PRESENTATION ON A STATIONARY DEVICE OF INFORMATION TRANSMITTED FROM A PORTABLE DEVICE

摘要

This invention provides a system, apparatus and method that uses an amount of time that a portable device (401) is "associated" with a stationary display (102) as an indicator of how prominently and at what screen location a window (101) presenting a content (302) transferred from the portable device 401 should be presented by the stationary display (102). Preferably this prominence is reflected by the size of the content window 101, which can gradually grow from a small picture - in-picture (PIP) (101) to a full-screen as long as the association takes place, i.e., it is maintained by a viewer. The association of the portable device 401 is an ad-hoc link and can be made in various ways, for instance, by touchlinking or by keeping a connect button pressed on the portable device 401 while pointing the portable device at the stationary display (102) or by using RFID tags and readers, Near-field communication (NFC) technology, and InfraRed communication with a limited range. Further, in an alternative embodiment, audio can be presented by a stationary device using the same "touch" approach to establish an ad-hoc link between a portable device (e.g., portable MP3 player) and a stationary audio reproduction system.