DISPLAY APPARATUS AND GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE SCREEN PROVIDING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20140337749A1
• Filed: 05/12/2014
• Published: 11/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: PHANG, Joon-ho, MOON, Joo-sun, JUNG, Do-sung, KIM, Hong-pyo, PARK, Yi-sak, BANGLE, Christopher E.
• Application Number:
  US14/275,418
• Publication Number:
  US 20140337749A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/740
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/012 Head tracking input arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4131 home appliance, e.g. lighting, air conditioning system, metering devices home automation data switching networks exchanging configuration information on appliance services H04L12/2807
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4314 for fitting data in a restricted space on the screen, e.g. EPG data in a rectangular grid
• 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 21/44218 Detecting physical presence or behaviour of the user, e.g. using sensors to detect if the user is leaving the room or changes his face expression during a TV program methods or arrangements for recognising human body or animal bodies or body parts G06V40/10; methods or arrangements for acquiring or recognising human faces, facial parts, facial sketches, facial expressions G06V40/16; methods or arrangements for recognising movements or behaviour G06V40/20; arrangements for identifying users in broadcast systems H04H60/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47217 for controlling playback functions for recorded or on-demand content, e.g. using progress bars, mode or play-point indicators or bookmarks specific graphical features in visual interfaces H04N21/4312
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4886 for displaying a ticker, e.g. scrolling banner for news, stock exchange, weather data

Abstract

A display apparatus includes a display configured to display a GUI screen including a plurality of regions, a user interface configured to receive a user interaction with respect to the GUI screen, and a controller configured to control the display to display a region corresponding to the user interaction among the plurality of regions as a main region by rotating the GUI screen, and configured to perform a control operation mapped to the main region, wherein the main region is a region that occupies the GUI screen at a predetermined ratio or more.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a display configured to display a graphic user interface (GUI) screen including a plurality of regions;

a user interface configured to receive a user interaction with respect to the GUI screen; and

a controller configured to control the display to display a region corresponding to the user interaction among the plurality of regions as a main region, according to a changed perspective and configured to perform a control operation mapped to the main region.

2. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein a plurality of control operations of providing at least one from among information, services, and functions are mapped to the plurality of regions, respectively.

3. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the plurality of regions include a ceiling region located on an upper portion of the GUI screen, a wall region located on an intermediate portion of the GUI screen, and a floor region located on a bottom portion of the GUI screen.

4. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the controller provides an information service when the ceiling region is displayed as the main region.

5. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 4, wherein the information service includes a weather information providing service.

6. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the controller provides a commerce service when the wall region is displayed as the main region.

7. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the commerce service is a service for providing virtual purchase of a product in connection with real purchase of the product.

8. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the controller provides a control service when the floor region is displayed as the main region.

9. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein control service includes at least one from among a home device control service and a home security control service.

10. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the user interface receives the user interaction according to a head direction of a user, and the controller controls to display the ceiling region as the main region when a user interaction according to an upward head direction of the user is received, and to display the floor region as the main region when a user interaction according to a downward head direction of the user is received, in a state in which the wall region is displayed as the main region.

11. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the user interface receives a remote controller signal according to a motion of a remote control apparatus configured to remotely control the display apparatus, and

the controller controls to display the ceiling region as the main region when a remote controller signal corresponding to a motion in which the remote control apparatus is moved upward is received, and to display the floor region as the main region when a remote controller signal corresponding to a motion in which the remote control apparatus is moved downward is received, in a state in which the wall region is displayed as the main region.

12. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller controls to display a background element based on at least one from among external environment information and a type of content corresponding to the control operation mapped to the main region.

31. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the main region is a region that occupies the GUI screen at a predetermined ratio or more.

13. A method of providing a graphic user interface (GUI) screen of a display apparatus configured to provide a GUI screen including a plurality of regions, the method comprising:

receiving a user interaction with respect to the GUI screen; and

displaying a region corresponding to the user interaction among the plurality of regions as a main region according to a changed perspective, and performing a control operation mapped to the main region.

14. The method as claimed in claim 13, wherein a plurality of control operations of providing at least one from among information, services, and functions are mapped to the plurality of regions, respectively.

15. The method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the plurality of regions include a ceiling region located on an upper portion of the GUI screen, a wall region located on an intermediate portion of the GUI screen, and a floor region located on a bottom portion of the GUI screen.

16. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the performing comprises providing an information service when the ceiling region is displayed as the main region.

17. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the performing comprises providing a commerce service when the wall region is displayed as the main region.

18. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the performing comprises providing a control service when the floor region is displayed as the main region.

19. The method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the control service comprises at least one from among a home device control service and a home security control service.

20. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the displaying comprises displaying the ceiling region as the main region when a user interaction according to an upward head movement is received, and displaying the floor region as the main region when a user interaction according to a downward head movement is received, in a state in which the wall region is displayed as the main region.

33. A non-transitory computer readable storing medium that stores a program for enabling a computer to perform the method of claim 13.

21. A display apparatus comprising:

a display configured to display a graphic user interface (GUI) screen comprising a three dimension (3D) space, the 3D space comprising a plurality of plane images;

a user interface configured to receive a user input for selecting at least one of plane images of the GUI screen; and

a controller configured to perform a control operation corresponding to the selected at least one of the plurality of plane images.

22. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 21, wherein the user input indicates a viewpoint position of a user in the 3D space and the controller controls the display to display the GUI screen rearranged according to the viewpoint position indicated by the user input.

23. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 22, wherein the controller determines the at least one of the plurality of plane images based on a plane image of which display area has a predetermined ratio of the rearranged GUI screen.

24. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 22, wherein the controller controls to generate the rearranged GUI screen by rotating the 3D space of the GUI screen according to the viewpoint position indicated by the user input.

25. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 22, wherein the controller controls to generate the rearranged GUI screen by replacing the at least one of the plane images of the GUI screen with a new plane image.

26. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 21, wherein a plurality of control operations are mapped to the plurality of plane images, respectively.

27. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 26, wherein the GUI screen comprises a plurality of 3D spaces, the plurality of 3D spaces corresponding to a plurality of different categories of functions provided by the display apparatus, respectively, and

wherein the user interface receives a user input for selecting at least one of the plurality of 3D spaces.

28. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 27, wherein the plurality of control operations mapped to the plurality of plane images of the same 3D space correspond to the same category of a function.

29. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 21, wherein the user interface receives the user input through a remote controller comprising at least one from among a motion sensor, a touch sensor, or an optical joystick (OJ) sensor, a physical button, a display screen, and a microphone.

30. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 29, wherein when the user interface receives the user input through the remote controller comprising the motion sensor, the user input is generated based on a motion of a user detected by the motion sensor.

32. A user interface processing device comprising:

at least one processor operable to read and operate according to instructions within a computer program; and

at least one memory operable to store at least portions of said computer program for access by said processor;

wherein said computer program includes algorithms to cause said processor to implement;

a user interface configured to receive a user input indicating a viewpoint of a user with respect to a graphic user interface (GUI) screen comprising a three dimension (3D) space; and

a controller configured to perform a control operation corresponding to the GUI screen adjusted according to the viewpoint of the user based on the user input, the control operation being selected from a plurality of control operations mapped to objects displayed in the adjusted GUI screen.