Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Hyun-Mi Park

Bong-Hee Kim

Min-Seung Song

Hyun-joo Kang

Sin-Ae Kim

Hye-Bin Park

Young-kyu Jin

In-sik Myung

Seung-eok Choi

Joo-kyung Woo

Sung-Ho Ryu

Seok-Tae Kim

Deok-Hee Jeong

A method of the present disclosure includes confirming second state information received from a second electronic device, confirming first state information of the first electronic device, comparing the first state information and the second state information with pre-set state information, and performing a function of the second electronic device by switching to the first electronic device according to the comparison result. Accordingly, since the first electronic device can be selected and controlled with a gesture or motion agreed between the first electronic device and the second electronic device, security can be enforced by avoiding an accident of data leakage, and selecting the second electronic device for controlling can be decreased.

Method for function control and electronic device thereof

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

Generated image for a display screen or portion thereof

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image display apparatus including: a selecting unit receiving instructions for selecting progress bars; a storage unit storing information on the progress bars including marks for helping a user to search predetermined scenes of content; and a control unit extracting a scene corresponding to the mark of the selected progress bar from the storage unit, and displaying the extracted scene.

Image display apparatus and method of controlling the same via progress bars

Provided are an apparatus and method of displaying multimedia contents, more particularly, an apparatus and method of displaying stored multimedia contents to accommodate a user's preference using limited buttons of a remote control device or a cellular phone. The apparatus for displaying multimedia contents includes an alignment condition determination unit determining an alignment condition corresponding to a first user command signal among a plurality of alignment conditions, a detailed condition determination unit determining a detailed condition corresponding to a second user command signal among detailed conditions included in the alignment condition, a contents extraction unit extracting first multimedia contents according to the determined detailed condition, and a display unit displaying the determined alignment condition in a first region, the determined detailed condition in a second region, and a second multimedia contents selected by a user among the extracted first multimedia contents in a third region of a screen.

Apparatus and method for displaying multimedia contents to accommodate a user's preference using limited buttons of a device

A method of providing a slide show includes selecting one of a plurality of images in which geographic position information is set, marking a plurality of positions corresponding to the plurality of images on a map based on geographic position information and outputting the map, setting an image search range on the map based on a position on the map, which corresponds to the selected image, and providing the slide show by using images corresponding to positions on the map, which belong to the set image search range.

Method and apparatus for providing slide show by using plurality of images

A method of allowing a portable device to provide a rich site summary (RSS) feed including information about renewal of contents, and an apparatus performing the method are provided. If contents of the portable device are renewed, the portable device generates an RSS feed for the renewed contents and sends the RSS feed to an RSS reader, and accordingly, a related art web-based RSS service is expanded to the portable device. Therefore, even if the user does not browse all contents of the portable device, a user of the portable device can easily see only information about contents that are recently updated using another device such as a personal computer (PC).

Method and apparatus for allowing a portable device to provide rich site summary service

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Hyun-Mi Park