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US 2014/0210740 A1Published application
Portable apparatus having plurality of touch screens and sound output method thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorSang-hyup LEE
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Abstract
A portable apparatus having a plurality of touch screens and a plurality of speakers outputs sounds in the plurality of speakers according to an output mode of a plurality of output modes determined according to an input angle between the plurality of touch screens and attributes of a plurality of applications executed in the plurality of touch screens, and provides a user haptic feedback corresponding to the sound output.
Claims30
A method of outputting sound of a portable apparatus having a plurality of touch screens, the method comprising:
- detecting a first touch corresponding to a first shortcut and a second touch corresponding to a second shortcut among a plurality of shortcuts displayed in at least one of the plurality of touch screens;
- displaying a first application in a first touch screen and a second application in a second touch screen one by one in response to the first touch and the second touch;
- detecting an angle between a first housing including the first touch screen and a second housing including the second touch screen;
- determining one of a plurality of output modes based on the detected angle, an attribute of the first application, and an attribute of the second application;
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- outputting sounds through a plurality of speakers according to the determined output mode.
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A method of outputting sound of a portable apparatus having a plurality of touch screens and a plurality of speakers, the method comprising:
- detecting a first touch corresponding to a first shortcut and a second touch corresponding to a second shortcut among a plurality of shortcuts displayed in the any one of touch screens;
- displaying a first application and a second application in a first touch screen and a second touch screen one by one in response to the first touch and the second touch;
- detecting an angle between the first touch screen and the second touch screen in one flexible housing including the first touch screen and the second touch screen by using a sensor;
- determining an output mode based on the detected angle, an attribute of the executed first application, and an attribute of the second application, the attributes of the first and second applications including at least one of a name of the application and an extension of contents executed in the application;
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- outputting sounds through the plurality of speakers according to the determined output mode.
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A portable apparatus, comprising:
- a plurality of speakers;
- a first touch screen configured to display a plurality of shortcuts corresponding to a plurality of applications;
- a second touch screen;
- a sensor configured to detect an angle between the first touch screen and the second touch screen;
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- a controller configured to control the plurality of speakers, the first touch screen, the second touch screen, and the sensor, the controller controlling the apparatus to detect a first touch corresponding to a first shortcut and a second touch corresponding to a second shortcut in the first touch screen, and display a first application and a second application in the first touch screen and the second touch screen, respectively, in response to the first touch and the second touch, and controlling the apparatus to determine an output mode based on the detected angle, an attribute of the first application, and an attribute of the second application, and output sounds through the plurality of speakers according to the determined output mode.
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A method of outputting sound of a portable apparatus having a first touch screen and a second touch screen, the method comprising:
- detecting a first touch corresponding to a first shortcut displayed in the first touch screen in a first housing including a first speaker group and the first touch screen;
- executing a first application corresponding to the first shortcut and displaying the first application in a second touch screen of a second housing including a second speaker group and the second touch screen and separated from the first housing;
- detecting a second touch corresponding to a second shortcut in the first touch screen;
- executing a second application corresponding to the second shortcut and displaying the second application in the first touch screen;
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- outputting sounds in the second speaker group according to a first output mode of a plurality of output modes determined based on an attribute of the first application, and outputting sounds in the first speaker group according to a second output mode of the plurality of output modes determined based on an attribute of the second application.
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A portable apparatus, comprising:
- a first touch screen;
- a second touch screen;
- a sensor configured to detect a status of the portable apparatus;
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- a controller configured to control the first touch screen, the second touch screen, and the sensor, the controller controlling the first touch screen and the second touch screen to display a first application and a second application, respectively, and determine an output mode of the apparatus based on the detected status, the first application, and the second application.
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A method of operating a portable apparatus having a plurality of touch screens, the method comprising:
- displaying a first and a second application respectively in a first and a second touch screen;
- detecting a status of the portable apparatus;
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- determining an output mode of the portable apparatus based on the detected status and the first and second applications.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.