Method for displaying content and electronic device therefor

• US 10,209,779 B2
• Filed: 02/17/2015
• Issued: 02/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Roh, Byoung-Tack, Cheong, Cheol-Ho, Kim, Yang-Su, Son, Dong-Il, Yeo, Jae-Yung
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Richard
• Application Number:
  US15/120,587
• Publication Number:
  US 20170010677A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,463 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/01 Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer G06F3/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/015 Input arrangements based on nervous system activity detection, e.g. brain waves [EEG] detection, electromyograms [EMG] detection, electrodermal response detection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay

Abstract

A method for operating an electronic device of the present invention may comprise determining movement information of the electronic device based on sensing data measured through a sensor module; determining bio information for a user by analyzing one or more bio signals; and controlling the electronic device according to the movement information and the bio information. In addition, another embodiment is also possible.

Claims

1. A method for displaying a content by an electronic device, the method comprising:

obtaining sensing data;

determining a current state of a user based on the sensing data including a data relating a strength of an exercise performed by the user;

when the strength of the exercise of the obtained sensing data is in a first range, displaying a first number of content on a display of the electronic device; and

when the strength of the exercise of the obtained sensing data is in a second range, displaying a second number of content on the display.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein sensing data comprises one or more of the user'"'"'s blood pressure, blood flow, heart rate, body temperature, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, heart sound, respiratory sound, or blood sugar.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining one or more of a type of the exercise of the user, a progress state of the exercise, and a moving direction of the user or a moving speed of the user.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising adjusting a color of content being displayed in the display of the electronic device based on the strength of the exercise.

5. The method of claim 4,

when the first range is a range including higher value than the second range, the displayed first number of content is less than the displayed second number.

6. The method of claim 3, further comprising adjusting the number of the content or a color of a content being displayed in the display of the electronic device based on the moving speed.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

when the moving speed increases, displaying the displayed first number of the content or the displayed second number of content to be decreased on the display, and

when the moving speed decreases, displaying the displayed first number of the content or the displayed second number of content to be increased on the display.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a stress level of the user; and

determining whether the stress level is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising displaying an alarm of stopping exercise if the stress level is equal to or larger than the predetermined threshold.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising displaying content for continuing an exercise by the user if the stress level is less than the predetermined threshold.

11. An electronic device for displaying a content, comprising:

a display including a screen displaying the content; and

a processor configured to;

obtain sensing data,

determine a current state of a user based on the sensing data including a data relating a strength of an exercise performed by the user;

when the strength of the exercise of the determined sensing data is in a first range, display a first number of content on the display; and

when the strength of the exercise of the determined sensing data is in a second range, displaying a second number of content on the display.

12. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the sensing data comprises one or more of the user'"'"'s blood pressure, blood flow, heart rate, body temperature, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, heart sound, respiratory sound, or blood sugar.

13. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to:

determine one or more of a type of the exercise of the user, a progress state of the exercise, a moving direction of the user, or a moving speed of the user.

14. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein when the first range is a range including higher value than the second range, the displayed first number of content is less than the displayed second number.

15. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the processor is further configured to:

adjust the displayed first number of content or the displayed second number of content based on the moving speed of the user.

16. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein the processor is further configured to:

decrease the displayed first number of content or the displayed second number of content when the moving speed of the user increases; and

increase the displayed first number of content or displayed second number of content when the moving speed of the user decreases.

17. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to:

determine a stress level of the user,

determines whether the stress level of the user is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold, and

if the stress level is equal to or larger than the predetermined threshold, control the display to display an alarm for stopping an exercise of the user on the screen.

18. The electronic device of claim 17, wherein the processor is further configured to:

if the stress level of the user is less than the predetermined threshold, control the display to display the content for continuing the exercise of the user.

19. The electronic device of claim 18, wherein the processor is configured to:

if a vertical length of the screen is larger than a horizontal length, control the display to display the content in a vertical direction.

20. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to:

determine a direction of the screen based on the sensing data,

determine a display direction of the content based on the direction of the screen, and

control the display to display the content based on the display direction.

21. The electronic device of claim 20, wherein the processor is configured to:

if a horizontal length of the screen is larger than a vertical length, control the display to display the content in a horizontal direction.

22. The electronic device of claim 20, wherein the processor is configured to:

control the display to display the content on a portion of the screen in a horizontal direction, and

control the display to display the content on a remaining portion of the screen in a vertical direction.

23. The electronic device of claim 20, wherein the processor is configured to:

determine a rotation angle of the screen based on a slope of the electronic device included in the sensing data, and

control the display to display the content in a leaning position in a direction of the screen based on the rotation angle.

24. The electronic device of claim 20, wherein the processor is configured to:

if an angle between the direction of the screen and an opposite direction of a view of the user is less than a predetermined reference value, control the display to display the content in a horizontal direction.

25. The electronic device of claim 20, wherein the processor is configured to:

if an angle between the direction of the screen and an opposite direction of a view of the user is equal to or larger than a predetermined reference value, control the display to abstain from displaying the content on the screen.

26. The electronic device of claim 20, wherein the processor is configured to:

determine a degree of movement of the user as a user state based on the sensing data, and

if the degree of the user'"'"'s movement is not less than a predetermined reference value, restrict the number of the content displayed on the screen.

27. The electronic device of claim 26, wherein the processor is further configured to:

abstain from restricting a number of the content if the degree of the user'"'"'s movement is less than the predetermined reference value.

28. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium recording a program executable by a processor of an electronic device, the program comprising:

obtaining sensing data;

determining a current state of a user based on the sensing data including a data relating a strength of an exercise performed by the user;

when the strength of the exercise of the determined sensing data is in a first range, displaying a first number of content on a display of the electronic device; and

when the strength of the exercise of the determined sensing data is in a second range, displaying a second number of content on the display.