REMOTE CONTROLLING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20110304539A1
• Filed: 06/10/2011
• Published: 12/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Sijin, LEE, Janghee, Cho, Sanghyun
• Application Number:
  US13/157,901
• Publication Number:
  US 20110304539A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/158
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0233 Character input methods
• 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 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• 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 21/42206 characterized by hardware details
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42208 Display device provided on the remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42214 using alphanumerical characters
• 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 21/42222 Additional components integrated in the remote control device, e.g. timer, speaker, sensors for detecting position, direction or movement of the remote control, microphone or battery charging device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42224 Touch pad or touch panel provided on the remote control

Abstract

Disclosed are a remote controlling apparatus and a method for controlling the same, the apparatus capable of intuitively and conveniently controlling a display apparatus and capable of simply and precisely performing a text input, by controlling activation of a text input unit based on tilt information of the remote controlling apparatus having a three-dimensional pointing function. The remote controlling apparatus for controlling a pointer displayed on a screen of a display apparatus by a three-dimensional operation includes a housing, a text input unit disposed on one surface of the housing, and configured to receive a text input, a sensing unit configured to detect a tilt and a motion of the remote controlling apparatus, and a controller configured to selectively operate a first mode to transmit the text input to the display apparatus or a second mode to transmit information on the detected motion of the remote controlling apparatus to the display apparatus based on the detected tilt of the remote controlling apparatus.

Claims

1. A remote controlling apparatus for controlling a pointer displayed on a screen of a display apparatus by a three-dimensional operation, the remote controlling apparatus comprising:

a housing;

a text input unit disposed on one surface of the housing, and configured to receive a text input;

a sensing unit configured to detect a tilt and a motion of the remote controlling apparatus; and

a controller configured to selectively operate a first mode to transmit the text input to the display apparatus or a second mode to transmit information on the detected motion of the remote controlling apparatus to the display apparatus based on the detected tilt of the remote controlling apparatus.

2. The remote controlling apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller controls receiving the text input to be activated and detecting the motion of the remote controlling apparatus to be deactivated if the detected tilt of the remote controlling apparatus is a first value.

3. The remote controlling apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller controls receiving the text input to be deactivated and detecting the motion of the remote controlling apparatus to be activated if the detected tilt of the remote controlling apparatus is a second value.

4. The remote controlling apparatus of claim 1, further comprising an operation control input unit configured to control a broadcasting-related operation of the display apparatus in the second mode.

5. The remote controlling apparatus of claim 4, wherein the operation control input unit is disposed on a surface facing one surface of the housing.

6. The remote controlling apparatus of claim 5, wherein the controller selectively operates the first mode or the second mode based on whether one surface of the housing is toward a geocentric direction or an opposite direction to the geocentric direction.

7. The remote controlling apparatus of claim 4, wherein the operation control input unit is disposed on the same surface as one surface of the housing.

8. The remote controlling apparatus of claim 7, wherein the remote controlling apparatus is formed in a rectangular-parallelepiped-shape, and the controller selectively operates the first mode or the second mode based on a longitudinal direction is a horizontal direction or a vertical direction.

9. The remote controlling apparatus of claim 7, further comprising a display unit configured to display one or more function keys of the text input unit, and one or more function keys of the operation control input unit,

wherein the controller is configured to control the display unit such that one or more function keys of one activated input unit between the text input unit and the operation control input unit are displayed.

10. The remote controlling apparatus of claim 1, wherein the text input unit is implemented as a QWERTY type keyboard or a non-QWERTY type keyboard.

11. The remote controlling apparatus of claim 1, wherein the sensing unit comprises an acceleration sensor to detect the tilt of the remote controlling apparatus and a gyro sensor to detect the motion of the remote controlling apparatus.

12. The remote controlling apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a wireless communication unit configured to transmit the text input to the display apparatus in the first mode and the information on the motion of the remote controlling apparatus to the display apparatus in the second mode.

13. The remote controlling apparatus of claim 1, wherein the remote controlling apparatus is a mobile terminal.

14. A remote controlling apparatus for controlling a pointer displayed on a screen of a display apparatus by a three-dimensional operation, the remote controlling apparatus comprising:

a housing;

a text input unit disposed on one surface of the housing, and configured to receive a text input;

a sensing unit configured to detect a tilt of the remote controlling apparatus; and

a controller configured to selectively operate a first mode to transmit the text input to the display apparatus or a second mode to transmit information on the detected tilt of the remote controlling apparatus based on the detected tilt of the remote controlling apparatus.

15. The remote controlling apparatus of claim 14, wherein the controller controls receiving the text input to be activated if the detected tilt of the remote controlling apparatus is a first value.

16. The remote controlling apparatus of claim 14, wherein the controller controls receiving the text input to be deactivated if the detected tilt of the remote controlling apparatus is a second value.

17. The remote controlling apparatus of claim 14, further comprising an operation control input unit configured to control a broadcasting-related operation of the display apparatus in the second mode.

18. The remote controlling apparatus of claim 17, wherein the operation control input unit is disposed on a surface facing one surface of the housing.

19. The remote controlling apparatus of claim 17, wherein the operation control input unit is disposed on the same surface as one surface of the housing.

20. The remote controlling apparatus of claim 14, wherein the remote controlling apparatus is a mobile terminal.