User terminal device and control method therefor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10880425-B2
Application number	US-201916572741-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 17, 2019
Priority date	Jan 25, 2016
Publication date	Dec 29, 2020
Grant date	Dec 29, 2020

Abstract

Disclosed are a user terminal device and a control method therefor. The user terminal device includes a communication unit for communicating with a peripheral device; an audio output unit for outputting audios; and a control unit for controlling the communication unit to transmit, to the peripheral device, the audio of a second application corresponding to an event if the event occurs while the audio of a first application is output via the audio output unit. Accordingly, the user terminal device can output the audios of multiple applications by using the speaker of the user terminal device and at least one of peripheral devices.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A user terminal apparatus comprising
a communicator configured to communicate with a peripheral apparatus,
an audio outputter configured to output an audio signal,
a display, and
a processor configured to:
control the display to display a list including a plurality of first icons corresponding to a plurality of applications and a plurality of second icons each corresponding to a peripheral apparatus for outputting an audio signal of an application corresponding to each of the plurality of first icons,
in response to one of the plurality of second icons being selected, control the display to display a user interface (UI) for displaying a list including a plurality of third icons corresponding to be searched a plurality of available peripheral apparatuses for outputting an audio signal of an application corresponding to the selected second icon.

2. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second icons include an image corresponding to the peripheral apparatus for outputting audio signal.

3. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the processor is further configured to, in response to one of the plurality of third icons being selected, identify a peripheral apparatus for outputting the audio signal of an application corresponding to the selected third icon and change the image included the selected third icon to an image corresponding to the identified peripheral apparatus.

4. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to display a volume UI that controls the volume of the application, wherein the volume UI corresponding to the first icon is displayed together with the first icon.

5. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to, in response to identifying the peripheral apparatus for outputting the audio signal of the application corresponding to the selected third icon, control the communicator to transmit, to the identified peripheral apparatus, the audio signal of the application corresponding the selected third icon.

6. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the plurality of first icons and the plurality of second icons are displayed simultaneously.

7. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the plurality of first icons is displayed in a one to one correspondence with the plurality of second icons, such that each of the plurality of first icons is displayed adjacent only one of the plurality of second icons.

8. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a speaker for outputting audio.

9. A method for controlling a user terminal device, the method comprising:
displaying a list including a plurality of first icons corresponding to a plurality of applications and a plurality of second icons each corresponding to a peripheral apparatus for outputting an audio signal of an application corresponding to an each of the plurality of first icons,
in response to one of the plurality of second icons being selected, displaying a user interface (UI) for displaying a list including a plurality of third icons corresponding to be searched a plurality of available peripheral apparatuses for outputting an audio signal of an application corresponding to the selected second icon.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the second icons include an image corresponding to the peripheral apparatus for outputting an audio signal.

11. The method as claimed in claim 10 , further comprising: in response to one of the plurality of third icons being selected, identifying a peripheral apparatus for outputting the audio signal of an application corresponding to the selected third icon, and
changing the image included the second icon to an image corresponding to the identified peripheral apparatus.

12. The method as claimed in claim 9 , further comprising: displaying a volume UI that controls the volume of the application, wherein the volume UI corresponding to the first icon is displayed together with the first icon.

13. The method as claimed in claim 9 , further comprising: in response to identifying the peripheral apparatus for outputting the audio signal of the application corresponding to the selected third icon, transmitting, to the identified peripheral apparatus, the audio signal of the application corresponding the selected third icon.

14. The method as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the plurality of first icons and the plurality of second icons are displayed simultaneously.

15. The method as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the plurality of first icons is displayed in a one to one correspondence with the plurality of second icons, such that each of the plurality of first icons is displayed adjacent only one of the plurality of second icons.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Yoonkyong
• Kim Byoungoh
• Kim Chul-Joo
• Lee Sangjeong

Classifications

• H04W88/02

  Terminal devices · CPC title

• H04W4/80

  Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication · CPC title

• H04M2201/42

  Graphical user interfaces · CPC title

• H04M1/72442

  for playing music files · CPC title

• H04M1/72412 Primary

  using two-way short-range wireless interfaces · CPC title