Method of simultaneous display of two pictures for internet-functional television receiver

• US 6,230,321 B1
• Filed: 04/14/1998
• Issued: 05/08/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Woon Gyu
• Primary Examiner(s): Miller, John W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BROWN, RUEBEN M
• Application Number:
  US09/059,257
• Time in Patent Office: 1,120 Days
• Field of Search: 348/584-565, 345/326-328, 345/341, 345/342, 345/346, 345/356, 345/330, 704/217
• US Class Current: 725/37
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/027 Arrangements and methods specific for the display of internet documents
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42676 for modulating an analogue carrier signal to encode digital information or demodulating it to decode digital information, e.g. ADSL or cable modem
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4355 involving reformatting operations of additional data, e.g. HTML pages on a television screen optimising the visualization of content for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/9577; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/066; media handling at the source in data packet switching networks H04L65/764
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV

Abstract

A method of simultaneously displaying two pictures on a screen of an Internet-functional television receiver (TV) capable of improving the information utility of the Internet-functional TV and providing convenience in use. The method includes the steps of determining whether or not the number of total lines of home-page data inputted from Internet to the TV exceeds a predetermined number of lines, displaying the home-page data as a single picture on the screen if the number of total lines of the home-page data is less than the predetermined number of lines as a result of determination, and dividing the home-page data into two pictures if the number of total lines of the home-page data exceeds the predetermined number of lines as a result of determination, and simultaneously displaying the two divided pictures on the screen.

Claims

1. A television receiver comprising:

a display; and

a controller for determining if a specific item is selected from a page of data received from a remote subscriber system,

said controller displaying the page of data at a first portion of said display identified as a previous page while simultaneously displaying a new page of data of a specific item selected from the page of data at a second portion of said display identified as a present page, upon determining that the specific item has been selected from the page of data, and wherein said controller magnifies and then displays the page of data, prior to determining if a specific item is selected from the page of data.

2. The television receiver of claim 1, wherein said controller magnifies the page of data by increasing font size of the page of data.

3. The television receiver of claim 1, wherein the remote subscriber system is the Internet and the page of data is home-page data.

4. The television receiver of claim 1, further comprising a modem for receiving the page of data over a communication line from the remote subscriber system and providing the page of data to said controller.

7. The television receiver of claim 1, wherein the first portion is at a left side of said display and the second portion is at a right side of said display.

5. A television receiver comprising:

a display; and

a controller for determining if a specific item is selected from a page of data received from a remote subscriber system,

said controller displaying the page of data at a first portion of said display identified as a previous page while simultaneously displaying a new page of data of a specific item selected from the page of data at a second portion of said display identified as a present page, upon determining that the specific item has been selected from the page of data, and wherein said controller magnifies and then displays the page of data, prior to determining if a specific item is selected from the page of data, and wherein upon determination that an additional specific item is selected from the new page of data displayed as the present page, said controller displays the new page of data at the first portion of said display identified as the previous page while simultaneously displaying another new page of data of the additional specific item selected from the new page of data at the second portion of said display identified as the present page.

6. A television receiver comprising:

a display; and

a controller for determining if a specific item is selected from a page of data received from a remote subscriber system,

said controller displaying the page of data at a first portion of said display identified as a previous page while simultaneously displaying a new page of data of a specific item selected from the page of data at a second portion of said display identified as a present page, upon determining that the specific item has been selected from the page of data, and wherein said controller magnifies and then displays the page of data, prior to determining if a specific item is selected from the page of data, and wherein upon determination that an additional specific item is selected from the page of data displayed as the previous page, said controller displays the page of data at the first portion of said display identified as the previous page while simultaneously displaying another new page of data of the additional specific item selected from the page of data on the second portion of said display identified as the present page.