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US 10,503,776 B2Granted
Image display apparatus and information providing method thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsIn-jee Song, Seung-min Shin, Yong-hoon Lee
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Abstract
An image display apparatus includes a display displaying contents, a communicator communicating with a server, and a processor controlling the communicator to receive additional information for the displayed contents and an information providing rule from the server and providing target information corresponding to a context among the received additional information when the context corresponding to the information providing rule is generated while the contents are displayed on the display.
Claims17
An image display apparatus, comprising:
- a display;
- a communicator;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- control the display to display a content,
- control the communicator to transmit information corresponding to the displayed content to a server,
- receive additional information corresponding to the displayed content and an information providing rule from the server via the communicator, the information providing rule being a rule for providing additional information corresponding to a context related to the displayed content,
- identify whether the context related to the displayed content is a first context related to the displayed content, a second context related to the displayed content, or a combination context related to a combination of the first context and the second context related to the displayed content based on an amount of time when a part of the content corresponding to the combination context is displayed, and
- provide additional information corresponding to the identified context from among the received additional information,
- wherein the additional information corresponding to the combination context is different from a combination of additional information corresponding to the first context and additional information corresponding to the second context, and
- wherein the processor is further configured to:
- based on the amount of time being greater than or equal to a predetermined amount of time, provide the additional information corresponding to the combination context from among the received additional information, and
- based on the amount of time being less than the predetermined amount of time, provide the additional information corresponding to the first context and the additional information corresponding to the second context from among the received additional information.
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An information providing method of an image display apparatus, comprising:
- displaying a content;
- transmitting information corresponding to the displayed content to a server;
- receiving additional information corresponding to the displayed content and an information providing rule from the server, the information providing rule being a rule for providing additional information corresponding to a context related to the displayed content;
- identifying whether the context related to the displayed content is a first context related to the displayed content, a second context related to the displayed content, or a combination context related to a combination of the first context and the second context related to the displayed content based on an amount of time when a part of the content corresponding to the combination context is displayed;
- and
- providing additional information corresponding to the identified context from among the received additional information,
- wherein the additional information corresponding to the combination context is different from a combination of additional information corresponding to the first context and additional information corresponding to the second context, and
- wherein the providing further comprises:
- based on the amount of time being greater than or equal to a predetermined amount of time, providing the additional information corresponding to the combination context from among the received additional information;
- and
- based on the amount of time being less than the predetermined amount of time, providing the additional information corresponding to the first context and the additional information corresponding to the second context from among the received additional information.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.