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US 8,266,341 B2Granted
Display apparatus, control method thereof and control method of external device
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsSeung-hyuk Choi, Seung-seop Shim, Moon-seok Han
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Abstract
A display apparatus, a control method thereof and a control method of an external device are provided. The display apparatus includes a contents processing unit which reproduces contents, a communication unit which communicates with an external device which reproduces contents, and a control unit which receives reproduction information of the contents reproduced in the external device from the external device through the communication unit, and controls the contents processing unit to reproduce contents corresponding to the contents reproduced in the external device, based on the received reproduction information.
Claims31
A display apparatus comprising:
- a communication unit which receives contents and reproduction information from a mobile device external to the display apparatus, wherein the reproduction information identifies contents which were previously displayed on the mobile device;
- a contents processing unit which reproduces the contents from the mobile device and displays the contents on a display unit of the display apparatus;
- and
- a control unit which receives the reproduction information from the communication unit and controls the contents processing unit to reproduce the contents which were previously displayed on the mobile device on the display apparatus,
- wherein the control unit controls the contents processing unit based on the reproduction information to reproduce the contents continuously from a last position that the contents were displayed on the mobile device,
- wherein the reproduction information comprises first position information for reproducing the contents reproduced in the mobile device, and
- wherein the control unit generates second position information for reproducing the contents processed in the contents processing unit and sends the second position information to the mobile device for the contents to be reproduced on the mobile device from a position which corresponds to the second position information.
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A display apparatus comprising:
- a communication unit which receives contents and reproduction information from a mobile device external to the display apparatus, wherein the reproduction information identifies contents which were previously displayed on the mobile device;
- a contents processing unit which reproduces the contents from the mobile device and displays the contents on a display unit of the display apparatus;
- and
- a control unit which receives the reproduction information from the communication unit and controls the contents processing unit to reproduce the contents which were previously displayed on the mobile device on the display apparatus,
- wherein the control unit controls the contents processing unit based on the reproduction information to reproduce the contents continuously from a last position that the contents were displayed on the mobile device,
- wherein the communication unit communicates with the mobile device by wireless transmission and the control unit receives the reproduction information selectively from the mobile device which enters in a communication area of the communication unit,
- wherein the display apparatus further comprises:
- a user input unit through which a user selects whether to reproduce the contents on the display apparatus which were previously displayed on the mobile device, and
- wherein the control unit controls the contents processing unit to reproduce the contents when the mobile device enters in the communication area if it is selected to reproduce the contents via the user input unit in advance, and the control unit does not control the contents processing unit to reproduce the contents when the mobile device enters in the communication area if it is selected not to reproduce the contents via the user input unit in advance.
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A control method of a display apparatus comprising:
- receiving reproduction information from a mobile device external to the display apparatus, wherein the reproduction information identifies contents which were previously displayed on the mobile device;
- and
- reproducing the contents on the display apparatus which were previously displayed on the mobile device, based on the received reproduction information,
- wherein the reproduction information comprises first position information for reproducing the contents reproduced in the mobile device, and
- wherein the reproducing contents comprises:
- generating second position information for reproducing the contents reproduced in the display apparatus;
- and
- sending the second position information to the mobile device for the contents to be reproduced on the mobile device from a position which corresponds to the second position information.
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A control method of a display apparatus comprising:
- receiving reproduction information from a mobile device external to the display apparatus, wherein the reproduction information identifies contents which were previously displayed on the mobile device;
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- reproducing the contents on the display apparatus which were previously displayed on the mobile device, based on the received reproduction information,
- wherein the receiving reproduction information comprises receiving the reproduction information selectively from the mobile device which enters in a wireless communication area of the display, and
- wherein the control method further comprises selecting whether to reproduce the contents on the display apparatus which were previously displayed on the mobile device before the receiving the reproduction information, and
- wherein the receiving reproduction information comprises reproducing the contents when the mobile device enters in the communication area if reproducing the contents is selected in the selecting whether to reproduce the contents;
- and not reproducing the contents when the mobile device enters in the communication area if not reproducing the contents is selected in the selecting whether to reproduce the contents.
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A control method of a mobile device which communicates with a display apparatus comprising:
- displaying contents on the mobile device;
- generating reproduction information of the contents displayed on the mobile device which identifies the contents which were displayed on the mobile device;
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- sending the contents and the reproduction information from the mobile device to the display apparatus for reproducing the contents which were displayed on the mobile device on the display apparatus,
- wherein the control method further comprises processing by the display apparatus the contents received from the mobile device, the processing comprises adjusting the contents displayed by the mobile device to the display by the display apparatus,
- wherein the processing comprises selecting a decoder from a plurality of the decoders, which decodes a format corresponding to the format of the contents displayed by the mobile device, and
- wherein the decoder is further selected based on whether the decoder provides an improved image quality.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.