Method for controlling screen direction of a video display stand

• US 6,354,550 B2
• Filed: 01/29/2001
• Issued: 03/12/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Jeong, Seog Yeong
• Primary Examiner(s): KING, ANITA M
• Application Number:
  US09/770,447
• Publication Number:
  US 20010011696A1
• Time in Patent Office: 407 Days
• Field of Search: 248/183.3, 248/422, 248/186.2, 248/349.1, 248/346.06, 248/425, 248/131, 248/920, 248/371, 248/346.01, 248/299.1, 248/324, 748/27, 348/827, 318/640
• US Class Current: 248/299.1
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/08 around a vertical axis , e.g. panoramic heads F16M11/12 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/18 with mechanism for moving the apparatus relatively to the stand
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 2200/08 Foot or support base
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/64 Constructional details of receivers, e.g. cabinets or dust covers furniture aspects of television cabinets A47B81/06
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/1482 Single revolution input effects desired fractional output

Abstract

A video display stand having dual panning axes suitable for controlling a screen direction of appliances such as a TV set or a personal computer without bumping against a wall even in a state that it is positioned very closely to the wall, and its controlling method for automatically controlling screen directions by using a driving force, including two motors being installed having gear driving shafts at one side of either a rotational base or a rotation support member of the TV set; two movement guide toothed slots each being formed along a circular arc centering a mutually opposite gear driving shaft with a predetermined width and depth, at the opposite side corresponding to the position of each motor, and having a gear portion to be engaged with the gear driving shaft at one side of each wall; and a controller for controlling driving of the motors.

Claims

1. A method for controlling screen direction of the video display stand having dual panning axes for which two motors are selectively driven in a normal direction (clockwise) and in a reverse direction according to a key operation by a user so that a TV set can be turned in the rightward direction or in the leftward direction centering driving shafts of each motor, comprising the steps of:

judging whether the key input by the user is a left turn command or right turn command, and the current screen direction of the TV set;

driving a motor positioned at the opposite side to the key input command, of the two motors, in the normal direction or in the reverse rotation direction until the key input is released, in case that the current TV set is directed to the front side or is placed in the same direction as the judged turn command; and

rotating a motor positioned at the side corresponding to the key input command, of the two motors, in the normal direction or in the reverse direction until the key input is released, in case that the TV set is placed in a different direction to the judged turn command.

2. The method according to claim 1, further includes a step for stopping the rotation of the motor positioned at the side corresponding to the key input and then rotating the other motor in the same rotation direction as that of the corresponding motor until the key input is released, in case that the key input has not released yet even when the current TV set is already directed to the front side.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein in the step of judging whether the key input is right turn command or left turn command, and the screen direction of the TV set,

in case that the key input is a left turn command, when the TV set is directed to the same side as the judged command or to the front side, the right side motor is driven in the normal direction until the left turn command is released, while when the TV set is directed to the different side to the judged turn command, the left side motor is driven in the normal direction until the left turn command is released;

in case that the key input is a right turn command, when the TV set is directed to the same side as the judged command or to the front side, the left side motor is driven in the reverse direction until the right turn command is released, while when the TV set is directed to the different side to the judged turn command, the right side motor is driven in the reverse direction until the right turn command is released.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein when the TV set is directed to the different side to the judged turn command, in case that the left turn command or right turn command is being kept even when the TV set is already turned to be directed to the front side after either the left side motor was driven in the normal direction or the right side motor was driven in the reverse direction, the driving of the motor corresponding to the command is stopped and then the other motor is driven in the same direction as that of the corresponding motor until the turning command is released.

5. The method according to claim 1, further includes a step for judging whether the key input is a power disconnection command besides the turn commands, according to which when it is the power disconnection command and the TV set is directed to the left side or to the right side, a normal position mode is performed to enable the two motors to be selectively driven so as to turn the TV set to be directed to the front side, and then the power is turned off.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the normal position mode is performed in that when the TV set is directed to the left side, the right side motor is driven in the reverse direction, while the TV set is directed to the right side, the left side motor is driven in the normal direction.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein two switches are provided in the step for judging the current screen direction of the TV set by combining touch signals of the two switches in a manner that the switches are touched with both the two motors when the TV set is directed to the front side, while being touched by only one motor of them when the TV set is directed to the right or left side.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the switches are touched only by the left side motor when the TV set is directed to the left side, while they are touched only to the right side motor when the TV set is directed to the right side.