Identification of a room among plural rooms where a movable electronic apparatus is located and/or moving to and display of content group corresponding to the identified room

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12360720-B2
Application number	US-202218082852-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 16, 2022
Priority date	Jun 16, 2020
Publication date	Jul 15, 2025
Grant date	Jul 15, 2025

Abstract

A movable electronic apparatus is provided. The movable electronic apparatus includes: a display; a processor configured to: identify that the electronic apparatus is located in a first space among a plurality of spaces, display an image of a first content group including at least one piece of first content corresponding to the first space among a plurality of pieces of content on the display, identify that the electronic apparatus moves from the first space to a second space, and display an image of a second content group including at least one piece of second content corresponding to the identified second space on the display.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A movable electronic apparatus comprising:
a display;
a memory;
at least one processor including processing circuitry operatively connected to the plurality of cameras, the display, and the memory,
wherein the memory stores instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
identify that the electronic apparatus is located in a first room among a plurality of rooms,
identify surrounding environments of the first room,
control the display to display an image of a first content group among a plurality of pieces of content, wherein the first content group includes at least one piece of first content corresponding to one or more user activities or user interests related to the first room, the image of the first content group including a background image identified based on the identified surrounding environments,
identify that the electronic apparatus moves from the first room to a second room,
identify surrounding environments of the second room, and
control the display to display an image of a second content group including at least one piece of second content corresponding to one or more user activities or user interests related to the second room, the image of the second content group including a background image identified based on the identified surrounding environments.

2. The electronic apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to: obtain information about a room where the electronic apparatus is located; and
identify that the electronic apparatus moves from the first room to the second room based on the obtained information and reference information set corresponding to the plurality of rooms.

3. The electronic apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the processor is configured to:
control the display to display a graphic user interface (GUI) for setting the reference information;
receive an input for setting the reference information through the displayed GUI; and
set the reference information based on the received input.

4. The electronic apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to: identify a user using the electronic apparatus among a plurality of users; and identify the content group corresponding to the identified user.

5. The electronic apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to:
identify an external device located within a specified proximity of the electronic apparatus; and
identify a room where the electronic apparatus is located based on a matching relationship between the identified external device and the plurality of rooms.

6. The electronic apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to: identify a moving distance of the electronic apparatus; and
identify a room where the electronic apparatus is located based on the identified moving distance.

7. The electronic apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to:
control the display to display a GUI for selecting any one among the plurality of rooms;
receive an input for selecting a room where the electronic apparatus is located through the displayed GUI; and
identify a room where the electronic apparatus is located based on the received input.

8. The electronic apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to identify a content group corresponding to the identified room based on priority of content previously defined according to the plurality of rooms.

9. The electronic apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to:
identify a surrounding environment of the identified room; and
control the display to display an image of the identified content group based on the identified surrounding environment.

10. The electronic apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the processor is configured to control the display to provide a GUI through which settings for an external device provided in the room may be changed based on the identified surrounding environment.

11. The electronic apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to:
identify a use history of the electronic apparatus; and
identify a content group corresponding to the identified room based on the identified use history of the electronic apparatus.

12. The electronic apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to control the display to display:
an image of first content corresponding to a first room identified as being the room in which the electronic apparatus is located among a plurality of pieces of content based on the identified first room among the plurality of rooms; and
the image of the first content and an image of a second content group corresponding to a second room, upon identifying that the electronic apparatus is located in the second room while displaying the image of the first content.

13. The electronic apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to:
identify a locational relationship between the electronic apparatus and a user within the identified room; and
control the display to display an image of the identified content group based on the identified locational relationship between the electronic apparatus and the user.

14. The electronic apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the processor is configured to control the display to display an image of the identified content group based on a distance between the electronic apparatus and the user.

15. A method of controlling a movable electronic apparatus, the method comprising:
identifying that the electronic apparatus is located in a first room among a plurality of rooms;
identifying surrounding environments of the first room,
displaying an image of a first content group among a plurality of pieces of content, wherein the first content group includes at least one piece of first content corresponding to one or more user activities or user interests related to the first room, the image of the first content group including a background image identified based on the identified surrounding environments;
identifying that the electronic apparatus moves from the first room to a second room;
identifying surrounding environments of the second room, and
displaying an image of a second content group including at least one piece of second content corresponding to one or more user activities or user interests related to the second room, the image of the second content group including a background image identified based on the identified surrounding environments.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kwon Jina
• Park Gamin
• Jung Kyunghwa
• Seo Jangwon
• Lee Sangjoon
• Kim Kitae
• Lee Byeongju

Classifications

• G06F11/3438

  monitoring of user actions (tracking the activity of the user H04L67/535) · CPC title

• G06Q50/10

  Services · CPC title

• H04N21/41407

  embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop (constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57) · CPC title

• H04N21/458

  Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules {; time-related management operations (arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast or during the distribution H04H20/10)} · CPC title

• H04N21/4667

  Processing of monitored end-user data, e.g. trend analysis based on the log file of viewer selections · CPC title