Display apparatus to generate a signal representing a state of battery of input device, and method thereof

• US 20070139392A1
• Filed: 11/22/2006
• Published: 06/21/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Dae-jung
• Application Number:
  US11/603,218
• Publication Number:
  US 20070139392A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/28 Supervision thereof, e.g. detecting power-supply failure by out of limits supervision
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus

Abstract

A display system includes a display part; an input device to generate a position signal on the display part, a sensor part to receive the position signal from the input device, and a controller to display a warning message when intensity of the position signal from the sensor part is less than a predetermined reference level, so that a user properly recharges or replaces the battery of the input device with a new one.

Claims

1. A display apparatus usable with an input device, comprising:

a display part;

an input device to generate a position signal on the display part;

a sensor part to receive the position signal from the input device; and

a controller to display a warning message when intensity of the position signal from the sensor part is less than a predetermined reference level.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller further comprises a second controller to receive the signal from the sensor part, and to generate and output position data about the input device.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the position signal comprises at least one of a supersonic wave signal and an infrared ray signal generated by the input device.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller receives position data from the sensor part and displays the warning message on the display part according to the position data when the intensity of the position signal is less than the predetermined reference level.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the input device comprises a battery and the warning message represents information about a battery capacity of the battery of the input device.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprises:

an OSD part to display the warning message outputted from the controller.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display part comprises a protecting window with which the input device contacts to generate the position signal.

8. A display system usable with an input device and a display apparatus, comprising:

a sensor part to receive a position signal generated from an external input device; and

a controller to generate a warning message when intensity of the received position signal from the sensor part is less than a predetermined reference level.

9. The display system according to claim 8, wherein the external input device transmits a wireless signal to the sensor part as the position signal.

10. The display system according to claim 9, wherein the external input device. comprises a battery to supply a power to the external input device, and the intensity represents a level of the power of the battery.

11. The display system according to claim 8, wherein the display apparatus comprises a display part formed with the sensor part, and the controller controls the display part to display an image representing the warning message.

12. The display system according to claim 8, wherein the controller controls the display apparatus to generate sound corresponding to the warning message.

13. The display system according to claim 8, wherein the sensor part and the controller are disposed in the display apparatus.

14. The display system according to claim 8, wherein the display apparatus displays a main image, and the warning message is displayed together with the main image on the display apparatus.

15. The display system according to claim 8, further comprising:

a computer to receive a signal representing the position signal from the sensor part,

wherein the controller controls the computer to generate an image corresponding to the warning message according to the received signal.

16. The display system according to claim 15, wherein the controller controls the computer to generate sound corresponding to the warning message.

17. The display system according to claim 8, further comprising:

a computer provided with the controller connected to the sensor part through an external signal line to receive the position signal from the sensor part,

wherein the controller controls the computer to generate an image corresponding to the warning message according to the received signal.

18. The display system according to claim 8, further comprising:

a display apparatus provided with the sensor part and the controller; and

a computer connected to the controller through an external signal line to generate an image corresponding to the warning message.

19. The display system according to claim 8, further comprising:

a display apparatus provided with the sensor part; and

a computer provided with the controller connected to the display apparatus through an external signal line to generate an image corresponding to the warning message.

20. The display system according to claim 8, wherein the external input device comprises a pen mouse to generate a wireless signal to the sensor part as the position signal.

21. A method of a display system usable with an input device, the method comprising:

receiving a position signal generated from an external input device; and

generating a warning message when intensity of the received position signal from the sensor part is less than a predetermined reference level.