Portable terminal with projector and method for displaying data thereon

• US 9,565,391 B2
• Filed: 06/24/2014
• Issued: 02/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Sung Bae, Choi, Han Shil, Gong, Ki Choon, Kim, Tae Young
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Hemant
• Application Number:
  US14/313,404
• Publication Number:
  US 20140307041A1
• Time in Patent Office: 959 Days
• Field of Search: 348 1401- 1416, 370259-271, 370351-357, 4554121-4262, 4554561-566, 4555501-560, 4555751-5759, 455 901- 903, 709201-207, 709217-248
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2007/145 Handheld terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• 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 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/141 between two video terminals, e.g. videophone telephonic communication systems combined with television receiver for reception of entertainment or information matter H04M11/085
• 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

Abstract

A portable terminal equipped with a projector and a method for displaying data using the portable terminal provides capabilities for both conferencing and video presentations. When a projection function is selected in the portable terminal while the portable terminal is making a video call with other portable terminal, presentation data that will be output via the projector is transmitted to another portable terminal. The presentation data and image data transmitted from the other portable terminal is output via the projector of the portable terminal.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving an input via an apparatus during a video call;

identifying whether at least one function is associated with a projection during the video call based at least in part on the input;

modulating at least a portion of data corresponding to the at least one function associated with the projection;

transmitting, by the apparatus, to an external device in the video call, the at least a portion of the modulated data; and

outputting via the apparatus, the at least a portion of the data for presentation during the video call.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the input comprises a user input.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting comprises:

obtaining the data from a camera operatively coupled with the apparatus.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting comprises:

selecting the data from a plurality of pieces of data stored in the apparatus.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the data comprises identification information associated with the at least one function.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the data comprises at least one of an image data, video data, or text data.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein further comprising:

presenting the data corresponding to the function via a projector operatively coupled with the apparatus.

8. A method comprising:

receiving data at an apparatus during a video call;

identifying that the data includes at least one function associated with a projection;

modulating at least a portion of data associated with the projection; and

presenting, via an output device operatively coupled with the apparatus, the at least a portion of the modulated data based at least in part on a determination that the data includes identification information related to the output device, in which the presenting occurs during transmitting of another data generated by the apparatus to an external device in the video call.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the output device comprises a projector.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the data comprises at least one of an image data, video data or text data.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the presenting comprises:

presenting the data via another output device operatively coupled with the apparatus.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the identification information comprises at least one of an identifier of the external device participating in the video call with the apparatus, or information regarding a type of data.

13. An apparatus comprising:

a communication unit;

a processor operatively coupled with the communication unit, the processor configured to;

receive an input of data during a video call;

identify whether at least one function is associated with a projection of the data during the video call;

modulate at least a portion of the data associated with the projection;

select the at least a portion of the data to be transmitted to an external device in the video call based at least in part on the input;

present, via a projector operatively coupled with the apparatus, the at least a portion of the data during the video call; and

transmit, via the communication unit, the at least a portion of the modulated data to the external device during the video call based at least in part on a determination that the at least a portion of the data is associated with the projection.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the input comprises a user input.

15. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the data comprises at least one of an image data, video data or text data.

16. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the selection of the data is from a plurality of pieces of data stored in the apparatus.

17. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the data comprises:

identification information related to the projection.

18. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the transmitting comprises:

generating packet data in a video format using a video codec.

19. The apparatus claim of 13, further comprising:

the data is presented via a projector operatively coupled with the processor.

20. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the processor is further configured to:

refrain from transmission of the data to the external device based at least in part on a determination that the data is not associated with a projection.