Display system

• US 20050156933A1
• Filed: 11/12/2004
• Published: 07/21/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Dong-hoon, Kim, Young-chan
• Granted Patent: US 8,558,757 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/520
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0606 Manual adjustment
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/08 Arrangements within a display terminal for setting, manually or automatically, display parameters of the display terminal
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/047 using display data channel standard [DDC] communication
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/006 Details of the interface to the display terminal specific for a display terminal using a CRT G09G1/167; using a flat panel G09G3/2096; circuits for interfacing with colour displays G09G5/04

Abstract

A display system including a display having a interface unit to provide bidirectional communication, a display unit to show an image, a signal processor to convert an image signal inputted through the interface unit to a signal being displayed by the display unit, and a MICOM to output a display information of a controllable functions over the display unit and the signal processor through the interface unit; and a controller connected to the interface unit and providing a graphic user interface corresponding to the display information received from the display and having a display controller to output a control instruction that the MICOM allows to control at least, one of the display unit and the signal processor according to setting through the graphic user interface, to the MICOM through the interface unit.

Claims

1. A display system comprising:

a display having an interface unit to perform bidirectional communication, an image display unit to show an image, a signal processor to convert an image signal inputted through the interface unit to a signal being displayed by the display unit, and an MICOM to output display information of controllable functions of the image display unit and the signal processor through the interface unit; and

a controller connected to the interface unit and providing a graphic user interface corresponding to the display information received from the display, and having a display controller to output control instructions to the MICOM through the interface unit that allows the MICOM to control at least one of the image display unit and the signal processor according to a setting through the graphic user interface.

3. The display system according to claim 1, wherein the controller outputs the image signal to the display through the interface unit.

4. The display system according to claim 3, wherein the display controller causes the graphic user interface to be set up with the control instructions that can be controlled by the MICOM for the display, based on the display information.

5. The display system according to claim 3, wherein the display information comprises information on a display type, and the display type comprises one of an LCD, a CRT and a DLP display.

6. The display system according to claim 4, wherein the display information comprises information on a graphic user interface type of the interface unit, and the graphic user interface type is one of an analog interface and a digital interface.

7. The display system according to claim 6, wherein the graphic user interface is an analog interface comprising a D-SUB interface.

8. The display system according to claim 6, wherein the graphic user interface is a digital interface comprising a DVI interface.

9. The display system according to claim 5, wherein the display information comprises information on a graphic interface type of the interface unit, and the graphic interface type is one of an analog interface and a digital interface.

10. The display system according to claim 9, wherein the analog interface comprises a D-D-SUB interface, and the digital interface comprises a DVI interface.

11. The display system according to claim 1, wherein the display information comprises information of a MICOM changeable service menu.

12. The display system according to claim 1, wherein the display controller requests the display to transmit the display information when the display is connected to the controller through the interface unit, and the MICOM transmits the display information to the controller according to the request of the display controller.

13. The display system according to claim 11, wherein the display controller requests the display to transmit the display information when the display is connected to the interface unit, and the MICOM transmits the display information to the controller according to the request of the display controller.

14. The display system according to claim 1, wherein the controller is a portable computer including a service menu of a display manufacturer including functions that can be adjusted such as the number of times panels are exchanged, a use time, Auto Color and Factory Reset and the like, for an LCD.

2. The display system according to claim 2, wherein the interface unit comprises a DDC-CI interface.

15. A display apparatus comprising:

a display unit to convert an image signal and to display an image corresponding to the image signal;

a bidirectional interface unit; and

a controller to receive display information of controllable functions of the display unit from the display unit through the bidirectional interface unit and to provide a graphic user interface corresponding to the display information together with control instructions to control the display unit through the graphic user interface.

16. The display apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the controller comprises a user input unit to generate the control instructions to control the controllable functions of the display unit.

17. The display apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the display information includes information on a display unit type, and the display unit type comprises one of an LCD, a CRT and a DLP display unit.

18. A method of controlling a display unit, comprising:

requesting display information from the display unit; and

providing a customized graphic user interface corresponding to the received display information together with control instructions to control the display unit through the graphic user interface.

19. The method according to claim 18, wherein the display information includes the type of display being used.

20. The method according to claim 18, wherein the graphic user interface displays only controllable functions related to the current display unit being used.

21. A display system comprising:

a controller that contains plural graphic user interfaces corresponding to respective display units, outputs one of the plural graphic user interfaces to be displayed according to display information received from display unit, and outputs control instructions to control the display unit through the graphic user interface.

22. The display system of claim 21, wherein the display information includes information about the display unit type, and the display unit type comprises one of an LCD, a CRT and a DLP display unit.