Method of displaying content list using 3D GUI and 3D display apparatus applied to the same

• US 9,407,901 B2
• Filed: 10/03/2011
• Issued: 08/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Hye-won, Kim, Bo-mi, Lee, Sang-il, Yeon, Su-jin, Lee, Yong-yeon
• Primary Examiner(s): Luo, Kate
• Application Number:
  US13/251,710
• Publication Number:
  US 20120086711A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,765 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/183 On-screen display [OSD] information, e.g. subtitles or menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/361 Reproducing mixed stereoscopic images; Reproducing mixed monoscopic and stereoscopic images, e.g. a stereoscopic image overlay window on a monoscopic image background

Abstract

A method and a 3D display apparatus for displaying a content list by setting a depth value of each content to be displayed on the content list according to content information, according to the plurality of content, and displaying 3D content list GUI including a left-eye GUI and a right-eye GUI to which a set depth value for each of the content is applied. Accordingly, the 3D display apparatus can display the content list using the stereo 3D GUI.

Claims

1. A method of displaying a content list, the method comprising:

displaying a content list in a first sequence based on a first type of metadata, the content list comprising a plurality of content groups, each group having same metadata information corresponding to the first type of metadata and a first depth value; and

if a command for changing an alignment criterion of the content list from the first type of metadata to a second type of metadata is input, displaying a changed content list in a second sequence based on the second type of metadata, the changed content list comprising a plurality of content groups, each group having same metadata information corresponding to the second type of metadata and a second depth value,

wherein each of the content list and the changed content list includes a left-eye GUI and a right-eye GUI corresponding to the first depth value or the second depth value corresponding to each of the content list and the changed content list.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first depth value or second depth value corresponds to disparity between the left-eye GUI and the right-eye GUI.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the metadata information includes metadata of a content.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the metadata information includes at least one of a file name of content, title, creation date, genre and content type.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising, if a depth value of a specific content is changed from the first depth value to the second depth value:

displaying a process of changing the depth value of the specific content from the first depth value to the second depth value via at least one of intermediate values between the first depth value and second depth value.

6. A display apparatus which displays a content list, the display apparatus comprising:

a display unit configured to display a content list;

a control unit configured to control the display unit to display the content list in a first sequence based on a first type of metadata, the content list comprising a plurality of content groups, each group having same metadata information corresponding to the first type of metadata and a first depth value,

if a command for changing an alignment criterion of the content list from the first type of metadata to a second type of metadata is input, the control unit is configured to control the display unit to display a changed content list in a second sequence based on the second type of metadata corresponding to the second type of metadata and a second depth value,

wherein each of the content list and the changed content list includes a left-eye GUI and a right-eye GUI corresponding to the first depth value or the second depth value corresponding to each of the content list and the changed content list.

7. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the first depth value or second depth value corresponds to disparity between the left-eye GUI and the right-eye GUI.

8. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the metadata information includes meta data of a content.

9. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the metadata information includes at least one of a file name of content, title, creation date, genre and content type.

10. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the control unit, if a depth value of a specific content is changed from the first depth value to the second depth value, controls the display unit to display a process of changing of the depth value of the specific content from the first depth value to the second depth value via at least one of intermediate values between the first depth value and second depth value.