Device, computer program product and method for providing touch control of a video conference
AssigneeTandberg Telecom AS
InventorsIvan Marius KRISTIANSEN, Vegard Hammer, Geir Bjune
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Abstract
A device, computer program product, and method control the operation of one or more cameras associated with a video conference endpoint in a video conference call. A camera control unit (remote control) includes a touch enabled end user component that presents to the user graphical objects representing video conference endpoints currently connected in a conference call, and/or one or more live video feeds currently captured by the video conference endpoint's cameras, and allows the user to manipulate a camera's pan, tilt and zoom using a touch screen display embedded in said camera control unit.
Claims24
A remote control device comprising:
- a touch screen display;
- a processor communicatively connected to the touch screen display;
- a non-transitory computer readable memory having instructions that when executed by said processor configure the processor to
- establish a communication link with at least one remote video conferencing endpoint having a camera;
- displaying on the touch screen display a graphical user interface having at least one graphical object used to control at least one setting on the camera;
- receive touch data in response to an external input applied to the touch screen display and associate said touch data with a camera control instruction;
- send to the remote video conferencing endpoint the camera control instruction to remotely control the camera.
A method for remotely controlling a camera at a remote video conference endpoint, said method comprising:
- establishing a communication link between a local video conference endpoint an said remote video conference endpoint;
- generating with a processor a graphical user interface on a touch screen display of the local video conference endpoint, said graphical user interface having at least one graphical object used to control at least one setting on the camera;
- receiving touch data in response to an external input applied to the touch screen display and associating said touch data with a camera control instruction;
- and
- sending the camera control instruction to the remote video conferencing endpoint to remotely control the camera.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions that when executed by a processor remotely control a camera at a remote video conference endpoint, comprising:
- establishing a communication link between a local video conference endpoint an said remote video conference endpoint;
- generating with a processor a graphical user interface on a touch screen display of the local video conference endpoint, said graphical user interface having at least one graphical object used to control at least one setting on the camera;
- receiving touch data in response to an external input applied to the touch screen display and associating said touch data with a camera control instruction;
- and
- sending the camera control instruction to the remote video conferencing endpoint to remotely control the camera.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.