DISPLAY SYSTEM HAVING DISPLAY APPARATUS AND EXTERNAL INPUT APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20100079494A1
• Filed: 06/05/2009
• Published: 04/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: SUNG, Hyun-ah, BAE, Dae-gyu
• Application Number:
  US12/479,071
• Publication Number:
  US 20100079494A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/650
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• 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 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4314 for fitting data in a restricted space on the screen, e.g. EPG data in a rectangular grid

Abstract

A display system having a display apparatus and an external input apparatus, and a method of controlling the same. In the method an image is displayed on a display apparatus. A phase shift of an external input apparatus is detected. The detected phase shift is transmitted to the display apparatus, and the image displayed on the display apparatus is rotated based on the detected phase shift.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a display system to display an image, the method comprising:

displaying an image on a display apparatus;

detecting a phase shift of an external input apparatus;

transmitting information indicating the detected phase shift from the external input apparatus to the display apparatus; and

rotating the image displayed on the display apparatus based on the phase shift indicated by the received information and displaying the rotated image on the display apparatus.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the detecting the phase shift comprises detecting at least one of a rotation direction and a rotation angle of the external input apparatus on a predetermined axis of the external input apparatus.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the rotating and displaying the image comprises one of continuously changing a display angle of the image displayed on the display apparatus while the phase shift of the external input apparatus is being detected and changing the display angle of the image by predetermined angles of rotation according to changes in the rotation angle of the external input apparatus.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein the rotating and displaying the image comprises rotating the image displayed on the display apparatus in the detected rotation direction and by an angle equal to the detected rotation angle.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the rotating and displaying the image comprises scaling the image displayed on the display apparatus to adjust a size of the image displayed on the display apparatus according to a preset condition.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the scaling the image displayed on the display apparatus further comprises adjusting a size of the rotated image to be entirely displayed on the display apparatus.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the scaling the image comprises:

detecting at least one of a moving direction and a moving distance in which the external input apparatus is linearly moved; and

adjusting a size of the image displayed on the display apparatus based on the at least one of the detected moving direction and the detected moving distance.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the adjusting the size of the image displayed on the display apparatus based on the at least one of the detected moving direction and the detected moving distance comprises enlarging the size of the image if the moving direction is in a preset direction and reducing the size of the image if the moving direction is in a direction opposite to the preset direction.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the external input apparatus comprises a user input unit, and the detecting the phase shift comprises detecting a phase shift of the external input apparatus if a preset input is entered via the user input unit.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the detecting the phase shift comprises detecting a phase shift of the external input apparatus if the image displayed on the display apparatus is the same as the image displayed on the external input apparatus.

11. A display system comprising:

an external input apparatus comprising;

an external input apparatus main body; and

a sensor that detects a phase shift of the external input apparatus main body; and

a display apparatus comprising;

a communication unit that communicates with the external input apparatus;

a display unit that displays an image; and

an image processor that rotates the image displayed on the display unit based on the phase shift detected by the sensor.

12. The display system according to claim 11, wherein the sensor detects at least one of a rotation direction and a rotation angle of the external input apparatus main body on a predetermined axis of the external input apparatus.

13. The display system according to claim 12, wherein the image processor changes a display angle of the image displayed on the display unit while the phase shift is being detected and changes the display angle of the image by predetermined angles of rotation according to changes in the rotation angle of the external input apparatus main body.

14. The display system according to claim 12, wherein the external input apparatus further comprises a processor that transmits information related to the rotation direction and the rotation angle detected by the sensor to the display apparatus, and

wherein the image processor rotates the image displayed on the display unit in the rotation direction and by an angle equal to the rotation angle transmitted by the processor.

15. The display system according to claim 12, wherein the external input apparatus further comprises:

a processor that transmits a control command to the display apparatus, the control command instructing the display apparatus to rotate the image displayed on the display unit in the rotation direction and by an angle equal to the rotation angle detected by the sensor, and the image processor executes the control command.

16. The display system according to claim 11, wherein image processor scales the image to adjust a size of the image displayed on the display unit according to a preset condition.

17. The display system according to claim 11, wherein the external input apparatus further comprises a user input unit, and

wherein the sensor detects a phase shift of the external input apparatus main body if a preset input is entered via the user input unit.

18. The display system according to claim 11, wherein the external input apparatus displays an image that is the same as the image displayed on the display unit.

19. The display system according to claim 18, wherein the sensor detects a phase shift of the external input apparatus if the image that is displayed on the display unit is the same as the image displayed on the external input apparatus.

20. A display apparatus comprising:

a communication unit which communicates with an external input apparatus;

a display unit which displays an image; and

an image processor which rotates the image displayed on the display unit based on a phase shift of the external input apparatus if the communication unit receives information related to the phase shift of the external input.