Input guide display operation system

• US 20050253808A1
• Filed: 05/12/2005
• Published: 11/17/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoshida, Kenji
• Application Number:
  US11/127,313
• Publication Number:
  US 20050253808A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0202 Constructional details or processes of manufacture of the input device
• 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 21/42228 the reprogrammable keys being displayed on a display screen in order to reduce the number of keys on the remote control device itself

Abstract

A remote controller which allows one key to make touch and push inputs, and a TV that supports an instruction issued by that remote controller are used. If a touch input is made on the remote controller, a first display corresponding to this touch operation is made. If a push input is made on the remote controller in the first display, a second display or predetermined action is made.

Claims

1. A display operation method using an instruction device in which a plurality of different types of operations can be instructed via a single instruction input unit, and a display device that makes display corresponding to an instruction issued by the instruction device, said method comprising:

controlling, when a first operation of the plurality of different types of operations is made at the instruction input unit, the display device to make a first display corresponding to the first operation; and

controlling, when a second operation different from the first operation is made at the instruction input unit in the first display, the display device to make a second display associated with the first display or to take an action corresponding to the second operation.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein if a state wherein no new operation of the first operation is made continues for a predetermined period of time, the display corresponding to an instruction of the instruction device is cleared.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein if a select instruction is issued from the instruction device while the first display is made, or if a predetermined period of time elapses while the first display is made, an action corresponding to the first display is executed.

4. A method according to claim 2, wherein the action corresponding to the first display includes selection of a broadcasting station corresponding to the first display or a character input corresponding to the first display.

5. An audio/visual apparatus configured to be used together with an instruction device having at least one multi-function key that allows touch and push inputs, and configured to include or to be connected to a display unit that makes an on-screen display corresponding to an instruction from the instruction device, said apparatus comprising:

a first block configured to change a display method in a portion of the on-screen display in response to the touch input from the instruction device; and

a second block configured to display related information on the on-screen display, the display method of which has been changed in response to the touch input, in response to the push input from the instruction device.

6. An apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising

a third block configured to execute an action corresponding to the on-screen display whose display method has been changed, in response to a select instruction from the instruction device while the on-screen display whose display method has been changed in response to the touch input is made, or in response to an elapse of a predetermined period of time while the on-screen display whose display method has been changed in response to the touch input is made.

7. An apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the audio/visual apparatus includes a television receiver that receives at least one broadcasting station, the instruction device includes a remote controller used to operate the television receiver, and the third block allows a user to select a broadcasting station to be received, via the on-screen display.

8. An apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the audio/visual apparatus includes a television receiver that receives at least one broadcasting station, the instruction device includes a remote controller used to operate the television receiver, and the third block allows a user to make a character input, via the on-screen display.

9. A remote-control device configured to remote-control an external apparatus having an on-screen display function, and comprises double-action keys each having a touch sensor and push sensor, said device being configured to:

output, when one of the double-action keys is touched, to the external apparatus a first instruction that changes appearance of the on-screen display at a position corresponding to the key touch; and

output, when the double-action key corresponding to the position whose appearance has been changed by the first instruction is pushed, information corresponding to the pushed key on the on-screen display.

10. A device according to claim 9, wherein the device is configured to output a third instruction that clears the on-screen display in response to a predetermined process end operation or an elapse of a predetermined period of time while no new key touch is made.