Remote display control

• US 8,866,587 B2
• Filed: 08/17/2010
• Issued: 10/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC (Allied Inventors Management, LLC)
• Inventors: Chang, Young-Tae
• Primary Examiner(s): Bugg, George
• Assistant Examiner(s): SMALL, NAOMI J
• Application Number:
  US12/999,130
• Publication Number:
  US 20120044051A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,526 Days
• Field of Search: 340/5.83, 340/3.1, 382/118
• US Class Current: 340/5.83
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1698 the I/O peripheral being a sending/receiving arrangement to establish a cordless communication link, e.g. radio or infrared link, integrated cellular phone details of antennas disposed inside a computer H01Q1/2266
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1446 display composed of modules, e.g. video walls
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/161 Detection; Localisation; Normalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/006 Details of the interface to the display terminal specific for a display terminal using a CRT G09G1/167; using a flat panel G09G3/2096; circuits for interfacing with colour displays G09G5/04
• 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 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4415 using biometric characteristics of the user, e.g. by voice recognition or fingerprint scanning cryptography using biological data H04L9/3231; authentication in networks using biometric H04L63/0861

Abstract

Technologies are generally described for controlling remote display. In some examples, a method for controlling a remote display device using a handheld computing device includes receiving, by a handheld computing device, one or more data from one or more remote display devices over a wireless communication network, selecting a remote display device based on the received data and sending a control signal to the selected remote display device.

Claims

1. A method for controlling a remote display device using a handheld computing device, comprising:

receiving, by a handheld computing device, data from one or more remote display devices over a wireless communication network, the data received from one of the one or more remote display devices comprising at least one of the group consisting of;

an image of a user of the handheld computing device captured by the one of the one or more remote display devices, and facial information extracted from an image of the user of the handheld device captured by the one of the one or more remote display devices;

selecting, by the handheld computing device, a remote display device of the one or more remote display devices based on the data received from the one or more remote display devices; and

sending, by the handheld computing device, a control signal to the selected remote display device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the received data further include identification information of the respective one or more remote display devices.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the remote display device further comprises:

extracting facial information from each of the received images; and

selecting a remote display device based on a comparison of the extracted facial information from each of the received images with facial information stored on the handheld computing device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the received data comprise facial information extracted from one or more images respectively captured by the one or more remote display devices.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein selecting the remote display device comprises selecting a remote display device based on a match of the facial information extracted from the one or more images received from the one or more remote display devices and facial information stored on the handheld computing device.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising, prior to sending the control signal, displaying on the handheld computing device a control interface suitable to control the selected remote display device.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the control interface is received from the selected remote display device.

8. A handheld computing device, comprising:

a receiver configured to receive one or more images from one or more remote display devices over a wireless communication network, each of the received images comprising an image of a user of the handheld computing device captured by the one or more remote display devices;

a face recognizer configured to extract facial information from each of the received images;

a selector configured to select a remote display device based on a comparison of the extracted facial information from each of the received images with facial information stored on the handheld computing device; and

a display device controller configured to transmit a control signal to the selected remote display device.

9. The device of claim 8, wherein the display device controller is further configured to display on the handheld computing device a control interface suitable to control the selected remote display device.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the control interface is received from the selected remote display device.

11. A computing device, comprising:

a receiver configured to receive facial information from one or more remote display devices over a wireless communication network, the facial information comprising facial information about a user of the computing device, wherein the facial information from the one or more remote display devices is extracted from one or more images respectively captured by the one or more remote display devices;

a selector configured to select a remote display device based on a match of the facial information from the one or more remote display devices and facial information stored on the computing device; and

a display device controller configured to send a control signal to the selected remote display device.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein the display device controller is further configured to display a control interface suitable to control the selected remote display device.

13. The device of claim 12, wherein the control interface is received from the selected remote display device.

14. A display device, comprising:

an image capturer configured to capture an image with a camera;

a transmitter configured to transmit the image for reception by a handheld computing device, the image comprising an image of a user of the handheld computing device, wherein the handheld computing device is configured to select a remote display device based on an image of the user of the handheld computing device captured by the remote display device; and

a controller configured to receive a control signal from the handheld computing device, and further configured to control the display device based on the control signal.

15. The device of claim 14, wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit identification information of the display device to the handheld computing device in addition to the image.

16. The device of claim 14, wherein the controller is configured to transmit a control interface suitable to control the display device to the handheld computing device.

17. The device of claim 14, further comprising a face recognizer configured to extract facial information from the image, and wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit the extracted facial information to the handheld computing device.