DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20120032901A1
• Filed: 06/07/2011
• Published: 02/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KWON, Yong-hwan
• Granted Patent: US 9,479,817 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• 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 21/42208 Display device provided on the remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42209 for displaying non-command information, e.g. electronic program guide [EPG], e-mail, messages or a second television channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42224 Touch pad or touch panel provided on the remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4227 Providing Remote input by a user located remotely from the client device, e.g. at work
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4821 using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73

Abstract

A display apparatus includes: an image processor; a display unit; a remote controller which includes a touch input unit to detect motion of a user; a remote control signal receiver which receives a remote control signal from the remote controller corresponding to the motion of a user; and a controller which displays the content information window as if the content information window enters from an outside of a display area to an inside of the display area in accordance with the motion that a user moves from an outside of an area of the touch input unit to an inside of the area, or stops displaying the content information window as if the content information window exits from the inside of the display area to the outside of the display area in accordance with the motion that a user moves from the inside of the area of the touch input unit to the outside of the touch input unit.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

an image processor which processes an image of at least one of a plurality of contents;

a display unit which displays the image and a content information window comprising information of the at least one of the plurality of contents;

a remote controller which is remote from the display unit and comprises a touch input unit to detect a motion of a user;

a remote control signal receiver which receives a remote control signal from the remote controller corresponding to the motion of the user; and

a controller which starts displaying the content information window when the motion of the user moves from an outside of the touch input unit to an inside of the touch input unit, and which stops displaying the content information window when the motion of the user moves from the inside of the touch input unit to the outside of the touch input unit.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the remote controller detects a first touch input of the user, and

wherein the controller groups a plurality of user interface (UI) items representing the plurality of contents into a plurality of pages comprising groups of the plurality of contents, and arranges the plurality of pages according to a first order, and displays on the display unit one page of the plurality of pages, and

wherein the controller changes the one page which is displayed to display another page of the plurality of pages, the other page being arranged in the first order a number of pages away from the one page,

wherein the number of pages is based on a movement amount corresponding to the first touch input.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the first touch input comprises the motion that is performed while the user maintains contact with the touch input unit.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the movement amount corresponds to a movement distance of the motion.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the movement amount corresponds to a speed of the motion.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the movement amount comprises a unit of the page.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the group of the UI items of at least the one page are arranged in a grid.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the group of the UI items of at least the one page are arranged in a band.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the one page is displayed together with the image of a currently selected content from among the groups.

10. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the remote controller detects a second touch input received at the touch input unit, and the controller starts or ends displaying the content information window while the image of at least one of the plurality of contents is displayed corresponding to the second touch input.

11. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the remote controller detects a third touch input received at the touch input unit,

wherein the plurality of contents are classified into a plurality of categories,

wherein the controller arranges the plurality of categories according to a second order, and displays a group of contents of the plurality of contents belonging to at least one category of the plurality of categories,

wherein the controller changes displaying of the group of contents belonging to the at least one category to display another group of contents of the plurality of contents belonging to another one of the plurality of categories, the other group of contents belonging to the other category being arranged in the second order a number of groups away from the one group belonging to the one category,

wherein the number of groups is based on a movement amount corresponding to the third touch input.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the first touch input corresponds to a motion performed in a first direction, and the third touch input corresponds to a motion performed in a second direction that is different from the first direction.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the first and second directions correspond to one of an up direction and a down direction and a left direction and a right direction, respectively.

14. The display apparatus according to claim 13, wherein if the touch input of the motion is performed in a diagonal direction, the controller determines the movement amount of the one page and the one category based on a component of the movement amount in the up and down direction and a component of the movement amount in the left and right direction of the motion.

29. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the starting of the displaying moves the content information window into a display area of the display unit so that the content information window appears to enter the display area from an outside of the display area to an inside of the display area, and the stopping of the displaying moves the content information window out of the display area so that the content information window appears to exit the display area from the inside of the display area to the outside of the display area.

15. A control method of a display apparatus which comprises a remote controller, the control method comprising:

detecting a motion of a user on a touch input unit disposed on the remote controller;

receiving a remote control signal corresponding to the motion of the user; and

displaying a content information window, which comprises information about an image of at least one content among a plurality of contents,

wherein the displaying starts the displaying of the content information window when the motion of the user moves from an outside of the touch input unit to an inside of the touch input unit, and stops the displaying of the content information window when the motion of the user moves from the inside of the touch input unit to the outside of the touch input unit.

16. The control method according to claim 15, further comprising:

grouping a plurality of user interface (UI) items representing the plurality of contents into a plurality of pages, and arranging the plurality of pages according to a first order;

displaying at least one page of the plurality of pages;

detecting a first touch input of the user received by the touch input unit;

receiving a remote control signal corresponding to the first touch input; and

changing the displaying of the at least one page to display another page of the plurality of pages, the other page being arranged in the first order a number of pages away from the one page,

wherein the number of pages is based on a movement amount corresponding to the first touch input.

17. The control method according to claim 16, wherein the first touch input comprises the motion that is performed while the user maintains contact with the touch input unit.

18. The control method according to claim 17, wherein the movement amount corresponds to a movement distance of the motion.

19. The control method according to claim 17, wherein the movement amount corresponds to a speed of the motion.

20. The control method according to claim 17, wherein the movement amount comprises a unit of the plurality of pages which comprises the plurality of contents to be displayed on the display unit at a time.

21. The control method according to claim 16, wherein in the one page, the plurality of contents are arranged in a grid.

22. The control method according to claim 16, wherein in the one page, the plurality of contents are arranged in a band.

23. The control method according to claim 16, wherein the one page is displayed together with the image of a currently selected content from among the plurality of contents.

24. The control method according to claim 16, further comprising:

displaying the image of the at least one content;

detecting a second touch input of a user received by the touch input unit; and

starting or ending the displaying of the content information window while the image is displayed, the starting or ending corresponding to the second touch input.

25. The control method according to claim 16, further comprising:

displaying a group of contents of the plurality of contents which belongs to at least one category of a plurality of categories;

arranging the plurality of categories according to a second order;

detecting a third touch input of the user received by the touch input unit; and

changing the displaying of the group of contents belonging to the at least one category to display another group of contents of the plurality of contents belonging to another category, the other group of contents belonging to the other category being arranged in the second order a number of groups away from the one group of contents belonging to the one category,

wherein the number of groups is based on a movement amount corresponding to the third touch input.

26. The control method according to claim 25, wherein the first touch input corresponds to the motion that is performed in a first direction, and the third touch input corresponds to the motion that is performed in a second direction that is different from the first direction.

27. The control method according to claim 26, wherein the first and second directions correspond to one of an up direction and a down direction and a left direction and a right direction, respectively.

28. The control method according to claim 27, further comprising:

detecting a fourth touch input of the user, the fourth touch input comprising the motion performed in a diagonal direction by using the touch input unit; and

determining a movement amount of the one page and the one category based on a component of the movement amount in the up and down direction and a component of the movement amount the left and right direction of the motion.

30. The method according to claim 15, wherein the starting of the displaying moves the content information window into a display area so that the content information window appears to enter the display area from an outside of the display area to an inside of the display area, and the stopping of the displaying moves the content information window out of the display area so that the content information window appears to exit the display area from the inside of the display area to the outside of the display area.

31. A control method of a display apparatus, the method comprising:

categorizing a plurality of items into a plurality of categories;

dividing the plurality of items in at least one of the categories into a plurality of groups of items;

displaying on a display screen one group of items of the plurality of groups of items;

receiving a motion input from a user;

switching the one group of items which is displayed to display another group of items of the plurality of groups of items corresponding to the one category if the motion input is in a first direction; and

switching the one group of items which is displayed to display another group of items of the plurality of groups of items corresponding to another one of the categories, if the motion input is in a second direction different from the first direction.