Display apparatus and the method thereof

• US 10,089,006 B2
• Filed: 07/07/2014
• Issued: 10/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Myoung-jun, Yun, Hyun-kyu, Kim, Kwan-young, Keum, Kun-ho, Kim, Min-sup, Kim, Sang-jin, Na, Moon-sung
• Primary Examiner(s): Harper, Eliyah S
• Application Number:
  US14/324,278
• Publication Number:
  US 20150046433A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,548 Days
• Field of Search: 707766
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/338 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/35 Clustering; Classification
• 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 21/42206 characterized by hardware details
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42224 Touch pad or touch panel provided on the remote control
• 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 21/443 OS processes, e.g. booting an STB, implementing a Java virtual machine in an STB or power management in an STB
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/445 for displaying additional information H04N5/50 takes precedence

Abstract

A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus includes a display, an input unit configured to receive a handwriting trace, in response to a user handwriting being performed at a remote control apparatus; a detector configured to determine text corresponding to the handwriting trace; and a controller configured to search for an item corresponding to the text, classify the item into a plurality of categories, and control the display to display the item on the display.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a display;

an input unit configured to receive, as a signal, a handwriting trace that is input by a user by a handwriting on a touch screen of a remote control apparatus located externally and separately with respect to the display apparatus; and

a processor configured to;

perform an analysis to identify, in response to the handwriting trace being received, a character corresponding to the handwriting trace,

search external devices connected to the display apparatus via a network, for items related to the character,

classify the items into respective categories to form a respective item group per each of the respective categories including at least two among an application category, a web category, a function category, and a content category, and

control the display to display the character corresponding to the handwriting trace in a first area of a screen and display respective item groups corresponding to each of the respective categories in second areas of the screen, respectively,

wherein the processor is further configured to control the display to display each of the respective item groups in each of the second areas, respectively, separately from one another and adjacent to the first area.

2. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to, in response to a subsequent handwriting being performed at the remote control apparatus, to identify a subsequent character from a subsequent handwriting trace according to the subsequent handwriting, to search for the items related to the character and the subsequent character, to classify the items related to the character and the subsequent character according to the respective categories, and to control the display to display the items related to the character and the subsequent character.

3. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to match each of the respective categories in up, down, left, and right directions extending from the first area of the screen, and to control the display to arrange and display the respective item groups corresponding to each of the respective categories in the second areas of the screen, the second areas extending in the up, down, left, and right directions from the first area.

4. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to control the display to display the first area at a center region of the screen or at one of four corners on the screen.

5. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to, in response to one of the items being selected, perform a control operation corresponding to the selected item.

13. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to identify the character corresponding to the handwriting trace as a first character, to identify first items among the items whose title, name, or subject start with the first character, and to group the identified first items into the respective categories, and

the display is configured to display each of the respective categories of the grouped first items that start with the first character, on the second areas of the screen, respectively.

14. The display apparatus of claim 13, wherein,

in response to a subsequent handwriting trace being received from the remote control apparatus, the processor is configured to identify the character corresponding to the subsequent handwriting trace as a second character, and to identify second items among the first items whose title, name, or subject start with the first character followed by the second character, and

the display is configured to display each of the respective categories having grouped second items that start with the first character followed by the second character, instead of the grouped first items.

15. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to search for the items whose title, name, or function start with a same letter which corresponds to the handwriting trace, and to classify the items into the respective categories based on the function performed by each of the items.

6. A display method comprising:

receiving, by a processor of a display apparatus, a handwriting trace from a remote control apparatus located externally and separately with respect to the display apparatus, the handwriting trace corresponding to a handwriting performed by a user on a touch screen of the remote control apparatus;

performing an analysis, by the processor, to identify a character corresponding to the handwriting trace;

searching, by the processor, external devices for items related to the character, via a network;

classifying, by the processor, the items into respective categories to form a respective item group per each of the respective categories including at least two among an application category, a web category, a function category, and a content category;

displaying the character corresponding to the handwriting trace on a first area of a display screen; and

displaying the items grouped together as the respective item group in each of the respective categories in second areas of the display screen, respectively, each of the respective item groups being displayed in each of the second areas, respectively, separately from one another and adjacent to the first area.

7. The display method as claimed in claim 6, further comprising:

in response to a subsequent handwriting being performed at the remote control apparatus, identifying a subsequent character from a subsequent handwriting trace according to the subsequent handwriting;

searching for the items related to the character and the subsequent character;

classifying the items related to the character and the subsequent character according to the respective categories; and

displaying the items related to the character and the subsequent character.

8. The display method as claimed in claim 6, further comprising:

matching each of the respective categories in up, down, left, and right directions extending from the first area of the display screen; and

arranging and displaying the respective item group, per each of the respective categories, in the second areas of the display screen, the second areas extending in the up, down, left, and right directions from the first area.

9. The display method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the first area of the display screen is displayed at a center region of the display screen or at one of four corners on the display screen.

10. The display method as claimed in claim 6 further comprising:

in response to one of the items being selected, performing a control operation corresponding to the selected item.

11. A display system comprising:

a display configured to display handwriting based contents; and

a remote controller located externally and separately with respect to the display, the remote controller comprising;

a touch screen on which a user performs a user handwriting that corresponds to input data,

a second processor configured to generate a handwriting trace based on the user handwriting, and

a transmitter configured to transmit the handwriting trace, as a signal, to the display,

wherein the display comprises a first processor, which is coupled to a receiver configured to receive, as the signal, the handwriting trace, and is configured to control analyzing the handwriting trace, extracting the input data from the handwriting trace, classifying the handwriting based contents into respective categories based on the input data to form a respective item group per each of the respective categories including at least two among an application category, a web category, a function category, and a content category, displaying a character corresponding to the handwriting trace on a first area of a display screen, and displaying the handwriting based contents grouped together as the respective item group in each of the respective categories in second areas of the display screen, respectively, each of the respective item groups being displayed in each of the second areas separately from one another and adjacent to the first area.

12. A method for displaying a user handwriting on a display apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving, through a touch screen of a remote controller located externally and separately with respect to the display apparatus, a user handwriting corresponding to input data;

generating, at the remote controller, a handwriting trace based on the user handwriting and transmitting the handwriting trace as a signal;

receiving, at the display apparatus coupled to a processor, the handwriting trace as the signal;

performing an analysis, by the processor, to identify the input data from the handwriting trace;

classifying, by the processor, handwriting based contents based on the input data into respective categories to form a respective item group per each of the respective categories including at least two among an application category, a web category, a function category, and a content category; and

displaying, at the display apparatus, a character corresponding to the handwriting trace on a first area of a display screen, and the handwriting based contents grouped together as the respective item group in each of the respective categories in second areas of the display screen, respectively, each of the respective item groups being displayed in each of the second areas separately from one another and adjacent to the first area.