Communication service method and communication apparatus thereof

• US 9,430,780 B2
• Filed: 10/17/2013
• Issued: 08/30/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Nakade, Motoki, Tanaka, Jun, Shiraishi, Yoshito, Kuroda, Etsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Maung, Zarni
• Application Number:
  US14/055,931
• Publication Number:
  US 20140078239A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,048 Days
• Field of Search: 709217-219, 709223-229, 709/250
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40 Authorisation, e.g. identification of payer or payee, verification of customer or shop credentials; Review and approval of payers, e.g. check credit lines or negative lists
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0253 During e-commerce, i.e. online transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0271 Personalized advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0625 Directed, with specific intent or strategy
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/567 Multimedia conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42203 sound input device, e.g. microphone
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44016 involving splicing one content stream with another content stream, e.g. for substituting a video clip
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/00 : Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/265 : Mixing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/142 : Constructional details of the terminal equipment, e.g. arrangements of the camera and the display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 : Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 : Conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 : Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A communication service method wherein a user ID is registered at server. Video data from the user'"'"'s terminal is transmitted to the server. The user selects the setting of whether image data is used with that video data; and the user'"'"'s selected setting is stored at the server with the user ID. When the stored setting indicates that image data is used, the video data and the image data are transmitted from the server to one or more other terminals.

Claims

1. A communication server comprising:

a communication interface configured to receive a user ID of a user, video data from a terminal used by the user, and a setting of whether image data is used with the video data, and

a store configured to store the setting; and

a controller configured to control the communication interface to transmit to one or more other terminals the video data and the image data when the setting indicates that the image data is used.

2. The communication server according to claim 1,

wherein the communication interface receives the video data in real time from the terminal.

3. The communication server according to claim 1,

wherein the image data is superposed onto the video data when the other terminals display both the video data and the image data.

4. The communication server according to claim 3,

wherein the image data is superposed onto the video data with a certain transparency rate.

5. The communication server according to claim 3,

wherein the image data is superposed onto a predetermined area of a display area of the video data.

6. The communication server according to claim 3,

wherein the controller detects feature points of an object within the video data, and

wherein the image data is superposed onto the video data based on the feature points of the object.

7. The communication server according to claim 1,

wherein the communication interface receives a request for additional information in response to a designation to the image data being displayed on the other terminals.

8. The communication server according to claim 1,

wherein the controller determines a total number of usages of the image data in a predetermined period of time.

9. The communication server according to claim 1,

wherein communication with the terminals is done by HTML.

10. A method of communicating with a terminal, comprising:

receiving a user ID of a user, video data from a terminal used by the user, and a setting of whether image data is used with the video data,

storing the setting; and

transmitting to one or more other terminals the video data and the image data when the setting indicates that the image data is used.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the video data is received in real time from the terminal.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the image data is superposed onto the video data when the other terminals display both the video data and the image data.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the image data is superposed onto the video data with a certain transparency rate.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the image data is superposed onto a predetermined area of a display area of the video data.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

detecting feature points of an object within the video data, and

wherein the image data is superposed onto the video data based on the feature points of the object.

16. The method of claim 10, further comprising receiving a request for additional information in response to a designation to the image data being displayed on the other terminals.

17. The method of claim 10, further comprising determining a total number of usages of the image data in a predetermined period of time.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein communication with the terminals is done by HTML.

19. A non-transitory computer readable medium on which is recorded a program for instructing a processor to communicate with a terminal, by steps comprising:

receiving a user ID of a user, video data from a terminal used by the user, and a setting of whether image data is used with the video data,

storing the setting; and

transmitting to one or more other terminals the video data and the image data when the setting indicates that the image data is used.

20. The medium of claim 19, wherein the video data is received in real time from the terminal.

21. The medium of claim 19, wherein the image data is superposed onto the video data when the other terminals display both the video data and the image data.

22. The medium of claim 21, wherein the image data is superposed onto the video data with a certain transparency rate.

23. The medium of claim 21, wherein the image data is superposed onto a predetermined area of a display area of the video data.

24. The medium of claim 21, wherein the steps further comprise:

detecting feature points of an object within the video data, and

wherein the image data is superposed onto the video data based on the feature points of the object.

25. The medium of claim 19, wherein the steps further comprise receiving a request for additional information in response to a designation to the image data being displayed on the other terminals.

26. The medium of claim 19, wherein the steps further comprise determining a total number of usages of the image data in a predetermined period of time.

27. The medium of claim 19, wherein communication with the terminals is done by HTML.