# US 11,909,544 B1 · Electronic devices and corresponding methods for redirecting user interface controls during a videoconference

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- Number: US 11,909,544 B1
- Document ID: US11909544B1
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B1
- Application number: 17/949,118
- Filed: 2022-09-20
- Granted: 2024-02-20
- Earliest claimed: 2022-09-20
- Assignees: Motorola Mobility LLC
- Applicants: Motorola Mobility LLC
- Inventors: Amit Kumar Agrawal
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11909544B1

## CPC

- H04L 12/1831: {Tracking arrangements for later retrieval, e.g. recording contents, participants activities or behavior, network status}
- G04G 21/08: Touch switches specially adapted for time-pieces
- G06F 1/163: {Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt}
- G06F 3/014: {Hand-worn input/output arrangements, e.g. data gloves}
- G06F 3/017: {Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures (interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883)}
- G06V 40/161: {Detection; Localisation; Normalisation}
- H04M 1/72412: using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
- H04N 7/147: {Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals (selecting H04Q)}
- H04W 4/023: {using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds}
- G06V 2201/02: Recognising information on displays, dials, clocks
- H04L 51/10: Multimedia information
- H04M 1/724094: {Interfacing with a device worn on the user's body to provide access to telephonic functionalities, e.g. accepting a call, reading or composing a message}
- H04M 2250/52: including functional features of a camera
- H04N 21/4334: {Recording operations (recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27)}
- H04N 21/4788: communicating with other users, e.g. chatting {(arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104)}
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)
- G04G: ELECTRONIC TIME-PIECES
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING
- H04M: TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION (circuits for controlling other apparatus via a telephone cable and not involving telephone switching apparatus G08)
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
- H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72)

## Abstract

A method for an electronic device includes detecting, by one or more processors, the electronic device engaging in a video recording session while electronically in communication with both a companion electronic device operating as a primary display for the electronic device and a smartwatch. In response, the method redirects one or more video recording session controls to a user interface of the smartwatch when user interaction with the one or more video recording session controls at a user interface of the electronic device will at least partially obscure depictions of a subject of the video recording session in one or more video recording session images captured by an image capture device of the electronic device.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method in an electronic device, the method comprising:
detecting, with one or more processors, a communication device electronically in communication with both:
a content presentation companion device operating as a primary display for the electronic device; and
a wearable companion device;
while:
the content presentation companion device is operating as the primary display for the electronic device; and
an image capture device of the electronic device is capturing one or more images of a subject during a video recording session; and
in response to the detecting, redirecting, with the one or more processors, one or more user interface controls operable at a user interface of the electronic device to a user interface of the wearable companion device and
further comprising determining, by the one or more processors, whether the image capture device and the user interface of the electronic device are situated on the same side of the electronic device, further comprising precluding the redirecting the one or more user interface controls to the user interface of the wearable companion device occurs when the user interface of the electronic device and the image capture device are situated on opposite sides of the electronic device.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving, after the redirecting, one or more video recording session control signals from the wearable companion device and controlling one or more control parameters of the video recording session as a function of the one or more video recording session control signals.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The method of claim 2, wherein the one or more video recording session control signals are initiated by actuation of at least one user interface control of the one or more user interface controls at the user interface of the wearable companion device.

### Claim 4 (depends on 2)

The method of claim 2, wherein the wearable companion device comprises a smartwatch.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The method of claim 4, wherein the one or more video recording session control signals are initiated by a gesture translating the smartwatch in three-dimensional space.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising determining, by the one or more processors using one or more sensors of the electronic device, whether user interaction with the one or more user interface controls at the user interface of the electronic device will at least partially obscure depictions the subject of the video recording session in the one or more images, wherein the redirecting the one or more user interface controls to the user interface of the wearable companion device occurs only when the user interaction with the one or more user interface controls at the user interface of the electronic device will at least partially obscure the subject of the video recording session in the one or more images.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, the precluding resulting in the one or more user interface controls remaining active on the user interface of the electronic device.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising determining, using one or more sensors of the electronic device, a distance between an authorized user of the electronic device and the electronic device, wherein the precluding the redirecting the one or more user interface controls to the user interface of the wearable companion device occurs only when the distance is within a predefined threshold.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising causing the user interface of the wearable companion device to present at least one image of the subject of the video recording session concurrently with the one or more user interface controls.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more user interface controls comprise one or more of a stop user actuation target, a play user actuation target, an audio control user actuation target, a rewind user actuation target, and/or a fast forward user actuation target.

### Claim 11

An electronic device, comprising:
a communication device electronically communicating with both a content presentation companion device operating as a primary display for the electronic device and a wearable electronic device during a video recording session;
an image capture device capturing one or more images of a subject of the video recording session; and
one or more processors dynamically redirecting one or more video recording session controls operable at a user interface of the electronic device to a user interface of the wearable electronic device while the image capture device is capturing the one or more images of the subject of the video recording session; and
further comprising determining, by the one or more processors using one or more sensors of the electronic device, whether user interaction with the one or more video recording session controls at the user interface of the electronic device will at least partially obscure depictions the subject of the video recording session in the one or more images, wherein the redirecting the one or more video recording session controls to the user interface of the wearable electronic device occurs only when the user interaction with the one or more video recording session controls at the user interface of the electronic device will at least partially obscure the subject of the video recording session in the one or more images.

### Claim 12 (depends on 11)

The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the electronic device comprises a smartphone and the wearable electronic device comprises a smartwatch.

### Claim 13 (depends on 12)

The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the one or more video recording session controls comprise one or more of a stop user actuation target, a play user actuation target, an audio control user actuation target, a rewind user actuation target, and/or a fast forward user actuation target.

### Claim 14 (depends on 12)

The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the communication device receives signals indicating actuation of at least one video recording session control at the user interface of the smartwatch and the one or more processors control one or more control parameters of the video recording session in response to receiving the signals.

### Claim 15 (depends on 12)

The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the communication device receives signals indicating translation of the smartwatch in three-dimensional space in accordance with a predefined gesture and the one or more processors control one or more control parameters of the video recording session in response to receiving the signals.

### Claim 16 (depends on 12)

The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the one or more processors of the electronic device dynamically redirect the one or more video recording session controls to the user interface of the smartwatch only when both the user interaction with the one or more video recording session controls at the user interface of the smartphone will at least partially obscure the depictions of the subject of the video recording session in the one or more images and a distance between the smartphone and an authorized user of the smartphone is less than a predefined threshold.

### Claim 17

A method for an electronic device, the method comprising:
detecting, by one or more processors, the electronic device engaging in a video recording session while electronically in communication with both a companion electronic device operating as a primary display for the electronic device and a smartwatch; and
redirecting one or more video recording session controls to a user interface of the smartwatch when user interaction with the one or more video recording session controls at a user interface of the electronic device will at least partially obscure depictions of a subject of the video recording session in one or more video recording session images captured by an image capture device of the electronic device.

### Claim 18 (depends on 17)

The method of claim 17, further comprising receiving, by a communication device of the electronic device, one or more video recording session control signals from the smartwatch and causing a video recording session output presented on the companion electronic device to change as a function of the one or more video recording session control signals.

### Claim 19 (depends on 18)

The method of claim 18, wherein the one or more video recording session control signals indicate that a video recording session control presented on the user interface of the smartwatch has been touched.

### Claim 20 (depends on 18)

The method of claim 18, wherein the one or more video recording session control signals indicate that the smartwatch has been translated in three-dimensional space in accordance with a predefined gesture.