Display device and method of setting group information

• US 9,329,693 B2
• Filed: 11/14/2013
• Issued: 05/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Jihwan, Park, Sihwa
• Primary Examiner(s): Dragoescu, Claudia
• Application Number:
  US14/080,525
• Publication Number:
  US 20150067613A1
• Time in Patent Office: 901 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 13/023 Adjusting the duration or amplitude of signals
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 13/026 acting at a number of different times
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/00 Handling natural language data speech analysis or synthesis, speech recognition G10L

Abstract

Disclosed are a display device and a method of setting group information by displaying additional information to be added to base information via first and second gesture inputs. The display device includes a display unit configured to display visual information, a sensor unit configured to detect an input signal and transmit a detected result to a processor, and the processor configured to control the display unit and the sensor unit. The processor is configured to display base information, detect a first gesture input to the displayed base information, determine an interval of additional information based on a position of the detected first gesture input, detect a second gesture input, determine the number of additional information based on a position of the detected second gesture input, and display at least one additional information according to the determined interval and the determined number of the additional information.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a display unit configured to display visual information;

a sensor unit configured to detect an input signal and to transmit a detected result to a processor; and

the processor configured to control the display unit and the sensor unit,

wherein the processor is further configured to;

display a base alarm,

detect a first gesture input to the displayed base alarm,

determine an interval of additional alarms based on a position of the detected first gesture input,

detect a second gesture input,

determine a number of the additional alarms based on a position of the detected second gesture input, and

display at least one additional alarm according to the determined interval and the determined number of the additional alarms, wherein the base alarm and the additional alarms are combined as a group alarm, and

switch off all alarms included in the group alarm when a third gesture input to at least one of the group alarm is detected and a time of the at least one of the group alarm has come.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

determine that the at least one additional alarm is added before the base alarm according to the interval if the direction of the second gesture input is in a first direction, and

determine that the at least one additional alarm is added after the base alarm according to the interval if the direction of the second gesture input is in a second direction.

3. The display device according to claim 2, wherein the first direction and the second direction are opposite to each other.

4. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

detect a fourth gesture input, and

add the at least one additional alarm before and after the base alarm according to the interval based on a position of the second gesture input and a position of the fourth gesture input.

5. The display device according to claim 4, wherein the direction of the fourth gesture input is opposite to the direction of the second gesture input.

6. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

detect fourth gesture input to the base alarm, wherein the direction of the fourth gesture input being opposite to the direction of the first gesture input, and

delete the entire group of alarms based on the detected fourth gesture input.

7. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

detect a fourth gesture input to the at least one additional alarm, and

delete an additional alarm corresponding to a position of the fourth gesture input among the group of alarms based on the detected fourth gesture input.

8. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

display an interval interface when the first gesture input is detected, and

determine an interval of the additional alarms according to a position of the interval interface corresponding to a position of the first gesture input.

9. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

display an additional alarm interface when the second gesture input is detected, and

determine the number of additional alarms based on a position of the additional alarm interface corresponding to a position of the second gesture input.

10. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the direction of the first gesture input is different from the direction of the second gesture input.

11. The display device according to claim 10, wherein the direction of the first gesture input and the direction of the second gesture input are perpendicular to each other.

12. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the first gesture input and the second gesture input are connected to each other.

13. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to indicate the determined interval of the additional alarms and the determined number of the additional alarms using a graphic effect.

14. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

detect a fourth gesture input to the at least one additional alarm, and

determine a second additional alarm interval according to a length of the detected fourth gesture input, wherein the second additional alarm interval corresponds to the determined interval of the additional alarms.

15. The display device according to claim 14, wherein the processor is further configured to:

detect a fifth gesture input,

determine a number of second additional alarms based on a position of the detected fifth gesture input, and

display at least one second additional alarm according to the determined interval and the determined number of the second additional alarms.

16. The display device according to claim 15, wherein the additional alarms and the at least one second additional alarm are combined as the group alarm.

17. A method of setting a group alarm of a display device, the method comprising:

displaying a base alarm;

detecting a first gesture input to the displayed base alarm;

determining an interval of additional alarms based on a position of the detected first gesture input;

detecting a second gesture input;

determining a number of the additional alarms based on a length of the detected second gesture input; and

displaying at least one additional alarm according to the determined interval and the determined number of the additional alarms, wherein the base alarm and the additional alarms are combined as the group alarm, and

switch off all alarms included in the group alarm when a third gesture input to at least one of the group alarm is detected and a time of the at least one of the group alarm has come.