DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY SYSTEM AND SEARCH RESULT PROVIDING METHODS OF THE SAME

• US 20150161238A1
• Filed: 07/14/2014
• Published: 06/11/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Do-wan, SON, Ji-hye
• Application Number:
  US14/330,742
• Publication Number:
  US 20150161238A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3323 using document space presentation or visualization, e.g. category, hierarchy or range presentation and selection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9032 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback

Abstract

The display apparatus includes a display; a user input to receive a user input; and a controller to transmit a search query input through the user input to the server, to classify search result data on the search query received from the server into a plurality of categories based on a content type and to display the search result data on the display according to the classified categories, wherein the controller determines at least one of a display order of the classified categories and a number of displayed search results of each category based on a relevance to a content currently displayed on the display.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a display configured to display an image of content;

a user input configured to receive a user input; and

a controller configured to transmit a search query input through the user input to a server, to classify search result data on the search query received from the server into categories based on a content type and to display search results on the display according to the classified categories,

wherein the controller is further configured to determine at least one of a display order of the classified categories and a number of displayed search results of each category based on a relevance to the content currently displayed on the display.

2. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the user input comprises at least one of a microphone to input a voice of a user and a remote controller to receive a remote control signal corresponding to a key input by the user.

3. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the categories comprise at least two of a broadcast, a game, a movie, an animation, a music, a video, a picture, an application, a website, a web document, and news.

4. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to control the display to display a first category related to the content currently displayed on the display, among the classified categories, on an upper portion of a screen, and

to control the display to display a number of the search results of the first category as allocated by a first percentage of a preset number of the search results to be displayed on the display.

5. The display apparatus of claim 4, wherein the controller is further configured to control the display to display second categories of the classified categories, which are different from the first category, in an order of a higher ratio between the search results of respective second categories and a total number of the search results of the search result data, and to display a number of the search results of the second categories as allocated by a second percentage of the preset number of the search results,

an allocation for displaying the search results for each of the second categories is obtained by dividing the second percentage by a number of the second categories, and

the second percentage is a difference between the first percentage and 100%.

6. The display apparatus of claim 5, wherein the first percentage is set to be higher than the second percentage.

7. The display apparatus of claim 5, wherein the controller is further configured to determine a display order of the search results of the second categories based on a display determining parameter to display the search results.

8. The display apparatus of claim 7, wherein the display determining parameter comprises at least one of a popularity and a recency.

9. The display apparatus of claim 8, wherein the controller is further configured to determine the display order based on a display order determining score (K) calculated by a following equation, as the display determining parameter:

10. The display apparatus of claim 5, wherein, in response to a first number of the search results of one category of the classified categories being smaller by a second number than a number of the search results allocated for the one category to be displayed on the display based on the first percentage or the second percentage, the controller is further configured to multiply the second number by a ratio between the search results of each of other categories and the total number of the search results, to calculate an additional allocation for each of the other categories, and is further configured to assign the additional allocation for each of the other categories to a previously determined allocation, to display the search results on the display, and

wherein the other categories are categories of the classified categories which are different from the one category.

11. A search result providing method of a display apparatus, the method comprising:

inputting a search query of a user;

transmitting the input search query to a server;

classifying search result data on the search query received from the server into categories based on a content type; and

displaying search results according to the classified categories,

wherein the displaying comprises determining at least one of a display order of the classified categories and a number of displayed search results of each category based on a relevance to a content currently displayed.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the inputting comprises at least one of inputting a voice of the user and receiving a key input signal from the user.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the displaying further comprises:

displaying a first category related to the content currently displayed, among the classified categories, on an upper portion of a screen; and

displaying a number of the search results of the first category as allocated by a first percentage of a preset number of the search results to be displayed.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the displaying further comprises:

displaying second categories, of the classified categories, which are different from the first category, in an order of a higher ratio between the search results of respective second categories and a total number of the search results of the search result data; and

displaying a number of the search results of the second categories as allocated by a second percentage of the preset number of the search results,

wherein an allocation for displaying the search results for each of the second categories is obtained by dividing the second percentage by a number of the second categories, and

the second percentage is a difference between the first percentage and 100%.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the first percentage is set to be higher than the second percentage.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the displaying further comprises:

determining a display order of the search results of the second categories based on a display determining parameter; and

displaying the search results.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the display determining parameter comprises at least one of a popularity and a recency.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein a first number of the search results of one category of the classified categories is smaller by a second number than a number of the search results for the one category to be displayed, as determined by the first percentage or the second percentage, and the displaying further comprises:

multiplying the second number by a ratio between the search results of each of other categories and the total number of the search results, to calculate an additional allocation for each of the other categories; and

assigning the additional allocation for each of the other categories to a previously determined allocation, to display the search results on the display,

wherein the other categories are categories of the classified categories which are different from the one category.

19. A display system comprising:

a server comprising a metadata database configured to store metadata on content and a first controller configured to retrieve data corresponding a search query of a user from the metadata database; and

a display apparatus comprising a second controller configured to transmit the search query of the user to the server, to classify search result data received from the server into categories based on a content type, and to display the search result data on a display according to the classified categories,

wherein the second controller is configured to determine at least one of a display order of the classified categories and a number of displayed search results of each category based on a relevance to a content currently displayed on the display.

20. A search result providing method comprising:

receiving an input of a search query of a user;

transmitting the input search query to a server;

retrieving data corresponding to the search query and transmitting search result data to a display; and

classifying the search result data into categories based on a content type and displaying the search result data according to the classified categories,

wherein the displaying comprises determining at least one of a display order of the classified categories and a number of displayed search results of each category based on a relevance to a content currently displayed on a display.