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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018

Filed:

Dec. 03, 2013
Applicant:

Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;

Inventors:

Sanghyuck Lee, Seoul, KR;

Chulbae Lee, Seoul, KR;

Assignee:

LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); G09G 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00288 (2013.01); G06F 1/16 (2013.01); G06F 1/163 (2013.01); G06F 3/01 (2013.01); G06F 3/011 (2013.01); G06F 3/012 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/0412 (2013.01); G06F 3/14 (2013.01); G06F 3/167 (2013.01); G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G06K 9/00362 (2013.01); G09G 5/00 (2013.01); H04N 5/225 (2013.01); G09G 2340/14 (2013.01); G09G 2354/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed are a central control device capable of identifying a user and a control method thereof. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic device including: an electronic device body; an output unit disposed in the body and configured to output information; a sensing unit configured to sense a user's approach to the body; and a controller configured to identify the user whose approach has been sensed, and output information related to the identified user in a different manner according to a distance between the body and the user.


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