Multimedia equipment and method for handling multimedia situation

• US 10,031,914 B2
• Filed: 07/16/2015
• Issued: 07/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Huang, Chih-Yuan, Lai, Chien-Pan
• Primary Examiner(s): Vital, Pierre
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ho, Andrew N
• Application Number:
  US14/800,941
• Publication Number:
  US 20160062996A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,104 Days
• Field of Search: 707722
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/434 using image data, e.g. images, photos, pictures taken by a user
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0214 Foldable telephones, i.e. with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

In multimedia equipment and method for operation of a multimedia situation, a trigger event and a current time that an input device awakens multimedia equipment are detected. A matching situation is searched from a situation database according to the trigger event and the current time that are detected. A thumbnail of the matching situation from the situation database is acquired and displayed. A user operation of the displayed thumbnail of the matching situation is detected. A showing state of an application corresponding to the matching situation from the situation database is acquired. The application is shown according to the acquired showing state when the displayed thumbnail is selected. The disclosure can switch a situation automatically and start a corresponding application on condition that the multimedia equipment is awakened.

Claims

1. A method for handling multimedia situations applied for multimedia equipment, multimedia equipment electronically connected to at least one input device and at least one display device, the method comprising:

detecting a trigger event and a current time when the input device awakens the multimedia equipment from a sleep mode;

searching for matching situations from a situation database according to the trigger event and the current time that are detected, wherein the step of searching for the matching situations from the situation database of the multimedia equipment according to the trigger event and current time that are detected comprises;

comparing the trigger event and the current time that are detected with the trigger state and time of the input device corresponding to each situation that is stored in the situation database;

calculating a matching value,

searching for several situations with high matching value as the matching situations; and

saving the calculated matching value between each situation and the trigger event and the current time that are detected correspondingly in each situation of the situation database;

acquiring a thumbnail of the matching situations from the situation database and displaying on the display device a selectable thumbnail corresponding to the acquired thumbnail;

detecting user operations of the displayed thumbnail;

acquiring a showing state of an application corresponding to the matching situations pertaining to the selected thumbnail from the situation database to show the application according to the acquired showing state when the detected user operation indicates that the displayed thumbnail is selected; and

reducing the matching value between the matching situations and the trigger event and the current time that are detected while detecting that the thumbnail of the matching situations is cancelled;

deleting the matching situations and related data while detecting that the thumbnail of the matching situations is deleted;

increasing the matching value between the matching situations and the trigger event and the current time that are detected while detecting that the thumbnail of the matching situations is selected.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

regularly acquiring characteristic data that contains the trigger state of each input device and the display state of applications and the current time while the multimedia equipment is working;

searching for a similar situation template from a template database of the multimedia equipment according to the characteristic data and the current time acquired;

cutting off a current desktop screenshot from the display device;

establishing a temporary reference situation according to the similar situation template and the current desktop screenshot, regarding the characteristic data and the current time corresponding to the similar situation template as the characteristic data and the current time corresponding to the temporary reference situation, the current desktop screenshot as a thumbnail of the temporary reference situation;

estimating if a same situation with the temporary reference situation exists in the situation database or not;

updating the thumbnail of the temporary reference situation into the same situation of the situation database while the same situation with the temporary reference situation exists in the situation database;

otherwise,

storing the temporary reference situation as a new situation in the situation database, and correspondingly storing the thumbnail of the temporary reference situation and corresponding characteristic data and the current time.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the step of searching for the similar situation template from the template database of the multimedia equipment according to the characteristic data and the current time acquired comprises:

comparing the characteristic data and the current time acquired with each situation template of the template database, while the characteristic data acquired is the same as the characteristic data corresponding to a situation template, and the current time acquired belongs to a time periods corresponding to the situation template, then the situation template is the similar situation template.

4. A multimedia equipment electronically connected to at least one input device and at least one display device, comprising:

at least one processor;

a database;

a storage unit; and

one or more programs that are stored in the storage unit and executed by the at least one processor, the one or more programs comprising instructions for;

detecting a trigger event and a current time when the input device awakens the multimedia equipment from a sleep mode;

searching for matching situations from a situation database according to the trigger event and the current time that are detected, wherein the step of searching for the matching situations from the situation database of the multimedia equipment according to the trigger event and current time that are detected comprises;

comparing the trigger event and the current time that are detected with the trigger state and time of the input device corresponding to each situation that is stored in the situation database;

calculating a matching value,

searching for several situations with high matching value as the matching situations; and

saving the calculated matching value between each situation and the trigger event and the current time that are detected correspondingly in each situation of the situation database;

acquiring a thumbnail of the matching situations from the situation database and displaying on the display device a selectable thumbnail corresponding to the acquired thumbnail;

detecting user operations of the displayed thumbnail;

acquiring a showing state of an application corresponding to the matching situations pertaining to the selected thumbnail from the situation database to show the application according to the acquired showing state when the detected user operation indicates that the displayed thumbnail is selected; and

reducing the matching value between the matching situations and the trigger event and the current time that are detected while detecting that the thumbnail of the matching situations is cancelled;

deleting the matching situations and related data while detecting that the thumbnail of the matching situations is deleted;

increasing the matching value between the matching situations and the trigger event and the current time that are detected while detecting that the thumbnail of the matching situations is selected.

5. The multimedia equipment as claimed in claim 4, wherein the one or more programs further comprises instructions for:

regularly acquiring characteristic data that contains a trigger state of each input device and a display state of applications and the current time while the multimedia equipment is working;

cutting off a current desktop screenshot from the display device;

searching for a similar situation template from a template database of the multimedia equipment according to the characteristic data and the current time acquired;

establishing a temporary reference situation according to the similar situation template and the current desktop screenshot;

estimating if a same situation with the temporary reference situation exists in the situation database or not;

updating the thumbnail of the temporary reference situation into the same situation of the situation database while the same situation with the temporary reference situation exists in situation database;

otherwise,

storing the temporary reference situation as a new situation in situation database; and

correspondingly

storing the thumbnail of the temporary reference situation and corresponding characteristic data and the current time.

6. The multimedia equipment as claimed in claim 5, wherein the step of searching for a similar situation template from the template database of the multimedia equipment according to the characteristic data and the current time acquired further comprises:

comparing the characteristic data and the current time acquired with each situation template of the template database, while the characteristic data acquired is the same as the characteristic data corresponding to a situation template, and the current time acquired belongs to time periods corresponding to the situation template, then the situation template is the similar situation template.

7. The multimedia equipment as claimed in claim 5, wherein the step of establishing a temporary reference situation according to the similar situation template and the current desktop screenshot comprises:

regarding the characteristic data and the current time corresponding to the similar situation template as the characteristic data and the current time corresponding to the temporary reference situation;

regarding the current desktop screenshot as the thumbnail of the temporary reference situation.