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Display apparatus, remote controller and method for controlling applied thereto

  • US 9,525,904 B2
  • Filed: 10/21/2011
  • Issued: 12/20/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A display apparatus, comprising:

  • a display unit which displays a first image on a first area of a screen, and displays a second image on a second area of the screen; and

    a control unit, configured with program logic, to perform;

    receiving direction information regarding an orientation of a remote controller from the remote controller that has been sensed by the remote controller, wherein the remote controller includes a longer-axis and a shorter-axis, and the direction information indicates an axis of the remote controller which is perpendicular to the display unit from among the longer-axis and the shorter-axis of the remote controller, andselecting an area to be controlled by the remote controller from among the first and the second areas according to whether a direction of a longer side of the first or second area corresponds to a direction of the longer-axis indicated by the direction information received from the remote controller,wherein an aspect ratio of the first area is longer in a horizontal direction than in a vertical direction, and an aspect ratio of the second area is shorter in the horizontal direction than in a vertical direction, andwherein the selecting selects the first area when the shorter-axis of the remote controller is perpendicular to the display unit, and selects the second area when the longer-axis of the remote controller is perpendicular to the display unit.

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