DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20100073312A1
• Filed: 05/18/2009
• Published: 03/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: SON, Hyun-seok, KIM, Jae-hwan
• Application Number:
  US12/467,381
• Publication Number:
  US 20100073312A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

There are provided a display apparatus and a control method thereof. The display apparatus includes: an image processing part which processes an image; a display part which displays the image processed by the image processing part; an input part which recognizes a number of a multi-motion received from a user; and a controller which controls the image processing part to display the image according to the number of the multi-motion.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

an image processing part which processes an image;

a display part which displays the image processed by the image processing part;

an input part which recognizes a number of a multi-motion received from a user; and

a controller which controls the image processing part to display the image according to the number of the multi-motion.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the number of the multi-motion comprises a number of motions which are simultaneously received from the user or a number of motions which are consecutively received, for a predetermined time, from the user.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the user input part comprises a touch screen or a touch pad.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the multi-motion comprises a touch against the touch screen or the touch pad.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image corresponds to at least one of a channel, an image source and a menu.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the controller controls the image processing part to display an image corresponding to a channel skipped from a current channel by the number of the multi-motion.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller controls the image processing part to display the image according to a direction of the multi-motion.

8. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the controller controls the image processing part to display the image according to a direction of the multi-motion.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the controller controls the image processing part to change the channel upwardly or downwardly according to the direction of the multi-motion.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the controller controls the image processing part to change a current image into an image skipped by the number of the multi-motion according to the direction of the multi-motion.

11. A display apparatus comprising:

an image processing part which processes an image;

a display part which displays the image processed by the image processing part;

a communication part which receives information about a number of a multi-motion from a user recognized by an outside input device, from the outside input device; and

a controller which controls the image processing part to display the image according to the number of the multi-motion.

12. A control method of a display apparatus, the method comprising:

recognizing a number of a multi-motion received from a user; and

displaying an image according to the number of the recognized multi-motion.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the number of the multi-motion comprises a number of motions which are simultaneously received from the user or a number of motions which are consecutively received, for a predetermined time, from the user.

14. The method according to claim 12, wherein the multi-motion comprises a touch against a touch screen or a touch pad.

15. The method according to claim 12, wherein the image corresponds to at least one of a channel, an image source and a menu.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the displaying the image comprises displaying an image corresponding to a channel skipped from a current channel by the number of the multi-motion.

17. The method according to claim 12, wherein the displaying the image comprises displaying the image according to a direction of the multi-motion.

18. The method according to claim 15, wherein the displaying the image comprises displaying the image according to a direction of the multi-motion.

19. The method according to claim 18, wherein the displaying the image comprises changing the channel upwardly or downwardly according to the direction of the multi-motion.

20. The method according to claim 19, wherein the displaying the image comprises changing a current image into an image skipped by the number of the multi-motion according to the direction of the multi-motion.