Method of selecting input/output source in double/wide television set and apparatus therefor

• US 5,760,842 A
• Filed: 02/23/1996
• Issued: 06/02/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Song, Kwon-eui
• Primary Examiner(s): Kostak, Victor R.
• Application Number:
  US08/605,862
• Time in Patent Office: 830 Days
• Field of Search: 348/553, 348/563, 348/564, 348/565, 348/705, 348/706, 348/588, 348/734, 348/840, 348/556, 348/569
• US Class Current: 348/564
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4112 having fewer capabilities than the client, e.g. thin client having less processing power or no tuning capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/488 Data services, e.g. news ticker systems specially adapted for using meteorological information in broadcast systems H04H60/71
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/45 Picture in picture , e.g. displaying simultaneously another television channel in a region of the screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver

Abstract

A double/wide television set incorporated with a double-deck VCR or a CD system is provided with a simplified method of selecting an input/output source. The method uses a matrix screen which is inserted into a basic screen of a master On-Screen Display generator. The user selects the input/output source from the matrix screen. Selection from the matrix is accomplished either by depressing numeral buttons of a selection key pad, such as on a remote control, or through a cursor that is displayed on the matrix screen and then moved about the matrix by the user using buttons of the keypad.

Claims

1. A method of selecting an input/output source in a double/wide television set incorporated with a double-deck VCR or a CD system, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) displaying a matrix screen by selecting an input/output mode;

(b) selecting a desired input/output source from said displayed matrix screen; and

(c) automatically switching said input/output source after said step (b), and displaying said switched input/output source on a screen.

3. The method of selecting an input/output source according to claim 1, wherein said step (b) is performed by using one or more numeral buttons of an operating unit.

5. The method of selecting an input/output source according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

checking a preparation state for recording; and

feeding back to an initial matrix screen when the preparation state is not satisfied.

2. A method of selecting an input/output source in a double/wide television set incorporated with a double-deck VCR or a CD system, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) displaying a matrix screen by selecting an input/output mode;

(b) selecting a desired input/output source from said displayed matrix screen; and

(c) automatically switching said input/output source after said step (b), and displaying said switched input/output source on a screen;

wherein said step (b) is performed by moving a cursor using a volume up/down button and a channel up/down button.

4. A method of selecting an input/output source in a double/wide television set incorporated with a double-deck VCR or a CD system, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) displaying a matrix screen by selecting an input/output mode;

(b) selecting a desired input/output source from said displayed matrix screen,

(c) automatically switching said input/output source after said step (b), and displaying said switched input/output source on a screen; and

(d) displaying the number of the input/output source selected from said displayed matrix screen with a particular color to be distinguished.

6. An apparatus for selecting an input/output source in a double/wide television set incorporated with a double-deck VCR or a CD system, comprising:

a ROM having programs for controlling the selection of the input/output source;

a master on-screen display generator for displaying on-screen matrix menus for selecting a particular input/output source on a screen of said double/wide television set; and

a master controller means for performing a control operation according to said programs recorded in said ROM and generating character signals to said master on-screen display generator in response to signals received from an operating unit.

7. The apparatus for selecting an input/output source according to claim 6, wherein said master controller means has a microprocessor for implementing said programs recorded in said ROM.

8. The apparatus for selecting an input/output source according to claim 6, wherein said control operation of said master controller means includes controlling selection of input audio and video signals by an audio/video selector of said double/wide television set in response to signals received from an operating unit.

9. The apparatus for selecting an input/output source according to claim 6, wherein said operating unit is selected from the group consisting of:

a key inputting portion and a remote control.

10. The apparatus for selecting an input/output source according to claim 8, wherein said operating unit is selected from the group consisting of:

a key inputting portion and a remote control.

11. The apparatus for selecting an input/output source according to claim 8, wherein said control operation of said master controller means includes checking a preparation state for recording of plug jacks corresponding to a particular audio/video signal which has been selected in response to signals received from an operating unit.

12. The apparatus for selecting an input/output source according to claim 6, wherein said master controller means responds to signals from a volume up/down button and a channel up/down button to move a cursor displayed by said master on-screen display generator.

13. The apparatus for selecting an input/output source according to claim 6, wherein said master controller means commands said master on-screen display generator to display the number of the input/output source selected from said on-screen matrix menus.