DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MENU THEREOF

• US 20140181724A1
• Filed: 12/26/2013
• Published: 06/26/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Ji-won
• Application Number:
  US14/140,951
• Publication Number:
  US 20140181724A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/775
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration

Abstract

Exemplary embodiments may disclose a display apparatus and a method for providing a menu thereof. The method for providing a menu of a display apparatus includes dividing the display apparatus into a plurality of areas, and displaying a plurality of images on each of the plurality of areas, displaying a simultaneous control menu which controls the plurality of images simultaneously in response to a predetermined first user command being input, and displaying an individual control menu which controls one of the plurality of images in response to a predetermined second user command being input.

Claims

1. A method for providing a menu of a display apparatus, comprising:

dividing the display apparatus into a plurality of areas, and displaying a plurality of images on each of the plurality of areas;

displaying a simultaneous control menu which controls the plurality of images simultaneously in response to a predetermined first user command being input; and

displaying an individual control menu which controls one of the plurality of images in response to a predetermined second user command being input.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the displaying the simultaneous control menu comprises:

displaying the simultaneous control menu over the plurality of areas, and

wherein the displaying the individual control menu comprises;

displaying the individual control menu in an area of the plurality of areas where the one image to be controlled is displayed.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the displaying the simultaneous control menu comprises:

displaying information indicating that the plurality of areas are controlled simultaneously in the simultaneous control menu, and

wherein the displaying the individual control menu comprises;

displaying information indicating the one image to be controlled in the individual control menu.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the displaying the individual control menu comprises:

displaying an indicator on the individual control menu and the one image to be controlled by the individual control menu in order to indicate the one image to be controlled by the individual control menu.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the displaying the individual control menu comprises:

inputting a user command in an input device to indicate an area among the plurality of areas, and determining the area indicated by the input device; and

setting an image displayed on the determined area as the one image to be controlled by the individual control menu.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the displaying the individual control menu comprises:

changing the one image to be controlled by the individual control menu according to a selected direction button where a user command is input, from among a plurality of direction buttons on an input device.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the displaying the individual control menu comprises:

recognizing a user motion; and

changing the one image to be controlled by the individual control menu according to a direction of the recognized user motion.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the predetermined first user command is a command in which a predetermined first button is selected on a remote controller, such that the display apparatus is controlled according to the predetermined first user command, and

the predetermined second user command is the command in which a predetermined second button is selected on the remote controller, such that the display apparatus is controlled according to the predetermined second user command.

9. A display apparatus, comprising:

a display device which divides the display apparatus into a plurality of areas, and displays a plurality of images on each of the plurality of areas;

an input device which receives a user command; and

a controller which, if a predetermined first user command is input as the user command, displays a simultaneous control menu for controlling the plurality of images simultaneously, and if a predetermined second user command is input as the user command, displays an individual control menu for controlling one of the plurality of images.

10. The apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein the controller controls the display device to display the simultaneous control menu over the plurality of areas, and controls the display device to display the individual control menu in an area of the plurality of areas where the one image to be controlled is displayed.

11. The apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein the controller controls the display device to display information indicating that the plurality of areas are controlled simultaneously in the simultaneous control menu, and controls the display device to display information indicating the one image to be controlled in the individual control menu.

12. The apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein the controller controls the display device to display an indicator on the individual control menu and the one image to be controlled by the individual control menu in order to indicate the one image to be controlled by the individual control menu.

13. The apparatus as claimed in claim 9, further comprising:

a sensor which senses an area, from among the plurality of areas, indicated by the input device,

wherein the controller determines the area indicated by the input device, through the sensor, and sets an image displayed on the determined area as the one image to be controlled by the individual control menu.

14. The apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein the controller changes the one image to be controlled by the individual control menu according to a selected direction button, from among a plurality of direction buttons on the input device.

15. The apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein the input device comprises a motion input device which receives a user motion,

wherein the controller recognizes the user motion input through the input device, and changes the one image to be controlled by the individual control menu according to a direction of the recognized user motion.

16. The apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein the predetermined first user command is the user command in which a predetermined first button is selected on the input device, and

the predetermined second user command is the user command in which a predetermined second button is selected on the input device.

17. A method for providing a menu of a display apparatus, comprising:

dividing a display screen of the display apparatus into a plurality of areas;

displaying a plurality of images on each of the plurality of areas; and

displaying the menu which controls at least one of the plurality of images,

wherein the menu which controls at least one of the plurality of images overlaps the at least one of the plurality of images.

18. The method as claimed in claim 17, wherein the menu simultaneously controls all of the plurality of images in response to a first user command being input.

19. The method as claimed in claim 17, wherein the menu controls one of the plurality of images in response to a second user command being input.

20. The method as claimed in claim 19, wherein the menu only overlaps the one of the plurality of images in response to the second user command being input.