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US 10,761,715 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for sharing contents
AssigneesPixtree Technologies, Inc., SK Telecom Co., Ltd.
InventorsJae Seob Shin, Yeon Bae Kim, Se Hoon Son, Mun Sup Song, Hun Chan Yu
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Abstract
An apparatus for sharing contents includes: a touch screen to sense a user's touch input for one or more contents; a processor to detect the user's touch input, and generate a transmission image according to instructions corresponding to the detected user's touch input to share the one or more contents with an external device; and a communication unit to establish connection with the external device, and transmit the transmission image to the external device.
Claims11
An apparatus for sharing contents, comprising:
- a touch screen configured to sense a user input with respect to a graphical user interface for one or more of displaying or sharing contents wherein the graphical user interface is partitioned into (i) a main area for displaying one or more the contents and (ii) a device list area comprising a plurality of icons corresponding to external devices with which the apparatus is configured to be connected to share at least one of the contents;
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- a processor, including one or more application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), configured to
- detect a first touch input received by the touch screen and generate a first electrical signal based on the first touch input,
- generate, in response to the first electrical signal, a first transmission image of a first content of the contents when the first touch input is detected and the first electrical signal indicates instructions for dragging the first content and dropping the first content onto a first external device among the external devices indicated in the device list area,
- connect the apparatus to the first external device to share the first content so that the first content is displayed on the first external device based on the first touch input,
- insert a control interface in the first transmission image,
- transmit the control interface to the first external device,
- control playback of the first content according to input information manipulating the control interface when the input information is received from the first external device,
- detect a second touch input received by the touch screen and generate a second electrical signal based on the second touch input,
- generate, in response to the second electrical signal, a second transmission image of a second content of the contents when the second touch input is detected and the second electrical signal indicates instructions for dragging the second content and dropping the second content onto a second external device among the external devices indicated in the device list area,
- connect the apparatus to the second external device to share the second content so that the second content is displayed on the second external device based on the second touch input, and
- release a connection with the first external device based on (1) a determination that the apparatus is connected with the first external device when the second touch input is detected, and (2) a determination that the apparatus is pre-set to prevent the apparatus from being simultaneously connected with the first external device and the second external device.
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A method performed by an apparatus for sharing contents, the apparatus including one or more application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) to execute the method comprising:
- displaying (i) a main area for displaying one or more the contents and (ii) a device list area comprising a plurality of icons corresponding to external devices with which the apparatus is configured to be connected to share at least one of the contents;
- detecting a first touch input received by a touch screen of the apparatus and generating a first electrical signal based on the first touch input;
- generating, in response to the first electrical signal, a first transmission image of a first content of the contents when the first touch input is detected and the first electrical signal indicates instructions for dragging the first content and dropping the first content onto a first external device among the external devices indicated in the device list area;
- connecting the apparatus to the first external device to share the first content so that the first content is displayed on the first external device based on the first touch input,
- inserting a control interface in the first transmission image;
- transmitting the control interface to the first external device;
- controlling playback of the first content according to input information manipulating the control interface when the input information is received from the first external device;
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- detecting a second touch input received by the touch screen and generating a second electrical signal based on the second touch input;
- generating, in response to the second electrical signal, a second transmission image of a second content of the contents when the second touch input is detected and the second electrical signal indicates instructions for dragging the second content and dropping the second content onto a second external device among the external devices indicated in the device list area;
- connecting the apparatus to the second external device to share the second content so that the second content is displayed on the second external device based on the second touch input;
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- releasing a connection with the first external device based on (1) a determination that the apparatus is connected with the first external device when the second touch input is detected, and (2) a determination that the apparatus is pre-set to prevent the apparatus from being simultaneously connected with the first external device and the second external device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.