Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Min-sup Kim

Hyun-kyu Yun

Je-hwan Seo

Chae-young Lim

Jong-jin Park

Kyung-ik Cho

Jong-keun Lee

Suk-hoon Yoon

Ki-hyun Song

Won-jae Lee

Seung-il Yoon

Kwan-young Kim

Dong-wook Kim

Sang-Jin Kim

Byung-seok Soh

Ho-june Yoo

Yong-deok Kim

Do-sung Jung

Myoung-jun Lee

Jong-bo Moon

Jin Soo Seol

Jae-myung Hur

Moon-sung Na

Nam-su Ha

Min-ji Kim

Dae-woo Cho

Kun-ho Keum

Je-sun Hwang

Young-in Park

Eun-seo Kim

Young-hoon Moon

Woong-no Jung

Jong-ha Woo

Kyung-Ik Cho

A remote controller for controlling an external device by using voice recognition. The remote controller includes a microphone, at least one sensor, a communication interface, and a processor for controlling the microphone, the at least one sensor, and the communication interface. The controller identifies a user utterance intention based on utterance intention information of the remote controller and utterance intention information of the external device. The controller controls whether to supply power to the microphone according to a result of an identification of the user utterance intention, and controls the communication interface to transmit an electrical signal corresponding to a voice of user received through the microphone to a display device.

Remote controller for controlling an external device using voice recognition and method thereof

An electronic apparatus and a power controlling method thereof are provided. The electronic apparatus may include a wireless communicator that communicates with a remote controller, a wired communicator that connects with an external input device and a processor that controls the wireless communicator to transmit a control signal to the remote controller for turning off power of the connected external input device in response to receiving a signal from the remote controller for turning off power of the electronic apparatus.

Electronic apparatus for controlling a power state of an external apparatus and method thereof

A remote control apparatus is disclosed. The remote control apparatus comprises: a microphone; a communication unit; a storage unit for storing pattern information of a non-audible sound for identification of the locality of an external electronic device; and a processor for broadcasting, through the communication unit, information acquired on the basis of an ambient sound received through the microphone, and when a non-audible sound based on broadcasted information output from an electronic device is received through the microphone, comparing a pattern of the received non-audible sound with pattern information stored in the storage unit, and transmitting a pairing request signal to the electronic device on the basis of a comparison result.

Remote control apparatus and electronic device, and system including same

A display apparatus includes: a display; a bezel extended along at least a partial edge of the display and configured to cover the edge of the display; at least one signal transceiver configured to transmit a detection signal to the bezel and receive a reflection signal of the transmitted detection signal; and a controller configured to determine a touch position of a user on the bezel based on time taken from a point of time where the at least one signal transceiver transmits the detection signal to a point of time where the at least one signal transceiver receives the reflection signal.

Display apparatus and control method for determining touch position on bezel

An input device which includes a sensor, a microphone, a communicator, and a processor configured to, based on an operation of a user being identified based on a value sensed through the sensor, transmit utterance intention sensing information to an electronic device, based on a command to initiate a speech recognition and feedback information being received from the electronic device according to the utterance intention sensing information transmitted to the electronic device, activate the microphone and provide a feedback according to the feedback information, and transmit a voice signal received via the microphone to the electronic device.

Input device, electronic device, system comprising the same and control method thereof

A remote controller is provided. The remote controller includes an input interface; a communicator; a storage; and a processor configured to: transmit, to the display apparatus via the communicator, a signal indicating control instructions based on a user input received through the input interface, receive, from the display apparatus via the communicator, information related to a first control code for controlling a first source device of the at least one source device based on the control instructions, identify the first control code from a first control code set stored in the storage based on the information related to the first control code, and control the communicator to transmit a first control signal indicating the first control code to the first source device.

Remote controller, display apparatus, system and method for controlling thereof

A control method of an optical connector and a display apparatus is provided. More particularly, a control method of an optical connector and a display apparatus for changing output of audio according to combination of an optical cable and the optical connector may be provided. Some of the example embodiments provide a control method of an optical connector and a display apparatus which may output audio through one of an internal speaker and an external apparatus connected via an optical cable according to combination of an optical cable and an optical connector.

Optical connector and control method of display apparatus

A remote controller is provided. The remote controller includes a transmitter; a microphone configured to receive an audio signal output from an audio output apparatus; a communicator comprising communication circuitry configured to perform communication with a display apparatus connected to the audio output apparatus and to transmit the audio signal received through the microphone to the display apparatus; and a processor configured to control the transmitter to transmit to the audio output apparatus a signal for controlling a power of the audio output apparatus based on information indicating whether there is a test tone in an audio signal received by the microphone and received from the display apparatus.

Remote controller, display apparatus and controlling method thereof

A remote controller includes a communicator and a processor configured to control the communicator to transmit an identification information request signal to a plurality of electronic apparatuses paired with the remote controller. Based on a signal that includes identification information being received from two or more of the plurality of electronic apparatuses in response to the identification information request signal, the processor controls the communicator to identify a direction of the remote controller based on a direction from which each of the signals is received. The processor causes communication to be performed via an exclusive communication channel between the remote controller and one of the plurality of electronic apparatuses based on the identified direction.

Remote controller and control method thereof

A display apparatus and a method. The display apparatus may include a display, an interface configured to be connected with an output terminal of a source device, a main processor configured to control an operation of the display apparatus and a sub-processor configured to identify whether the output terminal of the source device is connected with the interface. The main processor may identify whether the source device is turned on if the display apparatus is in a first state, and the sub-processor may identify whether the source device is turned on if the display apparatus is in a second state. The main processor may control the display to display a UI based on one or more of whether the interface is connected to the output terminal of the source device and whether the source device is turned on.

Display apparatus and control method thereof

A remote control apparatus is provided. The remote control apparatus according to an embodiment includes a microphone, a communicator comprising communication circuitry configured to transmit a first advertising packet, and to receive a second advertising packet including respective addresses of a plurality of electronic apparatuses from the plurality of electronic apparatuses in response to transmission of the first advertising packet, and a processor configured to, based on the second advertising packet being received, determine a priority based on reception characteristic of the second advertising packet, and transmit a third advertising packet including a sound output request and an address of an electronic apparatus determined based on the priority from among the received addresses of the plurality of electronic apparatuses through the communicator, and based on sound output from an electronic apparatus being received through the microphone in response to transmission of the third advertising packet, to control the communicator to perform a pairing with the electronic apparatus which outputs the sound.

Remote control, electronic apparatus and pairing method thereof

An image display apparatus and a method of operating the same are provided. The image display apparatus includes a display configured to display a screen, and a communicator configured to communicate with a control device. The image display apparatus further includes a processor configured to control the communicator to transmit an activation signal to the control device, in response to the image display apparatus being in a pre-set state, control the communicator to receive a control signal corresponding to a wheel key input that is sensed by the control device in response to the activation signal being transmitted, and control an operation of the image display apparatus, according to an interaction that is determined based on the control signal that is received and state information of the screen.

Image display device and operating method for the same

An electronic apparatus includes a storage configured to store a plurality of IR code sets corresponding to a plurality of external electronic apparatuses, a communicator configured to perform communication with at least one of the plurality of external electronic apparatuses and a remote control apparatus, and a processor configured to, in response to an operation corresponding to a test code included in one of the plurality of IR code sets being performed in the external electronic apparatus, determine an IR code set including the test code as an IR code set corresponding to the external electronic apparatus, and transmit, to the remote control apparatus, a command to map the determined IR code set to the remote control apparatus.

Electronic apparatus and controlling method thereof

A remote control apparatus is disclosed. The remote control apparatus includes: a motion detecting sensor for detecting a motion on the remote control apparatus; a touch sensor for detecting a touch input on the remote control apparatus; and a controller for controlling an external apparatus by selectively using a sensing value of the touch sensor and a sensing value of the motion detecting sensor according to whether the touch input corresponds to a touch input for controlling the external apparatus.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Min-sup Kim