US 12,407,781 B2
Conference device having a configurable control button
Didier Rosez, Dadizele (BE); and Bert Vangheluwe, Rumbeke (BE)
Assigned to TELEVIC CONFERENCE, Izegem (BE)
Appl. No. 17/782,358
Filed by TELEVIC CONFERENCE, Izegem (BE)
PCT Filed Nov. 30, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/083881
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 3, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/110583, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 10, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019/5875 (BE), filed on Dec. 6, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0007125 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. H04M 3/56 (2006.01)
CPC H04M 3/563 (2013.01) [H04M 2250/62 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A conference device comprising:
a physical control button having multiple underlying pressure zones,
wherein multiple pictograms are provided on said control button, and
wherein at the position of each of the pressure zones, one or more pictograms are provided on said control button;
a configuration unit adapted to visualize a number of active functions on and/or around said control button based on a chosen usage application,
wherein said number of active functions is at most equal to the number of said underlying pressure zones,
wherein visualizing said number of active functions comprises lighting up a respective selection of said pictograms, and
wherein said configuration unit is adapted to light up one or none of the pictograms at the position of said pressure zone based on said chosen usage application;
a control unit adapted to control one or more components on the conference device,
wherein pressing the control button at the position of one of the pressure zones results in a control which depends on the chosen usage application, and
wherein, in case none of the pictograms lights up at the position of said one of said pressure zones, said control resulting from pressing said one of said pressure zones is the same as the control resulting from pressing an adjacent pressure zone.