Method and apparatus for outputting virtual smoke image
AssigneeKt&G Corporation
InventorsMinseok Jeong, Jae Hyun Kim, Tae Young Chung
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Abstract
To output a virtual smoke image, an electronic device may install a communication driver and a virtual smoking program stored in a dongle connected to the electronic device from the dongle, execute the virtual smoking program, receive sensing information about a state of an aerosol generating device establishing a wireless communication channel with the dongle from the aerosol generating device through the dongle, generate a virtual smoke image based on the sensing information, and output the virtual smoke image through the display of the electronic device.
Claims11
A method of outputting a virtual smoke image, performed by an electronic device, the method comprising:
- installing a driver onto the electronic device from a dongle connected to the electronic device, the driver being configured to enable communications between the dongle and the electronic device;
- installing, from the same dongle that is connected to the electronic device, a virtual smoking program onto non-volatile memory of the electronic device, the virtual smoking program being configured to, when executed by a processor of the electronic device, cause the electronic device to generate a virtual smoke image based on sensing information received from an aerosol generating device, even if smoke is not visually observed, in reality, from expiration of a user of an aerosol generating device;
- establishing a wireless communication channel between the dongle and the aerosol generating device, wherein the dongle and the aerosol generating device are a pair;
- loading, based on a smoking start signal is being received from the aerosol generating device through the dongle, the virtual smoking program from non-volatile memory of the electronic device to Random Access Memory (RAM) of the electronic device, and executing the virtual smoking program from the RAM of the electronic device;
- receiving sensing information about a state of the aerosol generating device from the aerosol generating device through the dongle;
- generating a virtual smoke image based on the sensing information;
- and
- outputting the virtual smoke image through a display of the electronic device.
An electronic device for performing a method of outputting a virtual smoke image, the electronic device comprising:
- a display;
- memory storing instructions;
- and
- a processor,
- wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to perform:
- installing a driver onto the electronic device from a dongle connected to the electronic device, the driver being configured to enable communications between the dongle and the electronic device;
- installing, from the same dongle that is connected to the electronic device, a virtual smoking program onto non-volatile memory of the electronic device, the virtual smoking program being configured to, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to generate a virtual smoke image based on sensing information received from an aerosol generating device, even if smoke is not visually observed, in reality, from expiration of a user of an aerosol generating device;
- establishing a wireless communication channel between the dongle and the aerosol generating device, wherein the dongle and the aerosol generating device are a pair;
- loading, based on a smoking start signal being received from the aerosol generating device through the dongle, the virtual smoking program from the non-volatile memory of the electronic device to Random Access Memory (RAM) of the electronic device, and executing the virtual smoking program from the RAM of the electronic device;
- receiving sensing information about a state of the aerosol generating device from the aerosol generating device through the dongle;
- generating a virtual smoke image based on the sensing information;
- and
- outputting the virtual smoke image through the display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.