System of using digital frames in an idle web video conferencing device
AssigneeLite-On Technology Corporation
InventorsKeson Sau, James Yen
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Abstract
A system switches the display screen of an idle web video conferencing device to a digital frame. If there is no video conferencing signal coming into a VoIP phone, its display interface is used as a digital frame. The system includes a display to display the video conferencing image sent by another party over the Internet and outputting a digital frame image when it is idle; a medium processing device including an audio/video (AV) decoder for processing the video conferencing AV signals and an image decoder for processing digital pictures; a switch control device for switching between the AV decoder and the image decoder, achieving the goal of converting between the video conferencing AV and the digital frame image.
Claims11
A system for switching a display screen to a digital frame when a web video conferencing device is idle, the system comprising:
- a display, which displays web video conferencing images and displays a digital photo when the system is idle;
- a medium processing device, including:
- an audio/video (AV) decoder, which is coupled to the display to decode a video conferencing packet into the video conferencing images to be output to the display;
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- an image decoder, which is coupled to the display to decode a compressed image file into the digital photo to be output to the display;
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- a switch control device, which is coupled to the AV decoder and the image decoder;
- wherein when the video conferencing packet input terminates the switch control device sends out an interrupt signal to the AV decoder to stop its operation and a start signal to the image decoder for it to start outputting the digital photo to the display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.