DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAYING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20100146422A1
• Filed: 09/14/2009
• Published: 06/10/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: PARK, Jong-chan, SEONG, Hye-young, SHIM, Bo-kyung, YIM, Jin-ho
• Granted Patent: US 9,152,298 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/765
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• 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 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/488 Data services, e.g. news ticker systems specially adapted for using meteorological information in broadcast systems H04H60/71
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

A display apparatus and a displaying method thereof are provided. A storage unit stores installed items, a UI generator generates a UI including a first area to display the installed items and a second area to display installable items, a display unit displays the generated UI, and, if one of the items displayed on the second area is selected, a controller displays a process of moving the selected item moved to the first area.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a storage unit which stores installed items;

a User Interface (UI) generator which generates a UI including a first area to display, at least, the installed items and a second area to display, at least, the installable items;

a display unit including a display area which displays the generated UI; and

a controller which, if at least one of the items displayed on the second area is selected, controls the UI generator and the display unit to display a process of moving the at least one selected item from the second area to the first area.

2. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the UI generator generates a motion graphic showing the process of moving the at least one selected item from the second area to the first area along a pre-set path.

3. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 2, further comprising a user input unit which selects at least one of the displayed installable items and requests the at least one selected item to be installed in the storage unit,

wherein the controller controls a moving speed of the motion graphic to correspond to a period of time necessary to install the at least one selected item in the storage unit.

4. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller controls the UI generator such that the at least one selected item is added to the first area and displayed on a pre-determined portion of the first area.

5. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 4, wherein the pre-determined portion of the first area is a headmost position.

6. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 4, wherein a position of the pre-determined portion of the first area is configurable by a user.

7. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first area is positioned on a lower end part of a display area of the display unit and the second area is positioned on an upper end part of the display area of the display unit, and

wherein, during the moving of the at least one selected item from the second area to the first area, the at least one selected item moves as if accelerating towards the first area by gravity.

8. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the UI generator processes the at least one selected item such that, during the moving of the at least one selected item from the second area to the first area, the at least one selected item is displayed as if transparent or semitransparent with respect to the UI and the non-selected items.

9. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an interface which receives the installable items through an external network.

10. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein the installed items and the installable items are stored in a web-server,

wherein the controller controls the interface and the UI generator to receive a list of the installed items and a list of installable items from the web-server and the external network and generate the UI.

11. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second area further displays installed items.

12. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the installed items displayed in the second area are visually identified as installed items.

13. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein a position of the first area in the display area of the display device is configurable by the user.

14. A displaying method of a display apparatus, the displaying method comprising:

generating a User Interface (UI) including a first area to display, at least, installed items and a second area to display, at least, installable items;

displaying the generated UI; and

if at least one of the installable items displayed on the second area is selected, displaying a process of moving the at least one selected item from the second area to the first area.

15. The displaying method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the UI generates a motion graphic showing the process of moving the at least one selected item from the second area to the first area along a pre-set path.

16. The displaying method as claimed in claim 15, further comprising selecting at least one of the displayed installable items and requesting the at least one selected item to be installed,

wherein a moving speed of the motion graphic showing the process of moving the at least one selected item from the second area to the first area corresponds to a period of time necessary to install the at least one selected item.

17. The displaying method as claimed in claim 14, wherein displaying the process of moving the at least one selected item from the second area to the first area includes displaying the at least one selected item moving to a pre-determined portion of the first area.

18. The displaying method as claimed in claim 17, wherein the pre-determined portion of the first area is a headmost position.

19. The displaying method as claimed in claim 17, wherein a position of the pre-determined portion of the first area is configurable by a user.

20. The displaying method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the first area is positioned on a lower end part of a display area of the display unit and the second area is positioned on an upper end part of a display area of the display unit, and

wherein, during the moving of the at least one selected item from the second area to the first area, the at least one selected item moves as if accelerating towards the first area by gravity.

21. The displaying method as claimed in claim 14, wherein, during the moving of the at least one selected item from the second area to the first area, the at least one selected item is displayed as if transparent or semitransparent with respect to the UI and the non-selected items.

22. The displaying method as claimed in claim 14, further comprising receiving the installable items through an external network.

23. The displaying method as claimed in claim 22, wherein the installed items and the installable items are stored in a web-server,

wherein the operation of displaying the UI receives a list of the installed items and a list of installable items from the web-server and the external network and generates the UI, and then displays the UI.

24. The displaying method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the second area further displays installed items.

25. The displaying method as claimed in claim 14, wherein a position of the first area in the display area of the display device is configurable by the user.