Patent ID: 9602872
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04N

Claim:
1. A display apparatus comprising: a display; a data processor configured to process content data to be displayed as a content image on the display; a user input interface configured to receive biometric information about a user; a communication interface configured to communicate with an external apparatus; and a controller configured to identify the user based on the biometric information received through the user input interface, and automatically control, if it is determined that the identified user is also a user of an external apparatus, the content data to be displayed as the content image on one of the display apparatus and the external apparatus in which a user interest is relatively high, wherein the user interest is determined based on an image of the user, and wherein, when the display apparatus and the external apparatus are currently displaying the content image and another content image, respectively, and if it is determined that the user interest in the display apparatus and the user interest in the external apparatus are both higher than a preset first value or both lower than a preset second value, the controller is further configured to control each of the display apparatus and the external apparatus to continue displaying the content image and the another content image, respectively.