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US 11,240,559 B2Granted
Content reproducing apparatus and content reproducing method
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsSungjun Hwang, Jiyeon Ma, Youngah Lee, David McGeorge, Jonathan Reza Burrow, Zanya Damaris Fahy
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Abstract
A content reproducing apparatus is provided. The content reproducing apparatus includes: a communicator configured to periodically transmit and receive a connection signal with a terminal; a content outputter configured to output content; a memory configured to store one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory to control the content outputter to adjust the output of the content, based on a distance to the terminal being greater than a certain distance, the distance being obtained based on the connection signal.
Claims15
A content reproducing apparatus comprising:
- a communicator comprising communication circuitry configured to periodically wirelessly transmit and receive a connection signal with a mobile terminal;
- a content outputter comprising output circuitry configured to output content, the content outputter comprising a display configured to output an image included in the content and an audio outputter comprising audio output circuitry configured to output audio included in the content;
- a memory configured to store one or more instructions;
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- a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory:
- to obtain a distance to the terminal from the content reproducing apparatus based on the connection signal with the terminal,
- to identify whether the distance is greater than a certain distance or less than the certain distance,
- in response to that the identified distance is greater than a certain distance, to control the content outputter to adjust the output of the content based on a distance to the terminal from the content reproducing apparatus so that a still image is output by the display by pausing the output of the image or the audio with increased volume is output by the audio outputter,
- in response to that the identified distance to the terminal from the content reproducing apparatus is less than the certain distance within a reference time after the distance to the terminal from the content reproducing apparatus is greater than the certain distance, to control the content outputter to output the content as before the output of the content is adjusted, and
- in response to that the identified distance to the terminal from the content reproducing apparatus is not less than the certain distance within the reference time after the distance to the terminal from the content reproducing apparatus is greater than the certain distance, to control the output of the still image or the output with the increased volume is terminated completely by turning off the content reproducing apparatus.
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A content reproducing method performed by a content reproducing apparatus, the method comprising:
- periodically wirelessly transmitting and receiving a connection signal with a terminal;
- outputting content;
- obtaining a distance to the terminal from the content reproducing apparatus based on the connection signal with the terminal;
- identifying whether a distance to the terminal from the content reproducing apparatus is greater than a certain distance or less than the certain distance, based on the connection signal with the terminal;
- adjusting output of the content based on the distance to the terminal from the content reproducing apparatus being greater than the certain distance,
- wherein the content comprises an image and audio, and the adjusting of the output of the content comprises pausing output of the image so as a still image is output or increasing volume of the audio;
- identifying whether the distance to the terminal from the content reproducing apparatus is less than the certain distance within a reference time after the distance to the terminal from the content reproducing apparatus is greater than the certain distance;
- outputting the content as before the output of the content is adjusted based on the distance to the terminal from the content reproducing apparatus being less than the certain distance within the reference time;
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- controlling the output of the still image or the output with the increased audio volume is terminated completely by turning off the content reproducing apparatus based on the distance to the terminal from the content reproducing apparatus being not less than the certain distance within the reference time.
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A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for performing a content reproducing method by a content reproducing apparatus, the content reproducing method comprising:
- periodically wirelessly transmitting and receiving a connection signal with a terminal;
- outputting content;
- obtaining a distance to the terminal from the content reproducing apparatus based on the connection signal with the terminal;
- identifying whether a distance to the terminal from the content reproducing apparatus is greater than a certain distance or less than the certain distance, based on the connection signal with the terminal;
- adjusting output of the content based on the distance to the terminal from the content reproducing apparatus being greater than the certain distance,
- wherein the content comprises an image and audio, and the adjusting of the output of the content comprises pausing output of the image so as a still image is output or increasing volume of the audio;
- identifying whether the distance to the terminal from the content reproducing apparatus is less than the certain distance within a reference time after the distance to the terminal from the content reproducing apparatus is greater than the certain distance;
- outputting the content as before the output of the content is adjusted based on the distance to the terminal from the content reproducing apparatus being less than the certain distance within the reference time;
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- controlling the output of the still image or the output with the increased audio volume is terminated completely by turning off the content reproducing apparatus based on the distance to the terminal from the content reproducing apparatus being not less than the certain distance within the reference time.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.