DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTENTS SEARCHING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20120144422A1
• Filed: 06/29/2011
• Published: 06/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: HAN, Kum-yon
• Application Number:
  US13/171,698
• Publication Number:
  US 20120144422A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/39
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4828 for searching program descriptors retrieval of video data G06F16/739

Abstract

A display apparatus includes a display unit; a plurality of application units which provides contents; and an integrated searching unit which controls the plurality of application units to search contents with respect to an input search word, and displays on the display unit the contents searched by the application units.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a display unit;

a plurality of application units which provides a plurality of contents; and

an integrated searching unit which controls the plurality of application units to search at least one of contents with respect to an input search word to determine a subset of contents based on the input search word, and displays on the display unit the subset of contents.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a broadcasting receiver which receives a broadcasting signal, wherein

at least one of the plurality of application units comprises an electronic program guide (EPG) executor which displays broadcasting information based on the broadcasting signal.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of application units receives at least one of contents from a predetermined contents provider through the Internet.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a communication unit which performs a network communication with an external device, wherein

at least one of the plurality of application units searches at least one of contents included in the external device through the communication unit.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a connector which is connected to an external device, wherein

at least one of the plurality of application units searches at least one of contents included in the external device connected to the connector.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a storage unit which stores therein at least one of contents, wherein

at least one of the plurality of application units searches at least one y of contents stored in the storage unit.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the integrated searching unit displays on the display unit a search list of the subset of contents.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the integrated searching unit controls the plurality of application units to execute a selected content from among the subset of contents if the selected content is selected from the search list.

9. A contents searching method of a display apparatus, the method comprising:

installing a plurality of application units which provides a plurality of contents;

receiving a signal to input a search word;

controlling the plurality of application units to search at least one of contents for the search word to determine a subset of contents based on the input search word; and

displaying the subset of contents.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the display apparatus further comprises a broadcasting receiver which receives a broadcasting signal, and

the searching at least one of contents comprises searching broadcasting information based on the broadcasting signal.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein the searching at least one of contents comprises searching at least one of contents provided by a predetermined contents provider through the Internet.

12. The method according to claim 9, wherein the display apparatus further comprises a communication unit which performs a network communication with an external device, and

the searching at least one of contents comprises searching at least one of contents included in the external device through the communication unit.

13. The method according to claim 9, wherein the display apparatus further comprises a connector which is connected to an external device, and

the searching at least one of contents comprises searching at least one of contents included in the external device connected to the connector.

14. The method according to claim 9, wherein the display apparatus further comprises a storage unit which stores therein at least one of contents, and

the searching at least one of contents comprises searching at least one of contents stored in the storage unit.

15. The method according to claim 9, wherein the displaying the subset of contents comprises displaying a search list of the subset of contents.

16. The method according to claim 15, further comprising executing a selected content from among the subset of contents if the selected content is selected from the search list.

17. A contents searching method of a display apparatus, the method comprising:

providing a plurality of application units each of which includes a set of contents;

receiving a signal to input a search word;

searching all of the sets of contents of the plurality of application units based on the search word; and

displaying a subset of contents from among the sets of contents, the subset of contents corresponding to the search word.

18. The contents searching method of claim 17, wherein at least one of the plurality of application units receives the respective set of contents through a broadcast signal, and at least one of the plurality of application units receives the respective set of contents through the Internet.