site is displayed in the slide manner comprises:

when receiving a request of sliding the select box by the user, wherein the request of sliding the select box is used to slide and display a video of a remote conference site not displayed in the current auxiliary video selection area, sending an update request to a multipoint processing server, so that the multipoint processing server updates the video of the remote conference site displayed in the auxiliary video selection area and sends the updated video to the auxiliary video selection area for updating and displaying.

6. The video conference control method according to claim 3, wherein the displaying the video of the remote conference site in the auxiliary video selection area in the slide manner comprises:

when receiving a request that the user slides the video displayed in the auxiliary video selection area to slide and display a video of a remote conference site not displayed in the current auxiliary video selection area, sending an update request to a multipoint processing server, so that the multipoint processing server updates the video of the remote conference site displayed in the auxiliary video selection area and sends the updated video to the auxiliary video selection area for updating and displaying.

7. The video conference control method according to claim 5, wherein any one of the following manners is adopted to display for the updating and displaying:

a cyclic updating and displaying manner, and a one-way displaying manner.

8. The video conference control method according to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary video selection area not only displays the video of the remote conference site but also displays comment information of the remote conference site, and the comment information comprises at least one kind of the following information:

a name of a location of the remote conference site, and a conference theme.

9. The video conference control method according to claim 1, wherein the video of the remote conference site is displayed in the auxiliary video selection area according to the following preset policy, and the preset policy comprises at least one of the following:

the video of the remote conference site is displayed according to sequence of a conference site priority;

the video of the remote conference site is displayed according to division of a location of the conference site; and

the video of the remote conference site is displayed according to division of a conference theme.

10. A conference terminal, comprising:

a receiving module, configured to receive multi-video information, wherein the multi-video information comprises videos of at least two remote conference sites;

a displaying module, configured to display the multi-video information, wherein a main video display area and an auxiliary video selection area are comprised;

display a video of a currently viewed remote conference site, wherein the video is in the multi-video information, in the main video display area; and

display a video of a remote conference site on which a user performs a conference control operation, wherein the video is in the multi-video information, in the auxiliary video selection area; and

a conference control operating module, configured to perform, according to a received conference control operation request, a corresponding conference control operation on a conference site corresponding to a video displayed in the auxiliary video selection area.

11. The conference terminal according to claim 10, wherein the conference control operation executed by the conference control operating module comprises one or more of the following:

previewing the a conference site, deleting the conference site, viewing the conference site, broadcasting the conference site or roll calling the conference site.

12. The conference terminal according to claim 10, wherein

the conference control operating module is configured to, when the conference control operation request of previewing the conference site by the user is received, display the video of the remote conference site in the auxiliary video selection area in a slide manner.

13. The conference terminal according to claim 12, wherein

the conference control operating module is configured to display a select box in the auxiliary video selection area, so that when the user slides the select box, the video of the remote conference site is displayed in the slide manner.

14. The conference terminal according to claim 13, wherein

the conference control operating module is configured to, when receiving a request of sliding the select box by the user, wherein the request of sliding the select box is used to slide and display a video of a remote conference site not displayed in the current auxiliary video selection area, send an update request to a multipoint processing server, so that the multipoint processing server updates the video of the remote conference site displayed in the auxiliary video selection area and sends the updated video to the auxiliary video selection area for displaying.

15. The conference terminal according to claim 12, wherein

the conference control operating module is configured to, when receiving a request that the user slides the video displayed in the auxiliary video selection area to slide and display a video of a remote conference site not displayed in the current auxiliary video selection area, send an update request to a multipoint processing server, so that the multipoint processing server updates and displays the video of the remote conference site displayed in the auxiliary video selection area and sends the updated video to the auxiliary video selection area for displaying.

16. The conference terminal according to claim 14, wherein the conference control operating module, when executing an update and display operation, adopts any one of the following manners for displaying:

a cyclic updating and displaying manner, and a one-way displaying manner.

17. The conference terminal according to claim 10, wherein

the displaying module is further configured to display comment information of the remote conference site, wherein the comment information comprises at least one kind of the following information:

a name of a location of the remote conference site, and a conference theme.

18. The conference terminal according to claim 10, wherein

the displaying module displays the video of the remote conference site in the auxiliary video selection area according to a preset policy, wherein the preset policy comprises at least one of the following:

the video of the remote conference site is displayed according to sequence of a conference site priority;

the video of the remote conference site is displayed according to division of a location of the conference site; and

the video of the remote conference site is displayed according to division of a conference theme.