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US 10,375,749 · App. 16/182,479 · Granted Aug 6, 2019

Mobile device and method of pairing the same with electronic device

Inventors: Jae-woo Ko (Uiwang-si, KR); Jae-young Lee (Hwaseong-si, KR); Hyun-jung Kim (Suwon-si, KR)

H04W76/14 G02B27/0093 G02B27/017 G06F3/012 G06F3/013 G06K9/00597 G06K9/00671 G06K9/78 H04L63/0876 H04M1/7253 H04M1/72533 H04N21/4108 H04N21/41407 H04N21/4223 H04N21/42204 H04N21/42222 H04N21/44231 H04N21/8455 H04W4/21 H04W4/80 H04W12/06 H04W84/18 G02B2027/014 G02B2027/0138 G02B2027/0141 G02B2027/0178

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Patent No.: US 10,375,749
App. No.: 16/182,479
Granted: Aug 6, 2019
Kind: B2

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Abstract

Methods and devices are provided of pairing glasses with an electronic device is provided. The glasses store identification information and device information regarding a plurality of electronic devices, the device information being usable to pair the glasses with the plurality of electronic devices. The glasses obtain an image of at least one electronic device via a camera of the glasses. The glasses extract identification information of the at least one included in the image. The glasses select the electronic device based on the extracted identification information and the stored identification information. The glasses pair with the electronic device based on the device information of the electronic device.

Claims (59)

1. A method of pairing electronic devices by glasses, the method comprising:

determining, by the glasses, a first electronic device to pair with by tracking eyes of a user of the glasses;

performing, by the glasses, user authentication with the first electronic device based on feature points of irises of the user;

determining, by the glasses, a second electronic device to pair with by tracking the eyes of the user;

performing, by the glasses, user authentication with the second electronic device based on the feature points of the irises of the user; and

controlling, by the glasses, the first electronic device and the second electronic device to pair with each other.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

obtaining an image of the first electronic device and an image of the second electronic device by the tracking of eyes of the user; and

obtaining identification information of the first electronic device and identification information of the second electronic device by analyzing the image of the first electronic device and the image of the second electronic device, respectively,

wherein the determining of the first electronic device to pair with and the determining of the second electronic device to pair with are performed based on the identification information of the first electronic device and the identification information of the second electronic device.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the analyzing of the image of the first electronic device and the image of the second electronic device comprises:

extracting at least one feature of the first electronic device from the image of the first electronic device and at least one feature of the second electronic device from the image of the second electronic device; and

registering the at least one feature of the first electronic device as the identification information of the first electronic device and the at least one feature of the second electronic device as the identification information of the second electronic device.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the controlling of the first electronic device and the second electronic device to pair comprises:

controlling the second electronic device to continue to reproduce content which is reproduced by the first electronic device prior to the pairing between the first electronic device and the second electronic device.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the controlling of the first electronic device and the second electronic device to pair comprises:

controlling the second electronic device to receive information of the content from the first electronic device, and

wherein the continuing to reproduce the content is performed based on the received information of the content from the first electronic device.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the information of the content comprises a bookmark indicating a point of content being reproduced.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the bookmark comprises information of the user of the glasses.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein the controlling of the second electronic device to continue to reproduce the content comprises:

controlling the second electronic device to continue to reproduce the content from the point of the content indicated by the bookmark.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the tracking of the eyes of the user of the glasses is performed by capturing the eyes of the user of the glasses.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

extracting the features points of the irises of the user based on the capturing of the eyes of the user.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the controlling of the first electronic device and the second electronic device to pair comprises:

transmitting device information of the first electronic device to the second electronic device; and

controlling the second electronic device to pair with the first electronic device based on the device information of the first electronic device.

12. Glasses comprising:

an eye-tracking camera configured to obtain an image of eyes of a user of the glasses; and

a processor configured to:

track eyes of the user and extract feature points of irises of the user based on the obtained image of the eyes of the user,

determine first and second electronic devices to pair with based on the eyes of the user,

perform user authentication with the first and second electronic devices based on the feature points of the irises, and

control the first electronic device and the second electronic devices to pair with each other.

13. The glasses of claim 12 , further comprising:

a camera configured to obtain an image of the first electronic device and an image of the second electronic device based on the tracking of eyes of the user; and

wherein the processor is configured to obtain identification information of the first electronic device and identification information of the second electronic device by analyzing the image of the first electronic device and the image of the second electronic device, respectively, and

14. The glasses of claim 13 , wherein the analyzing of the image of the first electronic device and the image of the second electronic device comprises:

15. The glasses of claim 12 , wherein the controlling of the first electronic device and the second electronic device to pair comprises:

16. The glasses of claim 15 , wherein the controlling of the first electronic device and the second electronic device to pair comprises:

controlling the second electronic device to receive information of the content from the first electronic device, and

wherein the continuing to reproduce the content is performed based on the received information of the content from the first electronic device.

17. The glasses of claim 16 , wherein the information of the content comprises a bookmark indicating a point of content being reproduced.

18. The glasses of claim 17 , wherein the controlling of the second electronic device to continue to reproduce the content comprises:

controlling the second electronic device to continue to reproduce the content from the point of the content indicated by the bookmark.

19. The glasses of claim 12 , wherein the controlling of the first electronic device and the second electronic device to pair comprises:

transmitting device information of the first electronic device to the second electronic device; and

controlling the second electronic device to pair with the first electronic device based on the device information of the first electronic device.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions thereon that, when executed, cause at least one processor to perform operations comprising:

determining a first electronic device to pair with by tracking eyes of a user of the glasses;

performing user authentication with the first electronic device based on feature points of irises of the user;

determining a second electronic device to pair with by tracking the eyes of the user;

performing user authentication with the second electronic device based on the feature points of the irises of the user; and

controlling the first electronic device and the second electronic device to pair with each other.

Priority Claims (2)

KR 10-2014-0096764 · Jul 29, 2014 · national

KR 10-2015-0034042 · Mar 11, 2015 · national

Continuity (2)

Continuation 14811294 · Jul 28, 2015

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