IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20090125941A1
• Filed: 11/07/2008
• Published: 05/14/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KOH, Kwang-hyun
• Application Number:
  US12/266,994
• Publication Number:
  US 20090125941A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4828 for searching program descriptors retrieval of video data G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A control method of an image processing apparatus which communicates with a server, the control method including: receiving image content including additional information; processing and displaying the received image content; receiving a selection signal to select an information searching function; transmitting the additional information of the image content to the server; and receiving at least one search word related to the image content from the server and generating a list.

Claims

1. A control method of an image processing apparatus which communicates with a server, the method comprising:

receiving image content including additional information;

processing the received image content;

determining whether a selection signal to select an information searching function is received;

if the selection signal to select the information searching function is received, transmitting the additional information of the image content to the server;

receiving from the server at least one search word related to the image content in response to the transmitting of the additional information; and

generating a list, wherein the list includes the at least one search word received from the server.

2. The control method according to claim 1, wherein the receiving the at least one search word comprises receiving search frequency information corresponding to each search word.

3. The control method according to claim 2, wherein the generating the list comprises arranging the at least one search word based on the search frequency information.

4. The control method according to claim 2, wherein the receiving the at least one search word comprises receiving category information corresponding to each search word of the at least one search word.

5. The control method according to claim 4, wherein the generating the list comprises arranging the at least one search word based on the category information.

6. The control method according to claim 5, wherein the generating the list further comprises arranging the at least one search word based on the search frequency information.

7. The control method according to claim 1, further comprising:

selecting a desired search word from the list;

transmitting the desired search word to the server; and

receiving a search result corresponding to the desired search word transmitted to the server.

8. The control method according to claim 1, wherein the additional information includes EPG information.

9. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a communicator which communicates with a server;

a receiver which receives image content including additional information;

a processor which processes the image content received by the receiver; and

a controller which determines if an information searching function is selected, and if the information searching function is selected, the controller transmits the additional information to the server, controls the communicator to receive from the server at least one search word related to the image content, and generates a list, wherein the list includes the at least one search word received from the server.

10. The image processing apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising:

a user interface (UI) generator, wherein the communicator receives search frequency information corresponding to each search word of the at least one search word, and the controller controls the UI generator to generate the list such that the at least one search word is arranged based on the search frequency information.

11. The image processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the communicator receives category information corresponding to each search word of the at least one search word, and the controller controls the UI generator to generate the list such that the at least one search word is further arranged based on the category information.

12. The image processing apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising:

a user input unit, wherein if a desired search word is selected from the list, the controller transmits the desired search word to the server, and receives a search result corresponding to the transmitted search word.

13. A control method of an image processing apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving image content including additional information;

processing the received image content;

receiving a selection signal to select an information searching function;

retrieving at least one search word corresponding to the image content from the additional information in response to the receiving of the selection signal; and

generating a list, wherein the list includes the at least one search word retrieved from the additional information.

14. The control method according to claim 13, wherein the receiving the at least one search word comprises receiving category information corresponding to the at least one search word.

15. The control method according to claim 14, wherein the generating the list comprises arranging the at least one search word based on the category information.

16. The control method according to claim 13, further comprising:

selecting a desired search word from the list;

transmitting the desired search word to a server; and

receiving a search result corresponding to the desired search word transmitted to the server.

17. The control method according to claim 13, wherein the additional information includes EPG information.

18. A control method of a server apparatus which communicates with an image processing apparatus, wherein the image processing apparatus receives image content and additional information corresponding to the image content, the method comprising:

receiving the additional information from the image processing apparatus;

retrieving at least one search word corresponding to the additional information received from the image processing apparatus;

transmitting the at least one search word to the image processing apparatus;

receiving a desired search word selected by the image processing apparatus;

generating a search result based on the desired search word; and

transmitting the search result to the image processing apparatus.

19. The control method according to claim 18, further comprising retrieving category information corresponding to the search word.

20. The control method according to claim 18, wherein the additional information includes EPG information.

21. The control method according to claim 19, further comprising retrieving frequency information for the at least one search word.

22. The control method according to claim 19, wherein the at least one search word is transmitted with the corresponding category information.

23. The control method according to claim 21, wherein the at least one search word is transmitted with the corresponding frequency information.