Display apparatus and controlling methods thereof

• US 8,866,892 B2
• Filed: 12/31/2012
• Issued: 10/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Bong-yeon, Ko, Chang-seog
• Primary Examiner(s): Rao, Andy S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): ELAHI, SHAN E
• Application Number:
  US13/731,706
• Publication Number:
  US 20130169772A1
• Time in Patent Office: 659 Days
• Field of Search: 348/56
• US Class Current: 348/56
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/332 Displays for viewing with the aid of special glasses or head-mounted displays [HMD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/341 using temporal multiplexing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/398 Synchronisation thereof; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2013/403 the images being monoscopic
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2013/405 the images being stereoscopic or three dimensional

Abstract

A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display unit which outputs a plurality of content views using a plurality of image frames; an interface unit which is connected with a glasses apparatus according to a predetermined communication standard; a synchronization signal generator which generates a synchronization signal that synchronizes one of the plurality of content views with the glasses apparatus; and a controller which, when a glasses apparatus is connected, controls the display apparatus to synchronize the one of the plurality of content views with the glasses.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a display unit which outputs a first content view corresponding to a first content and a second content view corresponding to a second content, simultaneously or alternately;

an interface which is connected with a glasses apparatus according to a predetermined communication standard;

a synchronization signal generator which generates a synchronization signal that synchronizes one of the first content view and the second content view with the glasses apparatus; and

a controller which controls the display apparatus to preferentially synchronize a glasses apparatus with a content view not synchronized with another glasses apparatus from among a plurality of content views comprising the first content view and the second content view, when the glasses apparatus is connected to the interface.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a receiver which receives a plurality of contents; and

a signal processor which processes each of the plurality of contents and forms a plurality of image frames.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller controls the display apparatus to display an object which indicates that a content view is not synchronized with any glasses apparatus to the glasses apparatus, when it is determined that there exists a content view not synchronized with a glasses apparatus from among the plurality of content views.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of content views comprise a main content view and at least one sub content view, and

the controller controls the display apparatus to synchronize the glasses apparatus with the main content view, when the glasses apparatus is connected to the interface.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the glasses apparatus is connected to the interface, the controller controls the display apparatus to sequentially synchronize the glasses apparatus with each of the plurality of content views, and

when a content view selection command is received from the glasses apparatus, controls the display apparatus to continuously synchronize the glasses apparatus with a content view, synchronized with the glasses apparatus at a point where the selection command is received, from among the plurality of content views.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein sources of the first content and the second content are different from each other.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 1, the first content is a first broadcast channel signal and, the second content is one of a second broadcast channel signal and an external image signal.

8. A controlling method of a display apparatus, the method comprising:

outputting a first content view corresponding to a first content and a second content view corresponding to a second content, simultaneously or alternately;

generating a synchronization signal which preferentially synchronizes a glasses apparatus with a content view not synchronized with any glasses apparatus from among a plurality of content views comprising the first content view and the second content view, when the glasses apparatus is connected to the display apparatus; and

transmitting the synchronization signal to the glasses apparatus.

9. The controlling method according to claim 8, further comprising:

receiving a plurality of contents; and

processing each of the plurality of contents and forming a plurality of image frames.

10. The controlling method according to claim 8, further comprising displaying an object which indicates that a content view is not synchronized with any glasses apparatus to the glasses apparatus, when it is determined that there exists a content view not synchronized with a glasses apparatus of among the plurality of content views.

11. The controlling method according to claim 8, wherein the plurality of content views comprise a main content view and at least one sub content view, and the generating a synchronization signal generates a synchronization signal which synchronizes the glasses apparatus with the main content view, when the glasses apparatus is connected to the display apparatus.

12. The controlling method according to claim 8, wherein the generating the synchronization signal further comprises:

when the glasses apparatus is connected to the interface, sequentially synchronizing the glasses apparatus with each of the plurality of content views, and

when a content view selection command is received from the glasses apparatus, continuously synchronizing the glasses apparatus with a content view, synchronized at a point where the selection command is received, from among the plurality of content views.

13. A display apparatus comprising:

an interface which sends and receives information with a glasses apparatus according to a predetermined communication standard;

a synchronization signal generator which generates a synchronization signal that preferentially synchronizes one of a first content view and a second content view with the glasses apparatus; and

a controller which controls the display apparatus to synchronize the glasses apparatus with a content view, that is not synchronized with another glasses apparatus, from among the plurality of content views comprising the first content view and the second content view.

14. The display apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the controller controls the display apparatus to sequentially synchronize each of the plurality of content views with the glasses apparatus, and

when a content view selection command is received from the glasses apparatus while the glasses apparatus is synchronized with one of the plurality of content views, controls the display apparatus to continuously synchronize the one of the plurality of content views with the glasses apparatus.

15. A controlling method of a display apparatus, the method comprising:

connecting a glasses apparatus to the display apparatus;

generating a synchronization signal which preferentially synchronizes the glasses apparatus with a content view, that is not synchronized with another glasses apparatus, from among a plurality of content views comprising a first content view and a second content view; and

transmitting the synchronization signal to the glasses apparatus.

16. The controlling method according to claim 15, wherein the generating the synchronization signal comprises:

sequentially synchronizing each of the plurality of content views with the glasses apparatus, and

when a content view selection command is received from the glasses apparatus while the glasses apparatus is synchronized with one of the plurality of content views, continuously synchronizing the one of the plurality of content views with the glasses apparatus.