# US 10,482,845 B2 · Electronic apparatus and recording medium

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- Number: US 10,482,845 B2
- Document ID: US10482845B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/635,355
- Filed: 2017-06-28
- Published: 2018-03-01
- Granted: 2019-11-19
- Earliest claimed: 2016-08-23
- Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Yong-woo Lee; Chang-heon Yoon
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10482845B2

## CPC

- G09G 5/12: Synchronisation between the display unit and other units, e.g. other display units, video-disc players
- G06F 3/017: {Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures (interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883)}
- H04W 4/023: {using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds}
- H04W 4/029: Location-based management or tracking services
- H04W 4/08: User group management
- G06F 3/0482: Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
- G09G 2354/00: Aspects of interface with display user
- G09G 2370/025: LAN communication management
- G09G 2370/04: Exchange of auxiliary data, i.e. other than image data, between monitor and graphics controller
- G09G 2370/16: Use of wireless transmission of display information
- G09G: ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION (arrangements for transferring data between digital computers and displays G06F3/14; static indicating arrangements comprising an association of a number of separate sources or light control cells G09F9/00; static indicating arrangements comprising integral associations of a number of light sources H01J, H01K, H10H, H05B33/12; scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission, details thereof H04N1/00)
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72)

## Abstract

An electronic apparatus of the present disclosure includes: a communicator comprising communication circuitry configured to wirelessly communicate with one or more external apparatuses; a signal processor configured to process data; and a controller configured to control an external apparatus to be designated as a transmitter for transmitting data and the electronic apparatus to be designated as a receiver for receiving the data from the transmitter if it is determined that the external apparatus is within a preset distance of the electronic apparatus and the external apparatus is moving.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An electronic apparatus comprising:
a sensor configured to detect a movement of the electronic apparatus;
a communicator comprising communication circuitry configured to wirelessly communicate with one or more external apparatuses;
a signal processor configured to process data; and
a controller configured to:
detect one of the electronic apparatus and the external apparatus which move close to each other within a preset distance,
based on a first movement of the electronic apparatus moving close to the external apparatus, designate the communicator as a transmitter for transmitting data and designate the external apparatus as a receiver for receiving the data from the transmitter,
based on a second movement of the electronic apparatus detected by the sensor and the communicator being designated as the transmitter, control the communicator to transmit the data corresponding to the detected second movement to the external electronic apparatus as the receiver, and
based on a third movement of the external apparatus moving close to the electronic apparatus instead of the first movement of electronic apparatus, designate the external apparatus as a transmitter for transmitting data and designate the communicator as a receiver for receiving the data from the transmitter.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to determine that the external apparatus is within the preset distance of the electronic apparatus if intensity of a wireless signal received from the external apparatus through the communicator is greater than a preset threshold.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein
the controller is configured to determine which one of the electronic apparatus and the external apparatus is moving, based on at least one of: sensing information from the sensor and information about movement of the external apparatus received through the communicator.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to determine which one of the electronic apparatus and the external apparatus receives a motion gesture, based on at least one of sensing information from the sensor and information about the motion gesture of the external apparatus received through the communicator.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to determine an application capable of opening data received from the external apparatus designated as the transmitter, and to automatically open the received data with the determined application.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to determine whether there is information designating the communicator as the transmitter or the receiver, and to designate the communicator as the transmitter or the receiver based on the information regardless of movement of the electronic apparatus or the external apparatus if it is determined that there is designating information.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to control a display to display a user interface (UI) for allowing a user to select at least one of plural pieces of data to be acquirable by the electronic apparatus, and to control the communicator to send the external apparatus the data selected by an input to the UI.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The electronic apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising a storage, wherein
the data to be acquirable by the electronic apparatus comprises data stored in the storage, or data stored in another apparatus and receivable through the communicator.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to call for a selection history of the previously stored pieces of data, and to control the communicator to send the external apparatus a piece of data corresponding to the called selection history from among previously stored pieces of data.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
a storage configured to store information in which a group of data is designated corresponding to a user's motion, wherein
the controller is configured to control the sensor to sense a motion of the user, and to control the communicator to transmit the group of data designated in the information to the external apparatus based on the sensed motion of the user.

### Claim 11

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored thereon program code which, when executed by a processor of an electronic apparatus, causes the electronic apparatus to perform at least one operation comprising:
detecting one of an external apparatus and the electronic apparatus which move close to each other within a preset distance;
based on a first movement of the electronic apparatus moving close to the external apparatus, designating the electronic apparatus as a transmitter for transmitting data and the external apparatus as a receiver for receiving the data from the transmitter;
based on a second movement of the electronic apparatus detected by the sensor and the electronic apparatus being designated as the transmitter, transmitting the data corresponding to the detected second movement to the external electronic apparatus as the receiver; and
based on a third movement of the external apparatus moving close to the electronic apparatus instead of the first movement of electronic apparatus, designating the external apparatus as a transmitter for transmitting data and designating the communicator as a receiver for receiving the data from the transmitter.

### Claim 12 (depends on 11)

The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 11, wherein the detecting comprises determining that the external apparatus is within the preset distance of the electronic apparatus if an intensity of a wireless signal received from the external apparatus through communication circuitry of the electronic device is higher than a preset threshold.

### Claim 13 (depends on 11)

The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 11, wherein the determining comprises determining which one of the electronic apparatus and the external apparatus is moving, based on at least one of: sensing information from a sensor of the electronic apparatus for sensing movement of the electronic apparatus and information about movement of the external apparatus received from the external apparatus.

### Claim 14 (depends on 11)

The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 11, wherein the at least one operation further comprises determining which one of the electronic apparatus and the external apparatus receives a motion gesture, based on at least one of: sensing information from a sensor of the electronic apparatus for sensing the motion gesture of the electronic apparatus and information about the motion gesture of the external apparatus received from the external apparatus.

### Claim 15 (depends on 11)

The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 11, wherein the at least one operation further comprises:
determining an application capable of opening data received from the external apparatus designated as the transmitter; and
automatically opening the received data with the determined application.