Digital TV Video Call Interface with Simultaneous Content Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a need for a method that enables effective video communication on digital TVs, allowing users to transmit and receive video data through wired and wireless networks while displaying communication and content images simultaneously, enhancing user convenience and providing an intuitive interface for video calls.
Innovation Solution
A digital TV system with a communication unit, video communication processor, and display unit that processes and displays video communication data using wired and wireless networks, allowing users to select video communication services, process user log-ins, and perform video calls with adjustable image settings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If video communication data is transmitted and received through wired/wireless networks on digital TV, then video communication capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The digital TV system is designed to perform multiple functions including traditional broadcasting, wired network communication, and wireless network communication. The communication unit can switch between different network types, and the display unit can show both communication images and content images, making the device universal and adaptable to various communication scenarios without requiring separate dedicated devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines video communication functionality with content viewing functionality into a single integrated system. The display unit merges communication images from video calls with content images from broadcasting or stored media, allowing users to simultaneously engage in video communication while consuming content, thereby reducing overall system complexity by consolidating functions.
2Ease of operation
If communication images and content images are displayed simultaneously on the screen, then user convenience is improved, but image processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The display unit divides the screen into multiple regions or layers, with separate processing channels for communication images and content images. This segmentation allows independent processing of each image type while maintaining simultaneous display, reducing the complexity of integrated image processing by handling each stream separately through dedicated processing paths.
Solution Approach 2:
The system overlays communication images onto the content display or positions them in different spatial dimensions on the screen. By utilizing multiple display dimensions (picture-in-picture, split-screen, or layered overlay), the system achieves simultaneous display of both image types without requiring complex temporal multiplexing or sequential switching.
3Adaptability or versatility
If video communication services are integrated into digital TV, then service versatility is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The digital TV system is designed to perform multiple functions including traditional broadcasting, wired network communication, and wireless network communication. The communication unit can switch between different network types, and the display unit can show both communication images and content images, making the device universal and adaptable to various communication scenarios without requiring separate dedicated devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The communication unit acts as an intermediary layer between the network infrastructure and the display system. It handles protocol conversion, data formatting, and network protocol management, shielding the complex networking logic from the simpler display and processing units. This intermediary architecture distributes complexity across modular components rather than concentrating it in a single complex subsystem.
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AI summary
A digital TV capable of video communication is discussed. According to an embodiment, the DTV for a video call operation using a camera associated with the DTV, includes a display unit and at least one processor. The processor is configured to display simultaneously, on the display unit, (a) an image received from the camera for a video call operation, and (b) different image setting items for controlling characteristics of the image received from the camera. The processor is further configured to adjust at least one of the characteristics of the image based on a user's control of at least one of the different image setting items, to display on the display unit the image having the adjusted characteristic based on the user's control, and to perform the video call operation with another party using the image having the adjusted characteristic.