Pointing-control system for multipoint conferences
AssigneeAwind Inc.
InventorKuo-Lung Chang
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Abstract
A pointing-control system for multipoint conferences includes a plurality of computers, a gateway, a display, a conference-control module and a pointing-control module. The computers are connected through a wired or wireless network with the gateway. The computer with the highest priority number is defined as the host computer having the right to assign any of the computers to be the report computer. The conference-control module can demonstrate a presentation frame of the report computer on the display through the gateway. The pointing-control module is used to capture pointing coordinates of pointing apparatuses of the respective computers, and further to display the pointing coordinates on the presentation frame of the display.
Claims9
A pointing-control system for multipoint conferences, comprising:
- a plurality of computers, including a report computer, each of the computers having a respective pointing apparatus, the pointing apparatus of each computer showing a respective pointing coordinate on a screen of the computer having the pointing apparatus;
- a gateway, connected with the plurality of computers through a network;
- a display, connected with the gateway;
- a conference-control module for forwarding a presentation frame on the screen of the report computer to the display through the gateway;
- a pointing-control module for capturing all the pointing coordinates of the pointing apparatuses of each respective computer of the plurality of computers through the gateway and for forwarding the pointing coordinates to the presentation frame of the display;
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- said pointing-control module is stored in said gateway and is downloaded to any of said plurality of computers as soon as said any of the said plurality of computers is connected with said gateway through said network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.