Display apparatus and searching method

• US 20070136669A1
• Filed: 12/04/2006
• Published: 06/14/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Keum-Koo, Kim, Sung-woo, Kwon, Yong-hwan, Yim, Jin-ho, Seong, Ki-ae
• Application Number:
  US11/607,953
• Publication Number:
  US 20070136669A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/721
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04802 3D-info-object: information is displayed on the internal or external surface of a three dimensional manipulable object, e.g. on the faces of a cube that can be rotated by the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• 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 21/433 Content storage operation, e.g. storage operation in response to a pause request, caching operations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72

Abstract

A display apparatus and a search method are provided. The display apparatus includes a user selection unit which adjusts a search speed and a search function for searching contents information; a signal processor unit which processes a signal to be displayed on a display unit; and a controller which controls the signal processor unit such that when the search function is selected, at least one of the contents information is displayed in a region of the display unit, and the number of contents information is adjusted based on the search speed. The method includes receiving a selection signal for selecting a search function for searching a plurality of contents information; adjusting a search speed of the contents information; displaying at least one of the contents information; and adjusting a number of the displayed contents information based on the search speed when the search function is selected.

Claims

1. A display apparatus, comprising:

a user selection unit which adjusts a search speed of a plurality of contents information and a search function for searching the plurality of contents information;

a signal processor unit which processes a signal to be displayed as an image on a display unit; and

a controller which controls the signal processor unit such that when the search function is selected, at least one of the plurality of contents information is displayed in a region of the display unit, and a number of contents information displayed on the display unit is adjusted based on the search speed.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller controls the signal processor unit such that at least one of a display position and a display size of each of the plurality of contents information is adjusted based on the search speed.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the controller controls the signal processor unit such that the number of the contents information displayed on the display unit is increased and the display size of the contents information is reduced as the search speed increases.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller controls the signal processor unit such that the plurality of contents information is sequentially arranged in a certain form.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 4, wherein as the search speed increases, the controller increases the number of sequentially arranged contents information to be displayed on the display unit based on a location of the retrieved contents information.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the controller controls the signal processor unit such that the certain form is fully displayed on the display unit when the search speed is greater than a threshold speed.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the controller sequentially arranges the plurality of contents information in a closed-loop shape.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the controller controls the signal processor unit such that the plurality of sequentially arranged contents information is displayed in perspective.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the contents information is displayed as faces, and the controller controls the signal processor unit such that the face is displayed in perspective depending on a location on the display unit when the search function is selected.

10. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the contents information is sequentially retrieved through the operation of user selection unit, and the controller controls the signal processor unit such that the sequentially retrieved contents information is displayed distinguishably from other contents information.

11. The display apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the controller controls the signal processor unit such that the sequentially retrieved contents information is positioned in a region designated for the plurality of sequentially arranged contents information.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the controller controls the signal processor unit such that a remainder of the retrieved contents information is displayed to be overlapped with the other contents information.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the controller controls the signal processor unit such that initially retrieved contents information is displayed distinguishably from the other contents information.

14. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller determines that the search function is selected when the search speed is greater than a reference speed.

15. The display apparatus according to claim 14, further comprising a tuner to be tuned to a broadcast signal corresponding to a channel of a plurality of channels, wherein the contents information comprises image information based on the broadcast signal corresponding to each channel of the plurality of channels.

16. The display apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the image information comprises a basic image corresponding to each channel of the plurality of channels through which the broadcast signal is received, and the display apparatus further comprises a storage unit for storing the basic image.

17. The display apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the retrieved image information further comprises a tuning image corresponding to a video signal being selected in the tuner.

18. The display apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the signal processor unit processes channel information corresponding to a channel to be displayed on the display unit, and the controller controls the signal processor unit such that the channel information corresponding to the retrieved channel is displayed in a region other than the region where the image information is displayed on the display.

19. The display apparatus according to claim 14, further comprising a storage unit for storing file data, wherein the controller controls the signal processor unit such that the contents information based on the file data stored in the storage unit is displayed on the display unit.

20. A search method comprising:

receiving a selection signal for selecting a search function for searching a plurality of contents information;

adjusting a search speed of the contents information;

displaying at least one of the contents information when the search function is selected; and

adjusting a number of the displayed contents information based on the search speed.

21. The search method according to claim 20, further comprising adjusting at least one of a display position and a display size of the contents information depending on the search speed.

22. The search method according to claim 21, wherein the adjusting the number of the displayed contents information comprises increasing the number of the displayed contents information as the search speed increases, and the adjusting the display size comprises adjusting the display size of the contents information to be smaller as the search speed increases.

23. The search method according to claim 20, further comprising sequentially arranging the plurality of contents information in a certain form.

24. The search method according to claim 23, wherein the sequentially arranging the plurality of contents information comprises increasing a number of sequentially arranged contents information which will be displayed with respect to a location of retrieved contents information as the search speed increases.

25. The search method according to claim 24, wherein the sequentially arranging the plurality of contents information comprises:

displaying a whole of the certain form when the search speed is greater than a threshold speed.

26. The search method according to claim 25, wherein the sequentially arranging the plurality of contents information in a certain form comprises sequentially arranging a plurality of contents information in a closed-loop shape.

27. The search method according to claim 26, wherein the sequentially arranging the plurality of contents information in a certain form comprises displaying the plurality of sequentially arranged contents information in perspective.

28. The search method according to claim 20, wherein the selecting the search function comprises sequentially searching the contents information.

29. The search method according to claim 28, wherein the search method further comprises displaying retrieved contents information to be displayed distinguishably from other contents information.

30. The search method according to claim 29, wherein the displaying the retrieved contents information distinguishably comprises displaying the retrieved contents information to be positioned in a certain region of the plurality of sequentially arranged contents information.

31. The search method according to claim 30, wherein the displaying the retrieved contents information distinguishably comprises displaying a remainder of the retrieved contents information overlapped with the other contents information, respectively.

32. The search method according to claim 20, wherein the selecting the search function comprises selecting the search function when the search speed is greater than a reference speed.

33. The search method according to claim 32, further comprising tuning the broadcast signal corresponding to a channel of a plurality of channels, wherein the contents information comprises image information based on the broadcast signal corresponding to each channel of the plurality of channels.

34. The search method according to claim 33, wherein the image information comprises a basic image corresponding to each channel of which the broadcast signal is received, and the search method comprises storing the basic image.

35. The search method according to claim 34, further comprising displaying the channel information corresponding to a retrieved channel in a region other than a region where the image information is displayed.

36. The search method according to claim 32, further comprising storing file data, wherein the contents information comprises information about the stored file data.

37. A display apparatus, comprising:

a channel selection unit which selects a channel search;

a tuner which is tuned to a broadcast signal corresponding to each channel of a plurality of channels;

a signal processor unit which processes a signal to be displayed as an image on a display unit; and

a controller which controls the signal processor unit such that a plurality of contents information corresponding to each tunable channel of the plurality of channels in the tuner is sequentially arranged and displayed on the display unit when the channel search is selected, and the contents information corresponding to a retrieved channel is displayed distinguishably from other contents information.

38. The display apparatus according to claim 37, wherein the controller controls the signal processor unit such that the plurality of contents information is sequentially arranged in a closed-loop shape.

39. The display apparatus according to claim 38, wherein the controller controls the signal processor unit such that the channel information corresponding to the retrieved channel is displayed in a region other than a region where the contents information is displayed.