Home appliance and server for providing interactive multimedia contents
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsMyong Sun KIM, Jihyun LEE
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a home appliance and a server for providing interactive multimedia content, and the home appliance for providing interactive multimedia content according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a communication unit which communicates with a server or a user device; a display unit which visually outputs multimedia content; and a control unit which controls the display unit to output the multimedia content according to an operation of the home appliance, wherein the multimedia content is upgraded by the server or the control unit.
Claims16
A home appliance for providing interactive multimedia contents, the home appliance comprising:
- a communication unit configured to communicate with a server or a user device;
- a display unit configured to visually output multimedia contents;
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- a controller configured to control the display unit to output the multimedia contents in response to an operation of the home appliance,
- wherein the controller collects real-time home appliance data and life fingerprint small data and upgrades the multimedia contents depending on the user's usage pattern of the home appliance,
- wherein the multimedia contents is upgraded by the server or the controller,
- wherein the controller changes the number of functions that the upgraded multimedia contents provide, and
- wherein the server transmits the multimedia contents to new home appliance which replacing the home appliance.
A server for providing interactive multimedia contents, the server comprising:
- a server communication unit configured to receive data collected by first home appliance during an operation of the first home appliance from the first home appliance;
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- a server controller configured to upgrade multimedia contents to be output from the first home appliance, using the collected data,
- wherein the server communication unit is configured to transmit the upgraded multimedia contents to the first home appliance and a user device which linked to the first home appliance,
- wherein the server controller upgrades the multimedia contents depending on the user's usage pattern of the first home appliance and changes the number of functions that the upgraded multimedia contents provide, and
- wherein the server communication unit transmits the multimedia contents to second home appliance which replacing the first home appliance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.