Video Game Display System and Related Method of Using a Portable Computing Device to Control Game Play in Video Games Displayed on a Wireless Display

A video game display system, comprising:

• a portable computing device adapted for executing a video game control application and selecting a video game to be run on the portable computing device, the portable computing device comprising:
• a user interface displaying a control interface of the video game control application on a screen of the portable computing device and receiving input signals from a user of the portable computing device via the control interface of the video game control application for controlling game play in the selected video game;
• a processor controlling operation of the portable computing device, rendering video data corresponding to the selected video game as the selected video game is played according to the received input signals, encoding the rendered video data to convert the rendered video data to conform to the H.264 video format standard, and multiplexing the encoded video data to convert the encoded video data such that the multiplexed video data conforms to the MPEG transport stream video format standard in addition to the H.264 video format standard, wherein the multiplexed video data is created without capturing contents of the screen of the portable computing device;
• and
• a wireless transceiver for wirelessly transmitting the multiplexed video data from the portable computing device to a wireless display;
• and
• the wireless display receiving the multiplexed video data from the portable computing device and displaying the multiplexed video data on the wireless display,
• wherein game play of the selected video game is controlled using the control interface of the video game control application executed on the portable computing device while the multiplexed video data is displayed on the wireless display.