SYSTEM WITH CONTENT DISPLAY MANAGEMENT

• US 20140092121A1
• Filed: 09/28/2012
• Published: 04/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Robinson, Ian N.
• Granted Patent: US 9,292,249 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/592
• 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: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/10 Mixing of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of an operation, e.g. adding, on the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports

Abstract

A method performed by a processing system with content display management includes identifying a first added content in a set of added contents that overlap and forming a display image to include the first added content such that a first portion of the first added content is partially transparent with respect to remote content captured by a remote system and a second portion of the first added content is opaque with respect to at least a portion of second added content in the set of added contents.

Claims

1. A method performed by a processing system with content display management, the method comprising:

identifying a first added content in a set of added contents that overlap; and

forming a display image to include the first added content such that a first portion of the first added content is partially transparent with respect to remote content captured by a remote system and a second portion of the first added content is opaque with respect to at least a first portion of second added content in the set of added contents.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

displaying the display image.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

determining a stacking order of the set of added contents; and

identify the first added content as the top-most content in the stacking order.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein a second portion of the second added content overlaps with the remote content but not with the first added content.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

forming the display image to include the second added content such that the first portion of second added content is fully occluded by the second portion of the first added content and the second portion of second added content is partially transparent with respect to the remote content.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the remote content is captured by the remote system to include a remote user and received by the processing system.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

capturing local content to include a local user; and

providing the local content to the remote system.

8. A system comprising:

a display; and

a control unit to cause the display to display first content captured by a remote system to include a remote user and second content;

wherein the control unit is to cause the display to display third content that overlaps with a first portion of the first content and a first portion of the second content such that the third content is partially transparent with respect to the first portion of the first content and opaque with respect to the first portion of the second content.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein the first content is captured by the remote system to include a remote user.

10. The system of claim 8 wherein a second portion of the second content overlaps with a second portion of the first content but not the third content.

11. The system of claim 8 further comprising:

a camera;

wherein the control unit is to cause the camera to fourth content to include a local user and provide the fourth content to the remote system.

12. An article comprising at least one machine-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processing system, cause the processing system to:

set a first portion of first content to be partially transparent with respect to second content captured by a camera that overlaps with the first content;

set a second portion of the first content to be opaque with respect to third content that overlaps with the first content; and

provide the first content to a display for display.

13. The article of claim 12, wherein the second content is captured by a remote system to include a remote user.

14. The article of claim 12, wherein the third content overlaps with the second content.

15. The article of claim 12, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processing system, cause the processing system to:

set the second portion of the first content to be opaque by combining the first content with the second content but not the third content.