Level adjust display apparatus and method for on-screen display menu in image display device

• US 6,348,952 B1
• Filed: 02/10/2000
• Issued: 02/19/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Jeong, Seok Hwa
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisenzopf, Reinhard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tran, Trang U.
• Application Number:
  US09/501,188
• Time in Patent Office: 740 Days
• Field of Search: H04/N.550, H04/N.5445, 348/569, 348/570, 348/563, 348/564, 345/150, 345/431, 345/151
• US Class Current: 348/569
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 1/165 Details of a display terminal using a CRT, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto details suitable for both CRT and flat panel G09G5/003; specific for a flat panel G09G3/2092
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/06 Adjustment of display parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/08 Arrangements within a display terminal for setting, manually or automatically, display parameters of the display terminal
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration

Abstract

A level adjust display apparatus and method for an OSD menu in an image display device in which various function control targets of the image display device are displayed on a screen in the form of various OSD menus, and the direction that the plurality of various function control targets are adjusted and the moving direction of a level meter of the OSD menus respectively corresponding to the plurality of function control targets correspond to each other, so that a user can easily control the function control targets. A level adjust display apparatus for on-screen display menu in an image display device in which function control targets are displayed on a screen as an OSD menu, including: a key input unit including a level adjust button unit for selecting a function control target and adjusting a level of the selected function control target; an OSD menu generation unit for displaying the OSD menu including level display patterns indicating the direction of the level change of the function control target; and a control unit for control in a manner that disposition direction of the level adjust button, direction of the level display patterns and the direction in which the function control targets are adjusted correspond altogether.

Claims

1. A level adjust display apparatus for on-screen display menu in an image display device in which function control targets are displayed on a screen as an OSD menu, comprising:

a key input unit including a level adjust button unit for selecting a function control target and adjusting a level of the selected function control target;

an OSD menu generation unit for displaying the OSD menu including level display patterns indicating the direction of the level change of the function control target; and

a control unit for control in a manner that disposition direction of the level adjust button, direction of the level display patterns and the direction in which the function control targets are adjusted correspond altogether.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the level adjust button unit includes a horizontal adjust button for adjusting the function control targets in a horizontal direction and a vertical adjust button for adjusting the function control targets in a vertical direction.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the level display pattern includes a horizontal level display pattern for displaying variation of the function control target in the horizontal direction, and a vertical level display pattern for displaying variation of the function control targets in the vertical direction.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein while a function control target is being adjusted, the corresponding level display pattern is highlighted or blinking.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the level display patterns face away to each other in case that the level of the function control target is increased, while the level display patterns face to each other in case that the level of the function control target is decreased.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the level display patterns are positioned at the center of the screen of the OSD menu, around which at least one of characters, abstract characters, numbers, figures and signs is displayed as a fixed display indicator.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the fixed display indicator and the level display pattern are displayed in the same color to each other, or displayed in different colors to each other.

8. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein a display indicator, among the fixed display indicators, corresponding a function control target selected by a user is displayed by one of color, brightness, pattern and translucent shadow that is different from other display indicators.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the color, brightness, pattern, translucent shadow of the level display pattern is adjustable.

10. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the key input unit includes a control panel, a remote controller or a key board for personal computer.

11. A method for displaying an OSD menu on a screen in an image display device, comprising:

receiving a command signal for controlling a function control target as a level adjust button is operated to adjust a selected function control target;

discriminating the command signal and outputting a control signal and a control data according to the discrimination result; and

displaying an OSD menu including a level display pattern that displays a level variation direction of the function control target according to the control signal and the control data, on a screen,

wherein disposition direction of the level adjust button, direction of the level display patterns and the direction in which the function control targets are adjusted correspond altogether.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the level display pattern includes a horizontal level display pattern for displaying variation of the function control target in the horizontal direction, and a vertical level display pattern for displaying variation of the function control targets in the vertical direction.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein while a function control target is being adjusted, the corresponding level display pattern is highlighted or blinking.

14. The method according to claim 11, wherein the level display patterns face away to each other in case that the level of the function control target is increased, while the level display patterns face to each other in case that the level of the function control target is decreased.

15. The method according to claim 11, wherein the level display patterns are positioned at the center of the screen of the OSD menu, around which at least one of characters, abstract characters, numbers, figures and signs is displayed as a fixed display indicator.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the fixed display indicator and the level display pattern are displayed in the same color to each other, or displayed in different colors to each other.

17. The method according to claim 15, wherein a display indicator, among the fixed display indicators, corresponding a function control target selected by a user is displayed by one of color, brightness, pattern and translucent shadow that is different from other display indicators.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the color, brightness, pattern, translucent shadow of the level display pattern is adjustable.

19. A method for displaying an OSD menu on a screen in an image display device, comprising:

displaying an OSD menu including level display patterns on a screen when a set/completion button of a level adjust button unit is pressed;

selecting a function control target by pressing the level adjust button;

adjusting the selected function control target by pressing the level adjusting button; and

corresponding all of a disposition direction of the level adjust button, direction of the level display patterns and the direction in which the function control targets are adjusted.

20. The method according to claim 19, wherein the level display pattern includes a horizontal level display pattern for displaying variation of the function control target in the horizontal direction, and a vertical level display pattern for displaying variation of the function control targets in the vertical direction.

21. The method according to claim 19, wherein while a function control target is being adjusted, the corresponding level display pattern is highlighted or blinking.

22. The method according to claim 19, wherein the level display patterns face away to each other in case that the level of the function control target is increased, while the level display patterns face to each other in case that the level of the function control target is decreased.

23. The method according to claim 19, wherein the level display patterns are positioned at the center of the screen of the OSD menu, around which at least one of characters, abstract characters, numbers, figures and signs is displayed as a fixed display indicator.

24. The method according to claim 23, wherein the fixed display indicator and the level display pattern are displayed in the same color to each other, or displayed in different colors to each other.

25. The method according to claim 23, wherein a display indicator, among the fixed display indicators, corresponding a function control target selected by a user is displayed by one of color, brightness, pattern and translucent shadow that is different from other display indicators.

26. The method according to claim 25, wherein the color, brightness, pattern, translucent shadow of the level display pattern is adjustable.