CONTENTS REPRODUCING DEVICE AND METHOD

• US 20110046755A1
• Filed: 08/24/2010
• Published: 02/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Soo-hong, Lee, Keum-koo, Sung, Ju-yun, Kwahk, Ji-young, Choo, Hee-jeong
• Application Number:
  US12/861,893
• Publication Number:
  US 20110046755A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/90
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4126 The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
• 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 21/440263 by altering the spatial resolution, e.g. for displaying on a connected PDA
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44227 Monitoring of local network, e.g. connection or bandwidth variations; Detecting new devices in the local network configuring of peripheral devices in general G06F9/4411; monitoring connectivity in data switched networks H04L43/0811
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4516 involving client characteristics, e.g. Set-Top-Box type, software version or amount of memory available

Abstract

A method for reproducing contents in a device is provided. The method includes identifying whether an event occurs based on a change in distance between a device and another device or a change in power status of the device or the another device, and if the event occurs, performing seamless play of contents between the another device and the device. Accordingly, seamless play may be performed effectively.

Claims

1. A method for seamlessly reproducing contents in a plurality of devices, the method comprising:

if an event for seamless play between a first device, which is reproducing the contents, and a second device occurs, identifying property information on the first device and the second device; and

if the property information of the first device and the second device is different from each other, performing, by the second device, seamless play by processing the contents into a version of the contents corresponding to the second device.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the event is at least one of an event where a distance between the first device and the second device changes, an event where the first device is turned off, and an event where a command for seamless play is input.

3. The seamless play method as claimed in claim 1, wherein performing seamless play includes reproducing a part of the contents that is after a point in the contents where reproduction has stopped in the first device, or a part of the contents after a bookmarked point in the contents in the second device.

4. The seamless play method as claimed in claim 1, wherein performing seamless play includes requesting a contents provider corresponding to the second device to transmit contents in the version corresponding to the second device.

5. The seamless play method as claimed in claim 1, wherein performing seamless play comprises:

converting the contents into the version corresponding to the second device; and

transmitting the converted contents to the second device directly.

6. The seamless play method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

if an event for reproducing contents in the first device occurs while contents corresponding to the second device are being reproduced in the second device, the second device performing seamless play by processing the contents being reproduced in the second device into a version of the contents corresponding to the first device.

7. The seamless play method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the first device performs seamless play of contents that are not reproduced in the second device, or performs seamless play of contents that are after a bookmarked point of the contents.

8. A contents reproducing method in a device, the method comprising:

identifying whether an event occurs based on a change in a distance between the device and another device or a change in a power status of the device or the another device; and

if the event occurs, performing seamless play of contents between the another device and the device.

9. The contents reproducing method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the performing seamless play comprises:

if the event occurs while first contents with a first image quality are being reproduced in the device, performing seamless play of second contents having a same substance as the first contents but also having a second image quality in the another device, at a point of the contents occurring after the first contents; and

if the event occurs while the second contents are being reproduced in the another device, performing seamless play of the first contents having the same substance as the second contents in the device, at a point of the contents reproducing after the second contents.

10. The contents reproducing method as claimed in claim 8, wherein if an event where a user carrying the another device enters a predetermined distance apart from the device occurs, performing seamless play includes reproducing contents that have been reproduced in the first image quality in the device, in the second image quality in the another device.

11. The contents reproducing method as claimed in claim 10, wherein if the event where the another device enters a predetermined distance apart from the device occurs, performing seamless play comprises:

transmitting information regarding contents that are currently being reproduced to the another device from the device;

receiving the contents that are currently being reproduced by the another device from a second contents provider different from a first contents provider for the device using information regarding the received contents; and

reproducing the received contents from a point of the contents where reproduction stops in the device.

12. The contents reproducing method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the information regarding the contents is channel information or Electronic Program Guide (EPG) information,

wherein the device is a television, and the another device is a mobile phone,

wherein the first contents provider is a contents provider for a terrestrial broadcast or a cable broadcast, and

wherein the second contents provider is a contents provider for a Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) broadcast.

13. The contents reproducing method as claimed in claim 8, wherein if an event where the another device enters within a predetermined distance from the device occurs, performing seamless play includes reproducing contents that have been reproduced in a second image quality in the another device, in a first image quality in the device.

14. The contents reproducing method as claimed in claim 13, wherein if an event where the another device enters within the predetermined distance from the device occurs, performing seamless play further comprises:

transmitting, to the device, information regarding contents that are currently being reproduced from the another device;

receiving the contents by the device from a second contents provider that is different from a first contents provider for the another device using information regarding the contents; and

reproducing the received contents from a point of the contents where reproduction stops in the another device.

15. The contents reproducing method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the information regarding the contents is channel information or Electronic Program Guide (EPG) information,

wherein the device is a television, and the another device is a mobile phone,

wherein the first contents provider is a contents provider for a terrestrial broadcast or a cable broadcast, and

wherein the second contents provider is a contents provider for a Digital Multimedia Broadcast (DMB) broadcast.

16. The contents reproducing method as claimed in claim 9, wherein performing seamless play further comprises:

transmitting, by the device or the another device, remaining contents after a point of the contents where reproduction stops to a counterpart device; and

seamlessly reproducing, by the counterpart device, the contents.

17. The contents reproducing method as claimed in claim 8, wherein if an event where the device is turned off while reproducing the contents occurs, performing seamless play includes seamlessly reproducing the contents after the device is turned off in the another device.

18. The contents reproducing method as claimed in claim 8, wherein if an event where the another device is turned off while reproducing the contents occurs, performing seamless play includes seamlessly reproducing contents in the device after the another is turned off.

19. The contents reproducing method as claimed in claim 8, wherein performing seamless play includes reproducing remaining contents after a bookmarked point of the contents or after reproduction stops.

20. A display device, comprising:

a display for displaying reproduced contents; and

a controller for, if a distance between the display and a mobile terminal exceeds a predetermined distance while the contents are being displayed on the display or a turn-off command is input, processing to seamlessly reproduce the contents in the mobile terminal.

21. The display device as claimed in claim 20, wherein the display displays first contents in a first image quality,

wherein the controller controls the mobile terminal to seamlessly reproduce second contents having a same substance as first contents and having a second image quality by transmitting at least one of information regarding the first contents and the first contents to the mobile terminal.

22. The display device as claimed in claim 20, wherein if the mobile terminal is within the predetermined distance of the display or if the mobile terminal is turned off while second contents having a second image quality are being reproduced in the mobile terminal, the controller receives at least one of information regarding the second contents and the second contents from the mobile terminal and seamlessly reproduces first contents having a same substance as the second contents and a first image quality.

23. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a touch screen for displaying contents and receiving input; and

a controller for, if a distance between a display device and the mobile terminal exceeds a predetermined distance while the contents are being displayed on the display device or a turn-off command is input, seamlessly reproduces the contents through the touch screen.

24. The mobile terminal as claimed in claim 23, wherein the controller reproduces second contents having a second image quality that have a same substance as a first contents displayed through the touch screen by receiving at least one of information regarding the first contents having a first image quality that are reproduced on the display device and the first contents.

25. The mobile terminal as claimed in claim 23, wherein if the display device enters within a predetermined distance from the mobile terminal or a turn-off command is input while second contents having a second image quality are being displayed on the touch screen, the controller controls the display device to seamlessly reproduce first contents having a first image quality having a same substance as the second contents.