Display apparatus and method for controlling the display apparatus

• US 8,856,832 B2
• Filed: 02/17/2011
• Issued: 10/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Jeong, Young Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): CHEN, CAI Y
• Application Number:
  US13/029,278
• Publication Number:
  US 20120090004A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,328 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 725/43
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/30 Monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/324 Display of status information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/00 Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units program control for peripheral devices G06F13/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895

Abstract

A multifunctional display device includes a processor to control simultaneously display of visual information and monitoring information on a same screen. The monitoring information provides an indication of status of one or more applications executed at a same time the visual information is displayed, and the visual information corresponds to one of content provider, broadcast signal, or website information.

Claims

1. A television for displaying a detailed information window, comprising:

a tuner to receive a broadcast signal having audio and video data;

a video decoder to decode the video data included in the broadcast signal;

a display module to output the decoded video data;

a network interface to receive a signal for at least one application through a network, wherein the at least one application to help a user to perform a specific task;

a runtime module to collect status information on each of the received at least one application, wherein the status information is calculated based on both the television'"'"'s ability and the application'"'"'s capacity;

a user interface to receive a command signal for requesting a detailed information window;

an on-screen display (OSD) generator to generate graphic data indicating the detailed information window based on the collected status information, wherein the window lists at least one option corresponding to the at least one application; and

a controller configured to control the display module to display monitoring services including the graphic data generated by the OSD generator in a first zone, to display a black screen in a second zone, and to stop execution of an application running in the background after a specific application within the first zone is selected.

2. The television of claim 1, wherein the status information corresponds to a condition of a storage device during execution of the multiple applications.

3. The television of claim 2, wherein the condition of the storage device includes a remaining storage capacity of the storage device.

4. The television of claim 1, wherein the television corresponds to at least one Hybrid Broadcast Broadband Television (HBBTV).

5. The television of claim 4, wherein the display module displays warning information on using history of paid applications regardless of receiving the command signal while outputting the decoded video data, wherein the warning information is superimposed over the video data on the display module.

6. The television of claim 5, wherein the warning information has either variable color graphic data or transparency graphic data depending on the using history of paid applications.

7. The television of claim 3, wherein the display module displays a warning information on the remaining memory capacity of the storage device regardless of receiving the command signal while outputting the decoded video data, wherein the warning information is superimposed over the video data on the display module.

8. The television of claim 7, wherein the warning information has either variable graphic data or transparency graphic data depending on the remaining memory capacity of the storage device.