Broadcast receiving apparatus and control method thereof

• US 10,044,967 B2
• Filed: 08/13/2013
• Issued: 08/07/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Jin-yeol, Yun, Young-hwa
• Primary Examiner(s): Hailu, Tadesse
• Application Number:
  US13/965,869
• Publication Number:
  US 20130332833A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,820 Days
• Field of Search: 715711, 715762-764, 715802, 715805, 715821, 715856, 715857, 715860, 715853, 725 37, 725 52, 725 59- 61
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/00 Arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless electrical link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/30 User interface
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/32 Remote control based on movements, attitude of remote control device
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/71 Directional beams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42206 characterized by hardware details
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42222 Additional components integrated in the remote control device, e.g. timer, speaker, sensors for detecting position, direction or movement of the remote control, microphone or battery charging device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications

Abstract

A method for interacting with a graphical user interface (GUI) of a television operating in a step mode in which movement of a cursor among menu items displayed on the GUI is performed stepwise in accordance with a manipulation of a direction key of the remote controller, the method including receiving, by the television, from a remote controller a signal corresponding to spatial movement of the remote controller detected by the remote controller that instructs the television to switch from (i) the step mode to (ii) a position mode of the GUI in which the movement of the cursor among the menu items is performed in accordance with the spatial movement of the remote controller and switching from the step mode of the GUI to the position mode of the GUI based on the signal.

Claims

1. A control method of a television, the method comprising:

receiving a signal corresponding to a spatial movement of a remote control from the remote control;

based on the television operating in a first mode and the received signal corresponding to a predetermined pattern, switching from the first mode to a second mode and displaying a pointer on a display of the television; and

based on the television operating in the second mode and the received signal corresponding to the predetermined pattern, moving the displayed pointer on the display in accordance with the spatial movement of the remote control,

wherein the first mode is a mode in which a focus shifts on menu items in a predetermined direction in accordance with a manipulation of direction keys comprising up, down, right, and left direction keys of the remote control,

wherein the second mode is a mode in which the pointer moves continuously in accordance with the spatial movement of the remote control, and

wherein the predetermined pattern comprises a pattern of spatial movement of the remote control in space.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a subsequent signal that indicates subsequent spatial movement of the remote control;

determining whether the subsequent spatial movement corresponds to the predetermined pattern; and

performing a function associated with the predetermined pattern in the second mode in response to determining the spatial movement corresponds to the predetermined pattern.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a selection input for selecting one of menu items displayed on a screen from the remote control in the second mode;

switching from the second mode to the first mode based on the received selection input.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether the television operates in the first mode, and

wherein, in response to determining that the television operates in the first mode, the determining determines whether the spatial movement of the remote control corresponds to the predetermined pattern based on the received signal.

5. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having embodied thereon a program which when executed causes a television to execute a method for controlling the television, the method comprising:

receiving a signal corresponding to a spatial movement of a remote control from the remote control;

based on the television operating in a first mode and the received signal corresponding to a predetermined pattern, switching from the first mode to a second mode and displaying a pointer on a display of the television; and

based on the television operating in the second mode and the received signal corresponding to the predetermined pattern, moving the displayed pointer in accordance with the spatial movement of the remote control,

wherein the first mode is a mode in which a focus shifts on menu items in a predetermined direction in accordance with a manipulation of direction keys comprising up, down, right, and left direction keys of the remote control,

wherein the second mode is a mode in which the pointer moves continuously in accordance with the spatial movement of the remote control, and

wherein the predetermined pattern comprises a pattern of spatial movement of the remote control in space.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of claim 5, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving a subsequent signal that indicates subsequent spatial movement of the remote control;

determining whether the subsequent spatial movement corresponds to the predetermined pattern; and

performing a function associated with the predetermined pattern in the second mode in response to determining the spatial movement corresponds to the predetermined pattern.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of claim 5, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving a user input for selecting one of menu items displayed on a screen from the remote control in the second mode;

switching from the second mode to the first mode based on the received user input.

8. A television comprising:

a display;

a communication unit configured to receive a signal corresponding to a spatial movement of a remote control from the remote control; and

a controller configured to, based on the television operating in a first mode and the received signal corresponding to a predetermined pattern, switch from the first mode to a second mode and display a pointer on the display, and based on the television operating in the second mode and the received signal corresponding to the predetermined pattern, move the displayed pointer in accordance with the spatial movement of the remote control,

wherein the first mode is a mode in which a focus shifts on menu items in a predetermined direction in accordance with a manipulation of direction keys comprising up, down, right, and left direction keys of the remote control,

wherein the second mode is a mode in which the pointer moves continuously in accordance with the spatial movement of the remote control, and

wherein the predetermined pattern comprises a pattern of spatial movement of the remote control in space.

9. The television of claim 8, wherein the communication unit receives a subsequent signal that indicates subsequent spatial movement of the remote control, and

wherein the controller determines whether the subsequent spatial movement corresponds to the predetermined pattern and perform a function associated with the predetermined pattern in the second mode in response to determining the spatial movement corresponds to the predetermined pattern.

10. The television of claim 8, wherein in response to a selection input for selecting one of menu item displayed on the screen from the remote control being received while operating the television in the second mode, the controller switches from the second mode to the first mode based on the received user input.