MOBILE TERMINAL INCLUDING PROJECTOR AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20110102599A1
• Filed: 10/28/2010
• Published: 05/05/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Seo, Joung-Min, KWON, Jin-Wook, Hwang, Seong-Taek, Kwon, Mu-Sik, Lee, Jung-Kee, Park, Mun-Kue
• Application Number:
  US12/914,542
• Publication Number:
  US 20110102599A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/164
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1639 the display being based on projection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0304 Detection arrangements using opto-electronic means constructional details of pointing devices not related to the detection arrangement using opto-electronic means G06F3/033; optical digitisers G06F3/042
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03542 Light pens for emitting or receiving light
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0386 for light pen
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0272 for a projector or beamer module assembly constructional features of projectors per se G03B21/00; constructional details of projectors using electronic spatial light modulators per se H04N9/31
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2007/145 Handheld terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/20 for generating image signals from infrared radiation only
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/33 Transforming infrared radiation cameras or camera modules for generating image signals from infrared radiation H04N23/20; circuitry of SSIS for transforming infrared radiation into image signals H04N25/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/3176 wherein the projection device is incorporated in a camera details of cameras adapted for combination with a projector not peculiar to the presence of an electronic spatial light modulator G03B17/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/3194 including sensor feedback

Abstract

Disclosed is a mobile terminal for providing a blackboard function to an image projected through a projector, which includes a projector for projecting an image on a screen, a camera for photographing the image projected through the projector and transferring the photographed image to an image processor. The image processor processes the image transferred from the camera and transfers the processed image to a controller. The controller controls the operation of the mobile terminal including recognizing an effective region for the projected image where infrared rays are detected from the photographed image so as to recognize an indication position of an indication device. The indication device generates infrared rays, in the projected image, and when the infrared rays are detected, a preset mark is displayed on a position of the detected infrared rays by using the projector.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal for providing a blackboard function, comprising:

a projector projecting an image on a screen;

a camera for photographing the image projected through the projector and transferring the photographed image to an image processor;

the image processor for processing the image transferred from the camera and transferring the processed image to a controller; and

the controller for detecting infrared rays from the photographed image so as to recognize an indication position of an indication device, which generates the infrared rays, in the projected image, and when the infrared rays are detected, displaying a preset mark on a position of the detected infrared rays by using the projector.

2. The mobile terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein the camera is mounted on the mobile terminal so as to photograph an image in a direction identical to a direction in which the projector projects an image.

3. The mobile terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein the camera photographs an image by using a 2-band filter, which detects visible light and infrared rays.

4. The mobile terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller sets a region projected by the projector in the photographed image as an effective region and detects infrared rays only within the effective region.

5. The mobile terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein the preset mark includes a mouse pointer or a specific figure, and is changed and displayed according to a setting of a user.

6. The mobile terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein the camera is mounted on a front surface of the mobile terminal and enables to change a photographing direction of the camera from a front direction to a side direction of the mobile terminal.

7. The mobile terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein the indication device generating infrared rays is an electronic pen generating infrared light by using an infrared light emitting diode.

8. A method for providing a blackboard function to an image projected through a projector in a mobile terminal, the method comprising the steps of:

projecting an image through the projector of the mobile terminal;

photographing the projected image by a camera of the mobile terminal;

detecting infrared rays from the photographed image so as to recognize an indication position of an indication device generating infrared rays in the projected image; and

when the infrared rays have been detected from the photographed image, displaying a preset mark at a position, in which the infrared rays are detected, through the projector.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein in photographing the projected image by a camera of the mobile terminal, the camera of the mobile terminal photographs the image in a direction identical to a direction in which the image is projected.

10. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein in photographing the projected image by the camera of the mobile terminal, the camera of the mobile terminal photographs the projected image by using a 2-band filter, which detects visible light and infraredrays.

11. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein detecting the infrared rays from the photographed image by a controller of the mobile terminal comprises:

setting only a region projected by the projector among the photographed image as an effective region; and

detecting infrared rays from the effective region.

12. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the preset mark includes a mouse pointer or a specific figure, and is changed and displayed according to a setting of a user.

13. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the indication device generating the infrared rays is an electronic pen generating infrared light by using an infrared light emitting diode.