Image display device and method for controlling same

• US 9,600,077 B2
• Filed: 10/23/2013
• Issued: 03/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Han, Soonbo, Song, Hyojin, Park, Sangjo, Lee, Dongyoung
• Primary Examiner(s): HALEY, JOSEPH R
• Application Number:
  US14/437,726
• Publication Number:
  US 20150293595A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,245 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/28 Recognition of hand or arm movements, e.g. recognition of deaf sign language static hand signs G06V40/113

Abstract

The present invention provides an image display device comprising: a sensing unit for sensing an input gesture of a user; a display unit for outputting visual information among the executed data of an application when the application is executed; a collection unit for collecting control gesture information included in the executed data; and a control unit for executing an event of the application which is included in the executed data and corresponds to the control gesture information if the control gesture information and the input gesture sensed by the sensing unit are matching while the application is executed.

Claims

1. An image display device comprising:

a sensor that is configured to sense a user'"'"'s input gesture;

a display that is configured to output visual information among executed data of an application when the application is executed;

a controller that is configured to;

collect control gesture information included in the executed data; and

execute an event of the application which is included in the executed data and corresponds to the control gesture information when the control gesture information and the input gesture sensed by the sensor match each other while the application is executed, and

wherein the controller is configured to;

control the display to change the visual information to another visual information in response to the input gesture; and

deactivate the sensor for stopping the control by the input gesture when the another visual information includes the reproducing video data.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to:

extract an element forming the input gesture;

track a moving trajectory of the extracted element; and

compare an input gesture with the control gesture information, the input gesture defined by the element and the moving trajectory of the element.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein the control gesture information includes a text, and a control signal associated with the event, the text including at least one of a number of the element, a moving direction of the element, distance information between a plurality of elements, a moving time of the element, and a moving shape of the element.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein the control gesture information includes a preset condition corresponding to a control command for deactivating or reactivating a sensing operation of the input gesture.

5. The device of claim 4, wherein the control gesture information includes a preset condition to ignore the input gesture.

6. The device of claim 2, wherein the element is based on text forming the collected control gesture information.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the controller stops the matching between the input gesture and the control gesture information when the application is terminated.

8. The device of claim 7, wherein the controller generates a preset control command to correspond to the input gesture based on the input gesture when the application is terminated.

9. A method for controlling an image display device, the method comprising:

sensing, by a sensor, a user'"'"'s input gesture;

receiving executed data of an application when the application is executed;

collecting control gesture information corresponding to an event of the application among the executed data;

comparing the control gesture information with the input gesture while the application is executed;

generating the event when the control gesture information and the input gesture match each other;

changing the visual information to another visual information based on the event; and

deactivating the sensor for stopping the control by the input gesture when the another visual information includes the reproducing video data.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the comparing of the control gesture information with the input gesture while the application is executed comprises:

extracting elements of the input gesture;

tracking down trajectories of the elements; and

sensing a change in a distance between the elements.