Display apparatus and control method thereof

• US 20060221237A1
• Filed: 12/06/2005
• Published: 10/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Han-sung, Lee, Dong-hun, Park, Hyung-gyu, Min, Seon-hwa
• Application Number:
  US11/294,485
• Publication Number:
  US 20060221237A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/565
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4728 for selecting a Region Of Interest [ROI], e.g. for requesting a higher resolution version of a selected region
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/45 Picture in picture , e.g. displaying simultaneously another television channel in a region of the screen

Abstract

The present invention relates to a display apparatus comprising a display part on which a picture based on a video signal is displayed, further comprising a signal processor for processing the video signal; a user selection part for enabling a user to set a part of a full picture displayed on the display part as a selected part; and a controller for controlling the signal processor to process the video signal corresponding to the full picture to be displayed as a first picture on a first area and the video signal corresponding to the selected part to be displayed as a second picture on a second area when the selected part is set through the user selection part.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising a display part on which a picture based on a video signal is displayed, further comprising:

a signal processor for processing the video signal;

a user selection part for allowing a user to set a part of a full picture displayed on the display part as a selected part; and

a controller for controlling the signal processor to process the video signal corresponding to the full picture to be displayed as a first picture on a first area and the video signal corresponding to the selected part to be displayed as a second picture on a second area when the selected part is set through the user selection part.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller has display position information about the first and second areas and display size information about the first and second pictures, and controls the signal processor to display the first and second pictures on the display part on the basis of the display position information and the display size information.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the user selection part further comprises a menu generator for generating selection menus for allowing a user to select at least one of the display position information and the display size information, and

the controller for controlling the signal processor to display the first and second pictures on the display part on the basis of the selected information when a user selects at least one of the display position information and the display size information.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the controller controls the menu generator to generate and display the selection menus on the display part when the selected part is set through the user selection part.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the display size information comprises information about an aspect ratio of at least one of the first and second pictures.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the first and second area are set by dividing the display part in a horizontal or vertical ratio of 1:

1.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the controller controls the signal processor to display a picture corresponding to the selected part as the second picture on the second area when a user sets a part of the first picture as the selected part.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the user selection part comprises at least one of a remote controller and an input button provided in the display apparatus.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the user selection part implements setting the selected part on the basis of an external signal transmitted from an external device, the external device comprises at least one of a mouse and a keyboard.

10. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the signal processor comprises a first signal processor for processing a video signal corresponding to the first picture, and a second signal processor for processing a video signal corresponding to the second picture.

11. A method of controlling a display apparatus comprising a display part for displaying a picture corresponding to a video signal thereon, the method comprising:

selecting a part of a full picture displayed on the display part as a selected part; and

controlling a video signal corresponding to the full picture to be processed and displayed as a first picture on a first area and a video signal corresponding to the selected part to be processed and displayed as a second picture on a second area.

12. The method according to claim 11, further comprising;

selecting display position information and display size information about the first and second pictures,

wherein the displaying of the first and second pictures on the display part comprises displaying the first and second pictures on the display part on the basis of the display position information and the display size information.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the displaying of the first and second pictures on the display part comprises:

displaying the first and second pictures on the display part divided in a ratio of 1;

1, respectively.

14. The method according to claim 12, further comprising:

controlling a video signal corresponding to the selected part as the second picture when a part of the first picture is set as the selected part.

15. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

generating selection menus for selecting at least one of the display position information and the display size information about the first and second pictures to be displayed on the display part.