Method and apparatus of transferring the desktop of PC to video communication terminal

• US 7,609,288 B2
• Filed: 02/02/2005
• Issued: 10/27/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Xu, Fang, Qin, Hui, Guo, Ge, Zhan, Wuzhou
• Primary Examiner(s): Ramakrishnaiah; Melur
• Application Number:
  US11/049,217
• Publication Number:
  US 20050151835A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,728 Days
• Field of Search: 348 1401- 1416, 370/260, 370/261, 709/204, 709/205, 715/753, 715/755, 715/751
• US Class Current: 348/14.08
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q

Abstract

The invention discloses a method for transferring desktop information of a PC to a video communication terminal. The method includes steps as follow: capturing desktop information of a PC after having received a triggering command, and converting a format of the PC desktop information into a format of the a video communication terminal; encoding the converted desktop format in a mode ensured by the local video communication terminal; sending the coded bit stream to the local video communication terminal; receiving the said coded bit stream by the local video communication terminal, and transferring to a remote video communication terminal after being processed. The invention also discloses an apparatus for transferring desktop information of a PC to a video communication terminal that includes a background processing-device and a terminal processing-device. The background processing-device includes a capture driver, a capturing device, an image converter, a background encoder and a background bit stream sender; the terminal processing-device includes a terminal bit stream transmitter. With the method and device, any desktop information of a PC can be transferred to a remote video communication terminal integrally and clearly.

Claims

1. A method for transferring desktop information of a PC to a video communication terminal, comprising,

a) capturing desktop information of the PC after receiving a triggering command, and converting a PC format of the desktop information into a format of a local video communication terminal;

b) encoding the converted desktop format in a mode ensured by the local video communication terminal;

c) sending the coded bit stream to the local video communication terminal;

d) receiving the coded bit stream by the local video communication terminal and transferring to a remote video communication terminal through transmission channel after processing.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein Step a further comprises:

pre-processing the desktop information captured.

3. The method according to claim 2, the step of pre-processing comprises:

removing unnecessary desktop information, and then filtering and editing the rest of the desktop information.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein Step a further comprises:

after capturing the desktop information, detecting whether the desktop information captured has been changed;

if it is, going to next step, otherwise waiting for the triggering command.

5. The method according to claim 1, the desktop information in Step a is captured from a video memory of the PC.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein Step d further comprises:

decoding the received coded bit stream and then outputting to a local output device.

7. The method according to claim 1, said Step d further comprises:

simultaneously transferring the coded bit stream of the desktop information and that of a local image in a multiplex encoding mode.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the processing of Step d comprises:

detecting whether the local encoding mode of the coded bit stream is same as that of the remote video communication terminal;

if it is, transferring the coded bit stream directly, otherwise decoding the coded bit stream first, and then encoding again in a mode of the remote video communication terminal.

9. An apparatus for transferring desktop information of a PC to a video communication terminal, comprises,

a background processing-device, capturing desktop information of the PC, converting the captured desktop information from a PC format to a format of a local video communication terminal, encoding the converted format to a coded bit stream and outputting;

a terminal processing-device, transferring the coded bit stream from the background processing-device to a remote video communication terminal.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the background processing-device comprises:

a capture driver, sending out a triggering command;

a capturing device, receiving the triggering command from the capture driver and capturing the desktop information, then outputting;

an image converter, receiving the captured desktop information from the capturing device and converting into the format of the local video communication terminal, then outputting;

a background encoder, encoding output signal from said image converter into the coded bit stream;

a background bit stream sender, sending the coded bit stream to the terminal processing-device.

11. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the background processing-device further comprises an image pre-processor that accepts output of the capturing device, removes unnecessary desktop information and then filters and edits the rest of the desktop information.

12. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the terminal processing-device comprises a terminal bit stream transmitter that transfers the coded bit stream to the remote video communication terminal.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the terminal processing-device further comprises a terminal decoder that decodes the output bit stream from the background processing-device and outputs to a local output device.

14. The apparatus according to claims 12, wherein the terminal processing-device further comprises a terminal encoder that encodes a local image and then outputs to the terminal bit stream transmitter.

15. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the terminal decoder decodes the background processing-device output of which encoding format is different from that of the remote video communication terminal, and then outputs to the terminal encoder -which encodes the decoded bit stream again with an encoding format of the remote video communication terminal, and then outputs to the terminal bit stream transmitter.

16. The apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising:

a message channel device that sends an encoding message of the video communication terminal to the background encoder, sends a transmission speed rate of the local video communication terminal to the background bit stream sender, and sends a control message from the background bit stream sender to the terminal processing-device.

17. The apparatus according to claims 13, wherein the terminal processing-device further comprises a terminal encoder that encodes a local image and then outputs to the terminal bit stream transmitter.