Method for interworking with dummy device and electronic device thereof

• US 9,100,541 B2
• Filed: 04/02/2013
• Issued: 08/04/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Jin, Kim, Nam-Hoi, Park, Chan-Woo
• Primary Examiner(s): Gauthier, Gerlad
• Application Number:
  US13/855,263
• Publication Number:
  US 20130258037A1
• Time in Patent Office: 854 Days
• Field of Search: 320/101, 320/108, 348/14.02, 370/356, 370/338, 375/240.02, 455/573, 455/456.1, 455/555, 455/41.2, 709/204, 709/226, 715/734, 710/303, 340/539.13, 701/532
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/141 between two video terminals, e.g. videophone telephonic communication systems combined with television receiver for reception of entertainment or information matter H04M11/085
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems

Abstract

An operation method of an electronic device that is operable with a dummy device is provided. The method includes operating the dummy device through a physical coupling to the electronic device, establishing, by the electronic device, a wireless connection with the dummy device if a call is received by the electronic device, and operating the electronic device with the dummy device through the wireless connection.

Claims

1. An operation method of an electronic device that is operable with a dummy device, the method comprising:

operating the dummy device through a physical coupling to the electronic device;

establishing a wireless connection between the electronic device and the dummy device;

sensing a physical decoupling of the electronic device from the dummy device; and

operating the electronic device with the dummy device through the wireless connection.

2. The method of claim 1,

wherein the operating of the electronic device with the dummy device through the wireless connection comprises changing a medium for an interworking state into the wireless connection, and

wherein the interworking state is determined according to a coupling of the electronic device to the dummy device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising releasing the wireless connection if a call is accepted in a state where the physical coupling of the electronic device with the dummy device is maintained.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a call after operating the dummy device through a physical coupling to the electronic device,

wherein the call is at least one of a voice call, a video call, and a video conference.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the operating of the electronic device with the dummy device through the wireless connection comprises transmitting output data for an application, the application being executed in an interworking state through the physical coupling, to the dummy device through the wireless connection.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the operating of the electronic device with the dummy device through the wireless connection comprises transmitting output data, the output data including a video call picture to the dummy device through the wireless connection.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the operating of the electronic device with the dummy device through the wireless connection comprises:

controlling the electronic device as an input unit for a video conference; and

controlling the dummy device as an output unit for the video conference.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs comprising instructions for, when the programs are executed by an electronic device, enabling the electronic device to perform a method of claim 1.

9. An operation method of a dummy device that is operable with an electronic device, the method comprising:

establishing a wireless connection between the dummy device and the electronic device during a physical coupling of the dummy device with the electronic device;

sensing a physical decoupling of the dummy device from the electronic device; and

operating the dummy device with the electronic device through the wireless connection.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the operating of the dummy device with the electronic device through the wireless connection comprises receiving output data, the output data being for an application executed in an interworking state through the physical coupling, from the electronic device through the wireless connection.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the operating of the dummy device with the electronic device through the wireless connection comprises receiving output data, the output data including at least one of a video call picture and a video conference picture, from the electronic device through the wireless connection.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the operating of the dummy device with the electronic device through the wireless connection comprises transmitting a video, the video being inputted through a camera, to the electronic device through the wireless connection.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs comprising instructions for, when the programs are executed by an electronic device, enabling the electronic device to perform a method of claim 9.

14. An electronic device that is operable with a dummy device, the electronic device comprising:

at least one processor configured to execute computer programs;

a memory configured to store data and instructions; and

at least one module stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the at least one processor,

wherein the at least one module comprises;

an instruction for operating the dummy device through a physical coupling to the electronic device,

an instruction for establishing a wireless connection between the electronic device and the dummy device,

an instruction for sensing a physical decoupling of the electronic device from the dummy device, and

an instruction for controlling the electronic device with the dummy device through the wireless connection.

15. The electronic device of claim 14,

wherein the at least one module comprises an instruction for changing a communication medium for an interworking state into the wireless connection, and

wherein the interworking state is determined according to a coupling of the electronic device to the dummy device.

16. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the at least one module comprises an instruction for releasing the wireless connection if a call is accepted in a state where the physical coupling of the electronic device with the dummy device is maintained.

17. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the at least one module comprises an instruction for receiving a call after operating the dummy device through a physical coupling to the electronic device, and wherein the call is at least one of a voice call, a video call, and a video conference.

18. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the module comprises an instruction for transmitting output data for an application, the application being executed in an interworking state through the physical coupling, to the dummy device through the wireless connection.

19. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the module comprises an instruction for transmitting output data, the output data including a video call picture, to the dummy device through the wireless connection.

20. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the module comprises an instruction for controlling the electronic device as an input unit for a video conference, and controlling the dummy device as an output unit for the video conference.

21. A dummy device that is operable with an electronic device, the dummy device comprising:

at least one processor configured to execute computer programs;

a memory configured to store data and instructions; and

at least one module stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the at least one processor,

wherein the at least one module comprises;

an instruction for establishing a wireless connection between the dummy device and the electronic device during a physical coupling of the dummy device with the electronic device, an instruction for sensing a physical decoupling of the electronic device from the dummy device, and

an instruction for controlling the dummy device with the electronic device through the wireless connection.

22. The dummy device of claim 21, further comprising a communication unit configured to receive output data, the output data being for an application executed in an interworking state through the physical coupling, from the electronic device through the wireless connection.

23. The dummy device of claim 21, further comprising a communication unit configured to receive output data, the output data including at least one of a video call picture and a video conference picture, from the electronic device through the wireless connection.

24. The dummy device of claim 21, further comprising a communication unit configured to transmit a video, the video being inputted through a camera, to the electronic device through the wireless connection.