Apparatus and method for playing content according to numeral key input

• US 20060294082A1
• Filed: 06/28/2006
• Published: 12/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Myung, In-sik, Kim, Sang-hwan, Kang, Hyun-joo, Park, Hyun-mi, Choi, Seung-eok
• Application Number:
  US11/476,102
• Publication Number:
  US 20060294082A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/489 using time information
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

An apparatus and method is provided for playing content according to a numeral key input. The method converts a combination of numerals input using numeral keys of a remote controller into temporal information such as a date or a time, and retrieves and plays frames of a still image or moving image corresponding to the temporal information. The apparatus for playing content according to a numeral key input includes a receiver for receiving a combination of numerals, a converter for converting the received combination of numerals into temporal information, a retriever for retrieving content corresponding to the temporal information with reference to the converted temporal information, and a player for playing the retrieved content.

Claims

1. An apparatus for playing content, the apparatus comprising:

a receiver which receives a combination of numerals;

a converter which converts the received combination of numerals into temporal information;

a retriever which retrieves content corresponding to the temporal information with reference to the converted temporal information; and

a player which plays the retrieved content.

2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the combination of numerals corresponds to temporal information that includes at least one of a year, month, day, hour, minute, and second.

3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the converter converts the received combination of numerals into a date or a time depending on a type of the content to be retrieved.

4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the retriever retrieves content closest to the temporal information if there is no content corresponding to the temporal information.

5. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the player displays a position of the temporal information corresponding to the retrieved content on a predetermined temporal axis using a position bar.

6. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the combination of numerals is a combination of four, six or eight numerals input through a user interface.

7. A method for playing content, the method comprising:

receiving a combination of numerals;

converting the received combination of numerals into temporal information;

retrieving content corresponding to the temporal information with reference to the converted temporal information; and

playing the retrieved content.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the combination of numerals corresponds to temporal information that includes at least one of a year, month, day, hour, minute, and second.

9. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the converting the received combination of numerals into the temporal information comprises converting the received combination of numerals into a date or a time depending on a type of content to be retrieved.

10. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the retrieving content comprises retrieving content closest to the temporal information if there is no content corresponding to the temporal information.

11. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the playing the retrieved content comprises displaying a position of the temporal information corresponding to the retrieved content on a predetermined temporal axis using a position bar.

12. The apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the combination of numerals is a combination of four, six or eight numerals input through a user interface.