Video display screen segmentation
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsLinda A. Roberts, Hong T. Nguyen, Edward Michael Silver, Robert G. Hensey, John L. Bradberry
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Abstract
An apparatus for controlling the format of a video display. The apparatus includes a profile module for defining at least one profile. The profile has at least one display characteristic of video information associated with a type of application. The apparatus also includes a runtime engine in communication with the profile module. The runtime engine accepts the video information, modifies the video information according to the profile, and outputs the modified video information.
Claims20
An apparatus for controlling segmentation of a video display, comprising:
- a profile module for defining at least one profile of a user's video viewing preferences for the video display, the profile having at least one of a plurality of display characteristics of video information associated with a type of application, and the display characteristics including assigned screen area, a display size, and a display priority wherein the profile module includes:
- an application classification module for creating groups of different applications with each group of different applications having a respective profile;
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- a profile storage in the form of one of a magnetic medium and an optical medium;
- a runtime engine in communication with the profile module, the runtime engine for accepting the video information, modifying the video information according to the profile, and outputting the modified video information for display on the video display such that the video display displays the video information in one or more segments of the video display according to the display profiles of a plurality of different simultaneously displayed applications of different groups.
A method of segmenting a video display, comprising:
- creating a profile of a user's video viewing preferences for the video display by associating at least one of a plurality of display characteristics wit a group of different applications, wherein the display characteristics include an assigned screen area, a display size, and a display priority, and different groups of different applications have respective profiles;
- storing the created profile in a profile storage;
- accepting video information associated with an application;
- modifying the video information according to the respective profile of the group that includes the application;
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- outputting the modified video information for display on the video display such that the video display displays the video information in one or more segments of the video display according to the display profiles of a plurality of different simultaneously displayed applications of different groups.
A computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- create a profile of a user's video viewing preferences for a video display by associating at least one of a plurality of display characteristics with a group of different applications, wherein the display characteristics include an assigned screen area, a display size, and a display priority, and different groups of different applications have respective profiles;
- store the created profile in a profile storage;
- accept video information associated with an application;
- modify the video information according to the respective profile of the group that includes the application;
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- output the modified video information for display on the video display such that the video display displays the video information in one or more segments of the video display according to the display profiles of a plurality of different simultaneously displayed applications of different groups.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.