Method and apparatus for providing user interface for multistreaming audio control

• US 8,099,666 B2
• Filed: 09/12/2005
• Issued: 01/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Kyung-ju, Kim, Jin-hyong
• Primary Examiner(s): Roswell, Michael
• Application Number:
  US11/222,981
• Publication Number:
  US 20060069458A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,318 Days
• Field of Search: 715/723, 715/727, 715/808, 715/708
• US Class Current: 715/727
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0219 Special purpose keyboards
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0489 using dedicated keyboard keys or combinations thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/165 Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10527 Audio or video recording; Data buffering arrangements G11B20/12 - G11B20/18 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/10546 specifically adapted for audio data
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/10953 Concurrent recording or playback of different streams or files

Abstract

Provided is a method and apparatus for providing a user interface for multistreaming audio control. The method includes determining whether a multistreaming mode of an audio device is activated upon receiving from a user a command to execute a popup menu for content, providing play menu items of audio panels to the popup menu for the content if the multistreaming mode is activated, and playing the content through an audio panel selected by the user.

Claims

1. A method of providing a user interface for multistreaming audio control, the method comprising:

determining whether a multistreaming mode of an audio device is activated upon receiving from a user a command to execute a popup menu for content;

providing a first play menu item of a first audio panel of the audio device to the popup menu for first multi-channel content and providing a second play menu item of a second audio panel of the audio device to the popup menu for second multi-channel content if the multistreaming mode is activated; and

playing the first multi-channel content through the first audio panel of the audio device when the first play menu item is selected by the user and playing the second multi-channel content through the second audio panel of the audio device when the second play menu item is selected by the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein a plurality of different multi-channel audio streams are simultaneously transmitted to different locations from the audio device when the multistreaming mode is activated.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein in the playing of the content, if the selected audio panel is not a currently set audio panel, a play mixer is set as the selected audio panel and the content is played.

4. A method of providing a user interface for multistreaming audio control, the method comprising:

determining whether a multistreaming mode of an audio device is activated upon receiving from a user a command to execute a popup menu for content;

providing a first play menu of a first audio panel to the popup menu for first multi-channel content and providing a second play menu item of a second audio panel to the popup menu for second multi-channel content if the multistreaming mode is activated; and

displaying a play program of the first multi-channel content on a first monitor mapped to a first audio panel selected by the user, and displaying a play program of the second multi-channel content on a second monitor mapped to the second audio panel selected by the user.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the popup menu for the content provides a first play menu of the first audio panel and the first monitor is mapped to the first audio panel and further provides a second play menu of the second audio panel and the second monitor is mapped to the second audio panel.

6. A method of providing a user interface for multistreaming audio control, the method comprising:

determining whether a multistreaming mode of an audio device is activated when a user selects a hot key mapped to an audio panel and activating the multistreaming mode of the audio device if the multistreaming mode is determined as inactivated, wherein a plurality of different multi-channel audio streams are simultaneously transmitted to different audio panels of the audio device when the multistreaming mode is activated;

determining whether the audio panel mapped to the selected hot key that controls the audio panel is in an active state once a user presses the hot key; and

deactivating the audio panel if the audio panel is in the active state and activating the audio panel if the audio panel is in an inactive state.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising indicating that the audio panel is in the inactive state if the audio panel is deactivated and indicating that the audio panel is in the active state if the audio panel is activated.

8. A computer readable storage for controlling a computer according to a method of providing a user interface for multistreaming audio control, the method comprising:

determining whether a multistreaming mode of an audio device is activated upon receiving from a user a command to execute a popup menu for content;

providing a first play menu item of a first audio panel of the audio device to the popup menu for first multi-channel content providing a second play menu item of a second audio panel of the audio device to the popup menu for second multi-channel content if the multistreaming mode is activated; and

playing the first multi-channel content through the first audio panel of the audio device when the first play menu item is selected by the user and playing the second multi-channel content through the second audio panel of the audio device when the second play menu item is selected by the user.

9. A computer readable storage for controlling a computer according to a method of providing a user interface for multistreaming audio control, the method comprising:

determining whether a multistreaming mode of an audio device is activated upon receiving from a user a command to execute a popup menu for content;

providing a first play menu of a first audio panel to the popup menu for first multi-channel content and providing a second play menu item of a second audio panel to the popup menu for second multi-channel content if the multistreaming mode is activated; and

displaying a play program of the first multi-channel content on a first monitor mapped to a first audio panel selected by the user, and displaying a play program of the second multi-channel content on a second monitor mapped to the second audio panel selected by the user.

10. A computer readable storage for controlling a computer according to a method of providing a user interface for multistreaming audio control, the method comprising:

determining whether a multistreaming mode of an audio device is activated when a user selects a hot key mapped to an audio panel and activating the multistreaming mode of the audio device if the multistreaming mode is determined as inactivated, the activated multistreaming mode providing for simultaneous transmission of a plurality of different audio streams to different audio panels of the audio device;

determining whether the audio panel mapped to the hot key that controls the audio panel is in an active state once a user presses the hot key; and

deactivating the audio panel if the audio panel is in the active state and activating the audio panel if the audio panel is in an inactive state.