Display apparatus and control method thereof

• US 10,419,807 B2
• Filed: 07/20/2018
• Issued: 09/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Kwon, Yong-hwan
• Primary Examiner(s): Natnael, Paulos M
• Application Number:
  US16/040,882
• Publication Number:
  US 20180352283A1
• Time in Patent Office: 424 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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 21/42208 Display device provided on the remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42209 for displaying non-command information, e.g. electronic program guide [EPG], e-mail, messages or a second television channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42224 Touch pad or touch panel provided on the remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4227 Providing Remote input by a user located remotely from the client device, e.g. at work
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4821 using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73

Abstract

A display apparatus includes: an image processor; a display unit; a remote controller which includes a touch input unit to detect motion of a user; a remote control signal receiver which receives a remote control signal from the remote controller corresponding to the motion of a user; and a controller which displays the content information window as if the content information window enters from an outside of a display area to an inside of the display area in accordance with the motion that a user moves from an outside of an area of the touch input unit to an inside of the area, or stops displaying the content information window as if the content information window exits from the inside of the display area to the outside of the display area in accordance with the motion that a user moves from the inside of the area of the touch input unit to the outside of the touch input unit.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a display having a display area;

a communicator configured to receive wireless signals from an input device; and

a processor configured to;

display a first set of user interface (UI) items in a first group of a plurality of groups of UI items over a content image displayed in the display area by sliding in the first set of UI items into a region of the display area adjacent to an edge of the display area, in response to receiving wireless signals corresponding to a first input from the input device via the communicator while displaying the content image in the display area without displaying any of UI items of the plurality of groups in the display area;

place an indicator at a first location in the display area to represent a selection of a first UI item from among the first set of UI items while displaying the first set of UI items in the display area;

place the indicator at a second location in the display area to represent a selection of a second UI item from among the first set of UI items, in response to receiving wireless signals corresponding to a second input from the input device via the communicator;

display a second set of UI items in a second group of the plurality of groups in the region of the display area, in response to receiving wireless signals corresponding to a third input from the input device via the communicator while displaying the first set of UI items in the region of the display area; and

display a third set of UI items in the first group that is different than the first set of UI items, in response to receiving wireless signals corresponding to a fourth input from the input device via the communicator while displaying the first set of UI items in the region of the display area.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to control the display to display a second UI over the content image displayed in the display area by sliding in a set of second UI items into a second region of the display area adjacent to a second edge of the display area, in response to receiving wireless signals corresponding to a fifth input from the input device via the communicator while displaying the content image in the display area.

3. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the wireless signals from the input device correspond to selection of at least one of a plurality of buttons of the input device by a user.

4. The display device according to claim 3, wherein the wireless signals corresponding to the first input are received based on selection of the button corresponding to a first direction among the plurality of buttons.

5. The display device according to claim 4, wherein the wireless signals corresponding to the second input are received based on selection of the button corresponding to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction among the plurality of buttons.

6. The display device according to claim 5, wherein the wireless signals corresponding to the third input are received based on selection of the button corresponding to a third direction parallel to the first direction among the plurality of buttons.

7. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising an image signal receiver configured to receive an image signal corresponding to the content image.

8. The display device according to claim 1, wherein each of the first set of UI items comprises a thumbnail image.

21. The display device according to claim 1, wherein UI items in one of the plurality of groups indicate television channels arranged in a grid.

9. A control method of a display device, the control method comprising:

communicating with an input device;

displaying a content image on a display area of a display of the display device;

displaying a first set of user interface (UI) items in a first group of a plurality of groups of UI items over the content image displayed in the display area by sliding in the first set of UI items into a region of the display area adjacent to an edge of the display area, in response to receiving wireless signals corresponding to a first input from the input device while displaying the content image in the display area without displaying any of UI items of the plurality of groups in the display area;

placing an indicator at a first location in the display area to represent a selection of a first UI item from among the first set of UI items while displaying the first set of UI items in the display area;

placing the indicator at a second location in the display area to represent a selection of a second UI item from among the first set of UI items, in response to receiving wireless signals corresponding to a second input from the input device;

displaying a second set of UI items in a second group of the plurality of groups in the region of the display area, in response to receiving wireless signals corresponding to a third input from the input device while displaying the first set of UI items in the region of the display area; and

displaying a third set of UI items in the first group that is different than the first set of UI items, in response to receiving wireless signals corresponding to a fourth input from the input device while displaying the first set of UI items in the region of the display area.

10. The control method according to claim 9, further comprising:

displaying a second UI over the content image displayed in the display area by sliding in a set of second UI items into a second region of the display area adjacent to a second edge of the display area, in response to receiving wireless signals corresponding to a fifth input from the input device while displaying the content image in the display area.

11. The control method according to claim 9, wherein the wireless signals from the input device correspond to selection of at least one of a plurality of buttons of the input device by a user.

12. The control method according to claim 11, wherein the wireless signals corresponding to the first input are received based on selection of the button corresponding to a first direction among the plurality of buttons.

13. The control method according to claim 12, wherein the wireless signals corresponding to the second input are received based on selection of the button corresponding to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction among the plurality of buttons.

14. The control method according to claim 13, wherein the wireless signals corresponding to the third input is received based on selection of the button corresponding to a third direction parallel to the first direction among the plurality of buttons.

15. The control method according to claim 9, wherein each of the first set of UI items comprises a thumbnail image.

16. A system comprising:

an input device configured to receive a user input; and

a display device comprising;

a display having a display area;

a communicator configured to receive wireless signals corresponding to the user input from the input device; and

a processor configured to control the display to;

display a first set of user interface (UI) items in a first group of a plurality of groups of UI items over a content image displayed in the display area by sliding in the first set of UI items into a region of the display area adjacent to an edge of the display area, in response to receiving wireless signals corresponding to a first input from the input device via the communicator while displaying the content image in the display area without displaying any of UI items of the plurality of groups in the display area;

place an indicator at a first location in the display area to represent a selection of a first UI item from among the first set of UI items while displaying the first set of UI items in the display area;

place the indicator at a second location in the display area to represent a selection of a second UI item from among the first set of UI items, in response to receiving wireless signals corresponding to a second input from the input device via the communicator;

display a second set of UI items in a second group of the plurality of groups in the region of the display area, in response to receiving wireless signals corresponding to a third input from the input device via the communicator while displaying the first set of UI items in the region of the display area; and

display a third set of UI items in the first group that is different than the first set of UI items, in response to receiving wireless signals corresponding to a fourth input from the input device via the communicator while displaying the first set of UI items in the region of the display area.

17. The system according to claim 16, wherein the processor is further configured to control the display to display a second UI over the content image displayed in the display area by sliding in a set of second UI items into a second region of the display area adjacent to a second edge of the display area, in response to receiving wireless signals corresponding to a fifth input from the input device via the communicator while displaying the content image in the display area.

18. The system according to claim 16, wherein the wireless signals from the input device correspond to selection of at least one of a plurality of buttons of the input device by a user.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing instructions of a method to be executed by a processor of a display device, the method comprising:

communicating with an input device;

displaying a content image on a display area of a display of the display device;

displaying a first set of user interface (UI) items in a first group of a plurality of groups of UI items over the content image displayed in the display area by sliding in the first set of UI items into a region of the display area adjacent to an edge of the display area, in response to receiving wireless signals corresponding to a first input from the input device while displaying the content image in the display area without displaying any of UI items of the plurality of groups in the display area;

placing an indicator at a first location in the display area to represent a selection of a first UI item from among the first set of UI items while displaying the first set of UI items in the display area;

placing the indicator at a second location in the display area to represent a selection of a second UI item from among the first set of UI items, in response to receiving wireless signals corresponding to a second input from the input device; and

displaying a second set of UI items in a second group of the plurality of groups in the region of the display area, in response to receiving wireless signals corresponding to a third input from the input device while displaying the first set of UI items in the region of the display area; and

displaying a third set of UI items in the first group that is different than the first set of UI items, in response to receiving wireless signals corresponding to a fourth input from the input device while displaying the first set of UI items in the region of the display area.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 19, wherein the method further comprises:

displaying the second UI over the content image displayed in the display area by sliding in a set of second UI items into a second region of the display area adjacent to a second edge of the display area, in response to receiving wireless signals corresponding to a fifth input from the input device while displaying the content image in the display area.