Patent ID: 8320449

Claim:
A method for controlling a video frame stream at a transmitting end of a video phone, the method comprising: a) capturing a video frame as a current frame; b) determining whether the current frame is the first frame; c) if the current frame is the first frame, then c1) compressing the current frame; c2) accounting and storing a compressing time of the current frame and an amount of a compressed data; and c3) transmitting the compressed data via a wireless network; and d) if the current frame is not the first frame, then d1) determining whether an estimated interval (T 2 ) for completing compression of the current frame is less than or equal to an interval (T 3 ) for completing transmitting of the previous frame; d2) if the estimated interval (T 2 ) for completing compression of the current frame is less than or equal to the interval (T 3 ) for completing transmitting of the previous frame, the current frame is abandoned, and d3) if the estimated interval (T 2 ) for completing compression of the current frame is larger than the interval (T 3 ) for completing transmitting of the previous frame, then the steps of c1)-c3) are performed, wherein the interval (T 3 ) for completing transmitting of the previous frame is equal to a quotient obtained by dividing a bit number of the previous frame by a difference between the bandwidth of the video phone and a sum of the bit number of compressed audio data captured per unit time.