Electronic chalkboard system and control method thereof and display apparatus

• US 9,075,521 B2
• Filed: 04/23/2013
• Issued: 07/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Choi, Hyun-mook
• Primary Examiner(s): PARDO, THUY N
• Application Number:
  US13/868,694
• Publication Number:
  US 20130335350A1
• Time in Patent Office: 805 Days
• Field of Search: 345/173, 345/175, 345/161, 345/167, 345/179, 345/441, 345/157, 715/773, 358/403
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04162 for exchanging data with external devices, e.g. smart pens, via the digitiser sensing hardware
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1431 using a single graphics controller
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1446 display composed of modules, e.g. video walls

Abstract

An electronic chalkboard system including a plurality of display panels, a pointing device which touches the plurality of panels, an image processor which processes an image to be displayed on one of the plurality of panels that is drawn by the pointing device, a controller which selects one of the plurality of panels based on a first panel of the plurality of panels if the first panel is touched by the pointing device, and controls the image processor to display on the selected panel a menu related to the image displayed on the first panel, and, if a second panel of the plurality of panels is touched by the pointing device while the menu is displayed on the selected panel, the controller newly selects one of the plurality of panels based on the second panel and transfers the displayed menu to the newly-selected panel.

Claims

1. An electronic chalkboard system comprising:

a plurality of display panels;

a pointing device;

an image processor configured to process an image displayed on one of the plurality of display panels that is drawn by the pointing device touching the one of the plurality of display panels;

a controller configured to, in response to a first display panel of the plurality of display panels being touched by the pointing device, select one of the plurality of display panels according to a preset condition based on the first display panel, and control the image processor to display on the selected display panel a menu related to the image displayed on the first display panel; and

wherein, in response to a second display panel of the plurality of display panels being touched by the pointing device while the menu is displayed on the selected display panel, the controller is configured to newly select one of the plurality of display panels according to the preset condition based on the second display panel and transfer the displayed menu to the newly-selected display panel.

2. The electronic chalkboard system according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to select the second display panel when selecting the one of the plurality of display panels based on the second display panel and thus display the image and the menu on the same display panel.

3. The electronic chalkboard system according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to select a third display panel that is adjacently provided to the second display panel when selecting the one of the plurality of panels based on the second display panel and thus display the image and the menu on different display panels.

4. The electronic chalkboard system according to claim 3, wherein the plurality of display panels is arranged in parallel with one another along a matrix direction, and the third display panel is provided in one of four directions of upper, lower, left and right directions of the second display panel.

5. The electronic chalkboard system according to claim 1, wherein the menu comprises at least one option for changing characteristics of the image.

6. The electronic chalkboard system according to claim 5, wherein the characteristics of the image comprises at least one of width of a line, color, style, brightness, saturation and contrast.

7. The electronic chalkboard system according to claim 1, wherein in response to the one of the plurality of display panels being touched, the pointing device is configured to calculate coordinate information of a touched location, and the image processor is configured to display the image on the one of the plurality of display panels based on the coordinate information calculated by the pointing device.

8. The electronic chalkboard system according to claim 7, further comprising a plurality of backlight units configured to generate and emit light to the plurality of display panels, wherein the plurality of backlight units is driven by different preset driving frequencies, and the pointing device comprises a first sensor configured to sense the driving frequencies of the backlight units.

9. The electronic chalkboard system according to claim 8, wherein the pointing device is configured to transmit the driving frequencies sensed by the first sensor, to the controller, and the controller is configured to identify the display panel touched by the pointing device, according to the driving frequencies transmitted by the pointing device.

10. The electronic chalkboard system according to claim 8, wherein the pointing device is configured to acquire ID information of the display panel corresponding to the driving frequency that has been sensed by the first sensor, and transmit the acquired ID information to the controller.

11. The electronic chalkboard system according to claim 7, wherein the display panel comprises a pattern layer in which different patterns are formed according to coordinates corresponding to respective pixels, and the pointing device comprises a second sensor configured to sense the pattern to calculate the coordinate information based on the pattern formed in the touched location.

12. The electronic chalkboard system according to claim 11, wherein the second sensor is configured to senses the pattern through infrared rays.

13. A display apparatus comprising:

a plurality of display panels;

an image processor configured to process an image displayed on one of the plurality of display panels that is drawn by a pointing device touching the one of the plurality of display panels;

a controller configured to, in response to a first display panel of the plurality of display panels being touched by the pointing device, select one of the plurality of display panels according to a preset condition based on the first display panel, and control the image processor to display on the selected display panel a menu related to the image displayed on the first panel,

wherein, in response to a second display panel of the plurality of panels being touched by the pointing device while the menu is displayed on the selected display panel, the controller is configured to newly select one of the plurality of display panels according to the preset condition based on the second display panel and transfer the displayed menu to the newly-selected display panel.

14. The display apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the controller is configured to select the second display panel when selecting the one of the plurality of display panels based on the second display panel and thus display the image and the menu on the same display panel.

15. The display apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the controller is configured to select a third display panel that is adjacently provided to the second display panel when selecting the one of the plurality of display panels based on the second display panel and thus display the image and the menu on different display panels.

16. The display apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the plurality of display panels is arranged in parallel with one another along a matrix direction, and the third display panel is provided in one of four directions of upper, lower, left and right directions of the second display panel.

17. The display apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the menu comprises at least one option for changing characteristics of the image.

18. The display apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the characteristics of the image comprises at least one of width of a line, color, style, brightness, saturation and contrast.

19. The display apparatus according to claim 13, wherein in response to the one of the plurality of display panels being touched, the pointing device is configured to calculate coordinate information of a touched location, and the image processor is configured to display the image on the one of the plurality of display panels based on the coordinate information calculated by the pointing device.

20. The display apparatus according to claim 19, further comprising a plurality of backlight units configured to generate and emit light to the plurality of display panels, wherein the plurality of backlight units is driven by different preset driving frequencies, and the controller is configured to identify the display panel touched by the pointing device according to the driving frequencies sensed by the pointing device.

21. The display apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the display panel comprises a pattern layer configured to form different patterns according to coordinates corresponding to respective pixels, and the controller is configured to control the displayed image using the coordinate information according to a pattern sensed by the pointing device.

22. A control method of an electronic chalkboard system which comprises a display apparatus comprising a plurality of display panels, and a pointing device, the control method comprising:

touching a first display panel of the plurality of display panels by the pointing device;

displaying by the display apparatus on the first display panel an image drawn on the first display panel by the pointing device, selecting one of the plurality of display panels according to a preset condition based on the first display panel and displaying on the selected display panel a menu related to the image displayed on the first display panel;

touching a second display panel of the plurality of display panels by the pointing device; and

displaying by the display apparatus on the second display panel an image drawn on the second display panel by the pointing device, newly selecting one of the plurality of display panels according to the preset condition based on the second display panel and transferring the displayed menu to the newly-selected display panel.

23. The control method according to claim 22, wherein the selecting the one of the plurality of display panels according to the preset condition based on the second display panel comprises selecting the second display panel to display the image and the menu on the same display panel.

24. The control method according to claim 22, wherein the selecting the one of the plurality of display panels according to the present condition based on the second display panel comprises selecting a third display panel that is adjacently provided to the second display panel to display the image and the menu on different display panels.

25. The control method according to claim 24, wherein the plurality of display panels is arranged in parallel with one another along a matrix direction, and the third display panel is provided in one of four directions of upper, lower, left and right directions of the second display panel.

26. The control method according to claim 22, wherein the menu comprises at least one option for changing characteristics of the image.

27. The control method according to claim 26, wherein the characteristics of the image comprises at least one of width of a line, color, style, brightness, saturation and contrast.