The objective of the present invention is to provides a display device for automatically recognizing an external device connected to external input terminals, the display device receiving pieces of control information about external devices connected to the same Internet, and then sensing whether a change in the output images occurs during the transmission of a control signal by using the pieces of received control information, while sequentially outputting images received from the external input terminals, thereby recognizing the external device connected to the input terminals.

A user terminal emulation server is provided that provides operational functionality of a user terminal using a networked set of I/O user devices that are determined to be proximately located to a user and to have user interface capabilities that are combinable to provide the user with the ability to receive or initiate a communication service with another user terminal through a network entity. The operations for emulating a user terminal may alternatively be performed by an I/O user device that provides communication services using other I/O user devices.

The present disclosure generally relates techniques and user interfaces for transmitting audio using a computer system in accordance with some embodiments.

Disclosed in the present application are a display apparatus and a processing method. According to the method, a data stream from the external device in connection with the display apparatus is received; a device information frame in the data stream is obtained, where the device information frame is a data frame generated by the external device according to a basic transmission protocol between the external device and the display apparatus; marker bits in the device information frame are traversed; in response to the external device supporting the automatic control protocol, a play mode is switched according to usage scenario information added in the data stream; and in response to the external device not supporting the automatic control protocol, a play mode is switched according to a device type of the external device.

A system for device discovery for social playback is disclosed. The system operates to connect a host media playback device to a media output device and broadcast a social playback session to guest media playback devices. Upon joining a social playback session, a guest media playback device may control the media playback at the host media playback device. Where the media output for the social playback session is provided by the media output device.

A display device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may obtain information on one or more control methods supported by an external device, select a first control method according to a predetermined priority based on the obtained information, and switch the first control method to a second control method having a next priority according to a change in a control situation.

According to one implementation, a method of guiding an interaction between a companion module and a user includes identifying a media content for playout by a media player device, transmitting, to a remote server, an interaction schema request identifying the media content and the companion module, and receiving, from the remote server, behavioral manifest data including an instruction for guiding the interaction between the companion module and the user. Such a method also includes obtaining a play head state of the media player device and a playout timecode state of the media content, and identifying a user interaction behavior for the companion module based on the behavioral manifest data, the play head state of the media player device, and the playout timecode state of the media content.

There is provided a process that includes (a) receiving an identification of a television (TV) network, (b) obtaining a descriptor of a sporting event that is being transmitted by the TV network, (c) obtaining gambling statistics concerning the sporting event, and (d) sending the gambling statistics to a device for presentation on a target display. There is also provided a system that performs the process, and a storage device that contains instructions that cause a processor to perform the process.

An electronic device stores a voice assistant library for execution on the electronic device based on the electronic device having a first device type. The electronic device receives a verbal input from a user. It extracts request information from the verbal input by processing the verbal input using the voice assistant library executing on the device. It transmits a request to a remote system. The electronic device receives a response to the request. The response is generated by the remote system. The electronic device performs an operation in accordance with the response by one or more voice-processing modules of the configured voice assistant library.

Embodiments provide systems and techniques for automated generation of haptic effects based on haptics data. An example technique includes obtaining a set of haptic data associated with media content being streamed to a computing device. The media content is displayed on the first computing device. One or more haptic effects are generated using one or more haptic devices while displaying the media content, based on the set of haptic data. One or more parameters of the one or more haptic effects is adjusted when a predetermined condition(s) is satisfied.