Combined display for sharing a multi-screen emergency application
AssigneeRapidDeploy, Inc.
InventorsSteven Raucher, Philip Johannes Cornelis Nel
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Abstract
A multi-display capture system receives user selections of two or more display areas, such as screens or application windows, generated by a computing device. The multi-display capture system simultaneously captures a video stream of each of the selected display areas. In another display area, the multi-display capture system outputs a combined display that includes each of the captured video streams. The user may select a video stream to enlarge, and the multi-display capture system enlarges the video streams while continuing to display the other video streams. The combined display may be shared with one or more other users.
Claims14
A method comprising:
- generating, by an emergency dispatch application executing on a computing device, a plurality of display areas;
- receiving a user selection, at the computing device, of a first display area of the plurality of display areas of an emergency dispatch application;
- receiving a user selection, at the computing device, of a second display area of the plurality of display areas of the emergency dispatch application;
- simultaneously capturing, by the computing device, a first video stream of the first display area and a second video stream of the second display area;
- generating, by the computing device, a combined display comprising the captured first video stream of the first display area and the captured second video stream of the second display area;
- providing the combined display in a third display area generated by the computing device, the third display area separate from the first display area and the second display area;
- streaming the combined display from the computing device for display by one or more other computing devices;
- receiving a user selection of one of the first video stream and the second video stream;
- and
- in response to the user selection, displaying, by the computing device, an enlarged view of the selected video stream in the combined display, the combined display including a first portion including the enlarged view and a second portion including the captured first video stream and the captured second video stream.
A multi-display capture system comprising a memory and processing circuitry, the memory comprising instructions, when executed by the processing circuitry, for:
- generating, by an emergency dispatch application executing on a computing device, a plurality of display areas;
- receiving a user selection, at the computing device, of a first display area of the plurality of display areas of an emergency dispatch application;
- receiving a user selection, at the computing device, of a second display area of the plurality of display areas of the emergency dispatch application;
- simultaneously capturing, by the computing device, a first video stream of the first display area and a second video stream of the second display area;
- generating, by the computing device, a combined display comprising the captured first video stream of the first display area and the captured second video stream of the second display area;
- providing the combined display in a third display area generated by the computing device, the third display area separate from the first display area and the second display area;
- streaming the combined display from the computing device for display by one or more other computing devices;
- receiving a user selection of one of the first video stream and the second video stream;
- and
- in response to the user selection, displaying, by the computing device, an enlarged view of the selected video stream in the combined display, the combined display including a first portion including the enlarged view and a second portion including the captured first video stream and the captured second video stream.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.