GUI PROVIDING METHOD, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS AND 3D IMAGE PROVIDING SYSTEM USING THE SAME

• US 20110126159A1
• Filed: 10/12/2010
• Published: 05/26/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: HAN, Ji-youn, KO, Chang-seog
• Granted Patent: US 9,307,224 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/848
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/128 Adjusting depth or disparity
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/156 Mixing image signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/183 On-screen display [OSD] information, e.g. subtitles or menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/359 Switching between monoscopic and stereoscopic modes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/361 Reproducing mixed stereoscopic images; Reproducing mixed monoscopic and stereoscopic images, e.g. a stereoscopic image overlay window on a monoscopic image background
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/398 Synchronisation thereof; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/472 End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4854 for modifying image parameters, e.g. image brightness, contrast
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/44504 Circuit details of the additional information generator, e.g. details of the character or graphics signal generator, overlay mixing circuits

Abstract

A graphical user interface (GUI) providing method, a display apparatus and a three-dimensional (3D) image providing system using the same are provided. The GUI providing method includes: generating a first GUI for changing settings for a 3D image and a second GUI for changing an environment; and outputting the first GUI and the second GUI. Thus, the settings for the 3D image can be changed more easily and conveniently.

Claims

1. A graphical user interface (GUI) providing method comprising:

when a setting command for a three-dimensional (3D) image, generating a first GUI for changing settings for the 3D image and a second GUI for changing an environment to set the 3D image; and

outputting the first GUI and the second GUI.

2. The GUI providing method of claim 1, wherein the environment to set the 3D image is an environment in which the 3D image is played or an environment in which the 3D image is paused.

3. The GUI providing method of claim 1, wherein the settings for the 3D image comprise at least one of a setting relating to a format of the 3D image, a setting relating to conversion between an output of the 3D image and an output of a 2D image, and a setting relating to at least one of a depth control and a focus control of the 3D image.

4. The GUI providing method of claim 1, wherein:

when the setting command is input in an environment in which the 3D image is played, the outputting comprises outputting the first GUI and the second GUI while maintaining a playback of the 3D image; and

when the setting command is input in an environment in which the 3D image is paused, the outputting comprises outputting the first GUI and the second GUI while maintaining a pause of the 3D image.

35. A computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program executable by a computer for performing the method of claim 1.

5. A display apparatus comprising:

a graphical user interface (GUI) generator which, when a setting command for a three-dimensional (3D) image, generates a first GUI for changing settings for the 3D image and a second GUI for changing an environment to set the 3D image; and

a controller which controls to output the first GUI and the second GUI.

6. The display apparatus of claim 5, wherein the environment to set the 3D image is an environment in which the 3D image is played or an environment in which the 3D image is paused.

7. The display apparatus of claim 5, wherein the settings for the 3D image comprise at least one of a setting relating to a format of the 3D image, a setting relating to conversion between an output of the 3D image and an output of a 2D image, and a setting relating to at least one of a depth control and a focus control of the 3D image.

8. The display apparatus of claim 5, wherein:

when the setting command is input in an environment in which the 3D image is played, the controller controls to output the first GUI and the second GUI while maintaining a playback of the 3D image, and

when the setting command is input in an environment in which the 3D image is paused, the controller controls to output the first GUI and the second GUI while maintaining a pause of the 3D image.

9. A three-dimensional (3D) image providing system comprising:

a display apparatus which outputs a 3D image and, when a setting command for the 3D image, which outputs a first graphical user interface (GUI) for changing settings for the 3D image and a second GUI for changing an environment to set the 3D image; and

shutter glasses which alternately open and close a left-eye glass and a right-eye glass based on a sync signal output from the display apparatus to alternately input, to the left-eye glass and the right-eye glass, a left-eye image and a right-eye image, respectively, of the 3D image.

10. A graphical user interface (GUI) providing method for a three-dimensional (3D) image, the GUI providing method comprising:

when a command for at least one of a focus control and a depth control of the 3D image, displaying, with the 3D image, one GUI for the focus control and the depth control together; and

changing a left-eye image and a right-eye image of the 3D image according to a manipulation command input through the GUI.

11. The GUI providing method of claim 10, wherein the one GUI is a GUI which overlaps a first control bar along a first direction for adjusting the focus, and a second control bar along a second direction for adjusting the depth.

12. The GUI providing method of claim 10, wherein the manipulation command is received through up, down, left and right direction keys of a remote controller, through touching a screen displaying the GUI, or through pointing a screen displaying the GUI from a pointing device.

13. The GUI providing method of claim 12, wherein the up, down, left and right direction keys respectively correspond to a focus up manipulation command, a focus down manipulation command, a depth up manipulation command, and a depth down manipulation command.

36. A computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program executable by a computer for performing the method of claim 10.

14. A display apparatus for displaying a three-dimensional (3D) image, the display apparatus comprising:

a graphical user interface (GUI) generator which, when a command for at least one of a focus control and a depth control of the 3D image, generates one GUI for the focus control and the depth control;

a display which displays the 3D image together with the GUI; and

a controller which controls to change a left-eye image and a right-eye image of the 3D image according to a manipulation command input through the GUI.

15. The display apparatus of claim 14, wherein the one GUI is a GUI which overlaps a first control bar along a first direction for adjusting the focus, and a second control bar along a second direction for adjusting the depth.

16. The display apparatus of claim 14, further comprising:

a user command receiver which receives the manipulation command,

wherein the manipulation command is received through up, down, left and right direction keys of a remote controller, through touching a screen displaying the GUI, or through pointing a screen displaying the GUI from a pointing device.

17. The display apparatus of claim 16, wherein the up, down, left and right direction keys respectively correspond to a focus up manipulation command, a focus down manipulation command, a depth up manipulation command, and a depth down manipulation command respectively.

18. A three-dimensional (3D) image providing system comprising:

a display apparatus which, when an input of a command for at least one of a focus control and a depth control of the 3D image, displays one graphical user interface (GUI) for the focus control and the depth control, and which modifies and outputs a left-eye image and a right-eye image of the 3D image according to a manipulation command input through the GUI; and

shutter glasses which alternately open and close a left-eye glass and a right-eye glass based on a sync signal output from the display apparatus to alternately input, to the left-eye glass and the right-eye glass, the modified left-eye image and the modified right-eye image, respectively.

19. A graphical user interface (GUI) providing method comprising:

displaying a GUI for setting a third element which combines a first element and a second element which are set to adjust a stereoscopic effect of a three-dimensional (3D) image; and

modifying a left-eye image and a right-eye image of the 3D image to adjust the stereoscopic effect of the 3D image according to the third element set through the GUI.

20. The GUI providing method of claim 19, wherein the first element for adjusting the stereoscopic effect is a depth of the 3D image, and the second element for adjusting the stereoscopic effect is a focus of the 3D image.

21. The GUI providing method of claim 19, wherein the third element is settable between at least three stages.

22. The GUI providing method of claim 19, further comprising:

providing a preview of the 3D image with the adjusted stereoscopic effect according to the third element set through the GUI.

37. A computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program executable by a computer for performing the method of claim 19.

23. A display apparatus comprising:

a graphical user interface (GUI) generator which generates a GUI to set a third element combining a first element and a second element which are set to adjust a stereoscopic effect of a three-dimensional (3D) image; and

a controller which controls to modify a left-eye image and a right-eye image of the 3D image to adjust the stereoscopic effect of the 3D image according to the third element set through the GUI.

24. The display apparatus of claim 23, wherein the first element for adjusting the stereoscopic effect is a depth of the 3D image, and the second element for adjusting the stereoscopic effect is a focus of the 3D image.

25. The display apparatus of claim 23, wherein the third element is settable between at least three stages.

26. The display apparatus of claim 23, wherein the controller controls to provide a preview of the 3D image with the adjusted stereoscopic effect according to the third element set through the GUI.

27. A display apparatus comprising:

a manipulator which receives a manipulation of a user;

an image input part which inputs a three-dimensional (3D) image;

a 3D image creator which generates a left-eye image and a right-eye image corresponding to the input 3D image;

an image output part which alternately outputs the generated left-eye image and the generated right-eye image; and

a controller which, when an input, through the manipulator, of a generation command of a 3D graphical user interface (GUI) to display over the 3D image, controls to output only one of the generated left-eye image and the generated right-eye image and to output the GUI.

28. The display apparatus of claim 27, further comprising:

a GUI generator which generates the 3D GUI,

wherein the 3D image creator generates a left-eye GUI and a right-eye GUI corresponding to the generated 3D GUI, and

the controller controls to alternately output the left-eye GUI and the right-eye GUI together with one of the left-eye image and the right-eye image.

29. The display apparatus of claim 27, wherein:

when the input of the generation command of the 3D GUI to display over the 3D image, the 3D image creator generates only one of the left-eye image and the right-eye image; and

the controller controls to output of the only one of the generated left-eye image and the generated right-eye image.

30. The display apparatus of claim 28, wherein, when an input, through the manipulator, of an end command of the 3D GUI, the controller controls to stop outputting the 3D GUI and to alternately output the generated left-eye image and the generated right-eye image corresponding to the input 3D image.

31. A graphical user interface (GUI) providing method comprising:

receiving a manipulation of a user;

inputting a three-dimensional (3D) image;

generating a left-eye image and a right-eye image corresponding to the input 3D image;

alternately outputting the generated left-eye image and the generated right-eye image; and

when an input of a generation command of a 3D GUI to display over the 3D image through the received manipulation, outputting the 3D GUI together with one of the generated left-eye image and the generated right-eye image.

32. The GUI providing method of claim 31, further comprising:

generating the 3D GUI;

generating a left-eye GUI and a right-eye GUI corresponding to the generated 3D GUI; and

alternately outputting the left-eye GUI and the right-eye GUI together with one of the left-eye image and the right-eye image.

33. The GUI providing method of claim 31, wherein the generating of the left-eye image and the right-eye image corresponding to the input 3D image generates only one of the left-eye image and the right-eye image when the generation command of the 3D GUI to display over the 3D image is input through the received manipulation, and

the outputting of only one of the left-eye image and the right-eye image outputs one of the generated left-eye image and the generated right-eye image.

34. The GUI providing method of claim 32, further comprising:

receiving an end command of the 3D GUI through the received manipulation; and

stopping the outputting of the 3D GUI and alternately outputting the generated left-eye image and the generated right-eye image corresponding to the input 3D image.

38. A computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program executable by a computer for performing the method of claim 31.