Abstract:
A terminal device is provided. The terminal device includes a multimedia part configured to play back a content, a communicator configured to perform communication, a short-range wireless communication module configured to share communication connection information with an external device, and when tagged with the external device while a content is played back, a controller configured to control the communicator to be connected to the external device according to the communication connection information and transmit a synchronization signal and the played back content. Accordingly, the terminal device shares a synchronized content with an external device using a User Interface (UI) for controlling a plurality of external devices.
Abstract:
An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device comprises a storage unit and a control unit. The storage unit stores a shared file shared by a plurality of virtual devices. If the control unit receives a request to change the shared file from a first virtual device from among the plurality of virtual devices, the control unit copies the shared file to generate a replacement file, and controls a second virtual device sought to share the shared file so as to refer to the replacement file. As such, the shared file is effectively protected, and the security of the electronic device is improved.
Abstract:
A method of determining a distance between devices, including receiving, by a device, a first signal from a target device, the first signal being associated with a first intensity; receiving, from a reference device located at a predetermined distance from the target device, intensity information corresponding to a second intensity associated with a second signal received by the reference device from the target device; and determining a distance between the device and the target device based on the first intensity and the intensity information corresponding to the second intensity.
Abstract:
An electronic apparatus operated based on an OS is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a storage to store the OS, a virtual device program capable of generating a virtual device executed based on the OS, and at least one program; and at least one processor to execute the virtual device program to generate the virtual device, and to execute the OS to determine whether a first program having an administration authority assigned by the OS from among the at least one program has access authority to data about the virtual device in response to an attempt to access the data from the first program and to selectively permit the access to the data based on the determined access authority. With this, the electronic apparatus may restrain the access to the virtual device or the data thereabout according to a presence of the access authority, thereby safely protecting the virtual device or the data.
Abstract:
Provided is an electronic device including a sensor configured to detect a power-off input regarding the electronic device; a processor; a memory for storing one or more programs and the processor being configured to execute the one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs include instructions for, when the power-off input is detected, monitoring opening of resources included in the electronic device by at least one process and, if a resource to be used by the at least one process is an important resource, preventing the resource from being opened.
Abstract:
An electronic apparatus and a method of controlling a plurality of devices by the electronic apparatus are provided. The method includes receiving data from a plurality of devices, determining a correlation between at least two devices among the plurality of devices on the basis of the received data, determining a position of a first device on the basis of the correlation, grouping the first device and another device positioned in the vicinity of the first device into one group, and automatically creating group information, and controlling the devices included in the group. The name of the first device may be automatically set using the group information.
Abstract:
A server is provided. The server includes a communication interface configured to perform communication with a plurality of user terminals, a storage configured to receive and store contents through the communication interface, the contents being transmitted from the plurality of user terminals, and a processor configured to, in response to a command to generate a slide show for sequentially displaying a plurality of slide images being received from a first user terminal that is one of the plurality of user terminals, generate the slide show by combining a target content of the first user terminal and a related content which is related to the target content from among the contents stored in the storage.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for identifying a neighboring device are provided. The method of identifying a neighboring device, which is performed in a user terminal, includes: obtaining identification information and location information of a plurality of neighboring devices that can wirelessly communicate with the user terminal; extracting the identification information of one of the neighboring devices, the neighboring device being in the actual location range within the field of vision of the user terminal; and using the extracted identification information to request that the neighboring device perform wireless communication with the user terminal. According to the method and apparatus, identification information of a neighboring device with which a user terminal desires to perform wireless communication can be obtained using a viewfinder or liquid crystal display of the user terminal.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for allowing a plurality of playback devices to stream content of a master device simultaneously is provided. When the master device selects one of the playback devices as a reference device and multicasts a synchronization packet to the playback devices, the playback devices determine a synchronization time by comparing their own synchronization packet reception time with a synchronization packet reception time of the reference device. When the master device streams content, into which a time stamp is inserted based on the time of the reference device, the playback devices play the content based on the determined synchronization time. Therefore, even when the playback devices have different network latencies from the master device, the playback devices may accurately perform synchronized content playback.