US 11,455,139 B2Granted

Electronic device and method for independently controlling a plurality of displays

AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

InventorsByoungho Jung, Chihyun Cho, Hyewon Koo, Yongjin Kwon, Byungseok Jung

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Abstract

An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a display, a wireless communication circuit, and electrical connector and a processor. The processor implements the method, including: detecting whether the electronic device is communicatively connected to an external display device through a wireless communication circuit or an electrical connector, when the electronic device is communicatively disconnected from the external display device, displaying, on the display, a first user interface for configuring a first screen timeout time associated with the display, when the electronic device is communicatively connected to the external display device, displaying a first screen on the display, and displaying a second screen on the external display device, the second screen different from the first screen, and displaying, on the external display device, a second user interface for configuring a second screen timeout time related to the external display device.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A portable communication device comprising:

a touchscreen display;
a communication circuit configured to establish a communication connection with an external display device;
memory to store a first screen-timeout period of time and a second screen-timeout period of time longer than the first screen-timeout period of time;
and
a processor operatively coupled with the communication circuit, the processor configured to:
based at least in part on a determination that the communication connection is established between the portable communication device and the external display device using the communication circuit, display a first graphical user interface (GUI) via the touchscreen display, and provide a second GUI to the external display device using the communication circuit such that the second GUI is displayed via the external display device while the first GUI is displayed via the touchscreen display;
deactivate the touchscreen display based at least in part on an elapse of the first screen-timeout period of time, while the second GUI is provided to and displayed via the external display device;
and
after the touchscreen display is deactivated, deactivate the external display device based at least in part on an elapse of the second screen-timeout period of time.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/374,038Filed 13 Jul 2021 · continuation
Priority: KR 10-2018-008877330 Jul 2018
Published: US 2021/0342110 A14 Nov 2021
Granted: 27 Sep 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G06F 1/3265
Power saving in peripheral device: power saving in display device
G06F 3/1423
Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units: controlling a plurality of…
G06F 3/04847
For the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a…:…
G09G 5/14
Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators: display of multiple…

Family

Application16/508,430Parent of this continuation · filed 11 Jul 2019
US 2021/0342110 A1Pre-grant publication · published 4 Nov 2021
US 11,093,199 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2020/0034099 A1Published application
US 11,455,139 B2This patent

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