Method and apparatus for automatically switching channels
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsPrasiddha Narayan SINGH, Aditi GARG, Prithveesh GOEL
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for automatically switching channels are provided. The method includes detecting an advertisement from content of a current channel that is displayed on a screen of a display apparatus; scanning at least one channel of a predetermined channel list to detect an advertisement-free channel, in response to the advertisement being detected on the current channel; and switching the current channel to the detected advertisement-free channel.
Claims23
A method of automatically switching channels, the method comprising:
- detecting an advertisement from content of a current channel that is displayed on a screen of a display apparatus;
- scanning at least one channel of a predetermined channel list to detect an advertisement-free channel, in response to the advertisement being detected on the current channel;
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- switching the current channel to the detected advertisement-free channel.
An apparatus for automatically switching channels, the apparatus comprising:
- a channel list manager configured to store a channel list;
- a user interface (UI) controller configured to display the stored channel list;
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- a channel switching processor configured to, in response to detection of an advertisement on a current channel, scan at least one channel on the channel list to detect an advertisement-free channel, and then switch the current channel to the advertisement-free channel.
A display apparatus comprising:
- a display configured to display content of a current channel and a channel list;
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- a channel switching controller configured to, in response to an advertisement being detected on the content of the current channel, scan at least one channel in the channel list to detect an advertisement-free channel, and then switch the current channel to the advertisement-free channel.
A method of switching channels in a display apparatus, the method comprising:
- receiving content of a selected channel, and displaying the received content in a first window on a screen of the display apparatus;
- detecting an advertisement in the received content of the selected channel;
- activating a second window on a screen of the display apparatus and displaying at least one channel list in the second window in response to an advertisement being detected in the received contents;
- detecting an advertisement-free channel in the at least one channel list, and
- switching from the selected channel to the advertisement-free channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.