Displaying Heterogeneous Video

• US 20160021418A1
• Filed: 09/30/2015
• Published: 01/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Oleg Rashkovskiy, Scott A. Rosenberg
• Original Assignee: Scott A. Rosenberg
• Inventors: Rashkovskiy, Oleg, Rosenberg, Scott A.
• Application Number:
  US14/870,949
• Publication Number:
  US 20160021418A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• 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 21/440281 by altering the temporal resolution, e.g. by frame skipping television signal recording using magnetic recording on tape for reproducing at a rate different from the recording rate H04N5/783
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44209 Monitoring of downstream path of the transmission network originating from a server, e.g. bandwidth variations of a wireless network arrangements for maintenance or administration in data switching networks involving bandwidth and capacity management H04L41/0896
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4821 using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4858 for modifying screen layout parameters, e.g. fonts, size of the windows

Abstract

Heterogeneous video may be independently encoded in a processor-based system and transmitted for display on a display device. In the display device, the independent video streams may be de-packetized for display on the same display at different frame rates. Thus, each of the video sources may be displayed in a separate portion of the display at its native frame rate. For example, an electronic programming guide may be transmitted for display at one frame rate and displayed in a distinct region on the display screen while video corresponding to an ongoing television program may be displayed in another portion of the display screen at its native frame rate.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

streaming at least two independent video sources for display on a video display screen; and

causing said sources to be displayed at separate regions of said display screen.

2. The method of claim 1 including forming said sources into packets in a first device and transporting said packets to a second device.

3. The method of claim 2 including depacketizing said packets in said second device.

4. The method of claim 1 including transmitting said video sources from a processor-based system to a display device including said display screen.

5. The method of claim 4 including transmitting said video sources over a wireless connection between said processor-based system and said display device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said display screen includes a pixel array and a memory array, refreshing said memory array and said pixel array in the same refresh cycle.

7. The method of claim 6 including displaying said sources on a display that uses liquid crystal over semiconductor technology.

8. The method of claim 1 including streaming video sources for display on said display screen at different frame rates.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein one of said video sources includes television programming and the other of said video sources includes graphical information.

10. The method of claim 1 including streaming a first video source that includes television programming information and a second video source that includes an electronic programming guide information.