Wireless video monitoring on a mobile device
AssigneePluto Technologies, Inc.
InventorsJames J. Fraley, Ning Nicholas Chen
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Abstract
A mobile device management system including a method for monitoring a remote video camera and event scheduling, synchronization and modification using location information. Video from a remote camera is encoded by a computer and streamed in real time over a network to a mobile device for decoding and display. The computer encoder and mobile device decoder are software-based. Event calendar and schedule information is incorporated, shared and automatically updated among multiple mobile devices. Location information, such as from a locator network or a satellite-based global positioning system, is used to provide real time updates to a mobile device calendar or event schedule. A map or other indicia of the location of other mobile devices may be provided.
Claims15
A wireless video monitoring system comprising:
- a camera for capturing a live video image;
- a computer coupled to the camera and comprising a software-based video encoder for encoding and streaming the video image and a software-based video decoder for decoding camera control information encoded in a video compression protocol;
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- a mobile device comprising another software-based video decoder for receiving, decoding and displaying the video image and another software-based video encoder for encoding the camera control information in the video-compression protocol, the mobile device transmitting the video compressed encoded camera control information to the computer for full duplex video operation, and the mobile device not having a dedicated hardware-based video decoder, wherein
- the video images are encoded by the computer as multi-packet MPEG frames and are streamed sequentially to the mobile device,
- the mobile device decodes and completes assembly of each received complete multi-packet frame before signaling the computer with a one byte header to send the next multi-packet frame, and
- the software-based video decoder for decoding camera control information encoded in a video compression protocol is based on software different from the software on which the another software-based video encoder for encoding the camera control information in the video-compression protocol is based.
A method for wireless monitoring on a mobile device comprising:
- receiving an encoded video stream from a remote camera;
- transmitting video-compression protocol encoded camera control information to the remote camera based on a software-based video encoder;
- decoding and displaying the video stream on the mobile device based on a software-based video decoder for full duplex video operation, the mobile device not having a dedicated hardware-based video decoder, wherein the video stream is encoded as multi-packet MPEG frames and are streamed sequentially to the mobile device;
- completing assembly of each received complete multi-packet frame;
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- signaling a computer with a one byte header to send the next multi-packet frame after decoding and completing assembly of the each received complete multi-packet frame, wherein
- the software-based video encoder is based on software different from the software on which the software-based video decoder for full duplex video operation is based.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.