Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Soonkyu Lee

Jinyoung Kim

Min Ji Lee

Jongkwang Jung

Hanki Yoon

Taemin Kwon

An electronic device includes: an Application Processor (AP) including a CPU; and an audio processing unit configured to: receive an audio stream of M channels from the CPU, convert the M-channel audio stream into an N-channel audio stream, the N-channel being different from the M-channel, output the N-channel audio stream through an output device. The audio processing unit is further configured to: detect a connection with the external electronic device through an audio output interface; determine whether to stop the converting the M-channel audio stream into the N-channel audio stream, based on information received from the CPU; and transmit, via the audio output interface, the M-channel audio stream to the external electronic device in response to the determination of stopping the converting the M-channel audio stream into the N-channel audio stream.

Electronic device for converting number of audio channels, and electronic device operating method

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a plurality of audio output devices and at least one processor operatively connected to the plurality of audio output devices, wherein the at least one processor may be configured to identify orientation information of the electronic device, based on detecting an output of audio data, transmit, to each audio output device, channel information of audio data to be output by each of the plurality of audio output devices, based on the orientation information of the electronic device, and control the plurality of audio output devices so that each audio output device selects a channel and outputs audio data of the selected channel, based on the channel information.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Soonkyu Lee