DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20130239061A1
• Filed: 02/22/2013
• Published: 09/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: SEO, Min-suk, KIM, Jong-hyuk, KIM, Jeong-geun
• Application Number:
  US13/774,114
• Publication Number:
  US 20130239061A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/835
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• 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 21/42221 Transmission circuitry, e.g. infrared [IR] or radio frequency [RF]
• 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 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration

Abstract

A display apparatus and a control method thereof which receives a user'"'"'s input by using a manipulation panel are provided. The display apparatus includes: an image processor which processes an image signal; a display unit which displays an image based on the processed image signal; a user input unit which includes an optical device including a light emitter, an input pad receiving a user'"'"'s input, and a detector receiving an optical signal from the light emitter according to the user'"'"'s input; and a controller which controls the display unit to display a user interface (UI) including a plurality of icons, wherein the optical device receives a user manipulation in multi-directions and a push direction to the input pad, and the controller controls the display unit to display the UI corresponding to a moving direction of the received user manipulation.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

an image processor which processes an image signal;

a display unit which displays an image based on the processed image signal;

a user input unit which comprises an optical device comprising;

a light emitter which emits an optical signal,

an input pad which receives a user input, and

a detector which receives the optical signal from the light emitter according to the received user input to the input pad; and

a controller which controls the display unit to display thereon a user interface (UI) comprising a plurality of icons,

wherein when the optical device receives a user manipulation in at least one of a multi-direction and a push direction to the input pad, the controller controls the display unit to display the UI corresponding to a moving direction of the received user manipulation.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the optical device is provided in the display apparatus and the multi-direction is an up direction, a down direction, a left direction, a right direction, or a diagonal direction.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the optical device receives a selection of an icon among the plurality of icons according to the user manipulation in the push direction with respect to the icon.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the plurality of icons corresponds to a menu of the display apparatus, and the controller controls the display unit to display a sub-menu corresponding to an icon when the icon is selected from among the plurality of icons.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the light emitter comprises a light source which emits an infrared ray or a laser.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the detector comprises an optical sensor which obtains a value of the received optical signal; and

the controller senses the moving direction of the received user manipulation according to the obtained value.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the light emitter and the detector are provided on a rear surface side of the input pad opposite a side through which the input pad receives the user input.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the optical device further comprises a reflection panel which is provided on the rear surface side of the input pad and changes a quantity of light transmitted from the light emitter to the detector according to the user manipulation to the input pad.

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

displaying a user interface (UI) comprising a plurality of icons;

receiving an input of a user manipulation in at least one of a multi-direction and a push direction to an input pad of an optical device which comprises the input pad, a light emitter which emits an optical signal, and a detector which receives the optical signal from the light emitter according to the received user input to the input pad; and

displaying the UI corresponding to a moving direction of the received user manipulation.

10. The control method according to claim 9, wherein the optical device is provided in the display apparatus and the multi-direction is an up direction, a down direction, a left direction, a right direction, or a diagonal direction.

11. The control method according to claim 9, further comprising receiving a selection of an icon among the plurality of icons according to the user manipulation in the push direction with respect to the icon.

12. The control method according to claim 11, further comprising displaying a sub-menu corresponding to an icon when the icon is selected from among the plurality of icons,

wherein the plurality of icons corresponds to a menu of the display apparatus.

13. The control method according to claim 9, wherein the light emitter comprises a light source which emits an infrared ray or a laser.

14. The control method according to claim 9, wherein the detector comprises an optical sensor, and the receiving the user manipulation comprises obtaining a value of the received optical signal and sensing the moving direction of the received user manipulation according to the obtained value.

15. The control method according to claim 14, wherein the light emitter and the detector are provided on a rear surface side of the input pad opposite a side through which the input pad receives the user input.

16. The control method according to claim 15, wherein the optical device further comprises a reflection panel which is provided on the rear surface side of the input pad, and the receiving the user manipulation further comprises changing, by the reflection panel, a quantity of light transmitted from the light emitter to the detector according to the user manipulation to the input pad.

17. A computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program executable by a computer for performing the method of claim 9.

18. A control method of an image processing apparatus, the control method comprising:

outputting a user interface (UI) comprising a plurality of icons;

receiving a user manipulation in at least one of a multi-direction and a push direction to an input pad of an optical device; and

outputting the UI corresponding to a moving direction of the received user manipulation,

wherein the optical device comprises a light emitter which emits an optical signal, the input pad which receives a user input, and a detector which receives the optical signal from the light emitter according to the received user input to the input pad.

19. The control method according to claim 18, wherein the outputting the UI comprising the plurality of icons comprises outputting the UI to an external display device.

20. A computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program executable by a computer for performing the method of claim 18.