Small-Screen Conference Content Change Notification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of small-screen devices in virtual conference sessions often fail to notice changes in content displayed on larger screens due to limited viewing areas, as only a portion of the content is visible, and changes outside this area may go unnoticed.
Innovation Solution
Implementing graphical elements, such as notification bars and changed point indicators, on the small-screen device to visually indicate changes occurring outside the displayed area, allowing users to dynamically update their view by panning to the indicated regions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If content from a large display is shared to a small-screen device, then more users can participate in the conference session, but users of the small-screen device can only see a portion of the content and may fail to notice changes outside their viewing area
Solution Approach 1:
The system monitors changes in the shared content and provides feedback to the small-screen device by sending coordinates of changed regions. This feedback mechanism enables the small-screen device to notify users about changes outside their current viewing area, ensuring users are aware of all content modifications despite screen size limitations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a spatial dimension to the notification system by displaying graphical elements at specific locations on the small-screen device that correspond to the spatial location of changes in the original content. This dimensional mapping helps users understand where changes occurred in the larger context without needing to see the entire content area.
2Reliability
If the entire content area is continuously monitored for changes, then all changes can be detected, but the amount of data to be transmitted and processed increases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of transmitting or processing the entire content area, the system extracts only the specific regions where changes have occurred. By identifying and transmitting only the coordinates of changed regions rather than the complete content, the system maintains reliable change detection while significantly reducing data transmission overhead and processing requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The content area is segmented into multiple regions, and the system only processes and transmits information about segments that have changed. This segmentation approach allows for efficient change detection by dividing the large content area into manageable portions, reducing the overall computational and transmission burden while maintaining detection accuracy.
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AI summary
Techniques are presented herein to enable a first device participating in a conference session to adapt its displayed content being shared from a second device that has a larger display and can therefore display a larger area of content than the first device is capable of displaying. The first device has a first display and displays a portion of content being displayed on a second display of the second device that is being shared with the first device during an online conference session. The first device detects when a first change has occurred in the content that is outside of the portion displayed on the first display. A graphical element is displayed on the first display, the graphical element indicating that the first change has occurred in the content outside of the portion being displayed on the first device.