Method for controlling and electronic device thereof

• US 10,178,503 B2
• Filed: 12/02/2015
• Issued: 01/08/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Kwan-Ho, Yun, Yong-Sang
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, David Q
• Application Number:
  US15/532,410
• Publication Number:
  US 20170366937A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,133 Days
• Field of Search: 455 6711, 4554563, 345 23, 345173
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

A method for controlling and an electronic device processing the method are provided. The electronic device includes a communication module configured to establish a communication link with a second electronic device, and a control module configured to perform a sharing operation based on at least one of a setting state of an execution screen of the electronic device and the communication module sensing the proximity of the second electronic device, in response to the searching of the second electronic device.

Claims

1. A first electronic device comprising:

a display including a plurality of regions;

a plurality of communication modules respectively disposed under the plurality of regions; and

at least one processor configured to;

display, within an entire area of the display that includes the plurality of regions, a first content,

detect that a second electronic device is tagging a first region from among the plurality of regions by using a first communication module disposed under the first region from among the plurality of regions,

in response to detecting of the tagging,

receive, from the second electronic device, a second content being displayed on the second electronic device, by using the first communication module, and

display, within the first region, the second content superimposed on the first content which is displayed on the display of the electronic device.

2. The first electronic device of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

receive, from the second electronic device, a signal via the plurality of communication modules,

acquire a plurality of signal values corresponding to each of the plurality of communication modules,

identify the first communication module having a greatest signal value among the plurality of signal values,

wherein each of the plurality of signal values indicates a receive strength for the signal at each of the plurality of communication modules.

3. The first electronic device of claim 1, wherein the second content is displayed in a form of pop-up display.

4. The first electronic device of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is configured to:

determine whether a second region included in the plurality of regions is predefined as a main region,

if the second region is predefined as the main region, display the second content on the second region, and

if the second region is not predefined as the main region, display the second content on the first region corresponding to the first communication module which is used to detect the second electronic device.

5. The first electronic device of claim 4, wherein the main region is displayed with a highlighted outline.

6. The first electronic device of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is configured to detect the second electronic device which approaches the first electronic device in at least one of up, down, left, right, front, and rear directions of the first electronic device, and

wherein the first communication module is a communication module which is closest to the second electronic device from among the plurality of communication modules.

7. The first electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first communication module detects the second electronic device based on at least one of bluetooth low energy (BLE), bluetooth, and near field communication (NFC), and

wherein a second communication module from among the plurality of communication modules is based on wireless fidelity (WiFi) for receiving the information regarding the second content.

8. An operation method of a first electronic device, the method comprising the operations of:

displaying, within an entire area of a display of the first electronic device, a first content, wherein the display includes a plurality of regions, and wherein a plurality of communication modules are respectively disposed under the plurality of regions;

detecting that a second electronic device is tagging a first region from among the plurality of regions by using a first communication module disposed under the first region from among the plurality of regions;

in response to detecting of the tagging, receiving, from the second electronic device, a second content being displayed on the second electronic device, by using the first communication module; and

displaying, on the first region, the second content superimposed on the first content which is displayed on the display of the first electronic device.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

receiving, from the second electronic device, a signal via the plurality of communication modules;

acquiring a plurality of signal values corresponding to each of the plurality of communication modules; and

identifying the first communication module having a greatest signal value among the plurality of signal values,

wherein each of the plurality of signal values indicates a receive strength for the signal at each of the plurality of communication modules.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the second content is displayed in a form of pop-up display.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

determining whether a second region included in the plurality of regions is predefined as a main region;

displaying the second content on the second region if the second region is predefined as the main region; and

displaying the second content on the first region corresponding to the first communication module which is used to detect the second electronic device, if the second region is not predefined as the main region.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the main region is displayed with a highlighted outline.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising detecting the second electronic device which approaches the first electronic device in at least one of up, down, left, right, front, and rear directions of the first electronic device,

wherein the first communication module is a communication module which is closest to the second electronic device from among the plurality of communication modules.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the first communication module detects the second electronic device based on at least one of bluetooth low energy (BLE), bluetooth, and near field communication (NFC), and

wherein a second communication module from among the plurality of communication modules is based on wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) for receiving the information regarding the second content.

15. A first electronic device comprising:

a display including a plurality of regions;

a plurality of communication modules respectively disposed under the plurality of regions; and

at least one processor configured to;

display a first content within a first region from among the plurality of regions, and a second content within a second region from among the plurality of regions,

detect that a second electronic device is tagged to the first electronic device by using a first communication module disposed under the first region from among the plurality of regions, and

in response to detecting of the second electronic device, transmit, to the second electronic device, information regarding the first content which is displayed on the first region.

16. The first electronic device of claim 15, wherein the first content which is transmitted to the second electronic device, is displayed on a display of the second electronic device, based on the information by the second electronic device, and

wherein the first communication module is a communication module which is closest to the second electronic device from among the plurality of communication modules.

17. The first electronic device of claim 15, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

determine whether a main region is predefined as one of the first region or the second region,

transmit, to the second electronic device, the first content according to detecting of the second electronic device, if the first region is predefined as the main region, and

transmit, to the second electronic device, the second content according to detecting of the second electronic device, if the second region is predefined as the main region.

18. The first electronic device of claim 17, wherein the main region is displayed with a highlighted outline.

19. The first electronic device of claim 15, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

receive, from the second electronic device, a signal via the plurality of communication modules,

acquire each of a plurality of signal values corresponding to each of the plurality of communication modules, and

identify the first communication module having a greatest signal value among the plurality of signal values,

wherein each of the plurality of signal values indicates a receive strength for the signal at each of the plurality of communication modules.