DISPLAY APPARATUS, REMOTE CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING APPLIED THERETO

• US 20120162514A1
• Filed: 10/21/2011
• Published: 06/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: RYU, Young-jun, LEE, Dong-jin, LEE, Hye-jeong, HWANG, Byung-jin, AHN, Jae-hong
• Granted Patent: US 9,525,904 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/556
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• 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 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• 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 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations

Abstract

A display apparatus, a remote controller and a method for controlling applied thereto are provided. The display apparatus receives direction information regarding an orientation of the remote controller from the remote controller, and selects an area to be controlled by the remote controller from among a first area and a second area of a screen according to the direction information received from the remote controller. As a result, user is enabled to control different areas on the screen by appropriately moving the remote controller between different orientations.

Claims

1. A display apparatus, comprising:

a display unit which displays a first image on a first area of a screen, and displays a second image on a second area of the screen; and

a control unit which receives direction information regarding an orientation of a remote controller from the remote controller, and selects an area to be controlled by the remote controller from among the first and the second areas according to the direction information received from the remote controller.

2. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control unit selects the area to be controlled by the remote controller from among the first and the second areas, depending on whether a longer-axis direction of the remote controller is in a perpendicular range to a yz plane or in a horizontal range to the yz plane, and

the yz plane corresponds to a plane consisting of a z-axis in a direction extending from the display apparatus to the remote controller and a y-axis in a direction extending from a ground to a sky.

3. The display apparatus of claim 2, wherein an aspect ratio of the first area is longer in a horizontal direction than in a perpendicular direction, and an aspect ratio of the second area is shorter in the horizontal direction than in a perpendicular direction, and

if the longer-axis direction of the remote controller is in the perpendicular range to the yz plane, the control unit selects the first area for controlling by the remote controller, and

if the longer-axis direction of the remote controller is in the horizontal range to the yz plane, the control unit selects the second area for controlling by the remote controller.

4. A method for controlling a display apparatus using a remote controller, the method comprising:

displaying a first image on a first area of a screen of the display apparatus, and displaying a second image on a second area of the screen of the display apparatus;

receiving direction information regarding an orientation of the remote controller from the remote controller; and

selecting an area for controlling by the remote controller, from among the first and the second areas, according to the direction information received from the remote controller.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the selecting comprises selecting the area to be controlled by the remote controller from among the first and the second areas, depending on whether a longer-axis direction of the remote controller is in a perpendicular range to a yz plane or in a horizontal range to the yz plane, and

the yz plane corresponds to a plane consisting of a z-axis in a direction extending from the display apparatus to the remote controller and a y-axis in a direction extending from a ground to a sky.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein an aspect ratio of the first area is longer in a horizontal direction than in a perpendicular direction, and an aspect ratio of the second area is shorter in the horizontal direction than in the perpendicular direction, and

the selecting comprises, if the longer-axis direction of the remote controller is in the perpendicular range to the yz plane, selecting the first area for controlling by the remote controller, and, if the longer-axis direction of the remote controller is in the horizontal range to the yz plane, selecting the second area for controlling by the remote controller.

7. A remote controller for controlling a display apparatus, comprising:

a motion sensor unit which detects a direction regarding an orientation of the remote controller; and

a controller which selects an area to be controlled from among a first area and a second area of a screen of the display apparatus according to the detected direction of the remote controller.

8. The remote controller of claim 7, wherein the controller selects the area to be controlled from among the first and the second areas, depending on whether a longer-axis direction of the remote controller is in a perpendicular range to a yz plane or in a horizontal range to the yz plane, and

the yz plane corresponds to a plane consisting of a z-axis in a direction extending from the display apparatus to the remote controller and a y-axis in a direction extending from a ground to a sky.

9. The remote controller of claim 8, wherein an aspect ratio of the first area is longer in a horizontal direction than in a perpendicular direction, and an aspect ratio of the second area is shorter in the horizontal direction than in the perpendicular direction, and

if the longer-axis direction of the remote controller is in the perpendicular range to the yz plane, the controller selects the first area for controlling by the remote controller, and

if the longer-axis direction of the remote controller is in the horizontal range to the yz plane, the controller selects the second area for controlling by the remote controller.

10. The remote controller of claim 7, further comprising a display unit which displays a control screen on the remote controller to control the display apparatus, wherein

the controller displays a first control screen to control the first area on the display unit upon selecting of the first area for controlling, and displays a second control screen to control the second area upon selecting of the second area for controlling.

11. A control method of a remote controller for controlling a display apparatus, comprising:

detecting a direction regarding an orientation of the remote controller; and

selecting an area to be controlled from among a first area and a second area of a screen of the display apparatus according to the detected direction of the remote controller.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the selecting comprises selecting the area to be controlled from among the first and the second areas, depending on whether a longer-axis direction of the remote controller is in a perpendicular range to a yz plane or in a horizontal range to the yz plane, and

the yz plane corresponds to a plane consisting of a z-axis in a direction extending from the display apparatus to the remote controller and a y-axis in a direction extending from a ground to a sky.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein an aspect ratio of the first area is longer in a horizontal direction than in a perpendicular direction, and an aspect ratio of the second area is shorter in the horizontal direction than in the perpendicular direction, and

the selecting comprises, if the longer-axis direction of the remote controller is in the perpendicular range to the yz plane, selecting the first area for controlling by the remote controller, and, if the longer-axis direction of the remote controller is in the horizontal range to the yz plane, selecting the second area for controlling by the remote controller.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising displaying a first control screen to control the first area on a display unit of the remote controller upon selecting of the first area for controlling, and displaying a second control screen on the display unit of the remote controller to control the second area upon selecting of the second area for controlling.

15. A display apparatus controlled by a first remote controller and a second remote controller, the display apparatus comprising:

a display unit which displays a first image on a first area of a screen, and displays a second image on a second area of the screen; and

a control unit which receives first direction information regarding an orientation of the first remote controller from the first remote controller, receives second direction information regarding an orientation of the second remote controller from the second remote controller, and selects areas to be controlled by the first and second remote controllers from among the first and the second areas according to the first and second direction information received from the first and second remote controllers.

16. The display apparatus of claim 15, wherein an aspect ratio of the first area is longer in a horizontal direction than in a perpendicular direction, and an aspect ratio of the second area is shorter in the horizontal direction than in the perpendicular direction,

the control unit selects the first area for controlling by one of the first and second remote controllers if a direction of a longer axis of one of the first and second remote controllers is in a perpendicular range to a yz plane, and selects the second area for controlling by one of the first and second remote controllers if the direction of the longer axis of one of the first and second remote controllers is in a horizontal range to the yz plane, and

the yz plane corresponds to a plane consisting of a z-axis in a direction extending from the display apparatus to the first and second remote controllers and a y-axis in a direction extending from a ground to a sky.

17. A display apparatus, comprising:

a display unit which displays a first image on a first area of a screen, and displays a second image on a second area of the screen; and

a control unit which receives direction information regarding an orientation of a remote controller from the remote controller, and selects an area to be controlled by the remote controller from among the first and the second areas according to the direction information received from the remote controller,

wherein the remote controller comprises a first axis and a second axis which is perpendicular to the first axis, and

the control unit selects the area to be controlled by the remote controller from among the first and the second areas, depending on whether the first axis or the second axis of the remote controller points in a direction that is within a predetermined range of a z-axis of the display apparatus, wherein the z-axis is perpendicular to the screen of the display apparatus.

18. The display apparatus of claim 17, wherein, if the control unit detects from the direction information that the first axis of the remote controller points in the direction that is within the predetermined range of the z-axis of the display apparatus, the control unit selects the first area among the first and the second areas to be controlled by the remote controller, and

if the control unit detects from the direction information that the second axis of the remote controller points in the direction that is within the predetermined range of the z-axis of the display apparatus, the control unit selects the second area among the first and the second areas to be controlled by the remote controller.

19. The display apparatus of claim 18, wherein the predetermined range extends 45°

from both sides of the z-axis in a lateral direction.

20. The display apparatus of claim 17, wherein the first and the second areas are mutually exclusive areas which are simultaneously displayed on the screen of the display apparatus.