DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME

• US 20110096094A1
• Filed: 08/14/2008
• Published: 04/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Seol, Seong-Woon
• Application Number:
  US12/673,308
• Publication Number:
  US 20110096094A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/634
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25841 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; arrangements for identifying locations of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/51; location of the user terminal in data switching networks H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4184 providing storage capabilities, e.g. memory stick
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6581 Reference data, e.g. a movie identifier for ordering a movie or a product identifier in a home shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8153 comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8715 involving the mixing of the reproduced video signal with a non-recorded signal, e.g. a text signal

Abstract

A display device and a method of operating the display device are provided. The display device includes a media interface unit for receiving images through an external memory card, a memory unit for storing the images therein, a network interface unit for receiving related contents from an external server using image taking time information and GPS information contained in the images, and a controller displaying the images together with the contents provided through the network interface unit with reference to the image taking time information and the GPS information.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a memory unit for storing images containing GPS information; and

a controller for arranging and displaying the images with reference to the GPS information.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the images stored in the memory unit comprise a first image taken by a digital camera and a second image downloaded from an external content server.

3. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the memory unit stores therein first and second images that can be classified in accordance with a storing path of image data;

and

the controller arranges and displays the first and second images using a slideshow function in accordance with the GPS information.

4. A display device comprising:

a media interface unit for receiving images through an external memory card;

a memory unit for storing the images therein;

a network interface unit for receiving related contents from an external server using image taking time information and GPS information contained in the images; and

a controller displaying the images together with the contents provided through the network interface unit with reference to the image taking time information and the GPS information.

5. The display device according to claim 4, wherein the controller displays the images and contents in location order in accordance with the GPS information or in chronological order in accordance with the image taking time information.

6. The display device according to claim 4, wherein, when audio contents corresponding to the GPS information is received through the network interface unit, the controller stores the audio contents in the memory unit and outputs the audio contents when displaying the images stored in the memory unit.

7. The display device according to claim 4, wherein the contents provided through the network interface unit include image data and information on an image data provider;

and

the controller displays the information on the image data provider together with the image data.

8. A display device comprising:

a memory unit for storing images containing GPS information and image taking time information;

a controller for sequentially displaying first and second images stored in the memory unit in accordance with the GPS information or the image taking time information; and

a display unit for displaying the first and second images,

wherein the controller forms an image taking route of the images using the GPS information and the image taking time information and displays an image for the image taking route on the display unit.

9. The display device according to claim 8, wherein the controller displays a virtual map including the image for the image taking route in a state where the virtual map is inserted between the first and second images in a slideshow function.

10. The display device according to claim 9, wherein the virtual map includes a main screen for displaying one of the first and second images and a sub-screen for display information on the image taking route;

and

the sub-screen further displays thereon a pointer for representing a route location on one of the first and second images.

11. The display device according to claim 8, wherein the memory unit further stores therein contents corresponding to the GPS information or image taking information of the first or second image;

and

the controller, when the contents are video contents, displays an image on the image taking route on the virtual map, and, when the contents are audio contents, outputs the contents when displaying the first or second image.

12. The display device according to claim 8, wherein the first and second images include information on an image provider;

and

the controller displays the information on the image provider when displaying the image of the image taking route.

13. A method of operating a display device that can be connected to a memory card storing image data therein, the method comprising:

reading the image data stored in the memory card and image taking time information and GPS information for the image data;

transferring the read GPS information to an external content server and downloading contents from the content server; and

arranging and displaying the image data and the contents in accordance with the image taking time information or the GPS information.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the displaying of the image data and the downloaded contents comprises, when the contents are video contents, displaying the video contents in a state where the video contents are inserted between the image data or in a state where the video contents are on the image data.

15. The method according to claim 13, wherein the displaying of the image data and the downloaded contents comprises, when the contents are audio contents, outputting the audio contents while displaying the image data.

16. The method according to claim 13, further comprising, after downloading the contents, sequentially arranging the image data and the contents in accordance with the image taking time information or the GPS information.

17. The method according to claim 13, wherein the displaying of the image data and the downloaded contents comprises displaying the image data together with an image taking route that is attained using the GPS information contained in the contents.