Remote display control

• US 9,570,037 B2
• Filed: 09/11/2014
• Issued: 02/14/2017
• 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): SMALL, NAOMI J
• Application Number:
  US14/483,928
• Publication Number:
  US 20150070250A1
• Time in Patent Office: 887 Days
• Field of Search: 340/5.83
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 to pair a remote display and a handheld computing device, the method comprising:

capturing, by a remote display, an image of a user;

transmitting over a wireless communication network information about the image of the user to a handheld computing device controlled by the user;

receiving, by the remote display, a control signal transmitted from the handheld computing device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein capturing, by a remote display, an image of a user comprises capturing, by an image capturing device coupled to the remote display, a facial image of the user.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

extracting, by the remote display, facial information from the captured image of the user; and

wherein the facial information is transmitted as the information about the image of the user to the handheld computing device controlled by the user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting over a wireless communication network information about the image of the user to a handheld computing device controlled by the user comprises transmitting the image of the user.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting over the wireless communication network a control interface to the handheld computing device controlled by the user, wherein the control interface provides the control signal for controlling the remote display and wherein the control signal controls one of a volume, a channel, or a cursor.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting over the wireless communication network identification information about the remote display to the handheld computing device controlled by the user.

7. A system configured to control a remote display from a handheld computing device, the system comprising:

one or more remote display devices each comprising a transmitter and coupled to a respective image capture device, each remote display device configured to receive an image of a user from their respective image capture device and further configured to transmit the image of the user over a wireless communication network; and

a handheld computing device configured to receive images of the user over the wireless communication network, to select a remote display device of the one or more remote display devices based on a match between the image of the user transmitted by that remote display device and an image of the user stored on the handheld computing device, and further configured to transmit a control signal to the selected remote display device of the one or more remote display devices.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein each of the one or more remote displays transmits identifying information about the remote display along with the image.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the handheld computing device is further configured to select the remote display device responsive in part to the identifying information received.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the handheld computing device is further configured to extract facial information from the images received from the one or more remote display devices and compare the facial information from each of the one or more remote display devices to facial information stored on the handheld computing device.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein each of the one or more remote display devices are further configured to extract facial information from the image of the user and transmit the facial information.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions that, in response to execution by a computing device, effectuate operations comprising:

compare image information received from one or more remote displays to stored image information, wherein the received and stored image information is for a user of a handheld computing device;

select a remote display based on the comparison of the image information received from the one or more remote displays to the stored image information, wherein the image information associated with the selected remote display will be substantially similar to the stored image information; and

transmit over a wireless communication network a control signal to the selected remote display, wherein the control signal is to control the remote display.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, further comprising computer-executable instructions that, in response to execution by a computing device, effectuate operations comprising:

extract facial information from each of the received image information from the one or more remote displays; and

compare the extracted facial information from each of the received image information from the one or more remote displays to stored facial information.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, further comprising computer-executable instructions that, in response to execution by a computing device, effectuate operations comprising:

receive data from the one or more remote displays over a wireless communication network, wherein the data includes the image information and identification information of the respective one or more remote displays; and

connect to the selected remote display based on the identification information.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, further comprising computer-executable instructions that, in response to execution by a computing device, effectuate operations comprising receive a control interface from the selected remote display.