ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20180261257A1
• Filed: 03/07/2018
• Published: 09/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ONKYO Corporation (Onkyo Home Entertainment Corp.)
• Original Assignee: ONKYO Corporation (Onkyo Home Entertainment Corp.)
• Inventors: SUZUKI, Takahiro, FUJII, Taiki
• Granted Patent: US 10,325,630 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/022 in absence of operation, e.g. no data being entered during a predetermined time
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 31/02 with automatic musical instruments
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/425 Structural combination with electronic components, e.g. electronic circuits integrated to the outside of the casing printed circuits H05K1/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/44 Methods for charging or discharging circuits for charging H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0068 Battery or charger load switching, e.g. concurrent charging and load supply H02J7/0013 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2158 using a detachable storage unit
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

An electronic device that includes an external storage medium connection unit to which an external storage medium is connected; a detection unit that detects whether or not demonstration data is stored in the external storage medium connected to the external storage medium connection unit; and an operation mode control unit that causes the device to operate in a demonstration mode in a case where the demonstration data is stored in the external storage medium connected to the external storage medium connection unit, and causes the device to operate in a normal mode in a case where the external storage medium is not connected to the external storage medium connection unit and no demonstration data is stored in the external storage medium connected to the external storage medium connection unit.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

an external storage medium connection unit to which an external storage medium is connected;

a detection unit configured to detect whether or not demonstration data is stored in the external storage medium connected to the external storage medium connection unit; and

an operation mode control unit configured to

cause the device to operate in a demonstration mode in a case where the demonstration data is stored in the external storage medium connected to the external storage medium connection unit, and

cause the device to operate in a normal mode in a case where the external storage medium is not connected to the external storage medium connection unit and no demonstration data is stored in the external storage medium connected to the external storage medium connection unit.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the detection unit detects, as the demonstration data, data stored in a specific folder in the external storage medium connected to the external storage medium connection unit.

3. The electronic device according to claim 2, wherein

the electronic device is an audio player, and

the demonstration data is image data.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an output control unit configured to cause an output unit to output the demonstration data stored in the external storage medium in a case where the device operates in the demonstration mode.

5. The electronic device according to claim 4, wherein

the output control unit determines an output form of the demonstration data based on at least part of a data name of the demonstration data.

6. The electronic device according to claim 5, wherein

the demonstration data stored in the external storage medium includes multiple pieces of demonstration data, and

the output control unit determines an output order of each piece of demonstration data based on at least part of a data name of each piece of demonstration data.

7. The electronic device according to claim 5, wherein

the output control unit determines an output time of the demonstration data based on a character extracted from the data name of the demonstration data under a predetermined condition.

8. The electronic device according to claim 4, wherein

the output control unit allows output of the demonstration data in a case where the device operates in the demonstration mode and there is no operation for the device for a predetermined time.

9. The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a battery; and

a charging determination unit configured to determine whether or not the battery is being charged,

wherein the operation mode control unit causes the device to operate in the demonstration mode in a case where the demonstration data is stored in the external storage medium connected to the external storage medium connection unit and the charging determination unit determines that the battery is being charged.

10. A method comprising:

a detection step of detecting whether or not demonstration data is stored in an external storage medium connected to an external storage medium connection unit of an electronic device; and

an operation mode control step of

causing the electronic device to operate in a demonstration mode in a case where the demonstration data is stored in the external storage medium connected to the external storage medium connection unit, and

causing the electronic device to operate in a normal mode in a case where the external storage medium is not connected to the external storage medium connection unit and no demonstration data is stored in the external storage medium connected to the external storage medium connection unit.

11. A computer-readable recording medium recording a program for causing a computer to function as

an external storage medium connection unit to which an external storage medium is connected,

a detection unit configured to detect whether or not demonstration data is stored in the external storage medium connected to the external storage medium connection unit, and

an operation mode control unit configured to

cause a device to operate in a demonstration mode in a case where the demonstration data is stored in the external storage medium connected to the external storage medium connection unit, and

cause the device to operate in a normal mode in a case where the external storage medium is not connected to the external storage medium connection unit and no demonstration data is stored in the external storage medium connected to the external storage medium connection unit.