DISPLAY HAVING UNSHIELDED OSD AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING UNSHIELDED OSD

• US 20090244379A1
• Filed: 08/13/2008
• Published: 10/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AmTRAN Technology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: AmTRAN Technology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: TSAI, Yuan-Hsi
• Application Number:
  US12/190,727
• Publication Number:
  US 20090244379A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/569
• 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 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/44504 Circuit details of the additional information generator, e.g. details of the character or graphics signal generator, overlay mixing circuits

Abstract

A displayer having an unshielded on screen displayer (OSD) and a method for implementing the unshielded OSD are described. A microprocessor of the displayer having the unshielded OSD generates a plurality of first opaque items without a background color and a first background layer having a size the same as that of the first opaque items, and combines the first opaque items with the first background layer into a function menu. When a controller controls the first background layer to move around, the first background layer is overlapped with one of the first opaque items without the background color, and taken as an undercoat for the first opaque item, so as to highlight the information carried by the first opaque item. The first opaque item without the background color does not easily shield the screen image, so as to avoid shielding a viewable area of the screen.

Claims

1. A displayer having an unshielded on screen displayer (OSD), suitable for receiving a video signal and generating an OSD to avoid shielding a viewable area of a screen, comprising:

a screen, for displaying a video image according to the video signal;

a microprocessor, for executing the following procedures;

generating a plurality of first opaque items without a background color and a first background layer with a size the same as that of the first opaque items without the background color; and

overlapping the first background layer with one of the first opaque items without the background color, and combining the first opaque item without the background color with the first background layer into a function menu;

a video processor, for receiving the function menu from the microprocessor, and displaying the function menu on the video image; and

a controller, provided for a subscriber to transmit the following control signals;

sending an acknowledgement signal, for instructing the microprocessor to execute a function indicated by an acknowledged first opaque item without the background color; and

sending a function select signal, for moving the first background layer to display the first background layer with overlapping another first opaque item without the background color.

2. The displayer having an unshielded OSD according to claim 1, wherein a display aspect of the first opaque items without the background color is any one selected from a group consisting of number, text, geometric pattern, and image stroke.

3. The displayer having an unshielded OSD according to claim 1, wherein a display color of the first opaque items without the background color is changed according to an average chroma value of the video image.

4. The displayer having an unshielded OSD according to claim 1, wherein the video processor further displays a sub-function menu, and the sub-function menu is formed by combining a plurality of second opaque items without a background color with the first background layer and provides an auxiliary function corresponding to a first opaque item without the background color selected in the function menu.

5. The displayer having an unshielded OSD according to claim 1, wherein the video processor further displays a sub-function menu, and the sub-function menu is formed by combining a plurality of second opaque items without a background color with a second background layer and provides an auxiliary function corresponding to a first opaque item without the background color selected in the function menu.

6. A method for implementing an unshielded OSD, wherein the OSD is displayed on a video image of a displayer screen, the method comprising:

receiving an OSD displaying signal transmitted from a controller and then generating a plurality of first opaque items without a background color and a first background layer with a size the same as that of the first opaque items without the background color;

overlapping the first background layer with one of the first opaque items without the background color, and combining the first opaque item without the background color with the first background layer into a function menu;

displaying the function menu on the video image; and

executing a function corresponding to a control signal according to the received control signal;

moving the first background layer to be displayed by overlapping another first opaque item without the background color, if the control signal is a function select signal; and

instructing the microprocessor to execute a function indicated by an acknowledged first opaque item without the background color, if the control signal is an acknowledgement signal.

7. The method for implementing an unshielded OSD according to claim 6, wherein a display aspect of the first opaque items without the background color is any one selected from a group consisting of number, text, geometric pattern, and image stroke.

8. The method for implementing an unshielded OSD according to claim 6, wherein a display color of the first opaque items without the background color is changed according to an average chroma value of the video image.

9. The method for implementing an unshielded OSD according to claim 6, wherein the step of instructing the microprocessor to execute the function indicated by the acknowledged first opaque item without the background color further comprises:

determining whether a sub-function menu corresponding to the acknowledged first opaque item without the background color exists or not, wherein the sub-function menu is formed by a plurality of second opaque items without a background color;

merely maintaining the acknowledged first opaque item without the background color in the function menu; and

overlapping another first background layer with any one of the second opaque items without the background color in the sub-function menu, and displaying the function menu and the sub-function menu.

10. The method for implementing an unshielded OSD according to claim 6, wherein the step of instructing the microprocessor to execute the function indicated by the acknowledged first opaque item without the background color further comprises:

determining whether a sub-function menu corresponding to the acknowledged first opaque item without the background color exists or not, wherein the sub-function menu is formed by a plurality of second opaque items without a background color;

merely maintaining the acknowledged first opaque item without the background color in the function menu; and

overlapping a second background layer with any one of the second opaque items without the background color in the sub-function menu, and displaying the function menu and the sub-function menu.