Video display device and video display method

• US 8,826,333 B2
• Filed: 12/26/2011
• Issued: 09/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Fujimoto, Takaomi
• Primary Examiner(s): MENGESHA, MULUGETA A
• Application Number:
  US13/976,508
• Publication Number:
  US 20130276030A1
• Time in Patent Office: 981 Days
• Field of Search: 725 38- 40, 725/43, 725/52, 725/100, 725/131, 725/139, 725/151, 348/734
• US Class Current: 725/39
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42213 for facilitating data entry
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72

Abstract

Provided are a video display device and a video display method, by which a user can easily select a program to be watched even if a numerical keypad is not provided in a remote control device. A display portion displays a video of a program. While the video of the program is displayed on the full screen of the display portion, an operation detection portion detects a rotational operation of a dial provided in a remote control device. When the rotational operation is detected by the operation detection portion, a control portion functions so that while the video of the program is displayed on the display portion, a program list including a plurality of program items associated with different programs is displayed on the display portion.

Claims

1. A video display device for displaying a video of a program which is selected using a remote control device which does not have a channel selection button corresponding to each channel, comprising:

a display portion for displaying the video of the program;

an operation detection portion for detecting a rotational operation of a jog dial provided in the remote control device; and

a control portion for causing the display portion to display a program list including a plurality of program items associated with different programs while causing the display portion to display the video of the program when the rotational operation is detected by the operation detection portion while the video of the program is displayed on a full screen of the display portion, wherein

the control portion causes the display portion to display a video of a program which is selected using the program list by the rotational operation of the jog dial, and a program item included in the program list is a program item of some of programs for which the video is receivable, the control portion causes the display portion to display a program search figure in which the some of programs and programs other than the some of programs are associated in different positions, and causes the display portion to display, when a program is searched using the program search figure, a program list including the program which is searched.

2. The video display device as defined in claim 1, wherein

the control portion causes the display portion to display the program search figure when the total number of the some of programs and the programs other than the some of programs is the predetermined number or more.

3. The video display device as defined in claim 1, wherein

the control portion causes the display portion to display the program search figure when the operation detection portion detects that the rotational operation is performed for a predetermined time or more.

4. The video display device as defined in claim 1, wherein

the control portion causes the display portion to display the program search figure together with the video of the program and the program list.

5. A video display device for displaying a video of a program, comprising:

a display portion for displaying the video of the program;

an operation detection portion for detecting a rotational operation of a jog dial provided in a remote control device; and

a control portion for causing the display portion to display a program list including a plurality of program items associated with different programs while causing the display portion to display the video of the program when the rotational operation is detected by the operation detection portion while the video of the program is displayed on a full screen of the display portion, wherein

a program item included in the program list is a program item of some of programs for which the video is receivable, the control portion causes the display portion to display a program search figure in which the some of programs and programs other than the some of programs are associated in different positions, and causes the display portion to display, when a program is searched using the program search figure, a program list including the program which is searched.

6. The video display device as defined in claim 5, wherein

the control portion causes the display portion to display a video of a program selected using the program list by the rotational operation of the jog dial.

7. The video display device as defined in claim 5, wherein

the control portion causes the display portion to display a program item corresponding to the program selected by the rotational operation of the jog dial in the program list, in a display form which is different from that of a program item corresponding to other programs.

8. The video display device as defined in claim 5, wherein

the control portion causes the display portion to display, a video of the program which is selected, when a predetermined button of the remote control device is pressed in a state where one program is selected by the rotational operation of the jog dial.

9. The video display device as defined in claim 5, wherein

the control portion causes the display portion to display, a video of the program which is selected, in a case where a predetermined time elapsed in a state where one program is selected by the rotational operation of the jog dial.

10. The video display device as defined in claim 5, wherein

the operational detection portion further detects an operation of pressing either of the right side or the left side of the jog dial, and the control portion causes the display portion to display, a program list for a broadcast wave type which is different from a broadcast wave type corresponding to the program list displayed on the display portion, when either of the right side or the left side of the jog dial is pressed in a state where the program list is displayed on the display portion.

11. The video display device as defined in claim 10, wherein

the control portion causes the display portion to display, at right and left positions of the program list, broadcast wave switching information indicating the broadcast wave type which is different from the broadcast wave type corresponding to the program list displayed on the display portion.

12. The video display device as defined in claim 5, further comprising:

a first tuner portion for selecting a first channel; and

a second tuner portion for selecting a second channel, wherein

the second tuner portion selects the second channel while the program list is displayed on the display portion and a program corresponding to the first channel selected by the first tuner portion is displayed on the display portion, and the control portion causes the display portion to display, a video of the program corresponding to the second channel when a program corresponding to the second channel is selected by the rotational operation of the jog dial.

13. The video display device as defined in claim 5, further comprising:

a first tuner portion for selecting a first channel; and

a second tuner portion for selecting a second channel, wherein

the second tuner portion selects the second channel while the program list is displayed on the display portion and a program corresponding to the first channel selected by the first tuner portion is displayed on the display portion, and the control portion extracts a still image from a video of a program of the second channel selected by the second tuner portion and causes the display portion to display the still image when a program corresponding to the second channel is selected by the rotational operation of the jog dial.

14. The video display device as defined in claim 5, wherein

the operation detection portion detects rotational speed of the jog dial, and the control portion changes the number of the program items to be displayed on the display portion according to the rotational speed detected by the operation detection portion.

15. The video display device as defined in claim 5, wherein

the operation detection portion adjusts an output value of a rotational amount of the jog dial according to information on an operator'"'"'s ability for operation of the remote control device and detects the rotational operation based on the adjusted output value.

16. The video display device as defined in claim 5, wherein

the operation detection portion adjusts the output value of the rotational amount of the jog dial according to a form and/or size of the remote control device, and detects the rotational operation based on the adjusted output value.

17. A video display method of displaying a video of a program, comprising:

an operation detection step of detecting a rotational operation of a jog dial provided in a remote control device; and

a program list display step of causing the display portion to display a program list including a plurality of program items associated with different programs while causing the display portion to display the video of the program when the rotational operation is detected while the video of the program is displayed on a full screen of the display portion for displaying the video of the program at the operation detection step, wherein

a program item included in the program list is a program item of some of programs for which the video is receivable, and at the program list display step, a program search figure in which the some of programs and programs other than the some of programs are associated in different positions is displayed on the display portion, and when a program is searched using the program search figure, a program list including the program which is searched is displayed on the display portion.