Apparatus and method for synchronizing E-book content with video content and system thereof

• US 9,467,496 B2
• Filed: 03/23/2015
• Issued: 10/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Song, Myoung-Jong, Eom, Myung-Jin, Kim, Ik-Soo
• Primary Examiner(s): JACOBS, LASHONDA T
• Application Number:
  US14/665,873
• Publication Number:
  US 20150195332A1
• Time in Patent Office: 568 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/0291 for reading, e.g. e-books constructional details of portable computers G06F1/1613
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1431 using a single graphics controller
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/027 Arrangements and methods specific for the display of internet documents
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/14 Electronic books and readers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1094 Inter-user-equipment sessions transfer or sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43074 of additional data with content streams on the same device, e.g. of EPG data or interactive icon with a TV program

Abstract

A method of synchronizing a first device capable of displaying video content and including the video content, and a second device capable of displaying E-book content associated with the video content and including the E-book content. The first device is connected to the second device according to a specific protocol. In response to a specific event for the video content or the E-book content occurring in one of the first and second devices, the device in which the specific event occurs generates event information about the specific event and transmits it to the other of the first and second devices, and performs the specific event according to the event information. Upon receiving the event information, the other of the first and second devices performs the specific event according to the received event information in synchronization with the device in which the specific event occurred, using synchronization information between the video content and the E-book content.

Claims

1. A method for displaying at least one object, the method comprising:

detecting a predetermined first event;

displaying a first object of the first event in a first display region; and

displaying a second object associated with the first object in a second display region,

wherein the first object and the second object are synchronizingly displayed based on synchronization information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the predetermined first event includes a request for a playback or a search of multimedia content, the first object is the multimedia content and the second object is E-book content associated with the multimedia content.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the synchronization information includes information on frames of the multimedia content and information including at least one of page information and line information of the E-book content corresponding to the frames of the multimedia content.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein a part of the E-book content corresponding to the multimedia content is displayed in a predetermined scheme to distinguish from another part of the E-book content.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the predetermined first event includes a request for a display or a search of E-book content, the first object is the E-book content and the second object is multimedia content associated with the E-book content.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the synchronization information includes information on frames of the multimedia content and information including at least one of page information and line information of the E-book content corresponding to the frames of the multimedia content.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first display region and the second display region are in a same device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first display region is in a first device and the second display region is in a second device.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

transmitting, by the first device, information about the first event to the second device.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the synchronization information is acquired from a server.

10. The method of clam 1, wherein at least one of the first display region and the second display region includes a first search bar for searching in a total range of the first object or the second object and a second search bar for searching in a range corresponding to an object currently displayed in the first display region or the second display region.

12. At least one device for displaying at least one object, the device comprising:

a controller for detecting a predetermined first event;

a first display region for displaying a first object of the first event; and

a second display region for displaying a second object associated with the first object,

wherein the first object and the second object are synchronizingly displayed based on synchronization information.

13. The device of claim 12, wherein the predetermined first event includes a request for a playback or a search of multimedia content, the first object is the multimedia content and the second object is E-book content associated with the multimedia content.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein the synchronization information includes information on frames of the multimedia content and information including at least one of page information and line information of the E-book content corresponding to the frames of the multimedia content.

15. The device of claim 13, wherein a part of the E-book content corresponding to the multimedia content is displayed in a predetermined scheme to distinguish from another part of the E-book content.

16. The device of claim 12, wherein the predetermined first event includes a request for a display or a search of E-book content, the first object is the E-book content and the second object is multimedia content associated with the E-book content.

17. The device of claim 16, wherein the synchronization information includes information on frames of the multimedia content and information including at least one of page information and line information of the E-book content corresponding to the frames of the multimedia content.

18. The device of claim 12, wherein the first display region and the second display region are in a same device.

19. The device of claim 12, wherein the first display region is in a first device and the second display region is in a second device.

20. The device of claim 19, further comprising:

transmitting, by the first device, information about the first event to the second device.

22. The device of claim 12, wherein the synchronization information is acquired from a server.

21. The device of clam 12, wherein at least one of the first display region and the second display region includes a first search bar for searching in a total range of the first object or the second object and a second search bar for searching in a range corresponding to object currently displayed in the first display region or the second display region.