METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING CONTENT

• US 20170018248A1
• Filed: 03/03/2015
• Published: 01/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: NA, Hwa Suk
• Granted Patent: US 10,127,884 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1652 the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/00 Security arrangements for protecting computers, components thereof, programs or data against unauthorised activity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/84 output devices, e.g. displays or monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0304 Detection arrangements using opto-electronic means constructional details of pointing devices not related to the detection arrangement using opto-electronic means G06F3/033; optical digitisers G06F3/042
• 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 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0261 in the context of movement of objects on the screen or movement of the observer relative to the screen
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0492 Change of orientation of the displayed image, e.g. upside-down, mirrored
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2358/00 Arrangements for display data security
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit

Abstract

An electronic device includes: a communication module configured to receive a content; a direction detection unit configured to detect a direction that a screen of the electronic device faces; a control unit configured to determine whether to display the received content on the basis of a least one of whether the received content corresponds to a designated content and whether the detected direction corresponds to a designated direction; and a display module configured to display a notification notifying the reception of the content without displaying the content if the detected direction does not correspond to the designated direction and the received content corresponds to the designated content according to a determination result of the control unit.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a communication module configured to receive a content;

a direction detection unit configured to detect a direction that a screen of the electronic device faces;

a control unit configured to determine whether to display the received content on the basis of at least one of whether the received content corresponds to a designated content and whether the detected direction corresponds to a designated direction; and

a display module configured to display a notification notifying the reception of the content without displaying the content, if the detected direction does not correspond to the designated direction and the received content corresponds to the designated content according to the determination result of the control unit.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

if the received content corresponds to the designated content, the control unit controls the direction detection unit to detect the direction that the screen faces;

and

if the received content does not correspond to the designated content, the display module displays the received content on the screen.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

if the detected direction does not correspond to the designated direction, the control unit determines whether the received content corresponds to the designated content;

and

if the detected direction corresponds to the designated direction, the display module displays the received content on the screen.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the control unit controls the direction detection unit to detect the direction that the screen faces after the notification is displayed;

and

the display module displays the content on the screen if the direction that the screen faces switches into the designated direction.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the control unit determines whether the electronic device is positioned within a predetermined distance from a user;

and

if the electronic device is positioned out of the predetermined distance from the user, the display module displays a notification notifying the reception of the content on the screen without displaying the content.

6. The electronic device according to claim 2, wherein when the received content corresponds to the designated content and the detected direction corresponds to the designated direction, the display module displays the received content on the screen.

7. The electronic device according to claim 3, wherein if the detected direction does not correspond to the designated direction and the received content does not correspond to the designated content, the display module displays the received content on the screen.

8. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the designated content is information pre-defined as a personal content.

9. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the designated direction screens the eyes of a person other than a user of the electronic device.

10. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the electronic device is a wearable device equipped on a predetermined body portion;

and

the designated direction is a direction designated to allow a screen of the wearable device to be positioned in an inward direction of the body portion.

11. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the electronic device is a wearable device having a flexible display;

and

the direction that the screen faces is a direction that a portion in an active state of the flexible display faces.

12. The electronic device according to claim 4, wherein the direction that the screen faces is switched by at least one of user'"'"'s touch, drag, gesture on the screen, and a rotation of the electronic device.

13. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the direction detection unit detects the direction that the screen faces by using at least one of a camera, a bio sensor, an artery recognition sensor, a skeleton recognition sensor, a geomagnetic sensor, a gyro sensor, a touch sensor, and an infrared ray (IR) sensor in the electronic device.

14. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the communication module receives, from another electronic device operating in a functional linkage with the electronic device a determination result on whether the received content corresponds to the designated content;

and

the control unit determines whether the received content corresponds to the designated content on the basis of the received determination result.

15. A method of displaying content, the method comprising:

receiving a content;

determining whether the content corresponds to a designated content;

if the content corresponds to the designated content, detecting a direction that a screen of an electronic device faces;

determining whether the detected direction corresponds to a designated direction; and

if the detected direction does not correspond to the designated direction, displaying a notification notifying the reception of the content on the screen.

16. The method according to claim 15, further comprising:

after the displaying of the notification, detecting the direction that the screen faces; and

if the direction that the screen faces switches into the designated direction, displaying the content on the screen.

17. The method according to claim 15, further comprising:

determining whether the electronic device is positioned within a predetermined distance from a user; and

if the electronic device is positioned out of the predetermined distance from the user, not displaying the content on the screen.

18. The method according to claim 15, further comprising when the content corresponds to the designated content and the detected direction corresponds to the designated direction, displaying the content on the screen.

19. The method according to claim 15, further comprising when the content does not correspond to the designated content, displaying the content on the screen.

20. The method according to claim 15, wherein the designated content is information pre-defined as a personal content.

21. The method according to claim 16, wherein the direction that the screen faces is switched by at least one of user'"'"'s touch, drag, gesture on the screen, and a rotation of the electronic device.

22. The method according to claim 15, wherein the designated direction screens the eyes of a person other than a user of the electronic device.

23. The method according to claim 15, wherein determining of whether the content corresponds to the designated content comprises:

receiving a determination result, from another electronic device operating in a functional linkage with the electronic device, on whether the received content corresponds to the designated content; and

determining whether the received content corresponds to the designated content on the basis of the received determination result.