Method for providing content and electronic device thereof

• US 9,641,665 B2
• Filed: 08/28/2015
• Issued: 05/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Kwang-Hyeon, Jung, Hyung-Rock
• Primary Examiner(s): Trinh, Tan H
• Application Number:
  US14/838,600
• Publication Number:
  US 20160065724A1
• Time in Patent Office: 613 Days
• Field of Search: 4555561, 455 411, 455 412, 455423, 455 6711, 600509, 600453, 600374, 600465, 600485, 600504, 600587, 600301, 600300, 340 582, 34833301, 607 17, 607 4, 607 19, 482 8, 725 9, 702 19, 345156
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02438 with portable devices, e.g. worn by the patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/165 Evaluating the state of mind, e.g. depression, anxiety
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6898 Portable consumer electronic devices, e.g. music players, telephones, tablet computers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/743 Displaying an image simultaneously with additional graphical information, e.g. symbols, charts, function plots
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7435 Displaying user selection data, e.g. icons in a graphical user interface
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• 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

Abstract

A method and an electronic device are provided herein. The electronic device includes a processor. The processor may execute the method, including detecting, by a sensor, heart rate information while providing a content of the electronic device, determining, by a processor, an emotional quotient based on the detected heart rate information, and mapping the determined emotional quotient to the provided content.

Claims

1. A method in an electronic device, comprising:

receiving, by a communication module of the electronic device, a heart rate information of a user of the electronic device from an external electronic device operatively coupled to the electronic device during a duration when the user of the electronic device performs a call with a user of another electronic device, wherein the heart rate information of the user is detected using a first sensor of the external electronic device;

determining, by a processor of the electronic device, an emotional quotient of the user by calculating an average of numerical values representing emotional quotients corresponding to the heart rate information detected during the duration; and

mapping the determined emotional quotient to a provided content.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein a second sensor is included in the electronic device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first sensor and the second sensor are heart rate measurement sensors, and further comprising:

activating the second sensor; and

detecting the heart rate information of the user using the activated second sensor.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying on a display of the electronic device the determined emotional quotient that is mapped to the content while the content is provided.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the determined emotional quotient that is mapped to the content is displayed using at least one of an icon and a numerical value representing the determined emotional quotient.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the emotion quotient mapped to the content is displayed while the content is provided on the display which is included in the electronic device.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the emotion quotient mapped to the content is displayed while the content is provided through the display which is included in an external electronic device operatively coupled to the electronic device.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying whether a stored emotional quotient that is mapped to the provided content exists; and

when the stored emotional quotient that is mapped to the content exists, displaying on the display the stored emotional quotient that is mapped to the content.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the stored emotion quotient mapped to the content is displayed on the display which is included in the electronic device.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the stored emotion quotient mapped to the content is displayed through the display which is included in an external electronic device operatively coupled to the electronic device.

11. An electronic device comprising:

a communication module;

a display; and

a processor configured to;

receive, by the communication module of the electronic device, a heart rate information of a user of the electronic device from an external electronic device operatively coupled to the electronic device during a duration when the user of the electronic device performs a call with a user of another electronic device, wherein the heart rate information of the user is detected using a first sensor of the external electronic device;

determine an emotional quotient by calculating an average of numerical values representing emotional quotients corresponding to the heart rate information detected during the duration; and

map the determined emotional quotient to a provided content.

12. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to detect the heart rate information through a second sensor which is included in the electronic device.

13. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the first sensor and the second sensor are a heart rate measurement sensors, the processor further configured to:

detect the heart rate information by activating the second sensor of the electronic device.

14. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to control the display to display the determined emotion quotient that is mapped to the content while the content is provided.

15. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the processor is further configured to control the display to display the determined emotion quotient using at least one of an icon and a numerical value.

16. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the processor is further configured to control the display to display the emotion quotient mapped to the content while the content is provided.

17. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the processor is further configured to control a second display installed to an external electronic device operatively coupled to the electronic device to display the determined emotion quotient that is mapped to the content while the content is provided.

18. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to provide the content by:

identifying whether a stored emotion quotient that is mapped to the provided content exists; and

when the stored emotion quotient that is mapped to the content exists, controlling the display to display the stored emotion quotient that is mapped to the content.

19. The electronic device of claim 18, wherein the processor is further configured to control the display to display the stored emotion quotient mapped to the content.

20. The electronic device of claim 18, wherein the processor is further configured to display the stored emotion quotient mapped to the content through a second display which is included in an external electronic device operatively coupled to the electronic device.