Apparatus for and method of providing question-and-answer screen on OSD

• US 20070196805A1
• Filed: 09/25/2006
• Published: 08/23/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Jae-hwan, Jo, Gye-wook
• Application Number:
  US11/525,840
• Publication Number:
  US 20070196805A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/323
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/08 Arrangements within a display terminal for setting, manually or automatically, display parameters of the display terminal
• 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 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4854 for modifying image parameters, e.g. image brightness, contrast

Abstract

An apparatus for and a method of providing a question-and-answer screen. A storage part stores a plurality of questions related to an image or sound quality adjustment and a plurality of options corresponding to the plurality of questions, a screen generator generates a question-and-answer screen including the plurality of questions and the plurality of options, and a signal processor adjusts the image or sound quality based on the options which are selected through the question-and-answer screen in response to the plurality of questions. As a result, a user can easily adjust functions by using the question-and-answer screen.

Claims

1. An apparatus for providing a question-and-answer screen, comprising:

a storage part which stores a plurality of questions related to at least one of an image quality adjustment and a sound quality adjustment and a plurality of options corresponding to the plurality of questions;

a screen generator which generates a question-and-answer screen comprising the plurality of questions and the corresponding plurality of options; and

a signal processor which adjusts at least one of the image and sound based on the options which are selected through the question-and-answer screen.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the storage part stores at least one item related to each of the questions, and a value set for the at least one item.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the plurality of questions are generated by combining the at least one item related to the questions, and the plurality of options are generated by combining the value set for the at least one item.

4. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the plurality of questions and the plurality of options are stored in the storage part in a form of a lookup table.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a controller which controls the storage part so that the selected options are stored in the storage part.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the plurality of options corresponding to each of the plurality of questions are expressed by at least two hierarchical levels.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the at least two hierarchical levels are expressed by at least one of:

high/low, strong/weak, and upper/lower.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the screen generator generates the question-and-answer screen as an on-screen display menu.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the question-and-answer screen, which is signal-processed, is displayed through one of:

a built-in display and a removable display.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the plurality of questions related to the image adjustment are provided to adjust luminance, brightness, contrast, sharpness, noise, low tone, white balance and color.

11. A method of providing a question-and-answer screen, comprising:

receiving a request signal requesting a question-and-answer screen comprising a plurality of questions related to at least one of;

an image quality adjustment and a sound quality adjustment, and a plurality of options corresponding to each of the plurality of questions;

processing the requested question-and-answer screen into a displayable signal;

displaying the processed question-and-answer screen;

selecting at least one option from the plurality of options for each of the plurality of questions through the displayed question-and-answer screen; and

performing at least one of the image quality adjustment and the sound quality adjustment based on the selected options.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the plurality of questions are generated by combining the at least one item related to the questions, and the plurality of options are generated by combining the values set for the at least one item.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the plurality of options for each of the plurality of questions are expressed by at least two hierarchical levels.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the at least two hierarchical levels are expressed by at least one of:

high/low, strong/weak and upper/lower.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the question-and-answer screen is generated as an on-screen display menu.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the plurality of questions related to the image adjustment are provided to adjust luminance, brightness, contrast, sharpness, noise, low tone, white balance and color.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising storing the options selected for each of the questions.

18. A user interface implemented on a display of a television, comprising:

a question-and-answer screen displaying a plurality of questions related to at least one of image quality adjustment and sound quality adjustment,

wherein for each of the displayed plurality of questions, a plurality of options are displayed, and

wherein the at least one of the image quality and the sound quality is adjusted by a user selecting at least one option corresponding to each of the displayed plurality of questions.

19. The user interface according to claim 18, further comprising an initial screen displaying at least one of:

a plurality of image quality adjusting items and a plurality of sound quality adjusting items.