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US 8,942,984 B2Granted
Method and system for controlling external output of a mobile device
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsHee Woon Kim, Si Hak Jang
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Abstract
A method and system is provided that controls an external output function of a mobile device according to control interactions received via the microphone. The method includes, activating a microphone according to preset optional information when the mobile device enters an external output mode, performing an external output operation in the external output mode, detecting an interaction based on sound information in the external output mode, and controlling the external output according to the interaction.
Claims10
A method for controlling an external output of a mobile device, the method comprising:
- activating a microphone according to preset optional information when the mobile device enters an external output mode;
- performing an external output operation in the external output mode;
- activating an interaction receiving mode when detecting an audio signal corresponding to a preset keyword information, the audio signal being input to the microphone;
- detecting, in the interaction receiving mode, an interaction input to the microphone to extract an input signal from the detected interaction;
- identifying a type of the detected interaction based on the input signal;
- performing a conversion for the input signal corresponding to the type of the detected interaction;
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- controlling the external output according to a converted input signal.
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