Systems, methods and computer program products for displaying content on multiple display screens using handheld wireless communicators

• US 7,962,854 B2
• Filed: 10/19/2004
• Issued: 06/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Vance, Scott L., Trively, Martin, Dhrimaj, Ardian, Vasa, Yojak
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, CAO H
• Application Number:
  US10/968,770
• Publication Number:
  US 20060085753A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,429 Days
• Field of Search: 715736-738, 715741-755, 715/758, 715851-854, 715/810, 455/556.1, 455/575.1, 455/566
• US Class Current: 715/753
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit

Abstract

Content displaying methods, systems and computer program products display first display content on a first display screen of a handheld wireless communicator, while simultaneously sending second display content that is different from the first display content, from the handheld wireless communicator to an external display screen. In videoconferencing applications, the second display content can include an image of the remote party, and the first display content can include an image of the user of the handheld wireless communicator and/or a camera image from the handheld wireless communicator. In displaying alphanumeric data, the first display content can include first alphanumeric data, and the second display content can include the first alphanumeric data and additional detail data concerning the first alphanumeric data.

Claims

1. A videoconferencing method comprising:

videoconferencing a user of a handheld wireless communicator with a remote party using the handheld wireless communicator, wherein the handheld wireless communicator also includes a display screen and a camera;

displaying an image that is generated by the camera on the display screen of the handheld wireless communicator while simultaneously sending an image of the remote party from the handheld wireless communicator to an external display screen, during the videoconferencing; and

displaying alphanumeric data on the display screen of the handheld wireless communicator while simultaneously displaying the alphanumeric data and additional detail data concerning the alphanumeric data on the external display screen.

2. A method according to claim 1 wherein the image that is generated by the camera comprises an image of the user of the handheld wireless communicator.

3. A method according to claim 1 wherein videoconferencing further comprises sending audio of the remote party from the handheld wireless communicator to an external speaker.

4. A method according to claim 1 wherein videoconferencing further comprises sending audio of the remote party from the handheld wireless communicator to an external speaker of the external display screen.

5. A method according to claim 1 further comprising:

scaling the image of the remote party to conform to a resolution of the external display screen.

6. A method according to claim 1 wherein the alphanumeric data comprises menu selections and wherein the additional detail data concerning the alphanumeric data comprises the menu selections and at least one submenu selection.

7. A method according to claim 1 wherein the alphanumeric data comprises a first number of menu selections and wherein the additional detail data concerning the alphanumeric data comprises a second number of menu selections, which is larger than the first number.

8. A method according to claim 1 wherein the alphanumeric data comprises presentation headings and wherein the additional detail data concerning the alphanumeric data comprises the presentation headings and at least one presentation subheading.

9. A handheld wireless communicator comprising:

a handheld wireless communicator housing;

a first display screen in the housing;

a camera in the housing; and

a videoconferencing controller that is configured to videoconference a user of the handheld wireless communicator with a remote party using the handheld wireless communicator and to display an image that is generated by the camera on the first display screen while simultaneously sending an image of the remote party from the handheld wireless communicator to a second display screen that is external of the handheld wireless communicator, during the videoconferencing,

wherein the controller is further configured to display alphanumeric data on the display screen of the handheld wireless communicator while simultaneously displaying the alphanumeric data and additional detail data concerning the alphanumeric data on the external display screen.

10. A handheld wireless communicator according to claim 9 wherein the image that is generated by the camera comprises an image of the user of the handheld wireless communicator.

11. A handheld wireless communicator according to claim 9 wherein the videoconferencing controller is further configured to send audio of the remote party from the handheld wireless communicator to a speaker that is external of the handheld wireless communicator.

12. A handheld wireless communicator according to claim 9 wherein the second display screen further comprises a speaker and wherein the videoconferencing controller is further configured to send audio of the remote party from the handheld wireless communicator to the speaker.

13. A handheld wireless communicator according to claim 9 wherein the videoconferencing controller is further configured to scale the image of the remote party to conform to a resolution of the second display screen.

14. A videoconferencing computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied in the medium, the computer-readable program code comprising:

computer-readable program code that is configured to videoconference a user of a handheld wireless communicator with a remote party using the handheld wireless communicator, wherein the handheld wireless communicator also includes a display screen and a camera;

computer-readable program code that is configured to display an image that is generated by the camera on the display screen of the handheld wireless communicator while simultaneously sending an image of the remote party from the handheld wireless communicator to an external display screen, during the videoconferencing, and

computer readable program code that is configured to display alphanumeric data on the display screen of the handheld wireless communicator while simultaneously displaying the alphanumeric data and additional detail data concerning the alphanumeric data on the external display screen.

15. A computer program product according to claim 14 wherein the image that is generated by the camera comprises an image of the user of the handheld wireless communicator.

16. A computer program product according to claim 14 wherein the computer-readable program code that is configured to videoconference further comprises computer-readable program code that is configured to send audio of the remote party from the handheld wireless communicator to an external speaker.

17. A computer program product according to claim 14 wherein the computer-readable program code that is configured to videoconference further comprises computer-readable program code that is configured to send audio of the remote party from the handheld wireless communicator to an external speaker of the external display screen.

18. A computer program product according to claim 14 further comprising:

computer-readable program code that is configured to scale the image of the remote party to conform to a resolution of the external display screen.