Input apparatus of display apparatus, display system and control method thereof

• US 9,489,057 B2
• Filed: 04/21/2015
• Issued: 11/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Choi, Eun-seok, Choi, Sang-on, Yu, Mi-ra
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Jennifer
• Application Number:
  US14/692,353
• Publication Number:
  US 20150227215A1
• Time in Patent Office: 567 Days
• Field of Search: 345156-158, 345/169
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/033 Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user , e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks; Accessories therefor digitisers characterised by the transducing means G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/261 with monoscopic-to-stereoscopic image conversion

Abstract

An input apparatus of a display apparatus, a display system, and a control method thereof, are provided herein, the input apparatus including: a communication unit which communicates with the display apparatus; a sensing unit which detects angular speed and acceleration from a motion of the input apparatus; a storage unit which stores position information on a position of the input apparatus; and a controller which calculates the motion information based on the detected angular speed and the position information and transmits the calculated motion information through the communication unit if the input apparatus moves, and updates the position information in the storage unit based on the detected acceleration if the input apparatus does not move.

Claims

1. An input apparatus of a display apparatus, the input apparatus comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate with the display apparatus;

a sensing unit configured to detect an acceleration and an angular speed from a motion of the input apparatus;

a storage unit configured to store position information on a position of the input apparatus; and

a controller configured to calculate motion information based on the detected angular speed and the stored position information and transmit the calculated motion information through the communication unit when the input apparatus moves, and to update the stored position information in the storage unit corresponding to changes in the position of the input apparatus when the input apparatus stops moving,

wherein the input apparatus is configured to pre-store waveform profiles corresponding to sensing signals of the input apparatus moving and of the input apparatus not moving, and

wherein the controller is further configured to determine whether the input apparatus moves or not by comparing the profile of the waveform of the sensing signal from the sensing unit to the pre-stored waveform profiles.

2. The input apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to determine whether the input apparatus moves based on a value of gravitational acceleration.

3. The input apparatus of claim 2, wherein the controller is further configured to determine that the input apparatus does not move when the detected acceleration satisfies a preset condition via comparison with the value of gravitational acceleration.

4. The input apparatus of claim 1, wherein the position information comprises a rotation angle of a current position of the input apparatus with respect to a reference position of the input apparatus in a preset coordinate system.

5. The input apparatus of claim 4, wherein the controller is further configured to calculate a motion vector from the angular speed and convert the calculated motion vector into a reference motion vector in the reference position of the input apparatus based on the rotation angle.

6. The input apparatus of claim 4, wherein the preset coordinate system comprises a triaxial coordinate system.

7. The input apparatus of claim 1, wherein controller is configured to calculate the motion information by calculating initial motion information based on the detected angular speed and then correcting the initial motion information based on the position information.

8. The input apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to calculate, without calculating the position information, the motion information based on the detected angular speed and the stored position information.

9. The input apparatus of claim 1, wherein the storage unit is configured to store the position information in non-volatile memory.

10. The input apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to determine that the input apparatus does not move if an acceleration value detected by the sensing unit is substantially the same as a value of gravitational acceleration.

11. A display system comprising:

a display apparatus; and

an input apparatus configured to transmit motion information generated to the display apparatus and to pre-store waveform profiles corresponding to sensing signals of the input apparatus moving and of the input apparatus not moving,

wherein the input apparatus comprises;

communication unit configured to communicate with the display apparatus;

a sensing unit configured to detect an acceleration and an angular speed from a motion of the input apparatus;

a storage unit configured to store position information on a position of the input apparatus; and

a controller configured to;

determine whether the input apparatus moves or not by comparing the profile of the waveform of the sensing signal from the sensing unit to the pre-stored waveform profiles,

calculate motion information based on the detected angular speed and the stored position information and transmit the calculated motion information through the communication unit when the input apparatus moves, and

update the stored position information in the storage unit corresponding to changes in the position of the input apparatus when the input apparatus stops moving.

12. The display system of claim 11, wherein the display apparatus comprises a display unit and an image processor, wherein the image processor is configured to control a movement of a cursor displayed on the display unit based on the motion information received from the input apparatus.

13. A control method of a display system which comprises a display apparatus and an input apparatus transmitting motion information generated to the display apparatus, the input apparatus being configured to pre-store waveform profiles corresponding to sensing signals of the input apparatus moving and of the input apparatus not moving, the method comprising:

detecting an acceleration and an angular speed from a motion of the input apparatus;

determining whether the input apparatus moves or not by comparing the profile of the waveform of the sensing signal from the sensing unit to the pre-stored waveform profiles;

calculating motion information based on the detected angular speed and stored position information when the input apparatus moves; and

updating the stored position information corresponding to changes in the position of the input apparatus when the input apparatus stops move.

14. The control method of claim 13, further comprising correcting the calculated motion information based on pre-stored position information corresponding to a position of the input apparatus, wherein the updating of the position information comprises updating the pre-stored position information based on the detected acceleration when the input apparatus does not move.

15. The control method of claim 13, wherein the determining whether the input apparatus moves comprises determining whether the input apparatus moves based on a value of gravitational acceleration.

16. The control method of claim 15, wherein the determining whether the input apparatus moves based on the value of gravitational acceleration comprises determining that the input apparatus does not move when the detected acceleration satisfies a preset condition via comparison with the value of gravitational acceleration.

17. The control method of claim 13, wherein the position information comprises a rotation angle of a current position of the input apparatus with respect to a reference position of the input apparatus in a preset coordinate system.

18. The control method of claim 13, wherein the calculating of the motion information comprises calculating initial motion information based on the detected angular speed and then correcting the initial motion information based on the position information.

19. The control method of claim 18, wherein the position information comprises a rotation angle of a current position of the input apparatus with respect to a reference position of the input apparatus in a preset coordinate system, and

wherein the correcting the initial motion information based on the position information comprises calculating a motion vector from the detected angular speed and converting the calculated motion vector into a reference motion vector in the reference position of the input apparatus based on the rotation angle.

20. The control method of claim 13, wherein the coordinate system comprises a triaxial coordinate system.

21. The control method of claim 20, wherein the triaxial coordinate system has a width, a length and a height.

22. The control method of claim 13, wherein the calculating comprises calculating, without calculating the position information, the motion information based on the detected angular speed and stored position information.