Information-sharing device, method, and terminal device for sharing application information

• US 10,282,316 B2
• Filed: 11/12/2012
• Issued: 05/07/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Onohara, Takashi, Ueda, Roka, Daini, Keishi, Yoshio, Taichi, Kawabe, Yuji, Iwayagano, Seizi, Higo, Takuma, Sakai, Eri
• Primary Examiner(s): Alrobaye, Idriss N
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lewis-Taylor, Dayton
• Application Number:
  US14/357,881
• Publication Number:
  US 20140304431A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,367 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6091 including a wireless interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 for remote control of appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2499/13 Acoustic transducers and sound field adaptation in vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/48 for in-vehicle communication

Abstract

There is provided an information-sharing device including, in a second device connected to a first device, an information obtaining unit which obtains, through a communication unit of the second device, first application information indicating an application possessed by the first device, a shared information generating unit which generates shared information shared by the first device and the second device, based on the first application information obtained by the information obtaining unit, and a transmission control unit which transmits the shared information through the communication unit to the first device.

Claims

1. An information-sharing device, comprising:

circuitry configured to;

obtain, from a sound output device, first application information, wherein the first application information indicates at least one first application of the sound output device and types of audio source devices connected to the sound output device,

wherein each audio source device of the audio source devices corresponds to an audio source that outputs audio data to the sound output device;

obtain second application information that indicates at least one second application on the information-sharing device;

generate shared information that is shared between the sound output device and the information-sharing device,

wherein the shared information is generated in a form of a list, wherein the list includes an order of an arrangement of a plurality of icons associated with the at least one first application and the at least one second application, and

wherein the order includes an ordinal position of each of the plurality of icons in the list,

wherein the shared information is generated based on the first application information and the second application information;

transmit the generated shared information to the sound output device;

select a first icon of the plurality of icons based on operation information received from the sound output device, wherein the operation information indicates an ordinal position of the first icon that is displayed on the sound output device; and

control a display screen of the information-sharing device to display the selected first icon.

2. The information-sharing device according to claim 1, wherein the second application information indicates a selection of the at least one second application on the information-sharing device.

3. The information-sharing device according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to control the display screen to display the at least one first application and the at least one second application based on the shared information.

4. The information-sharing device according to claim 1, wherein

the circuitry is further configured to:

obtain, from the sound output device, the operation information which indicates a selection of the at least one first application associated with the first icon on the sound output device, and

update the display of the first icon based on the operation information to display the at least one first application in a selected state.

5. The information-sharing device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one first application is different from the at least one second application.

6. The information-sharing device according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

obtain, from the sound output device, the operation information which indicates a selection of one of the at least one first application associated with the first icon or the at least one second application associated with a second icon of the plurality of icons on the sound output device, and

activate one of the at least one first application or the at least one second application based on the operation information.

7. The information-sharing device according to claim 1,

wherein the first application information includes information of icons of the at least one first application.

8. The information-sharing device according to claim 1, wherein the second application information includes information of icons of the at least one second application.

9. The information-sharing device according to claim 1, wherein the first application information indicates the audio source devices that one of store the audio data, receive and tune broadcast data, or playback the audio data from a recording medium.

10. An information-sharing method, comprising:

in an information-sharing device;

obtaining, from a sound output device, first application information, the first application information indicating at least one first application of the sound output device and types of audio source devices connected to the sound output device, and wherein each audio source device of the audio source devices corresponds to an audio source that outputs audio data to the sound output device;

obtaining second application information indicating at least one second application on the information-sharing device;

generating, using circuitry, shared information that is shared between the sound output device and the information-sharing device,

wherein the shared information is generated in a form of a list, wherein the list includes an order of an arrangement of a plurality of icons associated with the at least one first application and the at least one second application,

wherein the order corresponds to an ordinal position of each of the plurality of icons in the list, and

wherein the shared information is generated based on the first application information and the second application information;

transmitting the generated shared information from the information-sharing device to the sound output device;

selecting an icon of the plurality of icons based on operation information received from the sound output device, wherein the operation information indicates an ordinal position of the icon that is displayed on the sound output device; and

controlling a display screen of the information-sharing device to display the selected icon.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon, computer-executable instructions which, when executed by an information-sharing device, cause the information-sharing device to execute operations, the operations comprising:

obtaining, from a sound output device, first application information, the first application information indicating at least one first application of the sound output device and types of audio source devices connected to the sound output device, and wherein each audio source device of the audio source devices corresponds to an audio source that outputs audio data to the sound output device;

obtaining second application information indicating at least one second application on the information-sharing device;

generating shared information that is shared between the sound output device and the information-sharing device,

wherein the shared information is generated in a form of a list, wherein the list includes an order of an arrangement of a plurality of icons associated with the at least one first application and the at least one second application, and

wherein the order corresponds to an ordinal position of each of the plurality of icons in the list,

wherein the shared information is generated based on the first application information and the second application information;

transmitting the generated shared information from the information-sharing device to the sound output device;

selecting an icon of the plurality of icons based on operation information received from the sound output device, wherein the operation information indicates an ordinal position of the icon that is displayed on the sound output device; and

controlling a display screen of the information-sharing device to display the selected icon.