HOST DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING HOST DEVICE, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20140184516A1
• Filed: 12/05/2013
• Published: 07/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Seung-pok, KIM, Jong-myung
• Application Number:
  US14/097,918
• Publication Number:
  US 20140184516A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/169
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0231 Cordless keyboards
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/02 Details of power systems and of start or stop of display operation
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/021 Power management, e.g. power saving
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/045 using multiple communication channels, e.g. parallel and serial
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/006 Details of the interface to the display terminal specific for a display terminal using a CRT G09G1/167; using a flat panel G09G3/2096; circuits for interfacing with colour displays G09G5/04

Abstract

A host device is provided which includes a graphic processor configured to generate video data to be displayed on a display device, a first communication interface configured to transmit the video data to the display device via a first wireless communication method, and a second communication interface configured to receive at least one of control information, which corresponds to a control command input through a touch screen, and status information of the display device from the display device, and to transmit the status information of the host device to the display device via a second wireless communication method.

Claims

1. A host device wirelessly connectable to a display device having a touch screen, comprising:

a graphic processor configured to generate video data to be displayed on the display device;

a first communication interface configured to transmit the video data to the display device via a first wireless communication method; and

a second communication interface configured to receive at least one of control information, which corresponds to a control command input through the touch screen, and status information of the display device from the display device via a second wireless communication method, and to transmit the status information of the host device to the display device via the second wireless communication method.

2. The host device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the host device includes:

a plurality of operation modes; and

a controller configured to control the first communication interface and the second communication interface so as to perform communication with the display device only via the second wireless communication method if an operation mode of the plurality of operation modes is a power saving mode.

3. The host device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the controller is configured to control the second communication interface such that the status information that corresponds to a changed operation mode of the host device is transmitted to the display device via the second wireless communication method if the operation mode of the host device is or has been changed.

4. The host device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the controller is configured to change the operation mode of the host device to correspond to a changed operation mode of the display device if the status information, which indicates that the operation mode of the display device has been changed, is or has been received from the display device via the second wireless communication method.

5. The host device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the status information of the display device includes information about a residual amount of energy of a battery of the display device, and

the controller is configured to change the operation mode of the host device to correspond to the information about the residual amount of energy if the information about the residual amount of energy is or has been received from the display device via the second wireless communication method.

6. The host device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first communication interface is configured to transmit the video data and audio data that corresponds to the video data to the display device.

7. The host device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first wireless communication method is at least one of WiFi (Wireless LAN), UWB (Ultra WideBand), WiDi (Wireless Display), WiHD (Wireless HD), WHDI (Wireless Home Digital Interface), Miracast, and Wigig (Wireless Gigabit Alliance).

8. The host device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second wireless communication method is a communication method that consumes less power than the first wireless communication method.

9. The host device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second wireless communication method is at least one of Bluetooth, Zigbee, and RF communication.

10. The host device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a power signal transmitter configured to transmit a power signal to wirelessly charge a power of the display device.

11. A display device wirelessly connectable to a host device, comprising:

a first communication interface configured to receive video data from the host device via a first wireless communication method;

a user interface having a touch screen and configured to display the video data received through the first communication interface; and

a second communication interface configured to transmit at least one of control information, which corresponds to a control command input through the touch screen, and status information of the display device to the host device via a second wireless communication method, and to receive the status information of the host device from the host device via the second wireless communication method.

12. The display device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the display device includes a plurality of operation modes, and

further comprises a controller configured to control the first communication interface and the second communication interface so as to perform communication with the host device only via the second wireless communication method if an operation mode of the plurality of operation modes is a power saving mode.

13. The display device as claimed in claim 12, wherein the controller is configured to control the second communication interface so that the status information that corresponds to a changed operation mode of the display device is transmitted to the host device via the second wireless communication method if the operation mode of the display device is or has been changed.

14. The display device as claimed in claim 12, wherein the controller is configured to change the operation mode of the display device to correspond to a changed operation mode of the host device if the status information, which indicates that the operation mode of the host device has been changed, is or has been received from the host device via the second wireless communication method.

15. The display device as claimed in claim 12, further comprising a battery unit configured to supply power to respective constituent elements of the display device,

wherein the controller is configured to control the second communication interface so that information about a residual amount of energy in the battery unit is transmitted to the host device included in the status information of the display device.

16. The display device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the first communication interface is configured to receive audio data that corresponds to the video data together with the video data, and

the user interface is configured to display the video data and to output the audio data at the same time.

17. The display device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the first wireless communication method is at least one of WiFi (Wireless LAN), UWB (Ultra WideBand), WiDi (Wireless Display), WiHD (Wireless HD), WHDI (Wireless Home Digital Interface), Miracast, and Wigig (Wireless Gigabit Alliance).

18. The display device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the second wireless communication method is a communication method that consumes less power than the first wireless communication method.

19. The display device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the second wireless communication method is at least one of Bluetooth, Zigbee, and RF communication.

20. The display device as claimed in claim 11, further comprising:

a battery unit including a battery and configured to supply a power to respective constituent elements in the display device from the battery; and

a power signal receiver configured to receive a power signal from the host device and to use the power signal to charge the battery.

21. A host device connectable to a display device, comprising:

a keyboard configured to receive a first input and a second input;

a graphic processor configured to process video data, which corresponds to the first input;

a first communication interface configured to transmit the video data, which is or has been processed by the graphic processor, to the display device via a first wireless communication method; and

a second communication interface configured to transmit control data, configured to control the display device, to the display device via a second wireless communication method in response to the second input.

22. A method of controlling a host device wirelessly connectable to a display device having a touch screen, comprising:

generating video data to be displayed on the display device;

transmitting the video data to the display device via a first wireless communication method; and

receiving at least one of control information, which corresponds to a control command input through the touch screen, and status information of the display device from the display device via a second wireless communication method, wherein the transmitting and the receiving are concurrent.

23. The method of controlling the host device as claimed in claim 22, wherein:

the

host device includes a plurality of operation modes; and

the method of controlling the host device further comprises controlling operation states of the first wireless communication method and the second wireless communication method so as to perform communication with the display device only via the second wireless communication method if an operation mode of the plurality of operation modes is a power saving mode.

24. The method of controlling the host device as claimed in claim 22, wherein the transmitting the status information of the host device comprises transmitting information about a changed operation mode of the host device to the display device via the second wireless communication method included in the status information of the host device if the operation mode of the host device is or has changed.

25. A method of controlling a display device wirelessly connectable to a host device, comprising:

receiving video data from the host device via a first wireless communication method;

displaying the video data; and

transmitting at least one of control information, which corresponds to a control command input through a touch screen of the display device, and status information of the display device to the host device via a second wireless communication method, wherein the receiving and the transmitting are concurrent.