Apparatus and method for reproducing multi-sound channel contents using DLNA in mobile terminal

• US 10,425,758 B2
• Filed: 02/06/2017
• Issued: 09/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Kyung-Hee
• Primary Examiner(s): Gauthier, Gerald
• Application Number:
  US15/425,904
• Publication Number:
  US 20170150287A1
• Time in Patent Office: 960 Days
• Field of Search: 348738, 370315, 370328, 370338, 381 17, 381 80, 381307, 381 58, 381 79, 381311, 455 305, 455 306, 700 94, 709229, 380255
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4302 Content synchronisation processes, e.g. decoder synchronisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/439 Processing of audio elementary streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/443 OS processes, e.g. booting an STB, implementing a Java virtual machine in an STB or power management in an STB
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8106 involving special audio data, e.g. different tracks for different languages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8113 comprising music, e.g. song in MP3 format
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 5/00 Pseudo-stereo systems, e.g. in which additional channel signals are derived from monophonic signals by means of phase shifting, time delay or reverberation

Abstract

An acoustic apparatus and a method thereof in a mobile terminal are provided. More particularly, an apparatus and a method for establishing a multi-sound system that provides sounds of sense of reality by connecting with players existing in the neighborhood and reproducing channels of contents using a plurality of players when reproducing the contents including multi-sound channels are provided. The apparatus includes a control player, a server player, and a client player. The control player selects players that reproduce respective channels using information of the channels forming the multi-sound channel contents. The server player analyzes the contents to be reproduced by the players to provide the information regarding the channels to the control player. The client player reproduces the channels of the relevant contents under control of the control player.

Claims

1. An electronic device for reproducing multi-sound channel content, the electronic device comprising:

a communication unit; and

a controller configured to;

control the communication unit to receive reproduction information regarding the multi-sound channel content,

reproduce a corresponding audio channel among a plurality of audio channels comprised in the multi-sound channel content based on the received reproduction information,

repetitively transmit a synchronization signal to at least one other electronic device reproducing another audio channel among the plurality of audio channels while reproducing the corresponding audio channel, and

in response to receiving a reproduction end request, ceasing reproduction of the corresponding audio channel.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

receive channel information regarding an audio channel to be reproduced by the electronic device among the plurality of audio channels comprised in the multi-sound channel content, and

reproduce the audio channel corresponding to the received channel information.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to reproduce the corresponding audio channel in response to a content reproduction request.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to receive information for synchronization from one among the at least one other electronic device.

5. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein the channel information comprises at least one of video, audio, a frame rate, or codec information forming the multi-sound channel content to be reproduced.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to use a Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) network to control reproduction of the plurality of audio channels.

7. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to receive the multi-sound channel content from one among the at least one other electronic device.

8. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein the multi-sound channel content is stored in a server.

9. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the multi-sound channel content is stored in one of the at least one other electronic device.

10. A method for reproducing multi-sound channel content of an electronic device, the method comprising:

receiving reproduction information regarding the multi-sound channel content;

reproducing a corresponding audio channel among a plurality of audio channels comprised in the multi-sound channel content based on the received reproduction information;

repetitively transmit a synchronization signal to at least one other electronic device reproducing another audio channel among the plurality of audio channels while reproducing the corresponding audio channel; and

in response to receiving a reproduction end request, ceasing reproduction of the corresponding audio channel.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein receiving the reproduction information comprises:

receiving channel information regarding an audio channel to be reproduced by the electronic device among the plurality of audio channels comprised in the multi-sound channel content, and

wherein the reproducing comprises;

reproducing the audio channel corresponding to the received channel information.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein reproducing comprises:

reproducing the corresponding audio channel in response to a content reproduction request.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein transmitting the synchronization signal comprises:

receiving information for synchronization from one among the at least one other electronic device.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the channel information comprises at least one of video, audio, a frame rate, or codec information forming the multi-sound channel content to be reproduced.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the electronic device is connected with the at least one other electronic device via Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) network.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the method reproduces the multi-sound channel content using a Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) network.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the multi-sound channel content is selected from among a plurality of contents stored in a server.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein the multi-sound channel content is selected from among a plurality of contents stored in one of the at least one other electronic device.