Screen Sharing Target Position Highlighting via Local Quality

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current screen sharing technologies face challenges in effectively highlighting and interacting with target positions across multiple terminals during screen sharing sessions, leading to suboptimal communication and interaction among participants.

Innovation Solution

A screen sharing method that synchronously displays a shared screen picture across multiple terminals and highlights target positions when triggered, allowing flexible highlighting methods such as color, brightness, attribute information, magnification, and icon display, enabling intuitive interaction and improved interactivity.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If screen sharing is performed among multiple terminals, then information sharing capability is improved, but interaction effectiveness at specific positions deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation sharing capabilityVSAvoidinteraction effectiveness
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by making different parts of the screen picture have different visual properties. Specifically, the target position where user input is received is highlighted with different brightness, color, or magnification compared to other areas, enabling participants to easily identify and interact with specific positions during screen sharing without compromising overall information visibility

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Ease of operation

If target position highlighting is added to screen sharing, then interaction effectiveness is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinteraction effectivenessVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the highlighting function with the existing screen sharing system by integrating the target position indication into the screen picture itself. The processing unit combines the original screen content with highlighting information (such as brightness adjustment, color changes, or magnification) to generate an enhanced screen picture that maintains synchronization while adding interaction capabilities without requiring separate complex systems

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Stability of the object's composition

If synchronous display is maintained across N terminals, then information consistency is improved, but highlighting synchronization difficulty increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation consistencyVSAvoidhighlighting synchronization difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements feedback by establishing a communication mechanism where the first terminal sends target position information to the second terminal, and the second terminal adjusts its display based on this feedback. The processing unit receives coordinate information about the target position and dynamically adjusts the screen picture display accordingly, ensuring that highlighting changes are synchronized across terminals while maintaining information consistency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12026421B2Screen sharing method, apparatus, and device, and storage medium
Publication Date: 2024.07.02 TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO LTD
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AI summary

A screen sharing method, apparatus, and device, and a storage medium. The screen sharing method includes: displaying a shared screen picture in a process of performing screen sharing among N terminals, N being an integer greater than 1, the first terminal being a terminal in the N terminals, and the shared screen picture being synchronously displayed in the N terminals; and highlighting, in a case that a target position in the screen picture displayed in a terminal of the N terminals is triggered, the target position in a screen picture of the first terminal, the target position being a position in the screen picture.