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1. FIG 3B and FIG are diagrams illus trating an operation of automatically displaying a related application corresponding to a type of an external accessory ina wireless terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention DETAILED DESCRIPTION 0023 Hereinafter an exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings It should be noted that like sym bols indicate like components throughout the drawings 0024 FIG 1 is a block diagram of a wireless terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present inven tion 0025 Referring now to FIG 1 a Radio Frequency RF unit 123 preferably performs a wireless communication func tion of the wireless terminal The RF unit 123 preferably includes an RF transmitter for up converting a frequency of a transmission signal and amplifying the transmitted signal and an RF receiver for low noise amplifying a received signal and down converting the frequency ofthe received signal The RF Unit may of course include a transceiver A data processor 120 includes a transmitter for encoding and modulating the transmission signal and a receiver for demodulating and decoding the received signal In other words the data proces sor 120 may include a modem and a codec Herein the codec includes a data codec for processing packet data and an audio codec for processing an audio signal such as voice An audio2. applications related to the input device 7 The apparatus of claim 6 wherein the one or more applications comprise at least one of a text application an email application a document application a memo applica tion a message application or a social network service appli cation 8 The apparatus of claim 1 wherein at least one ofthe first external apparatus or the second external apparatus is config ured to be operatively coupled with the apparatus via a wire less communication 9 The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the controller is con figured to provide via a corresponding one ofthe first home screen or the second home screen one or more applications related to the first external apparatus or the second exter nal apparatus respectively based at least in part on use information of the one or more applications 08 2014 0256381 1 10 apparatus of claim 1 wherein controller is configured to provide via a corresponding one of the first home screen or the second home screen one or more applications related to the first external apparatus or the second exter nal apparatus respectively based at least in part on priorities of the one or more applications 11 The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the controller is configured to provide via a corresponding one of the first home screen or the second home screen at least one of an image or a text indicating that the apparatus is operatively coupled with the fi
3. processor 125 reproduces an audio signal being output from the audio codec of the data processor 120 or transmits an audio signal generated from a microphone to the audio codec of the data processor 120 0026 key input unit 127 preferably includes keys for inputting numeric and character information and function keys for setting various functions 0027 memory 130 which is a non transitory machine readable medium includes program and data memories The program memory stores programs for controlling a general operation of the wireless terminal and a program for auto matically displaying related applications corresponding to a type of an external accessory connected to the wireless ter minal 0028 According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention the memory 130 also stores a mapping table where each external accessory type and related applica tions corresponding thereto are stored The related applica tions are stored according to their priorities The priorities can be a default and or user set 0029 The related applications corresponding to each external accessory type stored in the mapping table and the priorities of the related applications may be set manually by user s setting or automatically according to a type of an Sep 11 2014 application used in connection of an external accessory to the wireless terminal and the frequency of use of the application or applications 0030 Metadata ofa relate
4. be con nected to various external accessories e g a vehicle cradle a keyboard or the like 0011 However to use an application available according to a type of an external accessory connected to the wireless terminal the wireless terminal s user has to inconveniently search for the application available according to the type of the connected external accessory on a menu screen or a plu rality of home screens where a plurality of applications are displayed Sep 11 2014 SUMMARY 0012 Accordingly an exemplary aspect of the present invention is to provide a device and method that permits access to an application for an external accessory in a wireless terminal in a far less cumbersome manner than known here tofore by which related applications corresponding to a type external accessory connected to a wireless terminal can be displayed without having to sift through the plurality of non relevant applications The access to the application may be direct access The relevant applications which are also referred to as related applications are suited to the particular external accessory meaning if there are applications that are non operable in conjunction with the external accessory they will not be displayed 0013 Another exemplary aspect of the present invention is to provide a device and method that permits access to an application for an external accessory in a wireless terminal by which the wireless terminal
5. can be connected to the exter nal accessory through wired communication wireless com munication or augmented reality 0014 Yet another exemplary aspect of the present inven tion is to provide a device and method that permits access to an application for an external accessory in a wireless termi nal by which related applications for an external accessory connected to the wireless terminal may be arranged and dis played according to their priorities 0015 A further exemplary aspect of the present invention is to provide a device and method that permits access to an application for an external accessory in a wireless terminal by which a home screen can be displayed from among a plurality of home screens of the wireless terminal on which related applications for an external accessory connected to the wireless terminal are arranged according to their priori ties 0016 Another exemplary aspect of the present invention is to provide a device and method that permits access to an application for an external accessory in a wireless terminal by which an environment of the wireless terminal can be automatically reset according to a type of an external acces sory connected to the wireless terminal 0017 According to an exemplary aspect of the present invention there is provided a device that permits access to an application for an external accessory in a wireless terminal the device including a display unit for displaying related
6. may be displayed 0048 The display unit 160 preferably displays related applications for an external accessory connected to the wire less terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention 0049 Global Positioning System GPS receiver 170 receives information about a current location of the wireless terminal An artisan should understand and appreciate that a system other than GPS may also be used with the presently claimed invention 0050 The wireless communication unit 180 performs communication with a connectable external accessory in the vicinity of the wireless terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention 0051 With reference to FIGS 2 through 3C a detailed description will be made of an operation of providing a related application corresponding to an external accessory type in a wireless terminal 0052 FIG 2 is a flowchart illustrating an exemplary pro cess of automatically displaying a related application corre sponding to external accessory type in a wireless terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present inven tion 0053 The exemplary embodiment ofthe present invention will now be described in detail with reference to FIGS 2 through 3C in conjunction with FIG 1 0054 Referring now to FIG 2 when an external accessory is connected to the wireless terminal the controller 110 senses the connection in step 201 and determines a type of the external accesso
7. the camera unit 140 in the unit of a frame and outputs frame image data adaptively to the features and size of the display unit 160 The image processor 150 preferably includes an image codec and compresses the frame image data displayed on the display unit 160 in a preset manner or restores the compressed frame image data to the original frame image data Herein the image codec may be Joint Picture Experts Group JPEG codec Moving Picture Experts Group 4 MPEG4 codec or Wavelet codec It is assumed that the image processor 150 has an on screen display OSD func tion The image processor 150 may output OSD data accord ing to the displayed picture size under the control of the controller 110 0047 Thedisplay unit 160 displays an image signal output from the image processor 150 on the screen and displays user data output from the controller 110 Herein the display unit 160 may be a Liquid Crystal Display LCD and in this case the display unit 160 may include an LCD controller a memory capable of storing image data an LCD element and so on Other types of thin film technology displays and hybrids thereof may be used including but not limited to Light emitting diode LED organic light emitting diode OLED active matrix organic light emitting diode AMOLED super AMOLED etc When the LCD is imple mented with a touch screen it may serve as an input unit In this case on the display unit 160 keys such as the key input unit 127
8. INTERNET MAIN MENU Patent Application Publication Sep 11 2014 Sheet 4 of 4 US 2014 0256381 A1 160 AM 10 43 gm d Gm f TV VIDEO MUSIC DIGITAL FRAME READER S HUB 6 E E MAIL gog MELON YOUTUBE SMART EDU 100 INTERNET 160 Fu TS FIG 3C 08 2014 0256381 1 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING APPLICATION FOR EXTERNAL ACCESSORY IN WIRELESS TERMINAL CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS 0001 The present application is a Continuation of U S patent application Ser No 13 360 974 filed on Jan 30 2012 which claims the benefit under 35 U S C 119 a ofa Korean Patent Application filed in the Korean Intellectual Property Office on Apr 28 2011 and assigned Serial No 10 2011 0040015 the entire disclosure of which is hereby incorpo rated by reference in its entirety BACKGROUND 0002 1 Technical Field 0003 The present disclosure relates to a method and device for providing an application for an external accessory in a wireless terminal More particularly the present disclo sure is related to a method and a device for providing an application for an external accessory ina wireless terminal in which related applications can be displayed 0004 2 Description of the Related Art 0005 With recent developments in electronic engineering and communication engineering wireless terminals are now equipped with more functions than known heretof
9. US 20140256381 1 as United States a2 Patent Application Publication Pub No US 2014 0256381 A1 KIM et al 43 Pub Date Sep 11 2014 54 71 72 73 21 22 63 30 Apr 28 2011 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING APPLICATION FOR EXTERNAL ACCESSORY IN WIRELESS TERMINAL Applicant SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD Gyeonggi do KR Inventors KIM Seoul KR Jin PARK Gyeonggi do KR Yong Soo JEONG Seoul KR Assignee SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS LTD Gyeonggi do KR Appl No 14 279 626 Filed May 16 2014 Related U S Application Data Continuation of application No 13 360 974 filed on Jan 30 2012 now Pat No 8 731 614 Foreign Application Priority Data Aur ue 10 2011 0040015 KR Publication Classification 51 Int Cl 04 1 725 2006 01 52 10 CPC H04M 1 72563 2013 01 04 1 72527 2013 01 455 557 57 A method and device for providing an application for external accessory in a wireless terminal by which related applications corresponding to a type of an external accessory connected to a wireless terminal can be displayed Instead of sifting through applications or searching for the appropriate ones for the external accessory the invention causes them to be displayed To this end the device includes a display unit for displaying related applications for an external accessory connected to the
10. applications for an external accessory connected to the wire less terminal and a controller for sensing a particular type of the external accessory connected to the wireless terminal and extracting and displaying related applications for the external accessory 0018 According to even another exemplary aspect of the present invention there is provided a method that permits to an application for an external accessory in a wireless termi nal the method including if an external accessory is con nected to the wireless terminal sensing a type of the external accessory connected to the wireless terminal and if the type ofthe external accessory is sensed extracting and displaying related applications for the external accessory BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 0019 above and other features and advantages of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention will become more apparent to a person of ordinary skill in the art from the 08 2014 0256381 1 following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which 0020 FIG 1 is a block diagram of a wireless terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present inven tion 0021 FIG 2 is a flowchart illustrating an exemplary pro cess of automatically displaying a related application corre sponding to a type of an external accessory in a wireless terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention and 0022 FIG
11. ay related information for the displayed applica tions on a particular region of the home screen For example when a vehicle cradle is connected to the wireless terminal related information the car may be displayed on a par ticular region of a home screen on which related applications are displayed The particular region can be user designated with an automatic default 0045 With continued reference to FIG 1 a camera unit 140 captures an image and may include a camera sensor for converting an optical signal of the captured image into an electrical signal and a signal processor for converting an analog image signal of the image captured by the camera sensor into digital data Herein it is assumed that the camera sensor comprises a Charge Coupled Device CCD sensor or a Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor CMOS sen sor and the signal processor may be implemented as a Digital Signal Processor DSP In addition the camera sensor and the signal processor may be implemented as one integrated unit or separately Sep 11 2014 0046 image processor 150 performs Image Signal Processing ISP to display an image signal output from the camera unit 140 on the display unit 160 The ISP executes functions such as gamma correction interpolation space conversion image effect image scale Auto White Balance AWB Auto Exposure AE and Auto Focus AF Thus the image processor 150 processes the image signal output from
12. ccessories from the particular server the controller 110 dis plays the external accessory types and the related information on an augmented reality screen and automatically connects the wireless terminal to an external accessory selected by a user from among the displayed external accessories through wireless communication The external accessory includes a wireless communication unit for wireless communication 0059 The external accessories displayed on the aug mented reality screen of the display unit 160 may be dis played as images indicating the external accessories 0060 At step 203 once the type of the connected external accessory is determined the controller 110 extracts related applications for the external accessory through a mapping table stored in the memory 130 0061 The mapping table stores external accessory types and related applications corresponding thereto in which the related applications are stored according to their priorities While it is preferred to use a mapped table an artisan should understand and appreciate that the claimed invention can function with other ways to store and retrieve the information 0062 The external accessory types and the related appli cations corresponding to the external accessory types stored in the mapping table may be set manually by user s setting or automatically according to a type of an application used in connection of an external accessory to the wireless terminal and th
13. connected to the wireless terminal a title related information using in the car may be displayed on a particular region of a home screen when a keyboard is connected to the wireless terminal a title related information using keyboard may be displayed on a particular region of a home screen 0068 When an external accessory is connected to the wireless terminal the controller 110 may automatically reset an environment of the wireless terminal according to a type of the connected external accessory For example when a media cradle is connected to the wireless terminal an environment of the wireless terminal may be automatically reset such that a volume in the wireless terminal is adjusted to a predeter mined value or more a manner mode is switched to a ring mode and the use of a battery is activated 0069 When there is no connection of an external acces sory to the wireless terminal the controller 110 displays a type of an external accessory through user s selection of a particular menu and displays related information latest use information and related applications of the external acces sory selected by the user 0070 If there is no related application in the wireless terminal when an external accessory is connected to the wire less terminal the controller 110 may sense the absence thereof and display applications which are not registered as related applications among applications of the wireless ter minal or r
14. d application may include infor mation about a corresponding external accessory type and information about a priority of the related application 0031 A controller 110 controls overall operation of the wireless terminal 0032 According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention once an external accessory is connected to the wireless terminal the controller 110 extracts related applications corresponding to a type of the connected exter nal accessory and displays the extracted related applications display unit 160 0033 According to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention the controller 110 senses a type of an external accessory connected to the wireless terminal through wired communication and extracts and displays related applications corresponding to the sensed type of the external accessory 0034 According to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention the controller 110 searches for types of connectable external accessories in the vicinity of the wire less terminal through wireless communication typically through wireless communication unit 180 displays the found types of the external accessories adapted for coupling therewith and couples any selected by the user from among the found external accessories to the wireless terminal 0035 According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention the controller 110 searches for types of connectable external accessories in the
15. e frequency of use of the application 0063 At step 204 the controller 110 arranges the related applications extracted in step 203 according to the priorities of the applications and displays them on the display unit 160 0064 In step 204 the controller 110 may arrange and display the related applications according to the priorities of the applications on a default home screen among a plurality of home screens 0065 The controller 110 maps each of the plurality of home screens of the wireless terminal to a home screen cor responding to an external accessory type to separately display related applications for the external accessory on the corre sponding home screen Thus by displaying the home screen mapped to the external accessory among the plurality ofhome Sep 11 2014 screens in step 204 the controller 110 may arrange and dis play the related applications according to the priorities of the applications on the home screen 0066 Inaddition at step 204 the controller 110 may delete an application selected by the user from among the displayed related applications or add an application selected on a menu screen or another home screen to the related applications for the external accessory 0067 Moreover at step 204 the controller 110 may dis play related information for the displayed applications on a particular region of the home screen where the related appli cations are displayed For example when a vehicle cradle is
16. elect a home screen from the plurality of home screens basedat least in part on a determination that the home screen is mapped to the vehicle and displaying via a display the home screen including an image corresponding to an application related to the vehicle 20 The apparatus of claim 19 wherein the controller is configured to provide via the display a first image or a first text indicat ing that the vehicle corresponds to a first vehicle and provide via the display a second image or a second text indicating that the vehicle corresponds to a second vehicle
17. equest download of a related application 0071 FIGS 3A and 3B are exemplary screen illustrations operation of automatically displaying a related applica tion corresponding to an external accessory type in a wireless terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention 0072 As shown in FIG when a vehicle cradle 300a is coupled to a wireless terminal 100 on the display unit 160 of the wireless terminal 100 may be displayed a home screen on which related applications which are available through con nection of the vehicle cradle 300a are arranged according to their priorities The related applications may be applications such as a navigation application a map application a traffic condition application and so forth which are frequently used when the wireless terminal 100 is coupled to the vehicle cradle 300a 0073 When the vehicle cradle 300a is connected to the wireless terminal 100 an environment i e external indica tions of the wireless terminal 100 15 reset according to the connected vehicle cradle 300a For example a ring mode may be switched to a vibration mode or a volume of a ring tone may be reduced to a predetermined value orless and a type of the environment reset in the wireless terminal 100 may be changed by user s selection 0074 shown in FIG 3B when a keyboard 3005 15 coupled to the wireless terminal 100 on the display unit 160 ofthe wireless terminal 100 may be displa
18. in hardware firmware or via the execution of software or computer code that can be stored in a recording medium such as a CD ROM an RAM a floppy disk a hard disk or a magneto optical disk or com puter code downloaded over a network originally stored on a remote recording medium or a non transitory machine read able medium and to be stored on alocal recording medium so that the methods described herein can be rendered in such software that is stored on the recording medium using a general purpose computer or a special processor or in pro grammable or dedicated hardware such as an ASIC or FPGA Sep 11 2014 As would be understood in the art the computer the proces sor microprocessor controller orthe programmable hardware include memory components e g RAM ROM Flash etc that may store or receive software or computer code that when accessed and executed by the computer processor or hard ware implement the processing methods described herein In addition it would be recognized that when a general purpose computer accesses code for implementing the processing shown herein the execution of the code transforms the gen eral purpose computer into a special purpose computer for executing the processing shown herein What is claimed is 1 An apparatus comprising a memory to store first information associated with a first home screen and second information associated with a second home screen and a controller operatively c
19. ode a volume may be increased to a predetermined value or more or a small capac ity battery may be activated for use A type of the environ mental reset in the wireless terminal 100 may be changed by user s selection 0079 While related applications are displayed in the wire less terminal when an external accessory such as a vehicle cradle a keyboard or a media player is connected to the wireless terminal in FIGS 3A through 3C the above de scribed operation of the present invention may be performed through any external accessory connectable to the wireless terminal such as medical instrument an exercise machine etc 0080 As can be seen from the foregoing description according to the method and device for providing a related application for an external accessory in a wireless terminal only a related application for an external accessory connected to the wireless terminal is automatically displayed thereby facilitating the use of the related application for the external accessory 0081 While a detailed exemplary embodiment such as a wireless terminal has been described in the present invention various changes may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention Accordingly the scope of the present invention should be defined by the claims and equiva lents thereof rather than the described exemplary embodi ment 0082 above described methods according to the present invention can be implemented
20. ore In other words as wireless communication and data processing technologies have rapidly developed users of communica tion devices such as wireless terminal not only can access voice communication but can also access other functions such as Internet services video communication and moving picture message transmission through such wireless termi nals 0006 With the widespread popularity of wireless termi nals a larger amount of communication occurs wirelessly than ever known In this regard wireless terminals have been recognized as becoming an indispensable communication means for the modern life 0007 Inline with the development of wireless terminals the development of services provided through the wireless terminals and applications processed in wireless terminals are also increasing and becoming more diversified 0008 At present once an application is downloaded in a wireless terminal the downloaded application is stored and displayed on a menu screen in an order in which it is down loaded This order may not be reflective of a frequency of usage 0009 user of the wireless terminal selects a frequently used application from among a plurality of applications cur rently displayed on the menu screen and moves the selected application to a corresponding one of a plurality of home screens of the wireless terminal to display the application on the home screen 0010 addition to the wireless terminal may
21. ormation about the priority of the related application may be included in the metadata of the related application 0038 According to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention the controller 110 may arrange and display the extracted related applications for the external accessory according to priorities previously set i e pre set priorities of the related applications In this case the related applications 08 2014 0256381 1 may be displayed a home screen which is set by default from among a plurality of home screens of the wireless ter minal 0039 According to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention the controller 110 may map each of the plurality of home screens of the wireless terminal to a home screen corresponding to an external accessory type to display related applications for the external accessory on the corre sponding home screen 0040 Thus the controller 110 by displaying a home screen corresponding to the type of the external accessory connected to the wireless terminal from among the plurality of home screens of the wireless terminal on the display unit 160 may arrange and display the extracted related applica tions for the external accessory on the home screen according to previously set i e pre set priorities of the related appli cations 0041 According to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention the controller 110 may perform edit func tions such as dele
22. oupled with the memory the con troller configured to provide via a display the first home screen using the first information based at least in part on a determination that the apparatus is operatively coupled with a first external apparatus and provide via the display the second home screen using the second information based at least in part on a determi nation that the apparatus is operatively coupled with a second external apparatus 2 The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the first external apparatus comprises a vehicle and wherein the first home screen comprises one or more applications related to the vehicle 3 The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the one or more applications comprise at least one of a map application a traffic application a location based service application or a navigation application 4 The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the second external apparatus comprises an accessory related to media and wherein the second home screen comprises one or more applications related to the accessory 5 The apparatus of claim 4 wherein the one or more applications comprise at least one of a broadcasting applica tion a video application a music application an image viewer application a media streaming service application or an education application 6 The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the first external apparatus comprises an input device to obtain a user input and wherein the first home screen comprises one or more
23. rnal device Sep 11 2014 16 The method of claim 15 wherein the home screen is selected further based on a determination that the external device comprises a vehicle and wherein the application com prises at least one of a map application a traffic application a location based service application or a navigation applica tion 17 The method of claim 15 wherein the home screen is selected further based on a determination that the external device comprises an accessory operable to play media and wherein the application comprises at least one broadcast ing application a video application a music application an image viewer application a media streaming service appli cation or an education application 18 The method of claim 15 wherein the home screen is selected further based on a determination that the external device comprises an input device to obtain a user input and wherein the application comprises at least one of a text appli cation an email application a document application a memo application a message application or a social network ser vice application 19 An apparatus comprising a memory to store information associated with a plurality of home screens the plurality of home screens including a home screen mapped to at least one vehicle and a controller operatively coupled with the memory the con troller configured to identify a vehicle operatively coupled with the elec tronic device s
24. rst external apparatus or the second external appa ratus respectively 12 The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the controller is configured to provide a first application corresponding to the first exter nal apparatus as part of the first home screen and provide a second application corresponding to the second external apparatus as part of the second home screen 13 The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the controller is configured to use a first specified setting for the apparatus based at least in part on the determination that the apparatus is opera tively coupled with the first external apparatus and use a second specified setting for the apparatus based at least in part on the determination that the apparatus is operatively coupled with the second external apparatus 14 The apparatus of claim 13 wherein each of the first specified setting and the second specified setting comprises a setting associated with at least one ofa ring tone a volume a battery a vibration a ring mode or the display 15 A method comprising identifying at an electronic device operable to provide a plurality ofhome screens an external device operatively coupled with the electronic device selecting a home screen from the plurality of home screens based at least in part on a determination that the home screen is mapped to the external device and displaying via a display the home screen including an image corresponding to an application related to the exte
25. ry connected to the wireless terminal in step 202 08 2014 0256381 1 0055 external accessory may be connected to wireless terminal through wired communication wireless communication or augmented reality 0056 Inthe case where the connection is through wireless communication the controller 110 searches for the types of connectable external accessories in the vicinity of the wire less terminal displays the found types of connectable exter nal accessories on the display unit 160 and automatically connects the wireless terminal to an external accessory selected by a user from among the displayed external acces sories through wireless communication The external acces sory preferably includes a wireless communication unit for wireless communication 0057 The external accessories displayed on the display unit 160 may also be displayed together with images indicat ing the external accessories and related information of the external accessories 0058 In the case of augmented reality during an aug mented reality search mode selected by the user the control ler 110 transmits current location information of the wireless terminal to a particular server which is received through the GPS receiver 170 and the particular server stores a location and information of an external accessory Upon receiving types of external accessories located in the vicinity of the wireless terminal and related information of the external a
26. ting or adding an application during display of the related applications corresponding to the type of the connected accessory on the display unit 160 0042 According to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention the controller 110 automatically resets an environment of the wireless terminal according to the type of the external accessory connected to the wireless terminal For example an environment of the wireless terminal may be automatically reset such that if the wireless terminal is con nected to a vehicle cradle a volume may be automatically adjusted to a predetermined value or less or if the wireless terminal is connected to a media external accessory a volume may be adjusted to a predetermined value or more or amanner mode may be switched to a ring mode A type of the environ ment of the wireless terminal corresponding to the external accessory type may be changed by user s selection 0043 According to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention the controller 110 may provide home screens on which related applications corresponding to an external accessory type are displayed according to user s selection regardless of connection of an external accessory 0044 According to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention when related applications for an external accessory connected to the wireless terminal on a correspond ing home screen of the display unit 160 the controller 110 may displ
27. vicinity of the wire less terminal in an augmented reality search mode displays the found types of the connectable external accessories on an augmented reality screen and connects any type selected by the user from among the found external accessories to the wireless terminal 0036 According to yet another exemplary embodiment of the present invention the controller 110 previously sets i e pre sets a related application for an external accessory by storing an external accessory type corresponding to the related application and a priority of the related application through the mapping table stored in the memory 130 accord ing to user s manual setting Information about the external accessory type corresponding to the related application and information about the priority of the related application may be included in the metadata of the related application 0037 According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention the controller 110 stores an application used during connection of an external accessory to the wire less terminal as a related application for the external acces sory and stores a priority of the related application according to the frequency of use of the related application for the external accessory through the mapping table stored in the memory 130 by pre setting the related application for the external accessory Information about the external accessory type corresponding to the related application and inf
28. wireless terminal and a controller for sensing a type of the external accessory connected to the wireless terminal and extracting and displaying related applications for the external accessory 140 150 160 SYNC SIGNAL MAGE CAMERA UNITES PROCESSOR DISPLAY UNIT DATA 170 110 180 WIRELESS GPS RECEIVER COMMUN ATION V 123 120 CONTROLLER RF UNIT DATA PROCESSOR MEMORY 130 125 1AUDIO PROCESSOR 127 KEY INPUT UNIT Patent Application Publication Sep 11 2014 Sheet 1 of 4 US 2014 0256381 A1 140 160 150 CAMERA UNT SYNC SIGNAL IMAGE CAMERA UNIT 5504 DISPLAY UNIT DATA PROCESSOR 10 1 180 170 WIRELESS GPS RECEIVER COMMUNICATION UNIT y 123 420 CONTROLLER RF UNIT DATA PROCESSOR 125 AUDIO PROCESSOR KEY INPUT UNIT 127 Wi IX MEMORY 130 1 Patent Application Publication Sep 11 2014 Sheet 2 of 4 US 2014 0256381 A1 ACCESSORY CONNECTED Y ES DETERMINE TYPE OF EXTERNAL ACCESSORY 202 ARRANGE AND DISPLAY EXTRACTED RELATED APPLICATIONS ACCORDING TO PRIORITIES Patent Application Publication Sep 11 2014 Sheet 3 of 4 US 2014 0256381 1 160 TROMI 10 43 9 A Bj MAP FIND REGION NAVIGATION 4 E MAIL LOCATION INFORMATION NAVER MAP INAVI m MAIN MENU INTERNET TACHI AM 10 43 MESSAGE GMAIL E MAIL THINKFREE MEMO APP APP APP ME2DAY Bt bd
29. yed a home screen 08 2014 0256381 1 which related applications which are available through coupling of the keyboard 3005 to the wireless terminal and are arranged according to their priorities 0075 For example when the keyboard 3005 is connected to the wireless terminal 100 an environment of the wireless terminal 100 is reset according to the connected keyboard 3005 and a type of the environment reset i e external indi cations reset in the wireless terminal 100 may be changed by user s selection 0076 person of ordinary skill in the art should under stand and appreciate the terminology regarding an environ ment ofthe wireless terminal being reset includes items such as ring mode volume change display brightness and or a small capacity battery being activated for use with a particu lar type of device comprising the external accessory 0077 As shown in FIG when a media player 300c is connected to the wireless terminal 100 on the display unit 160 of the wireless terminal 100 may be displayed a home screen on which related applications which are available through connection of the media player 300c are arranged according to their priorities 0078 When the media player 300 is connected to the wireless terminal 100 an environment of the wireless termi nal 100 is reset external indications or operation according to the coupled media player 300c For example a manner mode may be switched to a ring m
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