Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8872879B2/en
Timestamp: 2020-03-29 13:17:16
Document Index: 68634957

Matched Legal Cases: ['Application No. 200710007201', 'Application No. 2007200098', 'application No. 2007', 'ART-3000', 'ART—3000', 'ART-3000', 'ART—3000']

US8872879B2 - System and method for controlling videoconference with touch screen interface - Google Patents
US8872879B2
US8872879B2 US11/307,194 US30719406A US8872879B2 US 8872879 B2 US8872879 B2 US 8872879B2 US 30719406 A US30719406 A US 30719406A US 8872879 B2 US8872879 B2 US 8872879B2
US20070171273A1 (en
239000011089 white board Substances 0 claims abstract description 28
1. A videoconferencing system for a plurality of sources of video data, comprising:
a touch screen device configured to display video data and generate touch data with a touch sensor,
a tool sensor, associated with a user tool for the touch screen device and generating an indication when the user tool is moved relative to the tool sensor; and
send received video data to the touch screen device for display and to the one or more endpoints via the network,
wherein when the user tool is moved, the videoconferencing unit receives the indication that the user tool has been moved and is configured in response to automatically:
select one of the sources of video data
switch from a current source of video data to the selected source of video data, and
send video data from the selected source to the touch screen device and to the one or more endpoints.
2. The videoconferencing system of claim 1, wherein the system comprises at least one camera capable of at least one of panning, tilting, or zooming; and wherein the videoconferencing unit is configured to:
send video data received from the at least one camera to the touch screen device for display,
3. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one camera comprises a mechanical actuator for panning, tilting, or zooming the at least one camera, and wherein to control operation of the at least one camera based on the associated touch control, the videoconferencing unit is configured to send a control signal to the mechanical actuator.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one camera comprises an electronic processing capability for panning, tilting, or zooming video data captured by the at least one camera, and wherein to control operation of the at least one camera based on the associated touch control, the videoconferencing unit is configured to send a control signal to the at least one camera to perform the electronic processing capability.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one camera comprises a far-end camera coupled to one of the endpoints, and wherein to control operation of the far-end camera based on the associated touch control, the videoconferencing unit is configured to send a control signal to the far-end camera via the network.
6. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one camera comprises panning, tilting, or zooming capabilities that are mechanically actuated or digitally achieved.
7. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one camera comprises a pan-tilt-zoom camera, and wherein to designate at least one area of sent video data as at least one touch control for user selection, the videoconferencing unit is configured to generate a grid for display in conjunction with video data sent to the touch screen device, the grid having at least one area corresponding to the at least one touch control for controlling the pan, tilt, or zoom of the at least one camera.
8. The system of claim 7, wherein the grid comprises a first pair of areas corresponding to first touch controls for panning the pan-tilt-zoom camera, a second pair of areas corresponding to second touch controls for tilting the pan-tilt-zoom camera, and a third pair of areas corresponding to third touch controls for zooming the pan-tilt-zoom camera.
9. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one camera comprises first and second cameras, and wherein to control operation of the first and second cameras based on the associated touch control, the videoconferencing unit is configured to:
10. The system of claim 1, wherein the first camera comprises a near camera associated with the videoconferencing unit, and wherein the second camera comprises a far-end camera associated with one of the endpoints of the videoconference.
11. The system of claim 1, wherein the sources of video data are selected from the group consisting of a network interface coupled to the one or more endpoints via the network, a camera, a video cassette recorder, a digital versatile disc player, a laptop computer, a personal computer, a programmable controller of visual sources, and an Extended Graphics Array splitter.
12. The system of claim 1, wherein to automatically switch from the current source of video data to the selected source of video data, the videoconferencing unit is configured to:
15. The system of claim 13, further comprising a visual controller having data interfaces coupled between the first and second data interfaces of the videoconferencing unit and the touch screen device.
16. The system of claim 15, wherein one or more of the sources of video data are coupled to one or more video inputs of the visual controller, and wherein the visual controller comprises one or more video outputs coupled to one or more video inputs of the videoconferencing unit.
17. The system of claim 1, wherein the tool sensor is disposed on a tray of the touch screen and generates the indication when the user tool is picked up from the tray.
18. The system of claim 17, wherein the tool sensor senses at least one of a pen and an eraser as the user tool disposed on the tray.
19. The system of claim 17, wherein the tool sensor comprises an optical sensor disposed on the tray.
20. A videoconferencing system, comprising:
a touch screen device configured to display video data and generate touch data, the touch screen device comprising first and second video inputs and first and second data interfaces, the touch screen device having a user tool and a sensor, the sensor generating an indication when the user tool is moved relative to the sensor;
receive touch data from the touch screen device, and
combine received touch data as annotation to content, and
send annotated content to the touch screen device for display and to the videoconferencing unit,
wherein the videoconferencing system is configured to automatically switch to the annotation mode of operation in response to the indication, and
21. The system of claim 20, wherein the content sent from the computer in the annotation mode of operation comprises a whiteboard, a computer screen, an image, or visual media.
23. The system of claim 22, further comprising a visual controller having data interfaces coupled between a data interface of the videoconferencing unit and the second data interface of the touch screen device.
24. The system of claim 23, wherein at least one source of video data is coupled to a video input of the visual controller, and wherein the visual controller comprises a video output coupled to a video input of the videoconferencing unit.
25. The system of claim 24, wherein the at least one source of video data is selected from the group consisting of a camera, a video cassette recorder, and a digital versatile disc player.
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