DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20140189589A1
• Filed: 12/27/2013
• Published: 07/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/03/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: KIM, Jae-won, SHIN, Dong-yun, LEE, Jong-in
• Granted Patent: US 9,612,719 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/810
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1462 with means for detecting differences between the image stored in the host and the images displayed on the remote displays
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/10 Mixing of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of an operation, e.g. adding, on the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/04 Display device controller operating with a plurality of display units
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/022 Centralised management of display operation, e.g. in a server instead of locally
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/06 Consumer Electronics Control, i.e. control of another device by a display or vice versa
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/40 characterised by the way in which both a pattern determined by character code and another pattern are displayed simultaneously, or either pattern is displayed selectively, e.g. with character code memory and APA, i.e. all-points-addressable, memory

Abstract

A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display section, a communicating section configured to communicate with an external display apparatus, a storage section configured to store a plurality of objects, and a controller configured to display a user interface for selection and combination of the plurality of objects stored in the storage section according to a command of a user to generate a scene of content, and to transmit information relating to the scene to the external display apparatus through the communicating section so that the same image as the scene is displayed in the external display apparatus in real time while the scene is being generated through the user interface.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a display section;

a communicating section configured to communicate with an external display apparatus;

a storage section configured to store a plurality of objects; and

a controller configured to display a user interface for selection and combination of the plurality of objects stored in the storage section according to a command of a user to generate a scene of content, and to transmit information relating to the scene to the external display apparatus through the communicating section so that the same image as the scene is displayed in the external display apparatus in real time while the scene is being generated through the user interface.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the external display apparatus stores the same data as the plurality of objects stored in the storage section, and

wherein the controller performs a control, by transmitting identification information about each object included in the scene and information about a position of the object in the scene to the external display apparatus, so that the external display apparatus selects the object corresponding to the identification information from the plurality of stored objects.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein if the object included in the scene is not stored in the storage section, the controller transmits the object to the external display apparatus so that the external display apparatus adds the object to the image.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the size of the image displayed in the external display apparatus is larger than the size of the scene displayed in the display section.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the display apparatus comprises a mobile device.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the user interface comprises:

a first menu in which the plurality of objects stored in the storage section are displayed to be selectable;

a second menu which provides an option for addition of an object which is not stored in the storage section; and

a scene formation area in which the scene formed by the object selected or newly added through the first menu or the second menu is displayed, and

wherein the image displayed in the external display apparatus is the same as the scene in the scene formation area.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the object which is selectable through the first menu comprises:

a background object which is a background image of the scene; and

an inserted image object which is an image overlaid on the background object.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the option provided by the second menu comprises at least one of an option for adding sound information, a text, or an image input or newly added by the user to the scene, an option for combining the plurality of scenes in a temporal order to generate the content, and an option for providing an image to be added to the scene for drawing of the user.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the controller stores the generated content in the storage section, or transmits the content to the external display apparatus to be stored in the external display apparatus.

10. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the communicating section is further configured to communicate with an external device, and

wherein the controller transmits the generated content to the external device to be stored in the external device.

20. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

communicating with an external device; and

transmitting the generated content to the external device to be stored in the external device.

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

communicating with an external display apparatus;

displaying, on the display apparatus, a user interface provided to generate a scene of content;

selecting and combining a plurality of objects which is stored in the display apparatus in advance through the user interface according to a command of a user to generate the scene; and

transmitting information relating to the scene to the external display apparatus so that the same image as the scene is displayed in the external display apparatus in real time while the scene is being generated.

12. The method according to claim 11,

wherein the external display apparatus stores the same data as the plurality of objects stored in the storage section, and

wherein the transmission of the information relating to the scene to the external display apparatus comprises performing a control, by transmitting identification information about each object included in the scene and information about a position of the object in the scene to the external display apparatus, so that the external display apparatus selects the object corresponding to the identification information from the plurality of stored objects.

13. The method according to claim 11,

wherein the transmission of the information relating to the scene to the external display apparatus comprises, if the object included in the scene is not stored in the storage section, transmitting the object to the external display apparatus so that the external display apparatus adds the object to the image.

14. The method according to claim 11,

wherein the size of the image displayed in the external display apparatus is larger than the size of the scene displayed in the display section.

15. The method according to claim 14,

wherein the display apparatus comprises a mobile device.

16. The method according to claim 11,

wherein the user interface comprises:

a first menu in which the plurality of objects stored in the storage section are displayed to be selectable;

a second menu which provides an option for addition of an object which is not stored in the storage section; and

a scene formation area in which the scene formed by the object selected or newly added through the first menu or the second menu is displayed, and

wherein the image displayed in the external display apparatus is the same as the scene in the scene formation area.

17. The method according to claim 16,

wherein the object which is selectable through the first menu comprises:

a background object which is a background image of the scene; and

an inserted image object which is an image overlaid on the background object.

18. The method according to claim 16,

wherein the option provided by the second menu comprises at least one of an option for adding sound information, a text or an image input or newly added by the user to the scene, an option for combining the plurality of scenes in a temporal order to generate the content, and an option for providing an image to be added to the scene for drawing of the user.

19. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

storing the generated content in the storage section, or transmitting the content to the external display apparatus to be stored in the external display apparatus.

21. A system comprising:

at least one display apparatus; and

an external display apparatus configured to communicate with the at least one display apparatus,

wherein each of the at least one display apparatus comprises;

a display section;

a storage section configured to store a plurality of objects; and

a controller configured to display a user interface for selection and combination of the plurality of objects stored in the storage section according to a command of a user to generate a scene of content, and to transmit information relating to the scene to the external display apparatus so that the same image as the scene is displayed in the external display apparatus in real time while the scene is being generated through the user interface.

22. The system according to claim 21,

wherein each of the at least one display apparatus transmits information relating to the scene to each other in real time to generate the scene in cooperation, and

wherein the external display apparatus displays the same image as the scene generated by the at least one display apparatus in real time.

23. The system according to claim 21,

wherein each of the at least one display apparatus generates each of the plurality of scenes which forms the content, and

wherein the external display apparatus displays the same image as the scene generated by any one of the at least one display apparatus, or displays together the same images as the plurality of scenes respectively generated by the at least one display apparatus.