Samsung patents audio interface with arc-based track selection
Samsung has filed a patent for an audio device that displays a background interface showing the state of playing content. It divides this background into sections using curved lines, or arcs, and places icons along these arcs that change when a user selects a specific item from the content.
In the filing’s own words
An audio output apparatus includes memory storing instructions; a display; and at least one processor including processing circuitry, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the audio output apparatus to: control, based on a background user interface (UI) indicating a state of replaying contents being displayed, display a plurality of first UIs along a plurality of arcs that divide the background UI into a plurality of track regions; and control, based on a user manipulation for selecting an item of a plurality of items included in the contents, the display to change a first UI corresponding to the item among the plurality of displayed first UIs to a second UI corresponding to the item, and display the second UI.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An audio output apparatus comprising: memory storing instructions; a display; and at least one processor including processing circuitry, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the audio output apparatus to: control, based on a background user interface (UI) indicating a state of replaying contents being displayed, display a plurality of first UIs along a plurality of arcs that divide the background UI into a plurality of track regions; and control, based on a user manipulation for selecting an item of a plurality of items included in the contents, the display to change a first UI corresponding to the item among the plurality of displayed first UIs to a second UI corresponding to the item, and display the second UI.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- AUDIO OUTPUT APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF
- Publication number
- US20260288307A1
- Application number
- 19639873
- Filed
- Apr 6, 2026
- Published
- Sep 24, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 3/0482 Physics & computingG06F 3/04842 Physics & computingG06F 3/04883 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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