US 9,854,254 B2 · Method and system for remote viewing of static and video images

Abstract

Methods and systems are provided that allow a user to remotely access another computer and view its desktop without regard to whether that desktop has a relatively static image typical of a computer desktop, or whether it is playing a video, such as from a DVD. Relatively static screens may be displayed along with full motion video in such systems. These systems may also provide for both short mouse lag time when full motion video is displayed. In one implementation, hardware and firmware captures and encodes the video from the remote computer, and software on the client computer decodes the encoded video and displays it to the user.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A data processing system for remote viewing of still and motion images, comprising:

a screen displaying images;
a memory configured to store a motion threshold used to determine whether an image on the screen is one of:
(1) a still image and (2) a motion image;
a processor configured to:
monitor the images displayed on the screen;
and
determine whether one or more of the images displayed on the screen are moving more than the motion threshold;
and
a motion video encoder configured to encode images on the screen that are moving more than the motion threshold;
and
a still image encoder configured to encode images on the screen that are moving less than the motion threshold while the motion video encoder encodes the images on the screen that are moving more than the motion threshold.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

12/535,495Filed 4 Aug 2009

Published

US 2011/0032982 A110 Feb 2011

Granted

26 Dec 2017

Term ends

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Classification8 codes

H04N 19/179
Characterised by the coding unit, i.e. the structural portion or semantic portion of the video signal being the object or the subject of the…: the…
H04N 19/12
Characterised by the element, parameter or selection affected or controlled by the adaptive coding: selection from among a plurality of transforms…
H04N 19/137
Incoming video signal characteristics or properties: motion inside a coding unit, e.g. average field, frame or block difference
H04N 19/162
Characterised by the element, parameter or criterion affecting or controlling the adaptive coding: user input

Method and system for remote viewing of static and video images

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Method and system for remote viewing of static and video images

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Abstract

Claims21