Video signal receiving apparatus, display device, display system, and information updating method of display system

• US 8,214,865 B2
• Filed: 07/02/2007
• Issued: 07/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Chang-jin
• Primary Examiner(s): Kincaid, Kristine
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chowdhury, Sumaiya A
• Application Number:
  US11/772,260
• Publication Number:
  US 20080092165A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,828 Days
• Field of Search: 725/81, 725/29, 725/78, 725/85, 725/139, 345 11- 21, 345/3.4, 348/706, 348/734, 710/8
• US Class Current: 725/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/431 Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44231 Monitoring of peripheral device or external card, e.g. to detect processing problems in a handheld device or the failure of an external recording device configuring of peripheral devices in general G06F9/4411; reporting information sensed by appliance or service execution status of appliance services in a home automation network H04L12/2823; monitoring the status of connected device in data switched networks H04L43/0817
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4753 for user identification, e.g. by entering a PIN or password cryptographic authentication protocols H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

A video signal receiving apparatus, includes: a plurality of receiving parts which receive a video signal; a plurality of communicating parts which transmit the video signal to a plurality of external display devices, and transmit and receive control data for changing a display property of the video signal and a setting of the display devices to and from the external display devices; and a control part which controls the communicating parts to transmit the video signal received by the receiving part to the external display devices, and to receive the control data and to transmit a signal which controls the corresponding display devices if the control data is input from the external display devices.

Claims

1. A video signal receiving apparatus comprising:

a plurality of receiving parts which receive a video signal;

a plurality of communicating parts each of which corresponds to a unique external display device, and each of which separately transmits the video signal to each of the plurality of unique external display devices, and transmits and receives control data for changing a display property of the video signal and a setting of the display devices to and from the external display devices; and

a control part which controls the communicating parts to transmit the video signal received by the receiving parts to the external display devices, and to receive the control data and to transmit a signal which controls corresponding display devices if the control data is input from the external display devices,

wherein the control data is received from a first external display device of the plurality of external display devices to control a setting or display property of the video signal of a second external display device of the plurality of external display devices.

2. The video signal receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the communicating parts transmit and receive the control data via a wireless local area network.

3. The video signal receiving apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display part;

a user interface generating part which generates a user interface for input of the control data and a display of a state of the display part; and

a video processing part which performs a video process to the user interface generated by the user interface generating part,

wherein the control part controls the video processing part so that the control data can be input through the user interface.

4. The video signal receiving apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an indicating part,

wherein the control part controls the indicating part to indicate a permission for view according to a view rate, and

the display property of the video signal is the view rate.

5. The video receiving apparatus of claim 1, wherein the changing the display property of the video signal and the setting of the display devices is done via a user interface displayed on at least one of the plurality of external devices.

6. The video signal receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first external display device transmits to the video signal receiving apparatus information about the second external display device of which the setting or the display property of the video signal is controlled based on the control data.

7. A display device comprising:

a display part;

a communicating part which receives a video signal from a video signal receiving apparatus, and transmits and receives control data for changing a display property of the video signal and a setting of the display part to and from the video signal receiving apparatus;

a video processing part which performs a video process on the received video signal to output video in the display part; and

a control part which controls the communicating part and the video processing part to transmit the input control data to the video signal receiving apparatus if the control data is input, and to perform a video process depending on the control data if the control data input from an external display device is received from the video signal receiving apparatus,

wherein the control data is received from a first external display device of a plurality of external display devices to control a setting or display property of the video signal of a second external display device of the plurality of external display devices.

8. The display device according to claim 7, wherein the communicating part transmit and receive the control data via a wireless local area network.

9. The display device according to claim 7, further comprising a user input part,

wherein the control part controls the user input part to receive the control data.

10. The display device according to claim 9, further comprising a user interface generating part which generates a user interface for an input of the control data,

wherein the control part enables the control data to be input through the user interface.

11. The display device according to claim 9, wherein the control part enables an input of the control data according to information of an identifier and a password through the user input part.

12. The display device according to claim 7, further comprising an indicating part,

wherein the control part controls the indicating part to indicate a permission for view according to a view rate, and

the display property of the video signal is the view rate.

13. The display device according to claim 7, wherein the first external display device transmits to the video signal receiving apparatus information about the second external display device of which the setting or the display property of the video signal is controlled based on the control data.

14. A display system comprising a video signal receiving apparatus and a plurality of display devices,

wherein the video signal receiving apparatus comprises:

a plurality of receiving parts which receive a video signal;

a plurality of first communicating parts which transmit the video signal to the display devices, and transmit and receive control data for changing a display property of the video signal and a setting of the display devices to and from the display devices; and

a first control part which controls the first communicating parts to transmit the video signal received by the receiving parts to the display devices, and to receive the control data and to transmit a signal which controls corresponding display devices if the control data is input from the display devices, and

wherein each of the display devices comprises;

a display part;

a second communicating part which receives the video signal from the video signal receiving apparatus, and transmits and receives the control data for changing the display property of the video signal and a setting of the display part to and from the video signal receiving apparatus;

a video processing part which performs a video process on the received video signal to output video in the display part; and

a second control part which controls the second communicating part and the video processing part to transmit the input control data to the video signal receiving apparatus if the control data is input, and to perform a video process depending on the control data if the control data input from an external display device is received from the video signal receiving apparatus,

wherein the control data is received from a first external display device of a plurality of external display devices to control a setting or display property of the video signal of a second external display device of the plurality of external display devices.

15. The display system according to claim 14, wherein the first external display device transmits to the video signal receiving apparatus information about the second external display device of which the setting or the display property of the video signal is controlled based on the control data.

16. A display system comprising:

a video signal receiving apparatus; and

a plurality of display devices,

wherein the video signal receiving apparatus comprises;

a plurality of receiving parts which receive a video signal;

a plurality of first communicating parts which transmit the video signal to the display devices, and transmit and receive control data for changing a display property of the video signal and a setting of the display devices to and from the display devices;

a first control part which controls the first communicating parts to transmit the video signal received by the receiving parts to the display devices, and to receive the control data and to transmit a signal which controls corresponding display devices if the control data is input from the display devices; and

a first indicating part, wherein the first control part controls the first indicating part to indicate a first permission for view according to a view rate, and

wherein each of the display devices comprise;

a display part;

a second communicating part which receives a video signal from the video signal receiving apparatus, and transmits and receives the control data for changing the display property of the video signal and a setting of the display part to and from the video signal receiving apparatus;

a video processing part which performs a video process on the received video signal to output video in the display part;

a second control part which controls the second communicating part and the video processing part to transmit the input control data to the video signal receiving apparatus if the control data is input, and to perform a video process depending on the control data if the control data input from an external display device is received from the video signal receiving apparatus; and

a second indicating part, wherein the second control part controls the second indicating part to indicate a second permission for view according to the view rate, and

the display property of the video signal is the view rate,

wherein the control data is received from a first external display device of a plurality of external display devices to control a setting or display property of the video signal of a second external display device of the plurality of external display devices.

17. The display system according to claim 16, wherein the first external display device transmits to the video signal receiving apparatus information about the second external display device of which the setting or the display property of the video signal is controlled based on the control data.

18. An information updating method of a display system comprising a video signal receiving apparatus, and a plurality of display devices comprising a display part;

comprising;

inputting control data to change a display property of a video signal in the display devices;

receiving the input control data from the display devices in the video signal receiving apparatus; and

transmitting the received control data to corresponding display devices from the video signal receiving apparatus,

wherein the control data is received from a first external display device of a plurality of external display devices to control a setting or display property of the video signal of a second external display device of the plurality of external display devices.

19. The information updating method of the display system according to claim 18, wherein the control data is transmitted and received via a wireless local area network.

20. The information updating method of the display system according to claim 18, wherein the inputting of the control data further comprises displaying a user interface for input of the control data,

wherein the control data is input through the user interface.

21. The information updating method of the display system according to claim 18, wherein the inputting of the control data further comprises inputting by information of a user identifier (ID) and a password,

wherein the control data is input according to the input information of the ID and password.

22. The information updating method of the display system according to claim 18, wherein the first external display device transmits to the video signal receiving apparatus information about the second external display device of which the setting or the display property of the video signal is controlled based on the control data.