US 11,601,705 B2 · Electronic apparatus and controlling method thereof

Abstract

An electronic apparatus includes a communication interface; a memory storing a control code information of a content providing apparatus; and at least one processor configured to: based on repeatedly receiving, from a remote controller, a control signal for changing a volume value of the electronic apparatus more than a threshold number of times through the communication interface, obtain state information of the content providing apparatus, identify a current volume value of the content providing apparatus or a state of the content providing apparatus, based on the state information, and based on the current volume value of the content providing apparatus being less than or equal to a threshold value or the content providing apparatus being in a mute state, control the communication interface to transmit a control signal to change the volume value of the content providing apparatus to the remote controller based on the stored control code information.

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Dependent claims

An electronic apparatus comprising:

a communication interface comprising circuitry;
a memory storing a control code information of a content providing apparatus;
and
at least one processor configured to:
based on repeatedly receiving, from a remote controller of the electronic apparatus, a control signal for changing a volume value of the electronic apparatus more than a threshold number of times through the communication interface, obtain state information of the content providing apparatus;
identify a current volume value of the content providing apparatus or a state of the content providing apparatus, based on the state information;
and
based on the current volume value of the content providing apparatus being less than or equal to a threshold value or the content providing apparatus being in a mute state, control the communication interface to transmit a control signal to increase the volume value of the content providing apparatus to the remote controller of the electronic apparatus based on the control code information that is stored in the memory.

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A method for controlling an electronic apparatus having stored therein control code information of a content providing apparatus, the method comprising:

based on repeatedly receiving, from a remote controller of the electronic apparatus, a control signal to change a volume value of the electronic apparatus a threshold number of times or more, obtaining state information of the content providing apparatus;
identifying that a current volume value of the content providing apparatus is less than or equal to a threshold value or the content providing apparatus is in a mute state, based on the state information;
and
based on the identifying that the current volume value being less than or equal to the threshold value or the content providing apparatus being in the mute state, transmitting a control signal to increase the volume value of the content providing apparatus to the remote controller of the electronic apparatus based on the control code information that is stored.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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