Portable presentation system and methods for use therewith

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10958873-B2
Application number	US-201916566225-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 10, 2019
Priority date	Apr 1, 2004
Publication date	Mar 23, 2021
Grant date	Mar 23, 2021

Abstract

A method and assembly for sharing information in a conference space, the assembly comprising a display configuration including presentation surface area juxtaposed within the conference space for viewing by an audience, the surface area including at least first and second adjacent presentation sub-spaces, a processor programmed to perform the steps of presenting an interface on the surface area useable to generate session images within at least one of the sub-spaces, the interface including a panel section in which a separate panel icon for each of the session images created during a session is presented, the interface further including a separate space on the surface area associated with each of the sub-spaces, the interface facilitating selection and dragging of panel icons to locations associated with the sub-spaces to control the images presented in each of the sub-spaces, wherein, when a panel icon is dragged to a space, an image currently associated with the sub-space is replaced at the sub-space.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for sharing content among a plurality of conferees, the system comprising:
a first user control system including at least one display screen, an input device and a processor, the processor running software to present a user interface via the at least one display screen, the user interface including a panel section and a content presentation space, the panel section including a set of content icons, each icon representing previously presented content, the input device receiving user input indicating icon selection for selecting different ones of the content icons for presentation of associated content in fields presented within the content presentation space; and
a common presentation system including at least one common display screen linked via a network to the first user control system, the at least one common display screen replicating content from the content presentation space for viewing by conferees within a conference space.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one display screen includes a plurality of display screens and wherein the at least one common display screen includes a plurality of common display screens.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein separate content is presented on each of the at least one display screens and similar separate content is mirrored on each of the separate common display screens.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein content corresponding to one of the icons in the control panel can be placed within one of the fields in the content presentation space by dragging the icon into the one of the fields.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein content in one of the fields can be removed from the one of the fields by dragging the content from the one of the fields into the control panel.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one display screen includes a single display screen.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the at least one common display screen includes a single common display screen.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the first user control system includes a master presentation device and at least one slave presentation device, the interface presented on a display screen of the master presentation device and at least a portion of the presentation space presented on a display screen of the at least one slave presentation device.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein the content presentation space includes a boundary that forms a box on the at least one display screen, content moved to the box represented in separate fields presented in the box.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein the input device enables a user to move the separate fields and associated content within the box thereby causing similar movement of content mirrored on the at least one common display screen.

11. The system of claim 9 wherein selection and dragging of one content in one of the fields in the box to a space outside the box causes the content in that field to be removed from the box and represented within the control panel icons.

12. A system for sharing content among a plurality of conferees, the system comprising:
a first user control system including at least one display screen, an input device and a processor, the processor running software to present a user interface via the at least one display screen, the user interface including a panel section and a content presentation box, the panel section including a first set of content representations, each representation in the first set representing previously presented content, the input device receiving user input indicating representation selection for selecting different ones of the content representations in the panel section for presentation in fields located within the content presentation box; and
a common presentation system including at least one common display screen linked via a network to the first user control system, the at least one common display screen replicating content from the content presentation box for viewing by conferees within a conference space.

13. The system of claim 12 wherein the content on the at least one common display screen presents content in fields in the same arrangement as the content in the fields within the content presentation box.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein movement of content and an associated field in the box to a different juxtaposition within the box causes a similar field and content on the common display screen to move to a similar juxtaposition with respect to the content presented on the common display screen.

15. The system of claim 13 wherein movement of one of the content representations from outside the representation box to inside the representation box causes the content representation to be presented within the box and also causes content associated with the content representation to be presented on the at least one common display screen.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein movement of one content representation to a location that overlaps the location of another content representation within the box causes at least the another content representation within the box to move to a different location within the box to accommodate the one content representation within the box and also causes content on the at least one common display screen to be rearranged in a similar arrangement.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein content representations within the box do not overlap.

18. The system of claim 16 wherein movement of one of the content representations from within the box to a location outside the box causes removal of mirrored content from on the at least one common display screen.

19. A system for sharing content among a plurality of conferees, the system comprising:
a first user control system including at least one display screen, an input device and a processor, the processor running software to present a user interface via the at least one display screen, the user interface including a control panel including a panel section and a content presentation box located within the panel section, the panel section including a plurality of presentation content representations, the input device for receiving user input requiring movement of the content representations between the content presentation box and space outside the content presentation box within the panel section; and
a common presentation system including at least one common display screen linked via a network to the first user control system, the at least one common display screen replicating content from the content presentation box for viewing by conferees within a conference space.

20. The system of claim 19 wherein the content representations in the content presentation box have a specific juxtaposition and wherein the replicating content includes the same juxtaposition as the content representations in the box.

21. The system of claim 20 wherein the replicating content has a larger format than the content representations in the content presentation box.

22. The system of claim 20 wherein movement of content representations within the content presentation box to change relative juxtaposition causes similar movement of the replicating content on the at least one common display screen.

23. The system of claim 22 wherein the at least one common display screen includes a single screen.

24. The system of claim 19 further including a second user control system including at least one second display screen, a second input devi

Assignees

• Steelcase Inc

Inventors

• Dunn Michael H
• Hutchinson Ian G
• Hildebrandt Peter W

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