Digital television and method of providing graphical user interface using the same

• US 8,938,687 B2
• Filed: 12/07/2009
• Issued: 01/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Bak, Su Re, Lee, Kun Sik, Ahn, Eun Seon, Son, Jung Hoon, Lee, Byung Hun
• Primary Examiner(s): TILLERY, RASHAWN N
• Application Number:
  US12/631,890
• Publication Number:
  US 20100169807A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,870 Days
• Field of Search: 715/782, 715/781, 715/810, 715/764, 715/835, 715/836
• US Class Current: 715/782
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42222 Additional components integrated in the remote control device, e.g. timer, speaker, sensors for detecting position, direction or movement of the remote control, microphone or battery charging device
• 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 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• 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 21/488 Data services, e.g. news ticker systems specially adapted for using meteorological information in broadcast systems H04H60/71

Abstract

A digital television (DTV) and a method of providing a GUI using the DTV are disclosed. The method of providing a GUI in a DTV comprises: first displaying an image on a display unit provided on the DTV; receiving a display command of a first GUI; and second displaying the image and the first GUI such that a different spatial depth is formed between the image and the first GUI according to the received display command.

Claims

1. A method of providing a graphical user interface (GUI) in a digital television (DTV), the method comprising:

displaying, on a display unit, an image included in a broadcasting signal;

receiving a display command;

based on the received display command;

dividing a display depth of the display unit into a plurality of spatial depths;

changing a size of the image included in the broadcasting signal such that the image included in the broadcasting signal is displayed at a first spatial depth among the plurality of spatial depths, and

displaying a first GUI at a second spatial depth among the plurality of spatial depths, the second spatial depth being different from the first spatial depth, wherein,

the first GUI is displayed in a tilting manner such that a spatial depth corresponding to one side of the first GUI is equal to the first spatial depth and a spatial depth corresponding to the other side of the first GUI is not equal to the first spatial depth.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein changing the size of the image included in the broadcasting signal such that the image included in the broadcasting signal is displayed at a first spatial depth among the plurality of spatial depths comprises:

reducing the size of the image included in the broadcasting signal such that the first spatial depth corresponding to the image included in the broadcasting signal is deeper than the second spatial depth corresponding to the first GUI.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein reducing the size of the image included in the broadcasting signal comprises:

visually providing the process in which the size of the image included in the broadcasting signal is reduced.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first GUI comprises a menu comprising at least one item.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first GUI is 3D (dimensional) image.

6. A digital television (DTV) comprising:

a display unit configured to display an image included in a broadcasting signal;

a memory configured to store one or more GUIs; and

a controller configured to;

receive a display command;

based on the received display command;

divide a display depth of the display unit into a plurality of spatial depths;

change a size of the image included in the broadcasting signal such that the image included in the broadcasting signal is displayed at a first spatial depth among the plurality of spatial depths, and

display a first GUI at a second spatial depth among the plurality of spatial depths, the second spatial depth being different from than the first spatial depth, wherein,

the first GUI is displayed in a tilting manner such that a spatial depth corresponding to one side of the first GUI is equal to the first spatial depth and a spatial depth corresponding to the other side of the first GUI is not equal to the first spatial depth.

7. The digital television of claim 6, further comprising:

a broadcast receiving unit configured to receive a broadcast signal, wherein the image is received via the broadcast receiving unit.

8. The digital television of claim 6, wherein the controller changes the size of the image included in the broadcasting signal such that the image included in the broadcasting signal is displayed at the first spatial depth among the plurality of spatial depths by reducing the size of the image included in the broadcasting signal such that the first spatial depth corresponding to the image included in the broadcasting signal is deeper than the second spatial depth corresponding to the first GUI.

9. The digital television of claim 8, wherein the controller visually provides the process in which the size of the image included in the broadcasting signal is reduced.

10. The digital television of claim 6, wherein the first GUI comprises a menu comprising at least one item.

11. The digital television of claim 6, wherein the first GUI is 3D (dimensional) image.