Method and system for negotiation of a parameter of an optical communication protocol between two devices

• US 9,391,701 B2
• Filed: 03/03/2014
• Issued: 07/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Thales DIS France SA
• Original Assignee: Gemalto SA (Thales SA)
• Inventors: Zeamari, Ali, Dubrois, Jacques, El Marouani, Abdellah
• Primary Examiner(s): Phan, Hanh
• Application Number:
  US14/771,644
• Publication Number:
  US 20160006506A1
• Time in Patent Office: 862 Days
• Field of Search: 398/118, 398/119, 398/123, 398/124, 398/128, 398/129, 398/130, 398/131, 398/172, 398/202, 398/208, 398/158, 398/159, 398/162, 398/182, 398/183, 398/135, 398/136, 348/207, 348/207.11, 348/207.99
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/74 involving reference images or patches
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/1143 Bidirectional transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/116 Visible light communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/6418 Hybrid transport

Abstract

The invention is a method for negotiating a parameter of an optical communication protocol between two devices. One device displays a first calibration image comprising a series of pixel patterns having a predetermined position and different sizes. The other device takes a first calibration picture of the first calibration image, identifies a set comprising at least one detectable pixel pattern in the first calibration picture and selects a setting data based on the set. Then it displays a second calibration image comprising this setting data which is read by the first device via another calibration picture. The first device retrieves the setting data from the calibration picture, selects a value based on the setting data and updates the parameter with the selected value.

Claims

1. A method for negotiating a parameter of an optical communication protocol to be used between first and second devices,

wherein the method comprises the following steps:

said first device generates and displays a first calibration image comprising a series of pixel patterns each of said pixel patterns having a predetermined position relative to the other pixel patterns and a size different from the size of the other pixel patterns of the series,

said second device takes a first calibration picture of the first calibration image, analyses the first calibration picture, identifies a set comprising at least one detectable pixel pattern which is properly recognizable by the second device and selects a setting data based on said set,

said second device generates and displays a second calibration image comprising the setting data,

said first device takes a second calibration picture of the second calibration image, interprets the second calibration picture, gets the setting data, selects a value based on the setting data and updates the parameter with the value.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein said set comprises the smallest detectable pixel pattern.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein said first calibration image comprises a plurality of colored pixel patterns, each of said colored pixel patterns having a different color and wherein said set comprises the colored pixel patterns having a color which can be differentiated by said second device.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein said first calibration image comprises a reference pattern having a predefined position in said first calibration image and wherein said second device detects the orientation of the first calibration picture with said reference pattern.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein said second calibration image comprises a second series of pixel patterns, each pixel pattern of said second series having a predetermined position relative to the other pixel patterns of said second series,

wherein said first device identifies a second set comprising at least one detectable pixel pattern of said second series which is properly recognizable by the first device into said second calibration picture,

and wherein said first device selects the value based on both the setting data and the second set.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein the method comprises the further steps:

said first device generates and displays a command image comprising a command,

said second device takes a command picture of the command image, interprets the command picture, retrieves the command and generates a result by executing the command,

said second device generates and displays a response image comprising the result,

said first device takes a response picture of the response image, interprets the response picture, gets the result and associates the result with the command,

and wherein the command is coded into the command image through a combination of detectable pixel patterns belonging to said set.

7. A system comprising first and second devices, each device comprising a screen able to display images composed of pixels and a sensor able to take a picture of an image, said first and second devices being configured to communicate using an optical communication protocol,

wherein said first device comprises an initiator means configured to generate and to display a first calibration image comprising a series of pixel patterns, each of said pixel patterns having a predetermined position relative to the other pixel patterns and a size different from the size of the other pixel patterns of the series,

wherein said second device comprises a calibration means configured to analyze a calibration picture corresponding to the calibration image, to identify a set comprising at least one detectable pixel pattern which is properly recognizable by the second device and to select a setting data based on said set,

wherein said second device comprises a negotiating means configured to generate and display a second calibration image comprising the setting data, and

wherein said first device comprises a setting means configured to interpret a second calibration picture corresponding to said second calibration image, to get the setting data, to select a value based on the setting data and to update a parameter of the optical communication protocol with the value.

8. A system according to claim 7, wherein said set comprises the smallest detectable pixel pattern.

9. A system according to claim 7, wherein said first calibration image comprises a plurality of colored pixel patterns, each of said colored pixel patterns having a different color and wherein said set comprises the colored pixel patterns having a color which can be differentiated by said second device.

10. A system according to claim 7, wherein said first device comprises a coding means configured to code a command as a combination of pixel patterns into a command image, wherein said first device comprises an analyzing means configured to interpret a response picture taken by its sensor and to retrieve a result from said response picture and to associate the result with the command, wherein said second device comprises a parsing means configured to interpret a command picture taken by its sensor and to retrieve a command from said command picture, wherein said second device comprises a running means configured to generate a result by executing the command and wherein said second device comprises a generating means configured to generate a response image comprising the result.