Display device

• US 10,448,107 B2
• Filed: 06/09/2017
• Issued: 10/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Sungeun, Jeong, Hyeryoung, Kim, Changhoe, Lee, Donghee, Choi, Woojin, Jung, Eunkyung, Kim, Hyokak, Kim, Changhoon
• Primary Examiner(s): Huynh, An Son P
• Application Number:
  US15/618,652
• Publication Number:
  US 20180139502A1
• Time in Patent Office: 858 Days
• Field of Search: 725 40
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/46 Extracting features or characteristics from the video content, e.g. video fingerprints, representative shots or key frames
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/635 Overlay text, e.g. embedded captions in a TV program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4383 Accessing a communication channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44008 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44204 Monitoring of content usage, e.g. the number of times a movie has been viewed, copied or the amount which has been watched monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; protecting generic digital content where the protection is independent of the precise nature of the content G06F21/10; arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services in broadcast systems H04H60/31
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/454 Content or additional data filtering, e.g. blocking advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4667 Processing of monitored end-user data, e.g. trend analysis based on the log file of viewer selections
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4668 for recommending content, e.g. movies
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4821 using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6175 involving transmission via Internet broadcast-related systems characterised by the transmission system being the Internet H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64322 IP
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program

Abstract

A display device includes a display unit, an external device interface unit configured to receive an image signal from a set-top box connected to the display device, and a control unit configured to, if a broadcast channel is changed, display a broadcast image of the changed broadcast channel based on the image signal received from the set-top box, to recognize the channel number of the broadcast image by using the displayed broadcast image, and to display broadcasting information related to the recognized channel number on the display unit.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a memory;

a display unit;

a user interface unit to communicate with a remote controller;

an external device interface unit to receive an image signal from a set-top box connected to the display device; and

a control unit to;

receive a request for changing a broadcast channel from the remote controller,

recognize the broadcast channel change according to the request,

display a broadcast image of the changed broadcast channel based on the image signal received from the set-top box,

capture the broadcast image from a time point when the broadcast channel is changed,

determine whether the captured broadcast image includes a main banner in a same position as a previous broadcast channel,

recognize a channel number of the broadcast image by using the main banner included in the captured broadcast image when the main banner is located in the same position as a position of a main banner of the previous broadcast channel, and

display, on the display unit, broadcasting information related to the recognized channel number,

determine whether a version of the set-top box connected to the display device has been changed, acquire position information of the channel number corresponding to the version of the set-top box from the memory if the version of the set-top box has been changed, and

recognize the channel number using the position information of the channel number.

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein, when the broadcast channel is changed again, the control unit recognizes a channel number of the changed broadcast channel by using the stored position information.

3. The display device of claim 1, wherein the control unit divides the displayed broadcast image into a plurality of regions, acquires the number of characters in the plurality of divided regions, recognizes a text in each region when the number of characters in each region is equal to or less than a reference number, registers the corresponding region as a candidate group when the recognized text is valid, acquires coordinates of the region registered as the candidate group, and acquires the acquired coordinates as the position information of the channel number.

4. The display device of claim 3, wherein, when the text in each region includes a number alone, the control unit determines that the recognized text is valid.

5. The display device of claim 4, wherein, when a plurality of candidate groups are registered, the control unit filters the plurality of candidate groups based on information of each candidate group, and when one candidate group remains as a result of the filtering, the control unit acquires coordinates of the remaining candidate group as the position of the channel number.

6. The display device of claim 5, wherein the information of each candidate group includes one or more of coordinate information of each candidate group, a length of a text included in each candidate group, and a text size.

7. The display device of claim 6, wherein the control unit selects a candidate group having a largest text size as a final candidate group among the plurality of registered candidate groups, and acquires coordinates of the selected final candidate group as the position information of the channel number.

8. The display device of claim 1, wherein the control unit displays the broadcasting information related to the recognized channel number by using electronic program guide (EPG) information received from the set-top box, and the broadcasting information includes one or more of a channel recommendation, information on the broadcast image, and a genre of the broadcast image.

9. The display device of claim 1, wherein the control unit acquires a sub-banner from the captured broadcast image when the main banner is not located in the same position as the position of the main banner of the previous broadcast channel, and recognizes the channel number by using the sub-banner.