Display device, display system and method for controlling display device

• US 10,432,999 B2
• Filed: 09/12/2017
• Issued: 10/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Ahn, Young-chun, Choi, Myung-kwan, Yoon, Hyun-don, Heo, Hye-seon
• Primary Examiner(s): Pierorazio, Michael B.
• Application Number:
  US15/701,598
• Publication Number:
  US 20180302661A1
• Time in Patent Office: 749 Days
• Field of Search: 725 38
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• 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 21/42225 characterized by types of remote control, e.g. universal remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42226 Reprogrammable remote control devices

Abstract

A display device is provided. The display device includes a display, a first communicator configured to communicate with an external device, a second communicator configured to communicate with a remote controller, and a processor configured to control the display to display an image corresponding to an image signal received from the external device through the first communicator, and the processor, in response to a control signal being received from the remote controller through the second communicator while the image is displayed on the display, controls the display to display a user interface (UI) for changing a channel, and in response to the control signal being received from the remote controller through the second communicator while an image which includes a specific object is displayed on the display, controls the display not to display the UI for changing a channel.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a display;

a first communicator configured to communicate with an external device;

a second communicator configured to communicate with a remote controller; and

a processor configured to;

control the display to display an image corresponding to an image signal received from the external device through the first communicator, and

in response to a control signal being received from the remote controller through the second communicator while the image is displayed on the display, control the display to display the image with a user interface (UI) for changing a channel based on the image not including a specific object and control the display to display the image without the UI for changing a channel based on the image including the specific object.

2. The display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor, in response to a UI which informs a channel change being displayed on the display, activates a display function of the UI for changing a channel, and in response to the control signal being received while the display function of the UI for changing a channel is activated, controls the display to display the UI for changing a channel.

3. The display device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the processor, in response to the UI for changing a channel being displayed and the control signal not being received for a preset time, deactivates the display function of the UI for changing a channel.

4. The display device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the processor, in response to the control signal not being received while the UI which informs the channel change is displayed on the display and the UI which informs the channel change disappearing, deactivates the display function of the UI for changing a channel.

5. The display device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the UI for changing a channel includes an indicator which searches a channel while moving toward a direction corresponding to the control signal, and

wherein the processor recognizes a channel number included in a UI element which is displayed when the channel is changed, and moves the indicator from a point corresponding to the recognized channel number.

6. The display device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the processor controls the display to display the recognized channel number in the indicator.

7. The display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the UI for changing a channel includes an indicator which searches a channel while moving toward a direction corresponding to the control signal, and

wherein the processor, in response to the indicator moving and stopping, performs an operation to control the external device to change a channel to a channel corresponding to a position in which the indicator stops.

8. The display device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the processor transmits a control signal which corresponds to the channel corresponding to the position in which the indicator stops to the external device through the first communicator.

9. The display device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the processor transmits a control command which corresponds to the channel corresponding to the position in which the indicator stops to the remote controller through the second communicator, and

wherein the control command is a control command which causes the remote controller to transmit the control signal for controlling the external device to change a channel to the channel corresponding to the position in which the indicator stops.

10. The display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the specific object includes at least one of a menu UI which includes a plurality of selectable UI elements and an electronic program guide (EPG).

11. A display system comprising:

an image providing apparatus configured to provide an image signal;

a display device configured to display an image corresponding to an image signal provided from the image providing apparatus; and

a remote controller,

wherein the display device is configured to;

in response to a control signal being received from the remote controller while the image is displayed on the display device, display the image with a UI for changing a channel based on the image not including a specific object and display the image without the UI for changing a channel based on the image including the specific object identified through image analysis on the image.

12. The display system as claimed in claim 11, wherein the remote controller, in response to a preset time being passed in a state in which a specific button of the remote controller is selected, transmits the control signal.

13. The display system as claimed in claim 11, wherein the display device displays an indicator which searches a channel while moving toward a direction corresponding to the control signal on the UI for changing a channel, and transmits a control signal which corresponds to a channel corresponding to a position in which the indicator stops to the image providing apparatus.

14. The display system as claimed in claim 11, wherein the display device displays an indicator which searches a channel while moving toward a direction corresponding to the control signal on the UI for changing a channel, and transmits a control command which corresponds to a channel corresponding to a position in which the indicator stops to the remote controller, and

wherein the remote controller receives the control command from the display device, transmits a control signal which corresponds to the channel corresponding to the position in which the indicator stops to the image providing apparatus.

15. A method for controlling a display device comprising:

displaying an image corresponding to an image signal provided from an external device; and

in response to a control signal being received from a remote controller while the image is displayed on the display device, displaying the image with a UI for changing a channel based on the image not including a specific object and displaying the image without the UI for changing a channel based on the image including the specific object.

16. The controlling method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the displaying the UI for changing a channel comprising:

in response to a UI informing a channel change being displayed on the display device, activating a display function of the UI for changing a channel; and

in response to the control signal being received while the display function of the UI for changing a channel is activated, controlling to display the UI for changing a channel.

17. The controlling method as claimed in claim 16, further comprising:

in response to the UI for changing a channel being displayed and the control signal not being received during a preset time, deactivating the display function of the UI for changing a channel.

18. The controlling method as claimed in claim 16, further comprising:

in response to the control signal not being received while the UI informing the channel change is displayed on the display device and the UI informing the channel change disappearing, deactivating the display function of the UI for changing a channel.

19. The controlling method as claimed in claim 16, wherein the UI for changing a channel includes an indicator which searches a channel while moving toward a direction corresponding to the control signal, and

wherein the displaying the UI for changing a channel recognizes a channel number included in a UI element which is displayed when the channel is changed, and moves the indicator from a position corresponding to the recognized channel number.

20. The controlling method as claimed in claim 19, wherein the displaying the UI for changing a channel displays the recognized channel number in the indicator.