IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME

• US 20110267291A1
• Filed: 12/17/2010
• Published: 11/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: LIM, Jonghyun, CHOI, Jinyoung
• Application Number:
  US12/972,375
• Publication Number:
  US 20110267291A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04108 Touchless 2D- digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface without distance measurement in the Z direction
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4222 Remote control device emulator integrated into a non-television apparatus, e.g. a PDA, media center or smart toy remote control device for a television receiver integrated into a mobile phone H04M1/72415
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/63 Control signaling related to video distribution between client, server and network components; Network processes for video distribution between server and clients or between remote clients, e.g. transmitting basic layer and enhancement layers over different transmission paths, setting up a peer-to-peer communication via Internet between remote STB's; Communication protocols; Addressing real-time session protocols H04L65/1101; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104

Abstract

An image display apparatus and a method for operating the same are discussed. The method according to an embodiment includes displaying a menu image including at least one selectable object on a display, displaying the menu image or the at least one object on a touch screen of a remote controller, and performing an operation corresponding to a touch pattern on the at least one object displayed on the touch screen.

Claims

1. A method for operating an image display apparatus configured to be controlled by a wireless remote controller having a touch screen, comprising:

displaying objects on a display of the image display apparatus; and

performing an operation on one of the displayed objects by the image display apparatus corresponding to a touch pattern input on the touch screen of the wireless remote controller.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the operation comprises one of:

a volume control operation;

a channel control operation;

a picture characteristic control operation;

an image panning operation;

controlling a recording or reproducing of data;

a genre control operation;

a menu control operation;

a clock control operation;

a zoom control operation;

a web search operation; and

a scroll operation.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

selecting the one of the displayed objects based on a user selection via the remote controller.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the operation is a scroll operation, the method further comprising:

displaying on the image display apparatus a scroll direction icon corresponding to a scroll direction performed on the touch screen of the remote controller.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the touch pattern comprises one of:

a number of touches applied to the touch screen;

an interval between touches applied to the touch screen;

a touch duration applied to the touch screen;

a touch pressure applied to the touch screen;

a touched area of the touch screen; and

a dragging direction corresponding to a touch-and-drag applied to the touch screen.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of displaying comprises:

displaying the objects on the display of the image display apparatus while causing at least one of the objects or an item within the objects to be simultaneously displayed on the touch screen of the wireless remote controller, and.

selecting the at least one object or the item based on a user selection via the remote controller.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of displaying objects on the display of the image display apparatus comprises:

simultaneously displaying the objects and a broadcast image.

8. An image display apparatus configured to be controlled by a wireless remote controller having a touch screen, comprising:

a display;

a communication unit; and

a controller operatively connected to the display and the communication unit, the controller programmed to

display objects on a display of the image display apparatus, and

perform an operation on one of the displayed objects by the image display apparatus corresponding to a touch pattern input on the touch screen of the wireless remote controller.

9. The image display apparatus of claim 8, wherein the operation comprises one of:

a volume control operation;

a channel control operation;

a picture characteristic control operation;

an image panning operation;

controlling a recording or reproducing of data;

a genre control operation;

a menu control operation;

a clock control operation;

a zoom control operation;

a web search operation; and

a scroll operation.

10. The image display apparatus of claim 8, wherein the controller is further programmed to select the one of the displayed objects based on a user selection via the remote controller.

11. The image display apparatus of claim 8,

wherein the operation is a scroll operation, and

wherein the controller is further programmed to display a scroll direction icon corresponding to a scroll direction performed on the touch screen of the remote controller.

12. The image display apparatus of claim 8, wherein the touch pattern comprises one of:

a number of touches applied to the touch screen;

an interval between touches applied to the touch screen;

a touch duration applied to the touch screen;

a touch pressure applied to the touch screen;

a touched area of the touch screen; and

a dragging direction corresponding to a touch-and-drag applied to the touch screen.

13. The image display apparatus of claim 8, wherein the controller is further programmed to display the objects while causing at least one of the objects or an item within the objects to be simultaneously displayed on the touch screen of the wireless remote controller,

and, wherein the controller is further programmed to select the at least one object or the item based on a user selection via the remote controller.

14. The image display apparatus of claim 8, wherein the controller is further programmed to simultaneously display the objects and a broadcast image.

15. A method of controlling an image display apparatus with a wireless remote controller having a touch screen, comprising:

controlling, with the wireless remote controller, the image display apparatus to display objects; and

controlling, with the wireless remote controller, an operation on one of the displayed objects by the image display apparatus in response to a touch pattern input on the touch screen of the wireless remote controller.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the operation comprises one of:

a volume control operation;

a channel control operation;

a picture characteristic control operation;

an image panning operation;

controlling a recording or reproducing of data;

a genre control operation;

a menu control operation;

a clock control operation;

a zoom control operation;

a web search operation; and

a scroll operation.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the operation is a scroll operation, the method further comprising:

controlling, with the wireless remote controller, the image display apparatus to display on the image display apparatus a scroll direction icon corresponding to a scroll direction performed on the touch screen of the remote controller.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the touch pattern comprises one of:

a number of touches applied to the touch screen;

an interval between touches applied to the touch screen;

a touch duration applied to the touch screen;

a touch pressure applied to the touch screen;

a touched area of the touch screen; and

a dragging direction corresponding to a touch-and-drag applied to the touch screen.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the step of controlling the image display apparatus to display objects comprises:

controlling, with the wireless remote controller, the image display apparatus to display the objects on the display of the image display apparatus while simultaneously displaying least one of the objects or an item within the objects on the touch screen of the wireless remote controller,

and, further comprising;

selecting, with the wireless remote controller, the at least one object or the item based on a user selection via the remote controller.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein the step of controlling the image display apparatus to display objects comprises:

controlling, with the wireless remote controller, the image display apparatus to simultaneously display the objects and a broadcast image.