IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20110254837A1
• Filed: 04/19/2011
• Published: 10/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: PARK, Junho, PARK, Jongsoon, KANG, Mingoo
• Application Number:
  US13/090,008
• Publication Number:
  US 20110254837A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/419
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/156 Mixing image signals
• 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

Abstract

An image display apparatus and a method for controlling the same are discussed. The method for controlling an image display apparatus that displays a 3-dimensional (3D) image includes generating first user captured information representing a captured image of a first user of the image display apparatus, receiving second user captured information representing a captured image of a second user of another image display apparatus from a server or the another image display apparatus, and displaying at least one of a 3D object corresponding to the first user captured information and a 3D object corresponding to the second user captured information with a background image.

Claims

1. A method for controlling an image display apparatus that displays a 3-dimensional (3D) image, the method comprising:

generating first user captured information representing a captured image of a first user of the image display apparatus;

receiving second user captured information representing a captured image of a second user of the another image display apparatus from a server or the another image display apparatus; and

displaying at least one of a 3D object corresponding to the first user captured information and a 3D object corresponding to the second user captured information with a background image.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising generating the at least one of the 3D object corresponding to the first user captured information and the 3D object corresponding to the second user captured information.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first user captured information includes first user motion information representing a motion of the first user and the second user captured information includes second user motion information representing a motion of the second user.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising receiving the background image from the server or the another image display apparatus,

wherein the displaying comprises displaying the received background image together with the at least one of the 3D object corresponding to the first user captured information and the 3D object corresponding to the second user captured information.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising transmitting a background selection command for selecting the background image to the server or the another image display apparatus, wherein the background image received from the server or the another image display apparatus is the background image selected according to the background selection command.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the reception of the second user captured information comprises receiving an image including the at least one of the 3D object corresponding to the first user captured information and the 3D object corresponding to the second user captured information.

7. The method according to claim 4, further comprising generating a 3D image including the background image, and the at least one of the 3D object corresponding to the first user captured information and the 3D object corresponding to the second user captured information.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the reception of the second user captured information comprises receiving a 3D image including the background image, and the at least one of the 3D object corresponding to the first user captured information and the 3D object corresponding to the second user captured information.

9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising displaying the 3D object corresponding to the first user captured information.

10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising displaying, upon receipt of the second user captured information from the server or the another image display apparatus, an object indicating the reception of the second user captured information.

11. The method according to claim 1, further comprising displaying a common variable 3D object based on the first or second user captured information, the common variable 3D object being sharable between the first user and the second user.

12. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting identification information of the image display apparatus to the server or the another image display apparatus; and

receiving identification information of the another image display apparatus from the server or the another image display apparatus.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein the displaying comprises changing at least one of ambient lighting, an audio volume, or an image luminance of the image display apparatus based on the at least one of the 3D object corresponding to the first user captured information and the 3D object corresponding to the second user captured information.

14. A method for controlling an image display apparatus, the method comprising:

generating motion information representing a motion of a user;

transmitting the motion information to a server that combines motion information received from at least two image display apparatuses;

receiving a signal including motion information representing a motion of a user of another image display apparatus other than the image display apparatus from the server; and

displaying at least two viewpoint images of a 3D object corresponding to the user of the another image display apparatus based on the received signal with a background image.

15. An image display apparatus that displays a 3-dimensional (3D) image, the image display apparatus comprising:

a camera module configured to capture an image of a first user of the image display apparatus;

a network interface configured to transmit first user captured information representing the captured image of a first user of the image display apparatus to a server or another image display apparatus other than the image display apparatus, or receive second user captured information representing a captured image of a second user of the another image display apparatus from the server or the another image display apparatus; and

a controller configured to control display of at least one of a 3D object corresponding to the at least one of the first user captured information and a 3D object corresponding to the second user captured information on the display with a background image.

16. The image display apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the controller generates the at least one of the 3D object corresponding to the first user captured information and the 3D object corresponding to the second user captured information.

17. The image display apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the network interface further receives the background image from the server or the another image display apparatus, and the controller controls display of the received background image together with the at least one of the 3D object corresponding to the first user captured information and the 3D object corresponding to the second user captured information.

18. The image display apparatus according to claim 15, further comprising a user input unit configured to input a command to the image display apparatus,

wherein the network interface transmits a background selection command for selecting the background image, received from the user input unit, to the server or the another image display apparatus.

19. The image display apparatus according to claim 15, further comprising a memory configured to store the background image received through the network interface.

20. The image display apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the controller includes a formatter configured to output left-eye and right-eye images of the at least one of the 3D object corresponding to the first user captured information and the 3D object corresponding to the second user captured information.