ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND EXTERNAL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20120092246A1
• Filed: 08/24/2011
• Published: 04/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: CHOI, Jun-hae, CHO, Jung-yon
• Application Number:
  US13/216,308
• Publication Number:
  US 20120092246A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42227 the keys being reprogrammable, e.g. soft keys
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration

Abstract

An electronic apparatus and a control method thereof, and an external apparatus and a control method thereof. The electronic apparatus includes a communication unit which communicates with an external apparatus, and a controller which performs an operation corresponding to a key signal received through the communication unit, receives a setup signal through the communication unit to reset up an operation corresponding to a first key signal, and performs a second operation based on a result of the reset up when the first key signal is received through the communication unit. The setup signal sets up the first operation corresponding to the first key signal to be replaced by the second operation different from the first operation.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate with an external apparatus; and

a controller configured to perform a preset operation corresponding to a preset key signal received through the communication unit, to receive a setup signal through the communication unit to reset up a first operation corresponding to a first key signal, and to perform a second operation based on a result of the reset up when the first key signal is received through the communication unit,

wherein the setup signal sets up the first operation corresponding to the first key signal to be replaced by the second operation different from the first operation.

2. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a signal output unit configured to output a user interface (UI) image to be displayed in the external apparatus,

wherein the controller outputs the UI image including information indicating a setup change with respect to the first key signal through the signal output unit based on a result of the reset up.

3. The electronic apparatus of claim 2, wherein the controller generates the UI image by replacing a first object corresponding to the first operation with a second object corresponding to the second operation.

4. The electronic apparatus of claim 3, wherein the setup signal comprises address information regarding storage of an image of the second object, and the controller receives the image of the second object stored in the address information from a server connected via a network.

5. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller changes a setup of mapping with respect to the first key signal to the second operation based on the setup signal, the preset operation corresponding to a key signal being mapped.

6. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the electronic apparatus comprises an image processing apparatus, and the external apparatus comprises a display apparatus to display an image output from the image processing apparatus.

7. The electronic apparatus of claim 6, wherein the image processing apparatus comprises a set-top box.

8. A method of controlling an electronic apparatus communicating with an external apparatus, the method comprising:

performing a preset operation corresponding when a preset key signal is received;

resetting up a first operation corresponding to a first key signal based on a setup signal when the setup signal is received from the external apparatus, the setup signal setting up the first operation, to be replaced by a second operation different from the first operation; and

performing the second operation based on a result of the resetting up when the first key signal is received.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the performing the second operation comprises generating a user interface (UI) image including information indicating a setup change with respect to the first key signal, and outputting the UI image to the external apparatus.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the generating and outputting comprises generating the UI image by replacing a first object corresponding to the first operation by a second object corresponding to the second operation.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the setup signal comprises address information regarding storage of the second object, and the generating and outputting comprises receiving the image of the second object stored in the address information from a server connected via a network.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the resetting up comprises changing a setup of mapping with respect to the first key signal to the second operation based on the setup signal, the preset operation corresponding to a key signal being mapped.

13. An external apparatus of an electronic apparatus, the external apparatus comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate with the electronic apparatus;

a user input unit configured to generate a preset key signal; and

a controller which transmits a setup signal through the communication unit, the setup signal resetting up a first operation performed by the electronic apparatus corresponding to a first key signal through the user input unit, to be replaced by a second operation different from the first operation, and transmits the first key signal through the communication unit so that the electronic apparatus performs the second operation based on a result of the reset up.

14. The external apparatus of claim 13, further comprising an image receiver which receives a user interface (UI) image from the electronic apparatus, wherein the controller controls the UI image to be displayed on the display unit, the UI image being received by the image receiver based on a result of the reset up and comprising information indicating a setup change with respect to the first key signal.

15. The external apparatus of claim 14, wherein the UI image is generated by replacing a first object corresponding to the first operation by a second object corresponding to the second operation.

16. The external apparatus of claim 15, wherein the setup signal comprises address information where an image of the second object is stored so that the electronic apparatus receives the image of the second object from a server.

17. The external apparatus of claim 15, wherein the controller transmits the first key signal through the communication unit when the second object is selected in the UI image through the user input unit.

18. The external apparatus of claim 15, wherein the user input unit comprises a first key to select the first object, and the second object is selected through the first key when the first object is replaced by the second object.

19. The external apparatus of claim 13, wherein the user input unit comprises a remote controller.

20. The external apparatus of claim 13, wherein the electronic apparatus comprises an image processing apparatus, and the external apparatus comprises a display apparatus to display an image output from the image processing apparatus.

21. A method of controlling an external apparatus of an electronic apparatus, the method comprising:

transmitting a setup signal to the electronic apparatus, the set up signal resetting up a first operation performed by the electronic apparatus corresponding to a first key signal through a user input unit of the external apparatus, to be replaced by a second operation different from the first operation; and

transmitting the first key signal through the user input unit to the electronic apparatus so that the electronic apparatus performs the second operation based on a result of the reset up.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the transmitting the first key signal through the user input unit to the electronic apparatus so that the electronic apparatus performs the second operation based on the result of the reset up comprises displaying a user interface (UI) image being transmitted from the electronic apparatus based on a result of the reset up and comprising information indicating a setup change with respect to the first key signal.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the UI image is generated by replacing a first object corresponding to the first operation by a second object corresponding to the second operation.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the setup signal comprises address information storing an image of the second object so that the electronic apparatus receives the image of the second object from a server.

25. The method of claim 23, wherein the displaying the UI image further comprises transmitting the first key signal to the electronic apparatus when the second object is selected in the UI image through the user input unit.

26-27. -27. (canceled)