Patent ID: 9485465
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A picture control method for controlling a video multipicture display of a first terminal, wherein videos separately corresponding to more than one terminal in a video conference are separately displayed, the method comprising: receiving, by the first terminal, a first instruction that is used to replace a video source of a subpicture in the multipicture, wherein the first instruction comprises relative position information of the subpicture and indication information that is used to indicate a new video source of the subpicture; sending a request message comprising an identifier of the subpicture and the indication information to a video conferencing apparatus, so that the video conferencing apparatus uses the new video source to replace a current video source of the subpicture corresponding to the identifier; receiving a video stream corresponding to the new video source and sent by the video conferencing apparatus; and displaying the new video source on the subpicture corresponding to the new video source; wherein the identifier of the subpicture is the only subpicture identifier included in the request message sent to the video conferencing apparatus; and wherein the terminal is located remotely from the video conferencing apparatus, and wherein the terminal is connected to the video conferencing apparatus through a network.