Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Sungjoon Won

Doosuk Kang

James Powderly

Yun Jegal

Daesung Kim

Sehee Han

Jinyong Kim

Masato Watanabe

Hyojin Bae

Jieun Yang

Joah Choi

Dongseok Ryu

Jongsung Joo

Huichul Yang

Jihyun Yeon

San Cho

Jiyoung Moon

Hocheol Seo

A method of selecting an external electronic device connected with an electronic device is provided. The method determining, among the plurality of external electronic devices, at least one external electronic device connected with the electronic device, transmitting signals to the at least one external electronic device, receiving data corresponding to the signals from the at least one external electronic device, selecting one of the at least one external electronic device based on the received data and transmitting an operation execution signal for the data to the selected external electronic device. A method of selecting an external electronic device connected with electronic device is provided. The method includes receiving a signal from the electronic device, transmitting data corresponding to the signal to the electronic device, receiving an operation execution signal for the data from the electronic device and performing at least one of various operations according to the operation execution signal.

Mechanism to automatically manage input and output across connected wearable devices

A method of and device for providing help information are provided. The method includes identifying information about a function from a video displaying the function and meta-information related to the video; determining whether the user device supports the function based on the identified information; activating, when the user device supports the function, a help function for the function; and outputting help information about the function. The device includes a touch screen; and a controller configured to identify information about a function from a video displaying the function and meta-information related to the video; determine whether the user device supports the function based on the identified information; activate, when the user device supports the function, a help function for the function; and control the touch screen to output help information about the function.

Method and apparatus for providing help information and user device adapted to the method

Method of selecting an external electronic device connected with an electronic device and electronic device using same

An information display method for displaying diverse communication protocol information in order is provided. The communication protocol information display method of a mobile device includes discovering devices connectable through diverse communication protocols, displaying information on the discovered devices, displaying symbols of communication protocols supported by the discovered devices respectively, and displaying image objects associated with applications or functions for use in interoperation with the discovered devices.

Display method and mobile device

A tangible multimedia content playback method and apparatus is provided. The tangible multimedia content playback method includes extracting effect data from multimedia content, mapping the extracted effect data to a timeline of the multimedia content, establishing, when the multimedia content is played, a connection to at least one peripheral device pertaining to the effect data, and controlling the at least one peripheral device pertaining to the effect data to match with the timeline.

Tangible multimedia content playback method and apparatus

A data display method and apparatus display data efficiently on the screen of an electronic device equipped with a touchscreen. The data display method includes setting a scroll rate to a touch movement distance; detecting a touch gesture in a first region of the touchscreen; scrolling icons in the first region at the scroll rate in response to the touch gesture; and displaying detailed information associated with at least one icon newly displayed according to the scroll in a second region of the touchscreen.

Data display method and apparatus

A method for displaying an object in a portable terminal having a touch screen is provided. An object having a changeable attribute is first displayed. A first touch is detected at a first location, and the object is selected responsive to the first touch. A second touch is detected at a second location. An attribute of the displayed object is changed according to a drag of the second touch, and the object having the changed attribute is displayed.

Device and method for gesturally changing object attributes

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Seongnam-si, South Korea

Sungjoon Won