System And Method For Multi-User Control And Media Streaming To A Shared Display

• US 20140240445A1
• Filed: 02/26/2014
• Published: 08/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2013
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Mersive Technologies Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Mersive Technologies Incorporated
• Inventors: Jaynes, Christopher O.
• Application Number:
  US14/190,318
• Publication Number:
  US 20140240445A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/14.07
• 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 2370/04 Exchange of auxiliary data, i.e. other than image data, between monitor and graphics controller
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/20 Details of the management of multiple sources of image data
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/005 Adapting incoming signals to the display format of the display terminal
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/431 Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43637 involving a wireless protocol, e.g. Bluetooth, RF or wireless LAN [IEEE 802.11] arrangements for wireless networking or broadcasting of information in indoor or near-field type systems H04B10/114
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859

Abstract

A system and method for simultaneously displaying, on a wirelessly enabled display connected to two or more of the source computers to display at least one media source from each of at least two source computers. A media source is selected, via each of the source computers. The media source is less than the entire image on the source client computer, and may constitute client data file, an application, or a video stream. Each of the selected media sources is transmitted to the display as a respective live media stream and each of the transmitted media streams is simultaneously rendered on the display.

Claims

1. A method for simultaneously displaying, on a wirelessly enabled display, at least one media source from each of at least two source computers, the method comprising:

wirelessly connecting two or more of the source computers to the display;

selecting, via each of the source computers, a respective media source;

wherein at least one of the media sources is a region of a screen displayed on a client display device connected to one of the source computers;

determining a transform, indicating translation magnitude and scale based on settings of a user input device, for each of the media sources, indicating the location and size, on the display, of each said media source;

transmitting each of the selected media sources to the display as a respective live media stream; and

simultaneously rendering, on the display, each of the transmitted media sources, using the transform to determine a current geometric state of each of the respective media sources.

2. The method of claim 1, further including:

transmitting each of the selected media sources, together with the corresponding transform, to the display as a respective live media stream; and

simultaneously rendering, on the display, each of the transmitted media sources, using the transform to determine a current geometric state of the respective media sources.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the media source is an image file.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the media source is an entire source computer display.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the media source is one or more data files.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the source computers connecting to the display transmit information to the display including user identity and media location on the display.

7. A method for simultaneously displaying, on a wirelessly enabled display, at least one media source from each of at least two source computers, the method comprising:

sending, from each of the source computers to a server, a request to publish a media post comprising a region of a screen displayed on a client display device connected to one of the source computers;

receiving the request for the media post;

associating the new media post with a unique user ID;

creating a decoded media stream including media post updates from one of the source computers;

sending the decoded media stream, including the media post, to each of the source computers, based on the corresponding unique user ID;

receiving the decoded media stream with the media post;

updating the media post on the display;

capturing a media frame displayed by one of the source computers by capturing screen pixels corresponding to an image being published; and

displaying updated video in the corresponding media post.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the media source is an image file.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the media source is an entire source computer display.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the media source is one or more data files.

11. The method of claim 7 wherein the source computers connecting to the display transmit information to the display including user identity and media post location on the display.

12. The method of claim 7, including determining a transform, indicating translation magnitude and direction based on the motion of a user input device, for each of the media sources, indicating the location, on the display, of each said media source;

transmitting each of the selected media sources, together with the corresponding transform, to the display as a respective live media stream; and

simultaneously rendering, on the display, each of the transmitted media sources, using the transform, to determine a current geometric state of the respective media sources.

13. The method of claim 7, wherein the steps of capturing and displaying are performed asynchronously with respect to each of the other steps.