Method and apparatus for controlling volume in an electronic machine
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorSung Hwan Park
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Abstract
A method and an apparatus for controlling/adjusting volume, which can set multiple volume modes having different volume intervals and control volume by a volume interval of a corresponding volume mode according to a given circumstance in an electronic device having a volume change function. The method includes detecting a volume change event; when the volume change event is a volume mode change, changing a current volume mode to a volume mode corresponding to the volume change event; and when the volume change event is a volume value change, controlling volume up/down in response to the volume change event.
Claims20
A method for adjusting sound volume in an electronic device, the method comprising:
- storing a plurality of profiles in which a volume control value is set according to each of a respective plurality of volume modes;
- selecting one among the plurality of profiles, each profile having a different volume control value throughout the same entire range from a low volume value to a high volume value of the electronic device, the selecting being performed responsive to one of:
- i) detecting that a current time is a specific time;
- and ii) detecting that a current location of the electronic device is at a predetermined location;
- setting the volume control value of the specific volume mode corresponding to the selected profile;
- and
- changing volume in accordance with a detected volume change input at a volume interval value corresponding to the specific volume mode.
An electronic device comprising:
- an audio processor to output sound through a speaker;
- an input unit to receive user inputs;
- a storage;
- a display unit;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- i) store a plurality of profiles in which a sound volume control value is set according to each of a respective plurality of volume modes to the storage;
- ii) select one among the plurality of profiles, each profile having a different volume control value throughout the same entire range from a low volume value to a high volume value of the electronic device;
- iii) set the volume control value of the specific volume mode corresponding to the selected profile via the input unit;
- and iv) control a change in volume through the audio processor and speaker in accordance with a detected volume change input at a volume interval value corresponding to the specific volume mode;
- wherein the one profile is selected by the controller responsive to one of:
- 1) detecting that a current time is a specific time;
- and 2) detecting that a current location of the electronic device is at a predetermined location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.