DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20110113373A1
• Filed: 06/16/2010
• Published: 05/12/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Chang-soo, YOON, Yeo-ri, LEE, Sang-hee, LEE, Hyeon-ji, PHANG, Joon-ho, LEE, Dong-heon
• Application Number:
  US12/816,683
• Publication Number:
  US 20110113373A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/823
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4314 for fitting data in a restricted space on the screen, e.g. EPG data in a rectangular grid
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• 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 21/8153 comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image

Abstract

A display apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes: a display unit which displays an image; a user input unit which receives a user input; and a controller which controls the display unit to display a plurality of first icons corresponding to a plurality of content items selected by the user input and at least one function which commonly corresponds to the plurality of content items, and performs the function selected by a user input.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a display unit which displays an image;

a user input unit which receives a user input; and

a controller which controls the display unit to display a plurality of icons corresponding to a plurality of content items selected by a user input and at least one function which commonly corresponds to the plurality of content items, and performs a function selected from among the at least one function by a user input.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller controls the display unit to display additional information regarding at least one of the plurality of content items, along with the plurality of icons and the at least one function.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the user input unit receives a user input for selecting one of the plurality of icons, and the controller controls the display unit to display the additional information regarding a content item corresponding to the selected icon, along with the plurality of icons and the at least one function.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the controller controls the display unit to display the plurality of icons in an overlapped manner with the selected icon being arranged on top.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the controller controls the display unit to display the selected icon as highlighted.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the user input unit receives a user input for replacing the selected icon with a another icon, and the controller controls the display unit to display the additional information regarding a content item corresponding to the other icon.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the additional information includes integrated information corresponding to all of the plurality of content items.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of icons is displayed as a thumbnail image.

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

receiving a user input;

displaying a plurality of icons corresponding to a plurality of content items selected by the user input, and at least one function which commonly corresponds to the plurality of content items; and

performing a function selected by another user input.

10. The control method according to claim 9, further comprising:

displaying additional information regarding at least one of the plurality of content items, along with the plurality of icons and the at least one function.

11. The control method according to claim 10, wherein the displaying the additional information comprises displaying the additional information regarding a content item corresponding to a icon selected from among the plurality of icons.

12. The control method according to claim 11, wherein the displaying the plurality of icons comprises displaying the plurality of icons in an overlapped manner with the selected icon being arranged on top.

13. The control method according to claim 11, wherein the selected icon is displayed as highlighted.

14. The control method according to claim 11, further comprising:

receiving another user input for replacing the selected icon with another icon, and displaying additional information regarding a content item corresponding to the other icon.

15. The control method according to claim 10, wherein the additional information includes integrated information corresponding to all of the plurality of content items.

16. The control method according to claim 9, wherein each of the plurality of icons is displayed as a thumbnail image.

17. A method comprising:

displaying a first screen including a plurality of first icons corresponding to a plurality of content items;

receiving an input for selecting first icons from among the plurality of first icons which are displayed;

displaying a second screen including a plurality of second icons which correspond to content items corresponding to the selected first icons, and at least one function which corresponds to the content items corresponding the selected first icons;

receiving an input for selecting a function from among the at least one function; and

executing the selected function.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the plurality of first icons are displayed as first images and the plurality of second icons are displayed as second images which are different from the first images.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the plurality of second icons are displayed in a non-overlapped manner and the plurality of first second are displayed in an overlapped manner.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the second screen further includes additional information regarding at least one of the content items.