Display apparatus and control method thereof

• US 9,788,045 B2
• Filed: 03/21/2014
• Issued: 10/10/2017
• 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 C
• Application Number:
  US14/221,793
• Publication Number:
  US 20140204279A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,299 Days
• Field of Search: 345174, 345173, 715835, 715838
• 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:

an input device configured to provide a touch area 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 communicator configured to receive a wireless signal corresponding to the touch input detected at the touch area from the input device; and

a controller configured to;

control, based on a first wireless signal received from the input device indicating a first touch input moving in a first input direction from a portion of the touch area, to display a first set of user interface (UI) items over the content image such that the first set of UI items enters a screen of the display at a position corresponding to the portion of the touch area of the input device;

control, based on a second wireless signal received from the input device indicating a second touch input moving in a second input direction while the first set of UI items is displayed on the display, to move at least a portion of the displayed first set of UI items; and

control, based on a third wireless signal received from the input device indicating a third touch input moving in the first input direction, to change from displaying the first set of UI items to displaying a second set of UI items over the content image on the display.

2. The display system according to claim 1, wherein each of the first touch input and the third touch input are vertical touch inputs, and

the second touch input is a horizontal touch input.

3. A control method of a display system including an input device providing a touch area to detect a touch input and a display device configured to receive a wireless signal corresponding to the touch input detected at the touch area from the touch input device, the control method comprising:

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

based on a first wireless signal received by the display device from the input device, the first wireless signal indicating a first touch input moving in a first input direction from a portion of the touch area, displaying a first set of user interface (UI) items over the content image such that the first set of UI items enters a screen of the display at a position corresponding to the portion of the touch area of the input device;

based on a second wireless signal received by the display device from the input device, the second wireless signal indicating a second touch input moving in a second input direction while the first set of UI items is displayed on the display, moving at least a portion of the displayed first set of UI items; and

based on a third wireless signal received by the display device from the input device, the third wireless signal indicating a third touch input moving in the first input direction, changing from displaying the first set of UI items to displaying a second set of UI items over the content image on the display.

4. The control method of the display system according to claim 3, wherein the displaying the first set of UI items comprises controlling the first set of UI items to enter the screen of the display proximate a lower edge of the display in a first display direction which corresponds to the first touch input.

5. The control method of the display system according to claim 3, wherein the movement amount of the third touch input is based on a movement distance and a movement speed of the third touch input indicated by the third wireless signal received by the display device from the input device.

6. The control method of the display system according to claim 5, wherein the movement amount of the third touch input is based on a movement distance and a movement speed of the third touch input indicated by the third wireless signal received by the display device from the input device.

7. The control method according to claim 3, wherein each of the first touch input and the third touch input are vertical touch inputs, and

the second touch input is a horizontal touch input.

8. An electronic device comprising:

a display;

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

a signal receiver configured to receive a wireless signal corresponding to a touch input on a touch area which is provided by an input device; and

a controller configured to;

control, based on a first wireless signal received from the input device indicating a first touch input moving in a first input direction from a portion of the touch area, to display a first set of user interface (UI) items over the content image such that the first set of UI items enters a screen of the display at a position corresponding to the portion of the touch area of the input device;

control, based on a second wireless signal received from the input device indicating a second touch input moving in a second input direction while the first set of UI items is displayed on the display, to move at least a portion of the displayed first set of UI items; and

control, based on a third wireless signal received from the input device indicating a third touch input moving in the first input direction, to change from displaying the first set of UI items to displaying a second set of UI items over the content image on the display.

9. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein the second set of UI items is determined based on a movement amount of the third touch input indicated by the third wireless signal received from the input device.

10. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the movement amount of the third touch input is based on a movement distance and a movement speed of the third touch input indicated by the third wireless signal received from the input device.

11. The display system according to claim 8, wherein each of the first touch input and the third touch input are vertical touch inputs, and

the second touch input is a horizontal touch input.

12. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a processor of an input device including a wireless signal transmitter and providing a touch area configured to detect a touch input, causes the input device to execute a method of controlling a display device, the method comprising:

controlling the signal transmitter to transmit a first wireless signal based on a first touch input moving in a first input direction from a portion of the touch area, the first wireless signal for controlling the display device to display a first set of user interface (UI) items over a content image on a display of the display device such that the first set of UI items enters a screen of the display at a position corresponding to the portion of the touch area of the input device;

controlling the signal transmitter to transmit a second wireless signal based on a second touch input moving in a second input direction while the first set of UI items is displayed on the display, the second wireless signal for controlling the display device to move at least a portion of the displayed first set of UI items; and

controlling the signal transmitter to transmit a third wireless signal based on a third touch input moving in the first input direction, the third wireless signal for controlling the display device to change from displaying the first set of UI items to displaying a second set of UI items over the content image on the display.