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US20120178380A1
US20120178380A1 US13/088,986 US201113088986A US2012178380A1 US 20120178380 A1 US20120178380 A1 US 20120178380A1 US 201113088986 A US201113088986 A US 201113088986A US 2012178380 A1 US2012178380 A1 US 2012178380A1
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  • wireless communication techniques were employed by computing devices such as traditional desktop computers and laptops to communicate locally with each other as well as remotely via the Internet. Use of these techniques was then expanded to a wide variety of other devices, such as game consoles, input devices (e.g., keyboard and mouse), printers, and so on.
  • Wireless communication techniques are described.
  • techniques are described that involve active power control such that a device may bypass use of a power amplifier to communicate wirelessly.
  • wireless communication techniques are described in which one or more streams on a receiving device are leveraged by a sending device, such as through use of a buffer.
  • a receiving device is configured to adjust a display based on wireless communications received from a plurality of devices.
  • wireless communication techniques are described in which multiple bands may be leveraged to provide wireless communication. Yet further again, in one or more implementations wireless communication techniques are described in which a sending device may employ codec adaptation. Still yet further, in one or more implementations, wireless communication techniques are described which may be used to change characteristics of a channel used to communicate data.
  • FIG. 1 is an illustration of an environment in an example implementation that is operable to employ short and medium range wireless communication techniques.
  • FIG. 2 depicts a system in an example implementation in which a computing device of FIG. 1 is configured to bypass and disable a power amplifier for short range wireless communication.
  • FIG. 3 is a flow diagram depicting a procedure in an example implementation of wireless communication techniques that relate to control of a power amplifier to transmit data over different ranges.
  • FIG. 4 depicts a system in an example implementation in which existence of a buffer and/or use of a data stream on a receiving device is leveraged by a sending device.
  • FIG. 5 is a flow diagram depicting a procedure in an example implementation of wireless communication techniques that relate to wireless buffering and stream usage techniques.
  • FIG. 6 depicts a system in an example implementation in which display techniques are employed in a wireless environment.
  • FIG. 7 is a flow diagram depicting a procedure in an example implementation of wireless communication techniques that relate to wireless display techniques for content received from a plurality of devices.
  • FIG. 8 illustrates an example system in which dual band functionality of a wireless device is leveraged to provide wireless communication that employs both bands.
  • FIG. 9 is a flow diagram depicting a procedure in an example implementation of wireless communication techniques that relate to communication functionality that leverage a plurality of bands.
  • FIG. 10 depicts a system in an example implementation in which wireless encoding and decoding techniques are employed.
  • FIG. 11 is a flow diagram depicting a procedure in an example implementation of wireless communication techniques that relate to wireless encoding and decoding techniques.
  • Wireless communication techniques are described.
  • techniques are described that involve active power control such that a device may bypass and disable the power amplifier to communicate wirelessly.
  • the techniques may be employed by but are not limited to short and medium range direct and indirect communication, such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi (e.g., IEEE 802.11), Wi-Max, and so on. In this way, power consumption by the device may be lessened in situations in which use of the power amplifier may be avoided, further discussion of which may be found in relation to FIGS. 2 and 3 .
  • wireless communication techniques are described in which one or more frame buffers and/or streams on a receiving device are leveraged by a sending device. For example, the sending device may determine that a next frame matches a frame already sent to a receiving device and may then hibernate parts of the device that are used to transmit frames until a “new” frame is to be sent. In this way, power usage and network interference by the sending device may be decreased, further discussion of which may be found in relation to FIGS. 4 and 5 .
  • a receiving device is configured to adjust a display based on wireless communications received from a plurality of devices.
  • the receiving device may be configured as a television.
  • the television may receive wireless communications from a plurality of different devices, e.g., mobile phones.
  • the television may then portion the display to display video from each of the devices.
  • the video sent by the devices may be configured according to how it is to be displayed by the display device, such as by adjusting a resolution and/or aspect ratio to match the portion in which the video is to be displayed. Further discussion of these techniques may be found in relation to FIGS. 6 and 7 .
  • wireless communication techniques are described in which multiple bands may be leveraged to provide wireless communication.
  • a wireless device may have support for both 2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz bands.
  • the device may be configured to employ both bands to communicate with other devices, such as to employ the 2.4 GHz band to communicate control information and the 5.0 GHz band to communicate a data payload simultaneously, further discussion of which may be found in relation to FIGS. 8 and 9 .
  • the codec type may be changed to a type that is better suited for handling a current information type. This may be performed by leveraging multiple processing techniques such as frequency profile, frequency gradients, temporal changes, edge change detection and other video and image progressing algorithms. Additionally, this may be performed as part of a decision tree to select an appropriate compression (e.g., codec) for use by the video frame, further discussion of which may be found in relation to FIGS. 10 and 11 .
  • codec codec
  • wireless communication techniques are also described which may be used to change characteristics of a channel used to communicate data.
  • the sending device may detect noise and renegotiate with a receiving device for a new channel, thereby saving power due to the increased cleanliness of the new channel and less retransmission of data.
  • Other techniques are also contemplated, such as to dynamically adjust a compression ratio, an amount of change, change from one codec to another, beam forming, FEC (Forward Error Correction) and so on, further discussion of which may be found in relation to FIGS. 10 and 11 .
  • wireless communication techniques are described in which a sending device employs codec adaptation. For example, a sending device may determine whether a receiving device supports video in a current format. If so, the sending device may communicate the video without decoding it. If not, the sending device may transcode the video. In this way, the sending device may conserve resources that would otherwise be used to unnecessarily decode the video, further discussion of which may be found in relation to FIGS. 10 and 11 .
  • example environments are described that may be employed to perform the techniques described herein.
  • Example procedures are also described, which may be performed in the example environments and elsewhere. Accordingly, the example environments are not limited to performance of the example procedures and the example procedures are not limited to being performed in the example environments.
  • FIG. 1 is an illustration of an environment 100 in an example implementation that is operable to employ the wireless communication techniques described herein.
  • the illustrated environment 100 includes an access point 102 , a computing device 104 , and another computing device 106 that are communicatively coupled via a wireless network 108 .
  • the computing devices 104 , 106 may be configured in a variety of ways.
  • the computing devices 104 , 106 may be configured as computers that are capable of communicating over a wireless network 108 , such as a desktop computer, a mobile station, an entertainment appliance, a tablet, a set-top box communicatively coupled to a display device, a wireless phone, a game console, a digital television, and so forth.
  • the computing devices 104 , 106 may range from full resource devices with substantial memory and processor resources (e.g., personal computers, game consoles) to a low-resource device with limited memory and/or processing resources (e.g., traditional set-top boxes, hand-held game consoles, “dumb” digital televisions having limited functionality).
  • the computing devices 104 , 106 may also include an entity (e.g., software) that causes hardware of the computing devices 104 , 106 to perform operations, e.g., processors, functional blocks, and so on.
  • the computing devices 104 , 106 may include a computer-readable medium that may be configured to maintain instructions that cause the respective computing device, and more particularly hardware of the computing devices 104 , 106 to perform operations.
  • the instructions function to configure the hardware to perform the operations and in this way result in transformation of the hardware to perform functions.
  • the instructions may be provided by the computer-readable medium to the computing devices 104 , 106 through a variety of different configurations.
  • One such configuration of a computer-readable medium is signal bearing medium and thus is configured to transmit the instructions (e.g., as a carrier wave) to the hardware of the computing device, such as via the network 108 .
  • the computer-readable medium may also be configured as a computer-readable storage medium and thus is not a signal bearing medium. Examples of a computer-readable storage medium include a random-access memory (RAM), read-only memory (ROM), an optical disc, flash memory, hard disk memory, and other memory devices that may use magnetic, optical, and other techniques to store instructions and other data.
  • the wireless network 108 may assume a wide variety of configurations and may be configured to include multiple networks, e.g., to support direct and/or indirect communication, follow different standards, and so on.
  • the wireless network 108 may be configured for short range communication, e.g., communication typically employed with a distance of 10 meters.
  • the short range communications may be configured to support direct and/or indirect communication within a room or between adjacent rooms of a structure such as a typical user's house.
  • the wireless network 108 may also be configured for medium range communication such as in accordance with Wi-Fi (e.g., IEEE 802.11) for distances of up to approximately 300 meters, WiMAX (e.g., IEEE 802.16) for distances of up to approximately 1 km, and so on.
  • Wi-Fi e.g., IEEE 802.11
  • WiMAX e.g., IEEE 802.16
  • These standards allow a variety of different computing devices (e.g., laptops, phones, games machines, and consumer electronics devices) to connect to the access point 102 and/or directly with each other to allow mobile communication of a variety of content, such as web content, media content, email, messaging, and a variety of other data types.
  • a majority of mid to high end mobile communication devices may leverage Wi-Fi to enable rich browsing, increased functionality for applications, and data oriented communications.
  • the wireless network 108 is not a wireless telephone (e.g., cellular) network that is typically used for telephone communication, although such implementations are also contemplated.
  • the access point 102 and the computing devices 104 , 106 are each illustrated as including a respective communication module 110 , 112 , 114 .
  • the communication modules 110 , 112 , 114 are representative of functionality of the respective device to communicate over the wireless network 108 .
  • the communication modules 110 , 112 , 114 may represent functionality that may be used to encode data for transmission as well as decode data received by the device in accordance with one or more of the standards described above.
  • the functionality may also involve techniques that may be used to manage communication, such as to negotiate channels, resolve collisions, and so on.
  • the variety of devices that employ wireless communication techniques is ever increasing, such as laptops, digital television, smart phone platforms, optical disc players, and so on.
  • Some of these devices may also employ a set of standards (e.g., from the Digital Living Network Alliance) to allow device discovery and connection, media file browsing, and exchange of digital media such as photos, music, and videos.
  • communication may be performed using the access point 102 such that the computing device 104 transmits data through the access point 102 for receipt by the computing device 106 .
  • Direct communication between the computing devices 104 , 106 may also be supported that does not involve use of the access point 102 or other device as an intermediary.
  • direct communication may be leveraged to avoid costly dual path connections (e.g., up to access point 102 and down from access point 102 ) of devices where principally point-to-point connections may be employed, e.g., when the computing devices 104 , 106 are within range of each other.
  • This allows data types (e.g., video) to be sent directly from a sending device (e.g., the computing device 104 illustrated as a smart phone) directly to a receiving device, e.g., to the computing device 106 illustrated as a digital television.
  • the wireless network 108 may also represent communication that does not involve the access point 102 .
  • the computing device 104 may also communicate with the access point 102 for web based content, but the data from phone to digital television is not transferred to the access point 102 .
  • Wi-Fi display opens up a number of opportunities beyond traditional media types to web pages, games, messaging, and so on. It may also be used to allow the source device (e.g., the computing device 104 ) to control the target display (e.g., computing device 106 ) thereby allowing a predictable and consistent user experience. For instance, the source device (potentially also multiple devices) may be used to drive each of the pixels on the target device, a portion of the pixels allotted to the source device, and so on as further described in the following discussion.
  • uncompressed standards e.g., Wi-Gig
  • compressed standards e.g., 802.11n
  • Wi-Fi display opens up a number of opportunities beyond traditional media types to web pages, games, messaging, and so on. It may also be used to allow the source device (e.g., the computing device 104 ) to control the target display (e.g., computing device 106 ) thereby allowing a predictable and consistent user experience.
  • the source device may be used to drive each of
  • any of the functions described herein can be implemented using software, firmware, hardware (e.g., fixed logic circuitry), manual processing, or a combination of these implementations.
  • the terms “module” and “functionality” as used herein generally represent hardware, software, firmware, or a combination thereof.
  • the module, functionality, or logic represents instructions and hardware that performs operations specified by the hardware, e.g., one or more processors, functional blocks, and/or application specific integrated circuits.
  • FIG. 2 depicts a system 200 in an example implementation in which a computing device 104 of FIG. 1 is configured to bypass and disable a power amplifier for wireless communication.
  • the communication module 112 of the computing device 104 is illustrated as including a communication manager module 202 , a power amplifier 204 , an antenna 206 , a power supply 208 , and a switch 210 .
  • Wi-Fi communications between the computing device 104 and the access point 102 may occur over a significant range as the access point 102 may be frequently located in a different room, different floor in a house, and so on. Consequently, in order to drive high bandwidth communications in such a situation, the output power from the accessing device may be relatively high.
  • the communicating devices e.g., the computing device 104 and another computing device 106
  • the communicating devices are located, in comparison, at a relatively close range to each other as illustrated.
  • significantly lower power may be used while still operating at high bandwidths, e.g., at high Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) configurations, as would otherwise be the case when operating across a relatively longer distance. Therefore reducing the RF footprint of a particular wireless communication system which will permit greater frequency and/or channel reuse densities.
  • QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
  • the communication module 112 may adapt to changes in range by measuring wireless link quality and adjusting power output control on a regular basis, such as a packet-by-packet basis, at predefined intervals, and so on.
  • the communication module 112 may use pilot data sent during Wi-Fi handshake per packet data transfer, RSSI signal strength information, use packet error conditions to adjust rates, and so on.
  • output power may decrease values up to ten db and beyond using one or more of these data items and assuming a relatively close range (e.g., small distance) to the destination device, e.g., less than five meters.
  • power consumption may be further reduced by bypassing the power amplifier 204 , which although represented as internal to the device may also be configured as an external amplifier and thus the switch 210 may be internally or externally deployed.
  • the power amplifier 204 employed by the computing device 104 may consume high static power even with low output power demands, such as when class AB amplifiers are used.
  • the communication manager module 202 may employ a switch 210 to allow the power amplifier 204 to be used for scenarios involving a relatively significant range, e.g., access point 102 scenarios that may involve a significant distance.
  • the communication manager module 202 may directly drive the antenna 206 for Wi-Fi Direct circumstances (e.g., with the computing device 106 located at a relatively close distance) and bypass the power amplifier 204 using the switch 210 to save power, which may be particularly useful in mobile applications but may also be useful in other applications. For example, for power amplifiers that consume a base-load current these techniques may avoid significant power consumption even at low power levels, such as by employing the switch 210 that may disable the power amplifier from the power supply 208 , e.g., by “turning off” a supply rail to the power amplifier 204 . Thus, the RF transmit power may be reduced to a minimal power level that is sufficient to support a desired link quality, which therefore reduces the RF footprint of the communication system.
  • the use of relatively lower power may also result in a reduction in noise in a wireless network 108 , thereby further saving power both for the device as well as other devices.
  • disruption to other devices within the range of other devices that engage in wireless communication may be reduced by having each device reduce the amount of output power used, e.g., in office and other high density environments.
  • a number of devices within the 2.4 GHz/5 GHz unlicensed band range may share a single frequency if the reduced RF power footprint is small enough to create a low-noise floor for the other devices.
  • wireless display functions may create significant band noise due to bandwidth utilization and thus decreasing the amount of power will reduce the radio frequency (RF) footprint and further minimize the disruption to devices on the same frequency.
  • RF radio frequency
  • FIG. 3 depicts a procedure 300 in an example implementation of wireless communication techniques that relate to control of a power amplifier to transmit data.
  • the following discussion describes techniques that may be implemented utilizing the previously described systems and devices. Aspects of each of the procedures may be implemented in hardware, firmware, or software, or a combination thereof.
  • the procedure is shown as a set of blocks that specify operations performed by one or more devices and are not necessarily limited to the orders shown for performing the operations by the respective blocks. In portions of the following discussion, reference will be made to the environment 100 of FIG. 1 and the system 200 of FIG. 2 .
  • a sending device detects whether communications between a receiving device and the sending device comply with a predefined link quality (block 302 ).
  • the detecting may be based at least in part on an error rate or a scan of one or more wireless channels during one or more non-transmit cycles. Further, the detecting may be performed on a per packet basis, at predefined intervals (e.g., based on number of packets transmitted, passage of predefined amounts of time), and so on.
  • a power amplifier of the sending device is bypassed to transmit a wireless communication to be received by the sending device (block 304 ).
  • the determination may be based on the detection above. If it is determined that the receiving device is within range based on the predefined link quality, the communication manager module 202 may bypass the power amplifier 204 using a switch 210 or other techniques and disable the power amplifier such that a supply rail to the power amplifier 204 from the power supply 208 (e.g., a battery, “plug in” source, and so on) is disabled.
  • a supply rail to the power amplifier 204 from the power supply 208 e.g., a battery, “plug in” source, and so on
  • the communication manager module 202 may then communicate directly with the antenna 206 to transmit the wireless communication (e.g., one or more packets) without the aid of the power amplifier 204 .
  • the sending device may reduce the amount of power used to perform the wireless communication, reduce an amount of interference caused by the wireless communication with other wireless devices that would otherwise be within range of the interference, and so on.
  • a power amplifier of the sending device is used to transmit a wireless communication to be received by the sending device (block 306 ).
  • the sending device may use the additional operational range afforded through use of the power amplifier 204 , such as to comply with operational ranges of IEEE standards.
  • a wireless communication may be received by a receiving device from the sending device that was communicated without using the power amplifier of the sending device when the communication comply with the predefined link quality (block 308 ).
  • power used by the sending device may be conserved and reduce interference caused by the communication.
  • a wireless communication may be received by a receiving device from the sending device that was communicated using the power amplifier of the sending device when the communications do not comply with the predefined link quality (block 310 ). In this way, the operational range of the computing device may be extended in instances in which the devices are not within the predefined range.
  • FIG. 4 depicts a system 400 in an example implementation in which existence of a buffer on a receiving device is leveraged by a sending device.
  • a computing device 104 sends data (e.g., streams the data) via a wireless connection to the other computing device 106 .
  • the communication modules 112 , 114 of the respective computing devices 104 , 106 are shown in greater detail as including a respective communication manager modules 402 , 404 and antennas 406 , 408 .
  • the communication manager module 404 is further illustrated as including a frame buffer 410 , which may be used to cache frames to be rendered by the computing device 106 .
  • the frame buffer 410 may be representative of a plurality of different frame buffers that may be utilized for a plurality of different streams.
  • This data may then be processed (e.g., scaled) and merged into a master frame buffer and/or streams that the display uses to generate a final image on the display.
  • additional control signaling by the communication manager module 402 of the sending computing device 104 and a frame buffer 410 of the receiving computing device 106 are leveraged such that frames which have new content are transmitted from the source device but redundant frames are not, e.g., frames that have matching content.
  • the additional control signals contain control data to cause the wireless display to repeat a particular frame until a new frame is provided.
  • the source transmission portion of module 112 may then enter a sleep mode until a new frame is to be sent to the wireless display. Responsive to this, the internal frame buffer 410 may be used to drive the target display until a new frame is sent. Beyond this, frame rates may be reduced from traditional (60 Hz/50 Hz) rates with lower frame rates being sent to the target display with associated control signals.
  • a presentation may involve a relatively static display, e.g., a slide that does not change until an input is received.
  • the system may send the frame but then determine that the information has not changed and therefore send a “repeat” command to the wireless display.
  • the wireless display may then display this frame (e.g., over and over) until the source device sends a new frame. During this period there may be little to no wireless video information sent and therefore the power consumed by the source device and noise that otherwise may occur in the environment from transmitting the video information is reduced.
  • control signals may also be used to send the portions 414 of the frame 412 that is being updated. This may work for a variety of different content, such as web pages with active portions (e.g., an ad) where the majority of the frame 412 is not active. Further, extender concepts may also be leveraged where video and audio streams are sent independent to UI streams. Thus, when the overlaying UI frame is quiet, the video updates for the subsection of the display where video is presented are sent. In additional embodiments, control data may also be used for animations and object manipulation.
  • FIG. 5 depicts a procedure 500 in an example implementation of wireless communication techniques that relate to wireless buffering and streams.
  • the following discussion describes techniques that may be implemented utilizing the previously described systems and devices. Aspects of each of the procedures may be implemented in hardware, firmware, or software, or a combination thereof
  • the procedure is shown as a set of blocks that specify operations performed by one or more devices and are not necessarily limited to the orders shown for performing the operations by the respective blocks. In portions of the following discussion, reference will be made to the environment 100 of FIG. 1 and the system 400 of FIG. 4 .
  • a communication manager module 402 may determine that a frame is repeated that is to be wirelessly transmitted from the computing device 104 to another computing device 106 .
  • the frame for instance, may be part of a presentation or other content that includes a relatively static display of content.
  • the communication manager module 402 may form a control signal to cause the communication manager module 404 of the computing device 106 to repeat at least a portion of a frame stored in a frame buffer 410 .
  • the portion may encompass a substantial display area of the frame.
  • the sending device does not send a control signal or a frame to the receiving device. The receiving device may then detect this lack of data (e.g., frame and/or control signal) and therefore repeat a frame that has already been received by the receiving device. In this way, the receiving device may act without receipt of data from the sending device to repeat a frame.
  • a sleep mode may be entered by one or more hardware devices or subsystem of the sending device until an update to the first frame is to be transmitted to the receiving device that includes content that is not included in the first frame (block 506 ).
  • the communication manager module 402 may cause hardware one or more components of the computing device 104 that are involved in wireless transmission to enter a sleep mode to reduce power consumption by the computing device 104 . This may include reducing power supplied to the hardware components but still keeping a baseline level of power available such that the components may be quickly awakened. This may also include turning off a supply rail to the one or more components to reduce power consumption completely or near completely. A variety of other examples are also contemplated.
  • a transmission frame rate of the sending device to the receiving device may be reduced (block 508 ).
  • the communication manager module 402 may determine that a static display is to continue. Accordingly, the communication manager module 402 may reduce the frame rate thereby conserving power and reducing interference in the wireless environment with other devices that engage in wireless communication.
  • One or more extender concepts may also be employed by the sending device to separate streams to be transmitted to the receiving device (block 510 ).
  • the extender concepts may be configured to cause video, audio and/or user interface streams to be transmitted separately. In this way, updates to each of these streams may be communicated without involving the other streams.
  • the receiving device may receive one or more control signals and then repeat at least a portion of a frame stored in a frame buffer (block 512 ) as well as employ other of the previous described techniques for wireless communication described in the above blocks.
  • a frame buffer block 512
  • examples of buffering and streaming techniques were described, a variety of other techniques may also be employed without departing from the spirit and scope thereof, examples of which may be found in the following section.
  • FIG. 6 depicts a system in an example implementation in which wireless display techniques are shown.
  • two mobile computing devices 602 , 604 are in wireless communication with another computing device, illustrated as a display device 606 .
  • the computing devices may assume a wide variety of other configurations.
  • the display device 606 as illustrated receives wireless data from the mobile computing devices 602 , 604 .
  • the display device 606 portions an available display area, which in this instance is to divide the display area down the middle although other examples are also contemplated, such as to employ picture-in-picture techniques having portions of various sizes that may be adjustable by a user of the display device 606 .
  • an entire display area of the display device may be used but configured to display particular content to particular users by leveraging glasses (e.g., LCD shutter glasses) typically worn by such users.
  • glasses e.g., LCD shutter glasses
  • each user may view different content and this display may appear simultaneous to the users.
  • the sending devices may be configured to take advantage of this portioning
  • the mobile communication devices 602 , 604 may be configured to reformat the data being sent to the display device 706 to have an aspect ratio, resolution, and so on that is configured to approximate and even match the portions.
  • the devices may send a lesser amount of data than would otherwise be sent if the full display area was consumed by the data, e.g., video.
  • a wide variety of other implementations are also contemplated without departing from the spirit and scope thereof.
  • FIG. 7 depicts a procedure 700 in an example implementation of wireless communication techniques that relate to display of content from a plurality of devices.
  • the following discussion describes techniques that may be implemented utilizing the previously described systems and devices. Aspects of each of the procedures may be implemented in hardware, firmware, or software, or a combination thereof.
  • the procedure is shown as a set of blocks that specify operations performed by one or more devices and are not necessarily limited to the orders shown for performing the operations by the respective blocks. In portions of the following discussion, reference will be made to the environment 100 of FIG. 1 and the system 600 of FIG. 6 .
  • Two or more streams are received wirelessly at a display device from respective two or more computing devices (block 702 ).
  • the wireless display device 606 may receive streams of content from first and second mobile computing devices 602 , 604 .
  • the display device may then automatically portion a display area of the display device such that content from the two or more streams is displayable concurrently by the display device (block 704 ).
  • the display device 606 portions a display area into halves as illustrated such that content is displayable concurrently from the plurality of mobile computing devices 602 , 604 .
  • picture-in-picture techniques may be employed such that a user may change a size of the portions, reposition the portions, and so on. A variety of other portioning techniques are also contemplated.
  • the display area may be portioned so that a first stream is viewable using a first pair of three dimensional viewing glasses but not a second pair of three dimensional viewing glasses and content from a second stream is viewable using the second pair of three dimensional viewing glasses but not the first pair of three dimensional viewing glasses (block 706 ).
  • the display device 606 may be configured for three-dimensional display through communication with the three dimensional viewing glasses, e.g., LCD shutter glasses.
  • larger portions may be displayed (e.g., overlapping even to the point of consuming an approximate entirety of the display area) and appear concurrent to two or more users, even though the users may view different content from different streams.
  • the data may also be reformatted by respective ones of the two or more computing devices according to respective portions via which the data is to be displayed by the display device (block 708 ).
  • the display device 606 may communicate with the mobile computing devices 602 , 604 to provide details regarding an available resolution, aspect ratio, and so on of a portion that is to be used to display content from the device.
  • the mobile computing devices 602 , 604 may then format the content accordingly such that this reformatting may be “offloaded” from the display device 606 .
  • Other implementations are also contemplated, such as reformatting that is performed by the display device, use of predefined portions such that the reformatting may be performed automatically and without user intervention by the mobile computing devices, and so forth.
  • FIG. 8 illustrates an example system 800 in which functionality of a wireless device that involves a plurality of bands is leveraged to provide wireless communication that employs two or more of the bands.
  • the communication module 112 is shown in greater detail as employing a communication manager module 802 , a 2.4 GHz band module 804 , a 5.0 GHz band module 806 , and respective antennas 808 , 810 .
  • Other implementations are also contemplated, such as use of a dual-band antenna.
  • Radio frequency (not baseband) hardware of the separate bands is not shared between the bands, although in some cases, a common phase-locked loop (PLL) is used but may be replicated by a vendor.
  • wireless communication techniques may be employed to leverage two or more bands, such as to communicate control information 812 over the 2.4 GHz band and a data payload 814 over the 5.0 GHz band.
  • a wireless channel within a band may be used for audio/visual and associated control information while another wireless channel within the band may be used for general wireless networking traffic.
  • Adjacent channels e.g., non overlapping channels
  • one is used primarily for access point internet data and the second is used for wireless display.
  • this may be performed in both 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz bands simultaneously to further increase bandwidth.
  • beacon signals to avoid loss of data sent to the device during Wi-Fi display operations.
  • the beacon may be checked for return data and used to interleave the transmission for wireless display.
  • wireless display is transmission oriented for the most part, special packet ACK techniques may be leveraged on the receiving side (e.g., the wireless display) to reduce “listening” on the wireless display channel.
  • many of the baseband portions of the system may be designed to handle larger bandwidth (e.g., more than 20 MHz) with dual (e.g., 40 MHz) to multi-channel (802.11ac-80 MHz and beyond) solutions.
  • this hardware may be multiplexed from its present dual+ channel single orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) stream to also handle dual independent OFDM streams, even if these occur at very different frequencies since associated baseband data can be the same.
  • the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) engines, Viterbi, and bit processing engines of the communication module 112 may process frames over two independent streams (e.g., access point 102 internet based traffic and Wireless Display).
  • antennas for 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz are also different enough that separate antennas are used even if packaged in one component as illustrated.
  • systems may employ aspects of this functionality that do or do not support concurrent 2.4 and 5 GHz operation.
  • time-division multiplexing may be performed between bands.
  • two channels in either 2.4 or 5 GHz band may be used.
  • two independent 20 MHz streams may be used. Again, one may run at high power to communicate with an access point 102 , but the second may use low power to simply reach a relatively close computing device (e.g., a device within a predefined range such that a power amplifier is not used) as described in relation to FIGS. 2 and 3 .
  • a relatively close computing device e.g., a device within a predefined range such that a power amplifier is not used
  • FIG. 9 depicts a procedure 900 in an example implementation of wireless communication techniques that relate to wireless communication that leverages a plurality of bands.
  • the following discussion describes techniques that may be implemented utilizing the previously described systems and devices. Aspects of each of the procedures may be implemented in hardware, firmware, or software, or a combination thereof.
  • the procedure is shown as a set of blocks that specify operations performed by one or more devices and are not necessarily limited to the orders shown for performing the operations by the respective blocks. In portions of the following discussion, reference will be made to the environment 100 of FIG. 1 and the system 800 of FIG. 8 .
  • Data is obtained for communication from a sending device to a receiving device (block 902 ).
  • the data for instance, may be obtained through execution of one or more applications, received from another device, located in local or remote storage, and so on.
  • the data may originate from a variety of different sources.
  • First and second modules of the sending device are employed to communicate the data over the first and second bands simultaneously to the receiving device (block 904 ), such as over 2.4 and 5.0 GHz bands.
  • each of the bands may utilize one or more channels to communicate with a same device, different devices, and so on.
  • the communication manager module 802 may also use a variety of other techniques to perform this communication. For example, the communication manager module 802 may use the first module and corresponding first band to communicate control information and the second module and corresponding second band to communicate data (block 906 ). In another example, the communication manager module 802 may use beacon signals to interleave a transmission for wireless display by a wireless display device (block 908 ) as previously described. Further, the communication manager module may handle a plurality of independent orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) streams using the first and second modules (block 910 ). For instance, the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) engines, Viterbi, and bit processing engines of the communication module 112 may process frames over two independent streams (e.g., access point 102 internet based traffic and Wireless Display).
  • FFT Fast Fourier Transform
  • Viterbi Viterbi
  • bit processing engines of the communication module 112 may process frames over two independent streams (e.g., access point 102 internet based traffic and Wireless Display).
  • the communication manager module 802 may also employ time-division multiplexing between the first and second bands (block 914 ). This time-division multiplexing may be performed by channels within a band, by the different bands, and so on. Further, the communication manager module 802 may also employ techniques that were described in relation to other sections. For instance, the communication manager module may use the first or second modules to vary an amount of power used by the first or second modules based on whether a receiving device is within a predefined range (block 914 ). A variety of other examples are also contemplated without departing from the spirit and scope thereof.
  • FIG. 10 depicts a system 1000 in an example implementation in which wireless decoding techniques are employed.
  • the computing device 104 and another computing device 106 are illustrated as engaged in wireless communication.
  • the communication module 112 of the computing device 104 is illustrated in greater detail as employing a communication manager module 1002 , a decoding module 1004 , and an antenna 1006 .
  • the communication module 112 is configured to determine whether the receiving device (e.g., the computing device 106 ) is capable of decoding a source content format. If so, encoded data may be communicated by the communication module 112 without being decoded by the decoding module 1004 . This also allows the target display to further improve image quality if appropriate.
  • the communication manager module 1002 may employ different codecs and/or codec rates to reduce the amount of traffic on the wireless communication link. Because the wireless communication may be performed via a packetized network (e.g., 802.11 standards), a reduction in traffic may also have a power and noise floor advantage. For gaming, for instance, use of a H.264 encoder may be appropriate. For UI and solutions that support object-like manipulation, wireless traffic may drop dramatically by sending objects and animation control versus sending data for each frame. For scenarios like Internet browsing, motion JPEG may be an alternative to preserve quality and data traffic.
  • This may be performed by leveraging multiple processing techniques such as frequency profile, frequency gradients, temporal changes, edge change detection and other video and image progressing algorithms as part of a decision tree to select an appropriate codec (e.g., compression algorithm) for use in encoding the video frame.
  • codec e.g., compression algorithm
  • AN audio/visual
  • compression type and ratios may be adjusted on a per frame or sub frame basis to minimize the radio frequency (RF) power used to maintain a reliable RF link.
  • RF radio frequency
  • the devices e.g., computing devices 104 , 106
  • beam forming may be used to reduce power requirements and minimize the RF Channel footprint for a given segment or spatial area.
  • a receiving device such as a wireless display may provide requests to a source device to change to a different channel.
  • the source may tell the receiving devices (e.g., sinks) to which channel the device is to move.
  • the source may drive multiple receiving devices in a contention free manner, although other implementations are also contemplated in which the receiving device is used to manage communication. For example, in scenarios in which multiple sources are driving into a single sink this could be reversed or a master source could be defined amongst the sources that specifies which channel to use for wireless communication, e.g., AN transactions.
  • the receiving device may be made aware as to which data is missing (e.g., media frames) and provide a recommendation to the sending device to change to a new channel once a given threshold is exceeded.
  • FIG. 11 depicts a procedure 1100 in an example implementation of wireless communication techniques that relate to communication of frames.
  • the following discussion describes techniques that may be implemented utilizing the previously described systems and devices. Aspects of each of the procedures may be implemented in hardware, firmware, or software, or a combination thereof.
  • the procedure is shown as a set of blocks that specify operations performed by one or more devices and are not necessarily limited to the orders shown for performing the operations by the respective blocks. In portions of the following discussion, reference will be made to the environment 100 of FIG. 1 and the system 1000 of FIG. 10 .
  • One or more frames are obtained by a sending device to be wirelessly transmitted to a receiving device (block 1102 ).
  • the frames may be generated by an application that is executed locally by the computing device 112 , from local storage of the computing device 112 , obtained remotely via a network, and so on.
  • a type of content is determined for one or more frames to be transmitted wirelessly by a sending device to a receiving device (block 1104 ).
  • the frames may be involved in streaming video, part of a presentation, include scenes from a video game, obtained via a browser, part of execution of an application (e.g., a user interface), from a video camera, and so forth.
  • each of these types may have specific characteristics that may be leveraged to reduce power consumption, noise and interference, and so on that may be involved in wireless communication of the frames.
  • the determination may be performed in a variety of ways, such as based on a frequency profile, frequency gradients, temporal changes, edge change detection, and so forth.
  • a codec is identified to be used to encode the one or more frames based at least in part on the determined type (block 1106 ). Responsive to a determination that the one or more frames are not encoded using the identified codec, the one or more frames are encoded using the identified codec (block 1108 ).
  • some types of codecs may be particularly suited for encoding particular types of frames. For gaming, for instance, a H.264 codec may be used to encode the frames.
  • wireless traffic may be reduced by sending objects and animation control versus sending data for each frame.
  • motion JPEG may be an alternative to preserve quality and data traffic.
  • a variety of other examples are also contemplated.
  • the one or more frames may also be compressed based at least in part on the determination of the type of content (block 1110 ).
  • a codec or compression algorithm may also be chosen based on characteristics of the wireless channels that are used to transmit the data. Further, this choice may be performed at a variety of time frames, such as at a per frame or sub-frame basis.
  • the sending device may also change to a different channel chosen by the sending device in response to a request received at the source device from the receiving device (block 1112 ).
  • a receiving device e.g., a wireless display device
  • the sending device may then choose a new channel and communicate this information back to the receiving device.
  • the sending device manages the wireless communication although other examples are also contemplated.
  • a variety of other wireless communication techniques are also contemplated, such as to dynamically adjust a compression ratio, an amount of change, change from one codec to another, beam forming, FEC (Forward Error Correction) and so on.
  • Mobile communication devices have become increasing powerful and capable of being highly connected and capable of acting as relatively large storage devices capable of complex tasks from gaming to photo editing.
  • display devices employed by mobile communication devices have grown from average sizes below three inches in diagonal to close to four inches, pan and zoom may still be involved when reading typical web pages, emails, and so on.
  • These devices are also typically limited in an ability to input content or control applications with limited on-screen or small keyboards on these devices. Accordingly, techniques are described that may be used to enhance the input and output of the mobile communication device in circumstances where a second display and/or input device is available.
  • the mobile communication devices may “remote” its display and input mechanism (e.g., touch, buttons, and so forth) to a simple display device via wireless display for the screen content and a control back channel.
  • This may be used to support a variety of different modes of operation:
  • a variety of different functionality may be supported by these techniques, such as an ability to remote phone interface via optimized wireless display mechanisms (e.g., optimized link, remote UI, animation, and display compression) where applications can run completely on the phone, but interfaced to the user on the remote display.
  • compressed videos may be embedded to be natively decoded by remote display, remotely execute UI animation, and adjust decoding based on content on remote side.
  • touch e.g., multiple finger gesture
  • button clicks may be embedded into a reverse channel of the mobile communication device, and these commands may be replayed as if they were natively executed on the mobile communication device.
  • a conversion may also be made on the remote device to convert touch points from remote coordinates to native coordinates on the mobile communication device.
  • these techniques may leverage integrated Wi-Fi/decoder solution which provides communications, content decoding, embedded frame buffer solution, and controller that is cost efficient.
  • a third device commonly referred to as a “tablet” have become popular that have a screen size between phones and laptops, higher battery life than both, touch interfaces and applications similar to smart phones, and thickness similar to smart phones.
  • These devices allow users a third choice, but may have significant costs (e.g., both device and carrier costs), synchronization issues, and in some cases significant user interface differences.
  • the proposed solution allows customers the option to have an internet tablet at significantly lower costs, which is synchronized with their smart phone, and provides a common user interface.
  • the solution may leverage techniques to identify, connect, encode, transmit, and decode/display remotely.
  • Standards such as 802.11, Wi-Fi Direct, uPNP, H.264, Motion JPEG, and so on may be leveraged.
  • a small portion of a typical internet tablet may be used to construct a “thin” device.
  • the tablet may be manufactured without an applications processor, large flash or DRAM, WAN modem, and so on.
  • the remote tablet may employ a relatively smaller battery, have Wi-Fi, similar display, and leverage decoders and a relatively small controller yet still provide a majority of typical internet tablet functions.
  • the remote display when using the phone as the source device, may be able to provide this experience however on a larger display. If one excludes the display, these costs can represent between twenty and fifty percent of the typical electrical bill of materials of an internet tablet.
  • the return channel may be employed for set-up and acknowledgement of packets. As events from a touch controller or buttons occur, these come to the small controller to be translated and encoded. These may then be sent to the mobile communication device to avoid latency between displayed objects and touch events. Once received, the mobile communication device may decode these events as if received from its touch controller. For dual screen scenarios, the touch events may be received as second touch controller.
  • Wi-Fi beacon signals or BT may also be used to allow wake up of the mobile communication device from the remote device. Power may also be shut-down on both sides after user controllable time periods of in-operation.
  • the mobile communication device's graphics processing unit may be used to render not only to the local display size, but also to a larger resolution allowing better viewing of applications, web content, and so forth.
  • negotiation between mobile communication device and the remote tablet may be used to identify which compression types are permitted.
  • applications may have their rendered content encoded in either H.264 or motion JPEG after a frame has been completed.
  • the application is not made aware that the frame is being transmitted for remote viewing.
  • the encoded media stream may be captured before being decoded on the mobile communication device.
  • the stream is then encapsulated, and sent to the remote device to either be decoded either within a graphics frame decoded and merged or simply decoded full screen.
  • Audio streams may also be embedded in either direction to support applications like conference calls, media playback, and voice commands.
  • the mobile device (e.g., which may also be referred to as a source device) using the techniques described herein is capable of broadcasting its content (whether it is an audio/video, pictures, data, screen display, or others) to multiple wireless displays (shall now be known as sink devices) at the same time. In this way, broadcasting of content from a source device to multiple sink devices at the same time may be supported.
  • a user may initiate the broadcast feature on the source device and select which sink devices to which the content is to be broadcast. The user may then select multiple sink devices within range of the source device. Once the links between the source device and the sink devices are established, the user can then choose the content on the source device to be broadcast. For instance, the user may select to broadcast the source device's screen content to the sink devices. In this case, if the user is playing an audio/video content on the source device, while it's content is also broadcast to the sink devices. Upon reception of the content, the sink devices may then display the content of the source device.
  • the links between the source device and sink devices may be bidirectional to allow the handling of packet errors, link controls, data transport, service establishments, and so forth.
  • This technique allows a user to share screen content of a device (whether it be pictures, audio/video, data, etc.) with multiple devices when the link between the devices are established. This allows other devices to display the shared content along side with the local content on the device.
  • the mobile device (shall now be known as source device) is capable of wirelessly screen sharing its content (whether it is an audio/video, pictures, data, screen display, or others) with other devices (shall now be known as sink devices) and vice versa.
  • This allows the sink device to view its local content and the shared content.
  • the shared content screen size can be adjusted on the sink device.
  • the devices are not limited to laptops, desktops, wireless display, tablets, slates, and mobile devices.
  • the source device may be defined as a device providing content to be shared.
  • the sink device may be defined as a device receiving the shared content.
  • multiple sink devices may be allowed but a single device is designated as a source.
  • the user initiates the screen sharing session on each of the devices.
  • One of the devices is specified as the source device, and the other devices are configured to be the sink devices.
  • the sink device Upon establishing the screen sharing session between the devices, the sink device can display the shared content on its screen.
  • the shared content screen size on the sink devices can be configured by the user to full screen (maximize size) or restored screen (adjustable size).
  • any one of the sink devices can become the source device by requesting role changes.
  • the devices Upon final negotiation of the role changes, the devices are reconfigured accordingly and the new content sharing begins.
  • the audio and video may be out of sync. This may be due to latency in the compression, transmission and decompression which varies depending on RF environment and video processing.
  • a mechanism may be employed to dynamically synchronize the A/V content.
  • an audio buffer and/or stream may be used that dynamically adjusts the play point and/or rate to account for the system latency to ensure the audio at the source is synchronized with the video at the remote end point.
  • the audio buffer control system may compare a test tone being received locally by that originating from the display.
  • the tone for instance, may be implemented as a relatively short burst outside the human acoustic range and/or imperceptible short duration.
  • the control system may then measure the latency and adjust the audio buffer play state and/or rate appropriately to align the A/V.
  • the source device may transmit a RF timing packet to the end point at the display.
  • the end point may then respond and the source devices may measure the RF delay.
  • the round trip time coupled with the known or estimated encode & decode latency may be summed together to provide the total system latency measure for packet latency.
  • a variety of other examples are also contemplated.
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