Patent · US Expired

Video telephone system and terminal device therefor

US6850267B2 · kind B2 · utility

3Cited by
2References
21Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateFeb 26, 2003
Grant dateFeb 1, 2005
Priority date
Expiry dateFeb 26, 2023

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N7/148
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A terminal device stores in a nonvolatile memory a video encoding method, a size expressed by pixels, a frame rate, a bit rate, and a key frame insertion interval suitable for reception. A receiving side terminal device notifies information to a sending side terminal. According to the information, the sending side terminal device encodes video data obtained by shooting an object and transmits encoded video data. Also, the sending side terminal device cuts, from the video data, video data of a size not exceeding a least size among a size of the video data obtained by the sending side terminal device, a size expressed by pixels suitable for transmission in the sending side terminal device, and a size expressed by pixels suitable for reception in the reception side terminal device. The sending side terminal device encodes and transmits the video data.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.