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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2016
Roku, Inc.;
Gregory S. Gates, Saratoga, CA (US);
Harold Sun, Tigard, OR (US);
Michael Chin-Ming Fu, Cupertino, CA (US);
ROKU, INC., Los Gatos, CA (US);
Abstract
System, method, and computer product embodiments for efficiently casting interactively-controlled visual content displayed on a first display screen to a second display screen. In an embodiment, the computing device sends the visual content displayed on the first display screen to a multimedia device for displaying on the second display screen. Upon receipt of an instruction that visually manipulates how the visual content is displayed on the first display screen, the computing device generates a command representative of the received instruction. The command may specify a positional relationship between the center of the first display screen and the visual content displayed on the first display screen. Then, the computing devices sends the command to the multimedia device that causes the second display screen to display the visual content according to the positional relationship.