Video conference control method and conference terminal

• US 8,890,924 B2
• Filed: 11/29/2012
• Issued: 11/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honor Device Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Wu, Jiaoli
• Primary Examiner(s): Ramakrishnaiah, Melur
• Application Number:
  US13/689,428
• Publication Number:
  US 20130088563A1
• Time in Patent Office: 719 Days
• Field of Search: 348 1401- 1416
• US Class Current: 348/14.07
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/152 Multipoint control units therefor

Abstract

The present invention discloses a video conference control method and a conference terminal. The method includes: receiving multi-video information, where the multi-video information includes videos of at least two remote conference sites; displaying the multi-video information on a display screen, where the display screen includes a main video display area and an auxiliary video selection area; and performing, according to a received conference control operation request, a corresponding conference control operation on a conference site corresponding to a video displayed in the auxiliary video selection area. According to the present invention, the display screen is divided into the main video display area and the auxiliary video selection area, so that a user may perform a conference control operation on a video of a remote conference site through the auxiliary video selection area, a conference site that needs to be viewed is displayed in the main video display area.

Claims

1. A video conference control method, comprising:

receiving multi-video information including videos of two or more conference sites;

displaying at least a portion of the videos of the two or more conferences sites on a display screen including a main video display area and an auxiliary video selection area;

displaying, in the main video display area, a first video of a first conference site, wherein the first video is included in the multi-video information;

displaying, in the auxiliary video selection area in a slide manner, at least a second video of a second conference site included in the multi-video information; and

performing, according to a received conference control operation request, a previewing conference control operation that includes;

sending an update request to a multipoint processing server so that the multipoint processing server updates the multi-video information to include at least a third video of a third conference site not currently displayed in the auxiliary video selection area, and

displaying, in the auxiliary video selection area in a slide manner, at least the third video;

wherein the received conference control operation request includes a request to display a video of a conference site not currently displayed in the auxiliary video selection area.

2. The video conference control method according to claim 1, the method further comprising, performing, according to a next received conference control operation request, a corresponding next conference control operation;

wherein the next conference control operation comprises one or more of deleting the conference site, viewing the conference site, broadcasting the conference site, and roll calling the conference site.

3. The video conference control method according to claim 1, wherein displaying, in the auxiliary video selection area in the slide manner, at least the second video comprises:

displaying one select box in the auxiliary video selection area, so that when the user slides the select box over the second video, the second video of the remote conference site is displayed in the slide manner.

4. The video conference control method according to claim 3, wherein the received conference control operation request is

a received request of sliding the select box by the user to display a video of a remote conference site not displayed in the current auxiliary video selection area.

5. The video conference control method according to claim 1, wherein any one of the following manners is adopted to display for the updating and displaying:

a cyclic updating and displaying manner, and a one-way displaying manner.

6. The video conference control method according to claim 1, further comprising displaying, at the auxiliary video selection area, comment information of at least the second conference site, and the comment information comprises at least one kind of the following information:

a name of a location of the remote conference site, and a conference theme.

7. The video conference control method according to claim 1, wherein displaying, in the auxiliary video selection area in a slide manner, at least the second video is performed according to a preset policy selected from one of the group consisting of:

at least the second video is displayed according to sequence of a conference site priority;

at least the second video is displayed according to division of a location of the conference site; and

at least the second video is displayed according to division of a conference theme.

8. A conference terminal, comprising:

a receiving module, configured to receive multi-video information including videos of two or more conference sites;

a displaying module, configured to provide, for display, at least a portion of the multi-video information by providing a first video included in the multi-video information for display at a main video display area and providing a second video included in a multi-video information for display in a slide manner at an auxiliary video selection area; and

a conference control operating module, configured to perform, according to a received conference control operation request, a previewing conference control operation that includes;

sending an update request to a multipoint processing server so that the multipoint processing server updates the multi-video information to include at least a third video of a third conference site not currently displayed in the auxiliary video selection area, and

displaying, the auxiliary video selection area in a slide manner, at least the third video;

wherein the received conference control operation request includes a request to display a video of a conference site not currently displayed in the auxiliary video selection area.

9. The conference terminal according to claim 8, wherein the conference control operation executed by the conference control operating module further comprises one or more of the following:

deleting the conference site, viewing the conference site, broadcasting the conference site or roll calling the conference site.

10. The conference terminal according to claim 8, wherein

the conference control operating module is further configured to display a select box in the auxiliary video selection area, so that when the user slides the select box over the second video, the second video is selected for a conference control operation.

11. The conference terminal according to claim 10, wherein

the received conference control operation is a request of sliding the select box by the user to display a video of a conference site not currently displayed in the auxiliary video selection area.

12. The conference terminal according to claim 8, wherein the conference control operating module is configured to provide for videos to be displayed in the auxiliary video selection area in a manner selected from the group consisting of:

a cyclic updating and displaying manner, and a one-way displaying manner.

13. The conference terminal according to claim 8, wherein

the displaying module is further configured to provide for display comment information of at least the first or second conference site, wherein the comment information comprises at least one of a name of a location of a conference site and a conference theme.

14. The conference terminal according to claim 8, wherein

the displaying module provides for display the second video in the auxiliary video selection area according to a preset policy selected from one of the group consisting of:

at least the second video is displayed according to sequence of a conference site priority;

at least the second video is displayed according to division of a location of the conference site; and

at least the second video is displayed according to division of a conference theme.

15. A video conference method, comprising:

receiving multi-video information including videos of two or more conference sites;

displaying at least a portion of the videos of the two or more conference sites on a display screen including a main video display area and an auxiliary video selection area;

displaying, in the main video display area, a first video of a first conference site, wherein the first video is included in the multi-video information;

displaying, the auxiliary video selection area in a slide manner, at least a second video of a second conference site, included in the multi-video information;

displaying, at the auxiliary video selection area, comment information of at least the second conference site, the comment information including at least one of a name of a location of the remote conference site and a conference theme; and

performing, according to a received conference control operation request, a conference control operation that includes displaying a video of a conference site in the auxiliary video selection area in a slide manner.