Display apparatus and displaying method of contents

• US 9,009,141 B2
• Filed: 05/18/2011
• Issued: 04/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Phang, Joon-ho, Kim, Dae-hyun, Yoon, Yeo-ri, Lee, Chang-soo, Lee, Sang-hee
• Primary Examiner(s): Ruiz, Angelica
• Application Number:
  US13/110,145
• Publication Number:
  US 20120059818A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,427 Days
• US Class Current: 707/722
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/587 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location

Abstract

A display apparatus and a displaying method of contents, the display apparatus including a content output unit which outputs contents, a display unit which displays predetermined space information, a user interface (UI) generating unit which generates UI information, a user input unit, and a control unit which classifies the contents into a group which corresponds to a position on the displayed predetermined space information based on predetermined position information of the contents in response to a request to search for contents, being input through the user input unit, controls the UI generating unit to generate a first UI indicating the group, and controls the display unit to display the generated first UI at the corresponding position of the group on the displayed predetermined space information.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a content output unit which outputs contents having position information on a map corresponding to geographical information;

a display unit which displays an image that indicates geographical space information;

a user interface (UI) generating unit which generates at least one first UI corresponding to a partitioned area of the image;

a user input unit; and

a control unit,

wherein the control unit, using a processor, partitions a portion of the image into the partitioned area and classifies the contents into a group that corresponds to the partitioned area in response to a request to search for contents, being input through the user input unit,

wherein the control unit, using a processor, controls the UI generating unit to generate the at least one first UI indicating the content of the group,

wherein the control unit, using a processor, controls the display unit to display the generated at least one first UI on the displayed image at a position of the image corresponding to the position information of the content of the group,

wherein the control unit classifies the contents into the group which is of a predetermined number of groups wherein each of the predetermined number of groups corresponds to one of a plurality of partitioned areas of the image, and

wherein, in response to the group being selected through the user input unit, the control unit controls the display unit to zoom in on the displayed image to display a particular image which corresponds to the selected group, and classifies contents belonging to the selected group into one or more sub groups using at least one of time information and position information of the contents.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit controls the UI generating unit to generate one or more second UIs indicating the one or more sub groups respectively, and

wherein the control unit controls the display unit to display the generated one or more second UIs at positions corresponding to the one or more sub groups on the zoomed-in particular image.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit controls the display unit to display UIs indicating remaining groups, which are not selected through the user input unit, on the zoomed-in particular image.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the control unit controls the display unit to display the UIs indicating the remaining groups at positions which maintain a relative positional relation with the first UI indicating the selected group.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the first UI, the one or more second UIs, and the UIs indicating the remaining groups comprise at least one of icons symbolizing the groups, the number of contents included in the groups, the kind of contents, and thumbnail images of the contents.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the image is zoomed in step by step at a plurality of levels, and

wherein the control unit zooms in on the particular image, with at least one of the plurality of levels skipped, based on the position information of the contents belonging to the selected group.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the image is zoomed in or out step by step at a plurality of levels, and

wherein the control unit zooms in or out on the image, with at least one of the plurality of levels skipped, based on the position information of the contents belonging to the group.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in response to a request to search for contents based on time information being input through the user input unit, the control unit again classifies the contents, which are classified into the group based on the position information, into one or more other groups based on predetermined time information.

9. A contents displaying method of a display apparatus, comprising:

partitioning, using a processor, an image that indicates geographical space information into a plurality of partitioned areas;

classifying, using the processor, contents having position information on a map corresponding to geographical information into a group that corresponds to at least one area of the plurality of partitioned areas in response to a request to search for contents being input;

generating at least one first user interface (UI) indicating the content of the group, wherein the at least one first UI corresponds to the at least one area of the image;

displaying the generated at least one first UI on the image that indicates geographical space information, at a position on the image corresponding to the position information of the content of the group,

wherein the classifying comprises classifying the contents into the group which is of a predetermined number of groups, wherein each of the predetermined number of groups corresponds to one of the plurality of partitioned areas of the image;

zooming in on the displayed image so as to display a particular image, which corresponds to the selected group, in response to the group being selected through a user input unit; and

classifying contents belonging to the selected group into one or more sub groups using at least one of time information and position information of the contents.

10. The contents displaying method according to claim 9, further comprising:

generating one or more second UIs indicating the one or more sub groups respectively; and

displaying the generated one or more second UIs at positions corresponding to the one or more sub groups on the zoomed-in particular image.

11. The contents displaying method according to claim 9, further comprising displaying UIs indicating remaining groups, which are not selected through the user input unit, on the zoomed in particular image.

12. The contents displaying method according to claim 11, wherein the displaying comprises displaying the UIs indicating the remaining groups at positions which maintain a relative positional relation with the first UI indicating the selected group.

13. The contents displaying method according to claim 12, wherein the first UI, the one or more second UIs, and the UIs indicating the remaining groups include at least one of icons symbolizing the groups, the number of contents included in the groups, the kind of contents and thumbnail images of the contents.

14. The contents displaying method according to claim 9,

wherein the image is zoomed in step by step at a plurality of levels, and

wherein the displaying comprises zooming in on the particular image, with at least one of the plurality of levels skipped, based on the position information of the contents belonging to the selected group.

15. The contents displaying method according to claim 9,

wherein the image is zoomed in or out step by step at a plurality of levels, the method further comprising zooming in or out on the image, with at least one of the plurality of levels skipped, based on the position information of the contents belonging to the group.

16. The contents displaying method according to claim 9, wherein the classifying comprises, in response to a request to search for contents based on time information being input, again classifying the contents, which are classified into the group based on the position information, into one or more other groups based on predetermined time information.

17. A display apparatus comprising:

a display unit which is configured to display an image;

at least one processors in the apparatus which is operable to partition a portion of the image into the partitioned area, to classify the contents into a group that corresponds to the partitioned area in response to a request to search for contents, being input through the user input unit, to generate the at least one first UI indicating the content of the group, to display the generated at least one first UI on the displayed image at a position of the image corresponding to the position information of the content of the group, to classify the contents into the group which is of a predetermined number of groups wherein each of the predetermined number of groups corresponds to one of a plurality of partitioned areas of the image,

wherein, in response to the group being selected by a user, the processor is operable to zoom in on the displayed image to display a particular image which corresponds to the selected group, and to classify contents belonging to the selected group into one or more sub groups using at least one of time information and position information of the contents.

18. The display apparatus according to claim 17,

wherein the processor includes a user interface (UI) generating unit which generates the first UI corresponding to the partitioned area of the image,

wherein the processor is operable to control the UI generating unit to generate one or more second UIs indicating the one or more sub groups respectively, and to control the display unit to display the generated one or more second UIs at positions corresponding to the one or more sub groups on the zoomed-in particular image.

19. The display apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the processor is operable to control the display unit to display UIs indicating remaining groups, which are not selected through the user input unit, on the zoomed-in particular image.

20. The display apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the processor is operable to control the display unit to display the UIs indicating the remaining groups at positions which maintain a relative positional relation with the first UI indicating the selected group.

21. The display apparatus according to claim 20, wherein the first UI, the one or more second UIs, and the UIs indicating the remaining groups comprise at least one of icons symbolizing the groups, the number of contents included in the groups, the kind of contents, and thumbnail images of the contents.

22. The display apparatus according to claim 17,

wherein the image is zoomed in step by step at a plurality of levels, and

wherein the processor is operable to zoom in on the particular image, with at least one of the plurality of levels skipped, based on the position information of the contents belonging to the selected group.

23. The display apparatus according to claim 17,

wherein the image is zoomed in or out step by step at a plurality of levels, and

wherein the processor is operable to zoom in or out on the image, with at least one of the plurality of levels skipped, based on the position information of the contents belonging to the group.

24. The display apparatus according to claim 17, wherein, in response to a request to search for contents based on time information being input through the user input unit, the processor is operable to reclassify the contents, which are classified into the group based on the position information, into one or more other groups based on predetermined time information.