Display apparatus and method of highlighting object on image displayed by a display apparatus

• US 10,678,408 B2
• Filed: 05/06/2015
• Issued: 06/09/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Kook-heon
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu, Toan H
• Application Number:
  US14/705,402
• Publication Number:
  US 20150324092A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,861 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04892 Arrangements for controlling cursor position based on codes indicative of cursor displacements from one discrete location to another, e.g. using cursor control keys associated to different directions or using the tab key arrangements for controlling cursor position based on coordinate signals G06F3/038

Abstract

A display apparatus which includes a display configured to display an image including a plurality of objects; a user interface configured to receive an input of a highlight moving key in order to move a highlight from a first object to a target object positioned in a direction associated with the highlight moving key; and a controller configured to determine the target object satisfying a predetermined condition as the target object among the plurality of objects biased from the first object toward the direction desired by the user in accordance with the input of the highlight moving key, and move the highlight of the first object to the target object.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a display;

a user input unit configured to receive a user input from an external remote controller; and

a processor configured;

to display a screen comprising a plurality of objects having different sizes on the display,

to display a selection indicator at a first object of the plurality of objects,

based on receiving an arrow key input via the user input unit, to identify a direction of the arrow key input,

based on the direction of the arrow key input being identified as a right direction, to select a first target object from among the plurality of objects, the selected first target object being displayed on a right side of the first object in the screen and most overlapping the first object in a vertical range,

based on the direction of the arrow key input being identified as an upward direction, to select a second target object from among the plurality of objects, the selected second target object being displayed on a upper side of the first object in the screen and most overlapping the first object in a horizontal range, and

to display the selection indicator at the selected first target object or the selected second target object.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of objects within the screen are bounded by a boundary pattern having a predetermined shape.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the predetermined shape is a rectangle.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the processor is further configured to:

based on a horizontal axis extended from a vertex of a rectangular screen in the right direction being an X-axis and a vertical axis extended in the upward direction being a Y-axis, define the rectangular boundary pattern by a first line parallel to the X-axis extending across a minimum point in a Y-axis direction from the X-axis to an object, a second line parallel to the X-axis extending across a maximum point in the Y-axis direction from the X-axis to the object, a third line parallel to the Y-axis extending across a minimum point in a X-axis direction from the Y-axis to the object, and a fourth line parallel to the Y-axis extending across a maximum point in the X-axis direction from the Y-axis to the object.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the processor is further configured to determine an effective object of the plurality of objects biased toward the direction of the arrow key input according to:

based on the direction being a left direction, the object is the effective object when RectN.r<

RectF.r and RectN.l<

RectF.l;

based on the direction being the right direction, the object is the effective object when RectF.l<

RectN.l and RectF.r<

Rect.r;

based on the direction being the upward direction, the object is the effective object when RectN.d<

RectF.d and RectN.u<

RectF.u; and

based on the direction being a down direction, the object is the effective object when RectF.u<

RectN.u and RectF.d<

Rect.d,

wherein RectN.u, RectN.d, RectN.l and RectN.r respectively refer to the up, down, left and right sides of a boundary pattern RectN of a target object Obj, and RectF.u, RectF.d, RectF.l and RectF.r respectively refer to the up, down, left and right sides of a boundary pattern RectF of the first object curSel.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the processor is further configured to display the selection indicator at the target object Obj based on a comparison of a value L and a value D of the target object Obj,

wherein the value L is a length of overlapping in a direction between the boundary pattern RectF of the first object curSel and the boundary pattern RectN of the target object Obj, and the value D is a shortest distance between an extended line from one side of the boundary pattern RectF of the first object curSel and a corresponding side of the target object Obj.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the processor is further configured to determine the target object Obj that has at least a nonzero value L and a smallest value D among the plurality of objects is the effective object, based on a result of the comparison.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 7, wherein if there are two or more objects having the smallest value D, the processor is configured to determine that the target object Obj that has a largest value L is the effective object.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 8, wherein if there are two or more objects having the smallest value D and the largest value L, the processor is further configured to determine that the target object Obj that has a minimum distance K from a center of the boundary pattern of the first object to centers of the boundary patterns of the respective target objects is the effective object.

10. The display apparatus according to claim 6, wherein if there is no object overlapped in the direction between the boundary pattern RectF of the first object curSel and the boundary pattern RectN of the target object Obj, the processor is configured to determine that the target object Obj that has a minimum distance R from a center of the boundary pattern of the first object to closest vertexes of the boundary patterns of the respective target objects, among the objects biased toward the direction is the effective object.

11. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the arrow key input is input, the processor is further configured to apply the arrow key input to objects of an image frame next to an image frame of the screen displayed on the display.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising a memory configured to store a next image frame.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the arrow key input is received on the boundary pattern of an object, and the arrow key input comprises an input of a highlight moving key.

14. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein user interface circuitry comprises at least one of a remote controller, a keyboard, a joystick, and a joy pad.

29. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first target object or the second target object is selected further based on having a smallest distance from the first object among the plurality of objects having the different sizes.

15. A method of highlighting an object within an image displayed on a display apparatus, the method comprising:

displaying a screen comprising a plurality of objects having different sizes on a display;

displaying a selection indicator at a first object of the plurality of objects;

based on receiving an arrow key input via a user input unit configured to receive a user input from an external remote controller, identifying a direction of the arrow key input;

based on the direction of the arrow key input being identified as a right direction, selecting a first target object from among the plurality of objects, the selected first target object being displayed on a right side of the first object in the screen and most overlapping the first object in a vertical range;

based on the direction of the arrow key input being identified as an upward direction, selecting a second target object from among the plurality of objects, the selected second target object being displayed on a upper side of the first object in the screen and most overlapping the first object in a horizontal range; and

displaying the selection indicator at the selected first target object or the selected second target object.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the plurality of objects within the screen are bounded by a boundary pattern having a predetermined shape.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the predetermined shape is a rectangle.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein based on a horizontal axis extended from a vertex of a rectangular screen in the right direction being an X-axis and a vertical axis extended in the upward direction being a Y-axis, defining the rectangular boundary pattern by a first line parallel to the X-axis extending across a minimum point in a Y-axis direction from the X-axis to the object, a second line parallel to the X-axis extending across a maximum point in the Y-axis direction from the X-axis to the object, a third line parallel to the Y-axis extending across a minimum point in a X-axis direction from the Y-axis to the object, and a fourth line parallel to the Y-axis extending across a maximum point in the X-axis direction from the Y-axis to the object.

19. The method according to claim 18, further comprising determining an effective object of the plurality of objects biased toward the direction of the arrow key input according to:

based on the direction being a left direction, the object is the effective object when RectN.r<

RectF.r and RectN.l<

RectF.l;

based on the direction being the right direction, the object is the effective object when RectF.l<

RectN.l and RectF.r<

Rect.r;

based on the direction being the upward direction, the object is the effective object when RectN.d<

RectF.d and RectN.u<

RectF.u; and

based on the direction being a down direction, the object is the effective object when RectF.u<

RectN.u and RectF.d<

Rect.d,

wherein RectN.u, RectN.d, RectN.l and RectN.r respectively refer to the up, down, left and right sides of a boundary pattern RectN of a target object Obi, and RectF.u, RectF.d, RectF.l and RectF.r respectively refer to the up, down, left and right sides of a boundary pattern RectF of the first object curSel.

20. The method according to claim 19, wherein the displaying the selection indicator at the target object Obj is based on a comparison of a value L and a value D of the target object Obj,

wherein the value L is a length of overlapping in a direction between the boundary pattern RectF of the first object curSel and the boundary pattern RectN of the target object Obj, and the value D is a shortest distance between an extended line from one side of the boundary pattern RectF of the first object curSel and a corresponding side of the target object Obj.

21. The method according to claim 20, wherein the determining the effective object comprises determining the target object Obj that has at least a nonzero value L and a smallest value D among the plurality of objects as the effective object.

22. The method according to claim 21, wherein if there are two or more objects having the smallest value D, the determining the effective object comprises determining the target object Obj that has a largest value L, as the effective object.

23. The method according to claim 22, wherein if there are two or more objects having the smallest value D and the largest value L, determining that the target object Obj that has a minimum distance K from a center of the boundary pattern of the first object to centers of the boundary patterns of the respective target objects is the effective object.

24. The method according to claim 20, wherein if there is no object overlapped in between the boundary pattern RectF of the first object curSel and the boundary pattern RectN of the target object Obj, the determining the target object Obj comprises determining that the target object Obj that has a minimum distance R from a center of the boundary pattern of the first object to closest vertexes of the boundary patterns of the respective target objects, among the objects biased toward the direction is the effective object.

25. The method according to claim 15, wherein when the arrow key input is input, the method further comprises applying the arrow key input to objects of an image frame next to an image frame of the screen displayed on the screen.

26. The method according to claim 25, further comprising storing a next image frame.

27. The method according to claim 16, wherein the arrow key input is received on the boundary pattern of the object, and the arrow key input comprises an input of a highlight moving key.

28. The method according to claim 15, wherein the arrow key input is received through at least one of a remote controller, a keyboard, a joystick, and a joy pad.