Video communication device and method thereof

• US 8,730,403 B2
• Filed: 10/12/2011
• Issued: 05/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huizhou TCL Mobile Communication Company Limited (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Huizhou TCL Mobile Communication Company Limited (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yang, Zhibing
• Primary Examiner(s): Harold, Jefferey
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rahman, Mustafizur
• Application Number:
  US13/702,312
• Publication Number:
  US 20130265495A1
• Time in Patent Office: 951 Days
• Field of Search: 348/730, 348/725, 348/14.02, 348/33.31, 455/343.1, 455/343.6, 455/343.5, 455/573, 455/572
• US Class Current: 348/730
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1096 Supplementary features, e.g. call forwarding or call holding systems providing special services or facilities to telephony subscribers H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/70 Media network packetisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/272 Means for inserting a foreground image in a background image, i.e. inlay, outlay
• 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: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0261 managing power supply demand, e.g. depending on battery level
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

The present invention discloses a video communication device and a method thereof, the method comprises: obtain a current battery energy level of a device; load information of the battery energy level to a ready-to-send video; execute video encoding to the ready-to-send video and sending the same. The present invention can display the information of the energy level of one party'"'"'s device on the video communication image of another party'"'"'s device, so that another party can realize the actually current battery energy level of one party'"'"'s device, tempos of the video communication can be controlled well, effects of the video communication can be raised.

Claims

1. A video communication method comprising steps of:

a. obtaining a current battery energy level of a device, setting a plurality of energy sections and a plurality of energy indicators corresponding to the respective energy sections, determining which one of the energy sections the current battery energy level is sited, and then obtaining a corresponding energy indicator thereof;

b. selecting every frame of a ready-to-send video as a background frame, superimposing the corresponding energy indicator on the background frames in sequence, and selecting frames with an interval of a predetermined number of frames in the ready-to-send video as the background frames, superimposing the energy indicator on the background frames in sequence when the current battery energy level is lower than a threshold value; and

c. executing video encoding to the ready-to-send video and sending the same.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the threshold value is 5% of the total battery energy level and the predetermined number of frames is two frames.

3. A video communication method comprising steps of:

a. obtaining a current battery energy level of a device and a corresponding energy indicator according to the current battery energy level;

b. loading the corresponding energy indicator to a ready-to-send video, in which every frame of the ready-to-send video is selected as a background frame, and the corresponding energy indicator is superimposed on the background frames in sequence; and

c. executing video encoding to the ready-to-send video and sending the same.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein in step a, a plurality of energy sections and a plurality of energy indicators corresponding to the respective energy sections are set, and which one of the energy sections the current battery energy level is sited is determined, and then a corresponding energy indicator thereof is obtained.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein in step b:

fames with an interval of a predetermined number of frames in the ready-to-send video are set as the background frames, the corresponding energy indicator on the background frames is superimposed in sequence when the current battery energy level is lower than a threshold value.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the threshold value is 5% of the total battery energy level and the predetermined number of frames is two frames.

7. A video communication device comprising:

an energy obtaining module for obtaining a current battery energy level of a device and a corresponding energy indicator according to the current battery energy level;

an image processing module for loading the corresponding energy indicator to a ready-to-send video, in which the image processing module selects every frame or an interval of a predetermined number of frames in the ready-to-send video as a background frame, and the corresponding energy indicators are superimposed to the background frames in sequence; and

a video communication module for executing video encoding to the ready-to-send video and sending the same.

8. The device of claim 7, wherein the energy obtaining module sets a plurality of energy sections and a plurality of energy indicators corresponding to the respective energy sections, and determines which one of the energy sections the current battery energy level is sited, and then obtains the corresponding energy indicator thereof.