Method and apparatus for controlling image data in a wireless terminal with normal video communication mode and image mute mode

• US 7,768,970 B2
• Filed: 03/08/2006
• Issued: 08/03/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Hwan, Lim, Chae-Whan
• Primary Examiner(s): Pérez Gutiérrez; Rafael
• Assistant Examiner(s): Arevalo; Joseph
• Application Number:
  US11/369,882
• Publication Number:
  US 20060276126A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,609 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466, 455/519, 455/3.06, 455/518, 455/414.1, 455/403, 455/41.2, 455/419, 455/412.1, 455/557, 455/552.1, 370/328, 370/331, 370/310.2, 370/311, 370/332, 370/498, 370/466, 370/467, 370/300, 370/385, 370/401, 370/414.4, 370/349, 370/250, 370/225, 370/352, 370/278, 370/392, 370/246, 709/231, 709/206, 348/E7.083
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q

Abstract

A method and apparatus for controlling video data in a wireless terminal having a normal video communication mode and a video mute mode is provided. The wireless terminal can be switched to the video mute mode if a user selects the video mute mode during normal video communication mode, thereby enabling video data preselected by the user to be presented on the terminal'"'"'s display and transmitted to a distant party. The terminal can also display and transmit preselected video data if no video data is received from a distant party within a given time.

Claims

1. A method for controlling video data on a wireless terminal, the method comprising:

determining if a video mute mode is selected on the wireless terminal when the wireless terminal is in a normal video communication mode;

switching the wireless terminal to the video mute mode from the normal video communication mode if the video mute mode is selected; and

presenting pre-selected video data on a display of the wireless terminal and transmitting the pre-selected video data to a remote terminal when the wireless terminal is in the video mute mode,

wherein the wireless terminal transmits real time video data to the remote terminal during the normal video communication mode and blocks transmission of real time video data to the remote terminal when the wireless terminal is in the video mute mode.

2. A method as defined in claim 1, wherein said pre-selected video data comprises video mute mode data.

3. A method as defined in claim 2, wherein the pre-selected video data comprises at least one of a still picture and a moving picture.

4. A method as defined in claim 2, wherein the pre-selected video data comprises at least one of a slide show, a still picture and a moving picture stored in said wireless terminal.

5. A method for controlling video data on a wireless terminal, the method comprising:

determining if a video mute mode is selected on the wireless terminal when the wireless terminal is in a normal video communication mode;

switching the wireless terminal to the video mute mode from a normal video communication mode if the video mute mode is selected;

determining a kind of video data to be displayed in the video mute mode; and

presenting on a display of the wireless terminal and transmitting video data to a remote terminal comprising video mute mode data according to the kind of video data,

wherein the wireless terminal transmits real time video data to the remote terminal during the normal video communication mode and blocks transmission of real time video data to the remote terminal when the wireless terminal is in the video mute mode.

6. A method as defined in claim 5, wherein the video mute mode data comprises at least one of a still picture and a moving picture.

7. A method as defined in claim 5, wherein the video data comprises at least one of a slide show, a still picture, a moving picture stored in said wireless terminal, and video data stored during the normal video communication mode.

8. A method for controlling a first video on a wireless terminal, the method comprising:

determining whether real time video is received in a wireless terminal when the wireless terminal is in a normal video communication mode;

switching the wireless terminal to a video mute mode from the normal video communication mode if no real time video is received for a specified time period;

presenting the first video on the display of the wireless terminal if the wireless terminal is in a video mute mode; and

transmitting the first video to a remote terminal when the wireless terminal is in the video mute mode,

wherein the wireless terminal transmits real time video to the remote terminal during the normal video communication mode and blocks transmission of real time video data to the remote terminal when the wireless terminal is in the video mute mode.

9. A method as defined in claim 8, wherein said first video comprises at least one of a slide show, a still or moving picture stored in said wireless terminal, video data stored during the normal video communication mode, and a still or moving picture for representing no video data received.

10. A method of controlling a first video comprising:

determining whether real time video is received in a wireless terminal when the wireless terminal is in a normal video communication mode;

switching the wireless terminal to a video mute mode from the normal video communication mode if no video is received for a specified time period;

presenting the first video data on a display of the wireless terminal if the wireless terminal is in a video mute mode; and

transmitting the first video to a remote terminal when the wireless terminal is in the video mute mode;

if the real time video is received within said time period, presenting the received real time video on said display; and

presenting, on said display, and transmitting the first video if the video mute mode is selected during receipt of the real time video.

11. A method as defined in claim 10, wherein the first video comprises at least one of a slide show, a still or moving picture stored in said wireless terminal, video data stored during the normal video communication mode, and a still or moving picture for representing no video data received.

12. A method as defined in claim 10, wherein the first video presented on said display and transmitted in the video mute mode comprises video mute mode data stored in said wireless terminal.

13. A wireless terminal, comprising:

a display; and

a controller controlling display of video data on the display,

wherein the wireless terminal enters a normal video communication mode, for transmitting real-time video to a remote terminal, and a video mute mode, for blocking the real-time data transmission to the remote terminal, when the video mute mode is selected, and

wherein the display presents pre-selected video data when the wireless terminal is in the video mute mode.