Display apparatus, 3D glasses, and display system including the same

• US 9,247,232 B2
• Filed: 07/01/2014
• Issued: 01/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Yoon, Hyun-jin, Hwang, Tae-don
• Primary Examiner(s): Ustaris, Joseph
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nawaz, Talha
• Application Number:
  US14/321,620
• Publication Number:
  US 20140313297A1
• Time in Patent Office: 574 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/172 image signals comprising non-image signal components, e.g. headers or format information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/194 Transmission of image signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/30 Image reproducers optical systems for producing stereoscopic or other three-dimensional effects G02B30/00
• 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 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4263 involving specific tuning arrangements, e.g. two tuners
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4318 by altering the content in the rendering process, e.g. blanking, blurring or masking an image region image enhancement or restoration in general G06T5/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/45 Picture in picture , e.g. displaying simultaneously another television channel in a region of the screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/607 for more than one sound signal, e.g. stereo, multilanguages H04N5/602 takes precedence

Abstract

A display apparatus, three-dimensional (3D) glasses, and a display system including the display apparatus and the 3D glasses are provided. The 3D glasses which interwork with an external display apparatus include: a wireless receiver which receives a sync signal and audio signals from the external display apparatus; a shutter driver which drives shutters according to the received sync signal; and an audio output part which processes and outputs the received audio signal. Thus, users can individually enjoy contents without interfering with one another by selecting and listening to audio corresponding to an image viewed through the display apparatus.

Claims

1. A display apparatus which communicates with glasses, the display apparatus comprising:

a signal processor which signal-processes first and second images;

a display which displays the processed first and second images; and

a communication part which transmits, to the glasses, a sync signal and a multi-channel audio signal in which first and second audio signals, respectively corresponding to the first and second images, are synthesized,

wherein the sync signal and the multi-channel audio signal are concurrently transmitted, and

wherein the first image corresponds to first content and the second image corresponds to second content, different from the first content.

2. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first and second audio signals are of a plurality of channels respectively corresponding to the first and second images.

3. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the sync signal is a signal synchronized to an output timing of the first image.

4. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the communication part transmits the first and second audio signals according to ZigBee standard.

5. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the sync signal controls the glasses to close shutters thereof when the display displays the processed second image and to open the shutters thereof when the display displays the processed first image.

6. A display apparatus comprising:

a receiver which receives first and second image signals, a first audio signal corresponding to the first image signal, and a second audio signal corresponding to the second image signal;

a display which sequentially displays the received first and second image signals;

a sync signal generator which generates a first sync signal synchronized to an output timing of the first image signal and a second sync signal synchronized to an output timing of the second image signal;

a communication part which communicates with a plurality of external devices; and

a controller which transmits a multi-channel audio signal, in which the first and second audio signals are synthesized, and the first and second sync signals to the plurality of the external devices through the communication part,

wherein the sync signal and the multi-channel audio signal are concurrently transmitted, and

wherein the first image signal corresponds to first content and the second image signal corresponds to second content, different from the first content.

7. The display apparatus of claim 6, wherein the controller synthesizes the first and second audio signals in the multichannel signal, and transmits the synthesized signal to the plurality of the external devices through the communication part.

8. The display apparatus of claim 6, wherein the controller simultaneously transmits the first sync signal corresponding to the first image signal and the first audio signal corresponding to the first image signal.

9. The display apparatus of claim 6, wherein the receiver receives the first image signal wirelessly from an outside source or from an external device connected by wire.

10. The display apparatus of claim 7, wherein the plurality of the external devices are three-dimensional (3D) glasses.

11. The display apparatus of claim 6, wherein the controller transmits the first audio signal independently of the second audio signal.

12. A method of controlling a display apparatus which communicates with glasses, the method comprising:

alternately displaying, by the display apparatus, a first image and a second image; and

transmitting, to the glasses, a sync signal and a multi-channel audio signal in which first and second audio signals, respectively corresponding to the first and second images, are synthesized,

wherein the sync signal and the multi-channel audio signal are concurrently transmitted, and

wherein the first image corresponds to first content and the second image corresponds to second content, different from the first content.

13. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program executable by a computer for performing the method of claim 12.

14. A display apparatus which communicates with glasses, the display apparatus comprising:

a signal-processor which signal-processes first and second images;

a display which displays at least one of the processed first and second images; and

a communicator which transmits a multi-channel audio signal in which first and second audio signals respectively corresponding to the first and second images, are synthesized,

wherein the sync signal and the multi-channel audio signal are concurrently transmitted, and

wherein the first image corresponds to first content and the second image corresponds to second content, different from the first content.