IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME

• US 20160021415A1
• Filed: 09/29/2015
• Published: 01/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: KANG, Hyungsuk, YU, Youngkon, CHO, Yongbum, RHO, Sungjae
• Application Number:
  US14/869,120
• Publication Number:
  US 20160021415A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4221 Dedicated function buttons, e.g. for the control of an EPG, subtitles, aspect ratio, picture-in-picture or teletext
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42212 Specific keyboard arrangements
• 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 21/47205 for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4858 for modifying screen layout parameters, e.g. fonts, size of the windows
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8173 End-user applications, e.g. Web browser, game

Abstract

An image display apparatus and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The method for operating the image display apparatus includes displaying a home screen including at least one card object including a content list, displaying a card object generation screen if card object generation input is received, and, if at least one content item displayed on the card object generation screen is selected, adding the selected content item to a card object to be generated. Therefore, it is possible to increase user convenience.

Claims

1. -20. (canceled)

21. An image display apparatus comprising:

a user input interface to receive movement information from a remote controller, the remote controller including a power key, four-direction keys, a volume key, a channel key, and a point key for display a pointer on the image display apparatus;

a display; and

a controller to control the display to display the pointer on the display in response to a manipulation of the point key of the remote controller,

wherein the controller moves the pointer in accordance with movement of the remote controller, and selects an item based on a selection signal from the controller in state that the pointer is displayed on the item.

22. The apparatus of claim 21, further comprising a broadcast reception unit to receive a broadcast signal,

wherein the controller controls the display to:

display broadcast image based on the broadcast signal,

display an application list including a plurality of application items on the broadcast image, in response to a manipulation of the remote controller.

23. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein if the pointer displayed in correspondence with movement of the remote controller is moved to a predetermined region of the display, the controller controls the display to display an application list or a predetermined menu on the predetermined region of the display.

24. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein the controller calculates coordinate information based the movement information from the remote controller, and controls the display to display the pointer at the calculated coordinates of the display.

25. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein the controller controls the display to display application list screen including a plurality of application items in a response to a selection of the application full view item in state that the pointer is displayed on the application full view.

26. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein when user'"'"'s voice is output, the remote controller collects and sends data of the voice to the image display apparatus,

wherein the controller is configured to receive the data of the voice through the user input interface, analyze the data of the voice using a voice recognition function and recognize a command based on the analyzed the data of the voice.

27. The apparatus of claim 21, further comprising:

a camera for capturing an image of a user; and

a memory;

wherein when the image of the user is captured, the controller is configured to compare an image previously stored in the memory with the captured image of the user, perform user recognition, and perform login of the recognized user.

28. The apparatus of claim 27, wherein after performing the login, the controller is configured to display an icon indicating the logged-in user.

29. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein the controller is configured to:

display a home screen including at least one card object including a content list and to display a card object generation screen in response to card object generation input,

in response to selection of at least one content item displayed on the card object generation screen, add the selected content item to a card object to be generated, and

display a settings screen related to the image display apparatus in response to manipulation of a menu key of the remote controller or selection of a settings object for setting the image display apparatus on the home screen,

wherein the settings screen related to the image display apparatus includes a first item for editing a dashboard area in which the card object is displayed on the home screen, a second item for editing a launcher bar area in which an application list is displayed on the home screen, a third item for performing settings related to start of the home screen and a fourth item including network settings, video settings, channel settings and three-dimensional (3D) image setting.

30. The image display apparatus according to claim 29, wherein the card object generation screen includes a first region including the card object to be generated and an input window for inputting an object name of the card object to be generated and a second region including content items to be added to the card object to be generated.

31. The image display apparatus according to claim 29, wherein the controller controls display of the card the card object generation screen when, in a state of displaying a dashboard edit screen for editing a dashboard area between the dashboard area in which the card object is arranged and a launcher bar area in which an application list is arranged, a card object generation item on the dashboard edit screen is selected, or when, in a state in which a pointer indicating motion of a remote controller is located in the dashboard area, a menu key of the remote controller is manipulated.

32. The image display apparatus according to claim 29, further comprising a camera configured to capture an image of a user,

wherein the controller performs user login, controls display of a home screen including the generated card object in correspondence with the logged-in user, and changes at least one card object displayed on the home screen according to the logged-in user.

33. The image display apparatus according to claim 29, wherein the display displays a system settings screen including network settings, video settings, channel settings and 3D image settings in response to system settings input,

wherein the system settings screen includes a search window for searching for a settings item.