Displaying apparatus and control method thereof

• US 20060139493A1
• Filed: 10/21/2005
• Published: 06/29/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Young-chan
• Application Number:
  US11/254,688
• Publication Number:
  US 20060139493A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/576
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Abstract

The present invention relates to a displaying apparatus having a display unit for displaying thereon an active image according to an image signal supplied from a predetermined signal source, comprising a capture setting unit for setting a predetermined capture area to be captured in the active image displayed on the display unit; a capture block unit for capturing image data within the set capture area in the image data activated as the active image; and a control unit for controlling the capture block unit to capture the image data of the active image corresponding to the set capture area. Thus, the present invention provides a displaying apparatus capable of capturing an active image displayed on the display unit as it is actually viewed by a user, and also capturing a partial area in the active image with the shape as desired by the user, and a control method thereof.

Claims

1. A displaying apparatus having a display unit for displaying thereon an active image according to an image signal supplied from a predetermined signal source, comprising:

a capture setting unit for setting a predetermined capture area to be captured in the active image displayed on the display unit;

a capture block unit for capturing image data within the set capture area in the image data activated as the active image; and

a control unit for controlling the capture block unit to capture the image data of the active image corresponding to the set capture area.

2. The displaying apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a capture memory for storing therein the image data of the capture area captured by the capture block unit.

3. The displaying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the active image displayed comprises image data based on different image signals supplied from different signal sources.

4. The displaying apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the active image includes an OSD image displayed by predetermined OSD image data on the display unit.

5. The displaying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the capture setting unit is embodied as an interface screen according to an OSD image displayed on the display unit.

6. The displaying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the capture setting unit is embodied as a predetermined utility program.

7. The displaying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the capture setting unit is embodied as a general purpose input device.

8. The displaying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the capture area is set up with a section block according to predetermined coordinate values relative to the active image.

9. The displaying apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the capture area is set up with a plurality of section blocks.

10. The displaying apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the capture area is set up so that the section block has an arbitrary shape.

11. The displaying apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the control unit is adapted to convert coordinate values of the capture area according to an input resolution into coordinate values thereof according to a display resolution, to allow the capture block unit to capture the image data corresponding to the capture area, where the input resolution of the image signal and the display resolution set up on the display unit are different from each other.

12. The displaying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the active image includes an OSD image displayed by predetermined OSD image data on the display unit.

13. A control method of a displaying apparatus having a display unit for displaying thereon an active image according to an image signal supplied from a predetermined signal source, comprising:

setting up a predetermined capture area to be captured in an active image displayed on the display unit with section blocks according to predetermined coordinate values;

capturing image data within the set capture area according to a capture executing command from the image data of the active image; and

storing the captured image data.

14. The control method according to claim 13, further comprising capturing the image data corresponding to the capture area by converting coordinate values of the capture area according to an input resolution into coordinate values thereof according to a display resolution, where the input resolution of the image signal and the display resolution set up on the display unit are different from each other.