Remote On-Screen Display Control

• US 20090271710A1
• Filed: 04/23/2008
• Published: 10/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: InFocus Corporation (Lap-Shun Hui, MBA)
• Inventors: Montz, Dan, Fankhauser, Kurt, Nash, Randy
• Application Number:
  US12/108,042
• Publication Number:
  US 20090271710A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/740
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0383 Remote input, i.e. interface arrangements in which the signals generated by a pointing device are transmitted to a PC at a remote location, e.g. to a PC in a LAN
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• 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: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/04 Exchange of auxiliary data, i.e. other than image data, between monitor and graphics controller
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/10 Use of a protocol of communication by packets in interfaces along the display data pipeline
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092

Abstract

A remote control of an on-screen display is provided. One example embodiment includes a method for receiving a first command from a user input device and converting the first command from the user input device to a second command, wherein the second command is in a display device format that the display device can use to control an on-screen display, then sending the second command to the display device to remotely control an on-screen display in the display device.

Claims

1. In a computing device, a method for remote control of an on-screen display, the method comprising:

receiving a first command from a user input device;

converting the first command from the user input device to a second command, wherein the second command is in a display device format that the display device can use to control an on-screen display; and

sending the second command to the display device to remotely control an on-screen display in the display device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein converting the first command from the user input device to a second command includes converting the second command to at least one of a menu state command or a menu control command.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the user input device is a mouse and the first command is at least one of a left mouse button, a right mouse button, a mouse movement, or a scroll wheel command.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein converting the first command from the user input device to a second command further comprises converting a mouse up movement or a scroll wheel up command to an on-screen display cursor up movement, converting a mouse down movement or a scroll wheel down command to an on-screen display cursor down movement, converting a left mouse button command to an on-screen display select command, or converting a right mouse button command to an on-screen display state toggle command.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

positioning a mouse cursor within a bounded area on a display in communication with the computing device;

detecting a mouse up movement when the mouse cursor touches the top of the bounded area;

sending an on-screen display cursor up command to a display device; and

positioning the mouse cursor a set distance from the bottom of the bounded area to provide hysteresis to control mouse sensitivity.

6. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

positioning a mouse cursor within a bounded area on a display in communication with the computing device;

detecting a mouse down movement when the mouse cursor touches the bottom of the bounded area;

sending an on-screen display cursor down command to a display device; and

positioning the mouse cursor a set distance from the top of the bounded area to provide hysteresis to control mouse sensitivity.

7. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

converting the first command from the user input device to a second command further comprises converting a combination of a mouse down movement and a left mouse button command to an on-screen display cursor down command; and

sending the on-screen display cursor down command to the display device multiple times according to a set interval.

8. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

converting the first command from the user input device to a second command further comprises converting a combination of a mouse up movement and a left mouse button command to an on-screen display cursor up command; and

sending the on-screen display cursor up command to the display device multiple times according to a set interval.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the user input device is a keyboard and the first command is a left arrow, right arrow, up arrow, a down arrow a page up, a page down or an enter command.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein converting the first command from the user input device to a second command further comprises converting an up arrow or a page up command to an on-screen display cursor up movement, converting a down arrow or a page down command to an on-screen display cursor down movement, converting a left arrow command to an on-screen display state toggle command, and converting a right arrow or an enter command to an on-screen display select command.

11. A computer-readable medium comprising instructions executable by a computing device to remotely control an on-screen display in a display device with user inputs to a computing device, the instructions being executable to perform a method comprising:

receiving a first command from a user input device;

converting the first command from the user input device to a second command, wherein the second command is in a display device format that the display device can use to control an on-screen display; and

sending the second command to the display device to remotely control an on-screen display in the display device.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein converting the first command from the user input device to a second command includes converting the second command to at least one of a menu state command or a menu control command.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the user input device is a mouse and the first command is at least one of a left mouse button, a right mouse button, a mouse movement, or a scroll wheel command.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 13, wherein converting the first command from the user input device to a second command further comprises converting a mouse up movement or a scroll wheel up command to an on-screen display cursor up movement, converting a mouse down movement or a scroll wheel down command to an on-screen display cursor down movement, converting a left mouse button command to an on-screen display select command, or converting a right mouse button command to an on-screen display state toggle command.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 13, further comprising instructions for:

positioning a mouse cursor within a bounded area on a display in communication with the computing device;

detecting a mouse up movement when the mouse cursor touches the top of the bounded area;

sending an on-screen display cursor up command to a display device; and

positioning the mouse cursor a set distance from the bottom of the bounded area to provide hysteresis to control mouse sensitivity.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 13, further comprising instructions for:

positioning a mouse cursor within a bounded area on a display in communication with the computing device;

detecting a mouse down movement when the mouse cursor touches the bottom of the bounded area;

sending an on-screen display cursor down command to a display device; and

positioning the mouse cursor a set distance from the top of the bounded area to provide hysteresis to control mouse sensitivity.

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 13, further comprising instructions for:

converting the first command from the user input device to a second command further comprises converting a combination of a mouse down movement and a left mouse button command to an on-screen display cursor down command; and

sending the on-screen display cursor down command to the display device multiple times according to a set interval.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 13, further comprising instructions for:

converting the first command from the user input device to a second command further comprises converting a combination of a mouse up movement and a left mouse button command to an on-screen display cursor up command; and

sending the on-screen display cursor up command to the display device multiple times according to a set interval.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the user input device is a keyboard and the first command is a left arrow, right arrow, up arrow, a down arrow a page up, a page down or an enter command.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 19, wherein converting the first command from the user input device to a second command further comprises converting an up arrow or a page up command to an on-screen display cursor up movement, converting a down arrow or a page down command to an on-screen display cursor down movement, converting a left arrow command to an on-screen display state toggle command, and converting a right arrow or an enter command to an on-screen display select command.

21. An image display system, comprising:

at least one of a mouse or a keyboard coupled with a computing device comprising a processor and a memory, the computing device operable to convert an first command from the mouse or the keyboard to a menu state command or a menu control command, the computing device operable to output the menu state command or the menu control command to a display device to remotely control an on-screen display in the display device; and

a display device coupled with the computing device, the display device to receive menu state command or the menu control command and to control an on-screen display in the display device in response to the menu state command or the menu control command.