Patent ID: 9723359
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G06F,G09G,H04N,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of receiving video data from a wireless source device at a wireless sink device: exchanging capability information with the wireless source device; based on the exchange of capability information with the wireless source device, selecting an operating mode for the wireless sink device, wherein the operating mode comprises one of a video component mode or a pixel domain mode; when the selected operating mode for the wireless sink device comprises the video component mode, receiving from a wireless source device a video component of a first type, a video component of a second type, and metadata, wherein the metadata identifies a position of image data for the video component of the first type relative to image data for the video component of the second type, wherein the video component of the first type comprises a call to a driver of a graphics processing unit, wherein the driver supports a graphics application program interface (API), wherein the video component of the first type further comprises one or more commands supported by the graphics API, and wherein the video component of the second type comprises pixel data; generating a frame of video based on the video component of the first type, the video component of the second type, and the metadata.