METHOD FOR PROVIDING AREA OF IMAGE DISPLAYED ON DISPLAY APPARATUS IN GUI FORM USING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS APPLYING THE SAME

• US 20090174653A1
• Filed: 05/23/2008
• Published: 07/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Jung, Han-chul, Kwon, O-jae, SHIN, Chang-beom
• Application Number:
  US12/126,092
• Publication Number:
  US 20090174653A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/033 Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user , e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks; Accessories therefor digitisers characterised by the transducing means G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0354 with detection of 2D relative movements between the device, or an operating part thereof, and a plane or surface, e.g. 2D mice, trackballs, pens or pucks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1462 with means for detecting differences between the image stored in the host and the images displayed on the remote displays
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/12 Synchronisation between the display unit and other units, e.g. other display units, video-disc players
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4131 home appliance, e.g. lighting, air conditioning system, metering devices home automation data switching networks exchanging configuration information on appliance services H04L12/2807
• 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 21/42209 for displaying non-command information, e.g. electronic program guide [EPG], e-mail, messages or a second television channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42222 Additional components integrated in the remote control device, e.g. timer, speaker, sensors for detecting position, direction or movement of the remote control, microphone or battery charging device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42224 Touch pad or touch panel provided on the remote control
• 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 21/4782 : Web browsing , e.g. WebTV

Abstract

An electronic apparatus to provide an area of an image displayed on a display apparatus in a GUI form. The electronic apparatus transfers a user command related to an external apparatus to the external apparatus, and displays an area of an image displayed on the external apparatus on a display. Therefore, it is possible to display an area of an image displayed on a display apparatus in the GUI form using another display apparatus so that the user may select a desired GUI item more conveniently and more intuitively.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a display;

a communication unit communicably connected to an external apparatus; and

a control unit to transfer a user command related to the external apparatus to the external apparatus via the communication unit, and to control an area of an image displayed on the external apparatus to be displayed on the display.

2. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the area of the image displayed on the display appears to a user to be greater in size than the corresponding area of the image displayed on the external apparatus.

3. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the area of the image comprises graphical user interface (GUI) items selectable by the user; and

the control unit transfers information regarding a GUI item selected by the user to the external apparatus via the communication unit so as to transmit the user command related to the external apparatus to the external apparatus.

4. The electronic apparatus of claim 3, wherein:

the display is a touch screen; and

the control unit transfers information regarding a GUI item touched by the user among GUI items in an area of an image displayed on the touch screen to the external apparatus via the communication unit.

5. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a sensing unit to detect movement of the electronic apparatus;

wherein the area of the image displayed on the display changes according to the movement of the electronic apparatus detected by the sensing unit.

6. The electronic apparatus of claim 5, wherein the control unit transmits information regarding the movement of the electronic apparatus detected by the sensing unit to the external apparatus via the communication unit, and controls the area of the image received via the communication unit from the external apparatus to be displayed on the display.

7. The electronic apparatus of claim 5, wherein the direction of the movement of the electronic apparatus detected by the sensing unit corresponds to the direction in which the area of the image changes.

8. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein, when the user inputs the user command related to the external apparatus using the electronic apparatus, the distance between the electronic apparatus and the user is less than the distance between the external apparatus and the user.

9. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a capturing unit to capture an area of an image displayed on the external apparatus;

wherein the control unit transmits the area of the image captured by the capturing unit to the external apparatus via the communication unit, and receives information regarding GUI items in the area of the image from the external apparatus via the communication unit.

10. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the external apparatus is a broadcast receiving apparatus; and

the electronic apparatus is a remote controller of the broadcast receiving apparatus.

11. A method of providing a graphical user interface (GUI), the method comprising:

displaying an area of an image displayed on an external apparatus communicably connected to an electronic apparatus in a GUI form on the electronic apparatus; and

transferring a user command input using the area of the image displayed on the electronic apparatus to the external apparatus.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the area of the image displayed on the electronic apparatus appears to a user to be greater in size than the corresponding area of the image displayed on the external apparatus.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein:

the area of the image comprises GUI items selectable by the user; and

the transferring of the user command comprises transferring information regarding a GUI item selected by the user to the external apparatus so as to transmit the user command to the external apparatus.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the transferring of the user command comprises transferring information regarding a GUI item touched by the user among GUI items in an area of an image displayed on a touch screen of the electronic apparatus to the external apparatus.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

detecting movement of the electronic apparatus;

wherein the area of the image displayed on the electronic apparatus changes according to the detected movement of the electronic apparatus.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the direction of the detected movement of the electronic apparatus corresponds to the direction in which the area of the image changes.

17. A display apparatus, comprising:

a display;

a communication unit communicably connected to an electronic apparatus; and

a control unit to execute a user command received from the electronic apparatus via the communication unit, and to transfer information regarding graphical user interface (GUI) items in an area of an image displayed on the display to the electronic apparatus via the communication unit.

18. The display apparatus of claim 17, wherein:

the area of the image displayed on the display is displayed on the electronic apparatus; and

the area of the image displayed on the electronic apparatus appears to a user to be greater in size than the corresponding area of the image displayed on the display.

19. The display apparatus of claim 17, wherein the control unit transfers data regarding the area of the image displayed on the display to the electronic apparatus via the communication unit.

20. The display apparatus of claim 19, wherein the control unit transfers data regarding various areas of the image displayed on the display to the electronic apparatus via the communication unit, based on information regarding movement of the electronic apparatus received via the communication unit.

21. An electronic apparatus to transfer user commands related to peripheral apparatuses to the corresponding peripheral apparatuses, the apparatus comprising:

a display;

a communication unit communicably connected to the peripheral apparatuses; and

a control unit to determine which peripheral apparatus is facing the electronic apparatus and to display a graphical user interface (GUI) representing the peripheral apparatus found as a result of the determination.

22. A system comprising:

an external apparatus having a display;

a remote controller to control the external apparatus, the remote control having a display to display an area of an image displayed on the external apparatus;

wherein the area of the image displayed on the display of the remote control is scaled so as to appear larger than the corresponding area of the image displayed on the display of the external apparatus.

23. A remote controller to control an external apparatus having a display, the remote control comprising:

a screen; and

a control unit to control the external apparatus based on input from the user, and to display an area of an image displayed on the external apparatus;

wherein the control unit scales the image displayed on the screen so as to fit on the screen and to appear larger than the area of the image displayed on the external apparatus, and transmits input from the user to the external apparatus corresponding to GUI items displayed within the area.

24. The remote controller of claim 23, wherein, when the user moves the remote control, the control unit transmits information about the movement of the remote control to the external apparatus, receives information about a changed area corresponding to the movement from the external apparatus, and updates the screen with the changed area.

25. The remote controller of claim 24, further comprising:

a sensing unit to sense the movement of the remote control.

26. The remote controller of claim 25, wherein the sensing unit senses movement of the remote control in a plane substantially parallel to a plane of the display of the external apparatus.

27. The remote controller of claim 25, wherein the sensing unit senses movement of the remote control in a plane substantially perpendicular to a place of the display of the external apparatus.

28. The remote controller of claim 23, further comprising:

a capturing unit to capture an image displayed on the external apparatus; and

wherein the controller determines the area to be displayed on the screen based on the captured image.

29. The remote controller of claim 23, wherein:

the screen is a touchscreen; and

if the area includes a GUI item, the controller controls the screen to display the GUI item as a selectable object.

30. The remote controller of claim 23, wherein the controller transmits commands to the external apparatus based on the input of the user and the area displayed on the screen.

31. The remote controller of claim 23, wherein the remote controller receives an image corresponding to the area from the external apparatus.

32. The remote controller of claim 23, wherein the controller determines the area to be displayed on the screen.