METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING MENUS

• US 20110191720A1
• Filed: 10/25/2010
• Published: 08/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Kyung-il
• Application Number:
  US12/911,459
• Publication Number:
  US 20110191720A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/838
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications

Abstract

A method for displaying a menu includes generating a content selection menu which includes a plurality of contents and a location selection menu which includes a plurality of locations within a content that is currently selected among the plurality of contents, by using information about at least one of the contents, and displaying the content selection menu and the location selection menu on a single screen.

Claims

1. A method of displaying a menu, the method comprising:

generating a content selection menu which comprises a plurality of contents and a location selection menu which comprises a plurality of locations corresponding to one of the plurality of contents that is selected, by using information about the plurality of contents; and

displaying the content selection menu and the location selection menu on a single screen.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising, when a command for reproduction is input, reproducing the selected one of the plurality of contents from a location selected through the location selection menu among the plurality of locations.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the content selection menu and the location selection menu are displayed to cross each other.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the location selection menu comprises a plurality of thumbnail images corresponding to a plurality of scenes in the selected one of the plurality of contents.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the content selection menu comprises a plurality of thumbnail images corresponding to the plurality of contents.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the content selection menu comprises a plurality of thumbnail images arranged in a vertical direction, corresponding to the plurality of contents,

wherein the location selection menu comprises a plurality of thumbnail images arranged in a horizontal direction, corresponding to a plurality of scenes in the selected one of the plurality of contents, and

wherein the content selection menu crosses the location selection menu at an area corresponding to the selected one of the plurality of contents.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising displaying information regarding a location in the content corresponding to a scene that is selected.

8. A computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing a method of displaying a menu, the method comprising:

generating a content selection menu which comprises a plurality of contents and a location selection menu which comprises a plurality of locations corresponding to one of the plurality of contents, by using information about the plurality of the contents; and

displaying the content selection menu and the location selection menu on a single screen.

9. A menu displaying apparatus comprising:

a display unit;

a storage unit which stores information about a plurality of contents; and

a controller which generates a content selection menu which comprises the plurality of contents and a location selection menu which comprises a plurality of locations corresponding to one of the plurality of contents that is selected, by using the information about the plurality of contents, and which controls the display unit to simultaneously display the content selection menu and the location selection menu.

10. The menu displaying apparatus of claim 9, wherein, when a command for reproduction is input, the controller reproduces the content that is selected among the plurality of contents from a location selected through the location selection menu among the plurality of locations.

11. The menu displaying apparatus of claim 9, wherein the controller displays the content selection menu and the location selection menu so as to cross each other.

12. The menu displaying apparatus of claim 9, wherein the controller generates the location selection menu comprising a plurality of thumbnail images corresponding to a plurality of scenes in the selected one of the plurality of contents.

13. The menu displaying apparatus of claim 9, wherein the controller generates the content selection menu comprising a plurality of thumbnail images corresponding to the plurality of contents.

14. The menu displaying apparatus of claim 9, wherein the controller generates the content selection menu comprising a plurality of thumbnail images arranged in a vertical direction, corresponding to the plurality of contents, and the location selection menu comprising a plurality of thumbnail images arranged in a horizontal direction, corresponding to a plurality of scenes in the selected one of the plurality of contents, and

wherein the controller controls the display unit to display the content selection menu and the location selection menu so as to cross each other at an area corresponding to the selected one of the plurality of contents

15. The menu displaying apparatus of claim 14, wherein the controller controls the display unit to display information regarding a location in content corresponding to a scene that is currently selected.

16. A method of displaying information, the method comprising:

generating a first menu which comprises a plurality of folders, one of the plurality of folders comprising a plurality of contents;

generating a second menu which comprises the plurality of contents of one of the plurality of folders; and

displaying the first menu and the second menu simultaneously on a single screen.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the first menu extends along one path and the second menu extends along a second path which intersects the first path.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the first menu and the second menu intersect at a selected one of the plurality of folders and at a selected one of the plurality of contents.