Display apparatus and control method thereof

• US 9,479,817 B2
• Filed: 06/07/2011
• Issued: 10/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kwon, Yong-hwan
• Primary Examiner(s): SIMPSON, LIXI CHOW
• Application Number:
  US13/155,068
• Publication Number:
  US 20120032901A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,967 Days
• Field of Search: 345/173, 345/174, 715/863, 715/835, 715/838
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42208 Display device provided on the remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42209 for displaying non-command information, e.g. electronic program guide [EPG], e-mail, messages or a second television channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42224 Touch pad or touch panel provided on the remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4227 Providing Remote input by a user located remotely from the client device, e.g. at work
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4821 using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73

Abstract

A display apparatus includes: an image processor; a display unit; a remote controller which includes a touch input unit to detect motion of a user; a remote control signal receiver which receives a remote control signal from the remote controller corresponding to the motion of a user; and a controller which displays the content information window as if the content information window enters from an outside of a display area to an inside of the display area in accordance with the motion that a user moves from an outside of an area of the touch input unit to an inside of the area, or stops displaying the content information window as if the content information window exits from the inside of the display area to the outside of the display area in accordance with the motion that a user moves from the inside of the area of the touch input unit to the outside of the touch input unit.

Claims

1. A display system comprising:

a remote control device comprising a touch input unit to detect a touch input; and

a display device comprising;

a display;

an image processor configured to process a content to display a content image on the display;

a control signal receiver configured to receive a signal corresponding to the touch input detected by the touch input unit from the remote control device; and

a controller configured to;

control the image processor to display, proximate a first edge of the display and over the content image, a first category of a first user interface (UI), the first category of the first UI comprising a plurality of first UI items, based on a first signal received from the remote control device corresponding to a first touch input moving from a first edge portion of the touch input unit to an inside portion of the touch input unit, display a first highlight indicating a selection of one of the plurality of first UI items while the first UI is displayed, move the first highlight based on a second signal received from the remote control device corresponding to a second touch input moving in a direction perpendicular to the first touch input, and change the first category of the first UI into a second category of the first UI based on a third signal received from the remote control device corresponding to a third touch input parallel to the first touch input; and

control the image processor to display, proximate a second edge of the display and over the content image, a second UI different from the first UI, based on a fourth signal received from the remote control device corresponding to a fourth touch input moving from a second edge portion of the touch input unit to the inside portion of the touch input unit.

2. The display system according to claim 1, wherein the first edge of the display corresponding to the first edge portion of the touch input unit is a lower edge of the display, and the second edge of the display corresponding to the second edge portion of the touch input unit is an upper edge of the display.

3. The display system according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to determine the second category of the first UI and replace, proximate the lower edge of the display, the first category of the first UI with the second category of the first UI, based on a movement amount corresponding to the third signal.

4. The display system according to claim 3, wherein the movement amount of the third signal is based on at least one among a movement distance of the third touch input and a movement speed of the third touch input.

5. The display system according to claim 1, wherein

the controller is configured to control the image processor to display a cursor indicating the selection of one of the plurality of first UI items while the first UI is displayed and move the cursor over the plurality of first UI items based on the second signal.

6. The display system according to claim 5, wherein the controller is configured to move the cursor according to a movement amount corresponding to the second signal.

7. The display system according to claim 6, wherein the movement amount of the second signal is based on at least one among a movement distance of the second touch input and a movement speed of the second touch input.

8. The display system according to claim 1, wherein the second UI comprises a plurality of second UI items, and

the controller is configured to control the image processor to display a second highlight indicating a selection of one of the plurality of second UI items while the second UI is displayed, and move the second highlight in accordance with a fifth signal received from the remote control device corresponding to a fifth touch input moving in a direction perpendicular to the fourth touch input.

9. The display system according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to control the image processor to, based on a sixth signal received from the remote control device corresponding to a sixth touch input moving in a right direction while the highlight indicates a rightmost currently displayed UI item of the first UI in a rightmost position, replace each of a plurality of currently displayed icons of the first UI with an adjacent UI icon, and display a new UI icon in the rightmost position.

10. The display system according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to control the image processor to display an indicator indicating whether another category of the first UI is available.

11. A control method of controlling a display device with a remote control having a touch input unit to detect a touch input;

and a display device having a control signal receiver to receive a signal corresponding to the touch input detected by the touch input unit from the remote control, the control method comprising;

displaying a content image on a display of the display device;

receiving a first signal from the remote control corresponding to a first touch input moving from a first edge portion of the touch input unit to an inside portion of the touch input unit;

displaying a first category of a first UI proximate a first edge of the display over the content image based on the first signal, the first category of the first UI comprising a plurality of first UI items;

displaying a first highlight indicating a selection of one of the plurality of first UI items while the first UI is displayed;

receiving a second signal from the remote control corresponding to a second touch input, the second touch input being perpendicular to the first touch input;

moving the first highlight based on the second signal;

receiving a third signal from the remote control corresponding to a third touch input, the third touch input being parallel to the first touch input;

changing the first category of the first UI into a second category of the first UI based on the third signal;

receiving a fourth signal from the remote control corresponding to a fourth touch input moving from a second edge portion of the touch input unit to an inside portion of the touch input unit; and

displaying, proximate a second edge of the display and over the content image, a second UI different from the first UI, based on the fourth signal.

12. The control method of the display system according to claim 11, wherein the first edge of the display corresponding to the first edge portion of the touch input unit is a lower edge of the display, and the second edge of the display corresponding to the second edge portion of the touch input unit is an upper edge of the display.

13. The control method of the display system according to claim 11, further comprising determining a second category of the first UI,

wherein the displaying the first UI further comprises replacing, proximate the lower edge of the display, the first category of the first UI with the second category of the first UI based on a movement amount corresponding to the third signal.

14. The control method of the display system according to claim 13, wherein the second category is determined based on the movement amount corresponding to the third signal.

15. The control method of the display system according to claim 14, wherein the movement amount corresponding to the third signal is based on at least one among a movement distance of the third touch input and a movement speed of the third touch input.

16. The control method of the display system according to claim 11, wherein

the displaying the first UI further comprises displaying and moving a cursor over one of the plurality of first UI items while the first UI is displayed based on the second signal.

17. The control method of the display system according to claim 16, wherein the moving the cursor comprises moving the cursor according to a movement amount corresponding to the second signal.

18. The control method of the display system according to claim 17, wherein the movement amount of the second signal is based on at least one among a movement distance of the second touch input and a movement speed of the second touch input.

19. A display device comprising:

a display comprising a screen;

an image processor configured to process a content to display a content image on the screen of the display;

a control signal receiver configured to receive a signal corresponding to a touch input detected by a touch input unit of a remote control device, the touch input unit comprising a plurality of edge portions and an inside portion; and

a controller configured to;

control the image processor to display, proximate a bottom edge of the screen and over the content image, a first category of a first user interface (UI), the first category of the first UI comprising a plurality of first UI items, on the screen of the display, based on a first signal received from the remote control device corresponding to a first vertical touch input moving from a bottom edge portion of the touch input unit to an inside region of the touch input unit, display a first highlight indicating a selection of one of the plurality of first UI items while the first UI is displayed, move the first highlight in accordance with a second signal received from the remote control device corresponding to a second touch input perpendicular to the first touch input, and change the first category of the first UI into a second category of the first UI based on a third signal received from the remote control device corresponding to a third touch input parallel to the first touch input; and

control the image processor to display, proximate a second edge of the display and over the content image, a second UI different from the first UI, on the screen of the display, based on a fourth signal received from the remote control device corresponding to a fourth touch input moving from an upper edge portion of the touch input unit to an inside region of the touch input unit, the second UI comprising a plurality of second UI items.

20. The display device according to claim 19, wherein the inside portion of the contact surface is surrounded by the plurality of edge portions.

21. The display device according to claim 19, wherein the screen of the display has a plurality of edges corresponding to the plurality of edge portions of the contact surface, respectively.

22. The display device according to claim 19, wherein the controller is configured to determine the second category of the first UI and replace the first category of the first UI with the second category of the first UI based on a movement corresponding to the third signal.

23. The display device according to claim 22, wherein the movement amount corresponding to the third signal is based on at least one among a movement distance and a movement speed of the third touch input.

24. The display device according to claim 19, wherein the controller is configured to control the image processor to display a cursor indicating the selection of one of the plurality of first UI items while the first UI is displayed and move the cursor over the plurality of first UI items based on the second signal.

25. The display device according to claim 24, wherein the controller is configured to move the cursor according to a movement amount corresponding to the second signal.

26. The display device according to claim 25, wherein the movement amount corresponding to the second signal is based on at least one among a movement distance of the second touch input and a movement speed of the second touch input.