Computer system and control method thereof

• US 20050174319A1
• Filed: 09/21/2004
• Published: 08/11/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Hwang, Soon-hoon
• Application Number:
  US10/944,751
• Publication Number:
  US 20050174319A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/102
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/022 in absence of operation, e.g. no data being entered during a predetermined time
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3406 Control of illumination source illumination devices structurally associated with liquid crystal cells G02F1/1336

Abstract

The general inventive concept relates to a computer system comprising an input part, a computer main body and a display having a backlight, the computer main body comprising a video card provided with a data transmitter to transmit data to the display, a system operating part to check whether an input event is generated through the input part and to generate an input event-generating signal and an input event not-generating signal, an event checker to catch the input event not-generating signal if the system operating part generates the input event not-generating signal; and a computer controller to make the input event not-generating signal transmit to the display through the data transmitter when the input event not-generating signal is transmitted from the event checker, the display comprising a display controller to make the backlight keep turned off if the input event not-generating signal is transmitted to the display controller.

Claims

1. A computer system comprising:

an input part;

a computer main body; and

a display having a backlight,

wherein the computer main body comprising,

a video card provided with a data transmitter to transmit data to the display,

a system operating part to check whether an input event is generated through the input part and to generate an input event-generating signal and an input event not-generating signal,

an event checker to receives the input event not-generating signal if the system operating part generates the input event not-generating signal, and

a computer controller to transmit the input event not-generating signal to the display through the data transmitter when the input event not-generating signal is received from the event checker; and

the display comprising,

a display controller to control the backlight to be turned off if the input event not-generating signal is transmitted to the display controller.

2. The computer system according to claim 1, wherein:

the event checker receives the input event-generating signal when the system operating part generates the input event-generating signal;

the computer controller transmits the input event-generating signal to the display through the data transmitter when the input event-generating signal is received from the event checker; and

the display controller controls the backlight to be turned off if the input event-generating signal is transmitted to the display controller.

3. The computer system according to claim 2, wherein the display further comprises an OSD controller to display an OSD and a display input part, and the display controller controls the OSD controller to display an OSD including a backlight automatic on/off function setting menu to set a backlight automatic on/off function to automatically turn on/off the backlight according to a transmission of the input event generating/not-generating signal when an OSD setting signal is transmitted to the display controller from the display input part.

4. The computer system according to claim 3, wherein the backlight automatic on/off function setting menu comprises an activating button and an inactivating button to activate and inactivate of the backlight automatic on/off function, and the display controller performs the backlight automatic on/off function when the activating button is selected through the display input part.

5. The computer system according to claim 1, wherein the display further comprises a sound output part to output an audio '"'"'signal inputted from the computer main body.

6. The computer system according to claim 1, wherein the input event not-generating signal is an signal to operate a screen saver.

7. A control method of a computer system comprising an input part, a display having a backlight and a computer main body having a video card provided with a data transmitter to transmit data to the display, the control method comprising:

checking whether an input event is performed at the input part;

generating an input event not-generating signal when an input event is not performed within a predetermined period of time;

receiving a generated input event not-generating signal;

transmitting the input event not-generating signal to the display through the data transmitter; and

controlling the backlight to be turned off when the input event not-generating signal is transmitted.

8. The control method according to claim 7, further comprising:

generating the input event-generating signal when an input event is performed at the input part;

receiving the generated input event-generating signal;

transmitting the input event-generating signal to the display through the data transmitter; and

controlling the backlight to be turned on when the input event-generating signal is transmitted.

9. The control method according to claim 8, further comprising:

generating an OSD setting signal;

displaying an OSD comprising a backlight automatic on/off function setting menu to set a backlight automatic on/off function to automatically turn on/off the backlight according to a transmission of the input event generating/not-generating signal; and

performing the backlight automatic on/off function if the backlight automatic on/off function is activated through the OSD.

10. The control method according to claim 7, wherein the input event not-generating signal is an signal to operate a screen saver.

11. A computer system comprising an input part, a computer main body, and a display, wherein:

the computer main body selectively generates an input event not-generating signal; and

the display stops displaying a picture upon receiving the input event not-generating signal while the computer main body is turned on.

12. The computer system according to claim 11, further comprising:

a sound unit to generate sound.

13. The computer system according to claim 12, wherein the sound unit is maintained in an on state regardless of an on and off state of the picture.

14. The computer system according to claim 13, wherein the main computer body outputs signals corresponding to the picture and the sound to the display and the sound unit, respectively, and the display stops displaying the picture according to the input event not-generating signal while the sound unit continues to generate the sound according to the signal from the computer main body.

15. The computer system according to claim 12, wherein the display and the sound unit are formed in an integral body.

16. The computer system according to claim 11, wherein the computer main body generates signals corresponding to sound and picture to display the picture and output the sound when the input event not-generating signal is not received , and controls the display not to display the picture when the display receives the input event not-generating signal.

17. The computer system according to claim 11, wherein the computer main body generates an input event-generating signal, and the display is turned on to display the picture upon receiving the input event-generating signal.

18. The computer system according to claim 17, wherein the computer main body generates the input event-generating signal and the input event not-generating signal according to an input signal inputted from the input part.

19. The computer system according to claim 18, wherein the input event not-generating signal comprises a screen saver signal generated from the computer main body.

20. The computer system according to claim 11, wherein the display comprises a backlight and the display turns off the backlight to prevent generation of the picture upon receiving the the input event not-generating signal.

21. The computer system according to claim 20, wherein the display generates a screen to set a backlight automatic on/off function, and the display is turned off according to the input event not-generating signal and a selection of the backlight automatic an/off function.

22. A computer system comprising:

an input part;

a computer main body to selectively generate an input event not-generating signal; and

a display unit having a backlight that turns off upon receiving the input event not-generating signal from the computer main body to stop a picture from being displayed on the computer system.

23. A control method of a computer system having an input part, a computer main body, and a display, the method comprising:

selectively generating an input event not-generating signal; and

terminating displaying a picture upon receiving the input event not-generating signal while the computer main body is turned on.