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US 8,265,707 B2Granted
Cellular multiscreen system
AssigneeUbiquity Broadcasting Corporation
InventorsChristopher Carmichael, Kenneth Bailey
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Abstract
A cellular multiscreen system forms an image which can be a frame of a video or still image, divides that image into a number of parts, and sends each part to a different cellular telephone. The cellular telephones which receives the images collectively can display the images so that one can see the original image by looking at the multiple different cellular telephones. A game can also be played by determining which of the cellular phones receive which portion of the image.
Claims12
A telephone control device, comprising:
- a telephone server, which produces a video output, said video output having frames of videos to be displayed as images at different times;
- a determination part, which determines multiple cellular phones which will be used to collectively receive the frames of videos to be displayed, where said multiple cellular phones is greater than one cellular phone;
- said telephone server including a dividing part, which separates the images into multiple different pieces for said multiple cellular phones that will obtain the images to be displayed, including at least dividing each image into a first piece for a first of said multiple cellular phones, and including at least dividing each image into a second piece for a second of said multiple cellular phones, where said first piece and said second piece have different information indicative of each frame, and said first and second pieces do not have the same information about any frame;
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- a transmitter, which transmits said multiple different pieces which collectively make up the image to multiple cellular phones, each of said pieces being transmitted to a different cellular phone, wherein said first piece sent to said first cellular phone has only a first part of each of plural frames of the video, and said second piece sent to said second cellular phone has only said part of each of said plural frames of the video, wherein said video is a part of an interactive game, wherein said video includes at least one person and at least one background portion, wherein there are a plurality of phones, and said game includes which phone of said plurality of phones gets the most images of the person.
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A telephone control device, comprising:
- a telephone server, which produces a video output, said video output having frames of videos to be displayed as images at different times, at least a plurality of said frames having a message shown as text therein;
- a determination part, which determines multiple cellular phones will be used to collectively receive the frames of videos to be displayed, where said multiple cellular phones is greater than one cellular phone;
- said telephone server including a dividing part, which separates the images into multiple different pieces for said multiple cellular phones that will obtain the images to be displayed, including at least dividing each image into a first piece for a first of said multiple cellular phones which includes only a first part of said message, and including at least dividing each image into a second piece for a second of said multiple cellular phones which includes only a second part of said message, where said first piece and said second piece do not have the same message information, and neither of said first or second piece has the whole message information;
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- a transmitter, which transmits said multiple different pieces which collectively make up the image to said multiple cellular phones, each of said pieces being transmitted to a different cellular phone, wherein said first piece sent to said first cellular phone has only a first part of each of plural frames of the video, and said second piece sent to said second cellular phone has only said part of each of said plural frames of the video, wherein said video is a part of an interactive game, wherein said video includes at least one person and at least one background portion, wherein there are a plurality of phones, and said game includes which phone of said plurality of phones gets the most images of the person.
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A method of watching a video on a telephone device, comprising:
- watching a first piece of the video on a first of multiple cellular phones, said first phone owned by a first user, said first piece having only a portion of any frame of the video;
- at the same time as said watching, watching a second piece of the same video on a second of multiple cellular phones, said second phone owned by a second user,
- where the whole video cannot be watched without said first piece that is on said first phone and also said second piece that is on said second phone;
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- where said first piece and said second piece have different information indicative of each frame of said video, and said first and second pieces do not have the same information about any frame;
- and wherein said video is a part of an interactive game, wherein said video includes at least one person and at least one background portion, wherein there are a plurality of phones, and said game includes which phone of said plurality of phones gets the most images of the person.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.