Image/audio playback device of mobile communication terminal

• US 9,237,278 B2
• Filed: 06/02/2014
• Issued: 01/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Coranci, LLC
• Original Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Inventors: Lee, Sun-Dong
• Primary Examiner(s): Milord, Marceau
• Application Number:
  US14/294,097
• Publication Number:
  US 20140267897A1
• Time in Patent Office: 589 Days
• Field of Search: 455/556.1, 455/556.2, 455/563, 455/557, 348/383, 348/571, 348/575, 348/588
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1446 display composed of modules, e.g. video walls
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/70 Determining position or orientation of objects or cameras camera calibration G06T7/80
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/145 related to small screens
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2624 for obtaining an image which is composed of whole input images, e.g. splitscreen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2628 Alteration of picture size, shape, position or orientation, e.g. zooming, rotation, rolling, perspective, translation

Abstract

In an image/audio playback technology in a mobile communication terminal, a single image is divided into two halves, i.e., left-half and right-half images, which are displayed on two mobile communication terminals, respectively. In addition, two mobile communication terminals can play left-side and right-side audio data, respectively, which compose stereo audio data, according to the relative locations of the two mobile communication terminals.

Claims

1. An image playback device, comprising:

a controller to determine a first one of a plurality of divided image data from a singular image and a second one of the plurality of divided image data from the singular image to be displayed in different display units;

a communication interface to transmit the first one of the plurality of divided image data to a first display unit according to a relative location of the first display unit in relation to a second display unit; and

the second display unit to display the second one of the plurality of divided image data.

2. The image playback device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of divided image data comprise at least one of a photo, a moving picture, and an animation.

3. The image playback device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of divided image data is decoded image data.

4. The image playback device of claim 1, wherein the first display unit is disposed on a first housing and the second display unit is disposed on a second housing, the second housing being coupled to the first housing.

5. The image playback device of claim 4, wherein, according to a coupled state of the first housing and the second housing, the first one of the plurality of divided image data is displayed in the first display unit and the second one of the plurality of divided image data is displayed in the second display unit.

6. The image playback device of claim 1, wherein the first one of the plurality of divided image data is left-side image data and the second one of the plurality of divided image data is right-side image data if the relative location of the first display unit is to the left of the second display unit, and

the first one of the plurality of divided image data is right-side image data and the second one of the plurality of divided image data is left-side image data if the relative location of the first display unit is to the right of the second display unit.

7. The image playback device of claim 1, wherein the singular image has a size corresponding to the first display unit or the second display unit.

8. A method for displaying divided image data, the method comprising:

determining image data from a singular image to be displayed in different display units;

dividing the image data from the singular image into a plurality of divided image data;

transmitting a first one of the plurality of divided image data to one of a first display unit and a second display unit according to a relative location of the first display unit in relation to the second display unit, the first one of the plurality of divided image data being displayed in the one of the first display unit and the second display unit; and

displaying a second one of the plurality of divided image data in the other one of the first display unit and the second display unit.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the plurality of divided image data comprises at least one of a photo, a moving picture, and an animation.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the plurality of divided image data is decoded image data.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the first display unit is disposed on a first housing and the second display unit is disposed on a second housing, the second housing being coupled to the first housing.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein, according to a coupled state of the first housing and the second housing, the first one of the plurality of divided image data is displayed in the one of the first display unit and the second display unit and the second one of the plurality of divided image data is displayed in the other one of the first display unit and the second display unit.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

resizing a pixel size of the decoded image data.

14. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

resizing a pixel size of the first one of the plurality of divided image data.

15. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

resizing a pixel size of the second one of the plurality of divided image data.

16. The method of claim 8, wherein the first one of the plurality of divided image data is displayed in the first display unit and the second one of the plurality of divided image data is displayed in the second display unit,

wherein the first one of the plurality of divided image data is left-side image data and the second one of the plurality of divided image data is right-side image data if the relative location of the first display unit is to the left of the second display unit, and

wherein the first one of the plurality of divided image data is right-side image data and the second one of the plurality of divided image data is left-side image data if the relative location of the first display unit is to the right of the second display unit.