DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING USER INTERFACE THEREOF

• US 20100146440A1
• Filed: 06/15/2009
• Published: 06/10/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: SEONG, Hye-young, BAE, Hee-jeong
• Granted Patent: US 8,819,588 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/810
• 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 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration

Abstract

Disclosed are a display apparatus which moves a widget on a screen of a TV and a method of displaying a user interface thereof. The method of displaying a user interface including: displaying a grid with irregular intervals on a display unit; and displaying an icon on the display unit to correspond to the displayed grid. With this, a widget is capable of moving corresponding to a grid displayed on a screen of a TV.

Claims

1. A method of displaying a user interface comprising:

displaying a grid with irregular intervals, on a display unit; and

displaying an icon on the display unit, based on the displayed grid.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the displaying the grid comprises displaying at an edge portion of the display unit, first grid lines that are more closely spaced together than second grid lines at a center portion of the display unit.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising determining icon disposition history, wherein the displaying the grid comprises displaying at a region with high icon disposition history, first grid lines that are more closely spaced together than second grid lines at another region with low icon disposition history.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the icon is formed in a widget mode.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the icon is positioned based on the grid.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the icon is moved by a direction key of a remote control.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the icon is moved by a direction signal received from a pointing device.

8. A display apparatus comprising:

a display unit;

a user interface generator which generates user interface information; and

a controller which controls the user interface generator to display on the display unit, a grid with irregular intervals and an icon that is displayed based on the grid.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the controller controls the user interface generator to display at an edge portion of the display unit, first grid lines that are more closely spaced together than second grid lines at a center portion of the display unit.

10. The display apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the controller controls the user interface generator to display at a region with high icon disposition history, first grid lines that are more closely spaced together than second grid lines at another region with low icon disposition history.

11. The display apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the user interface generator generates the icon in a widget mode.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the controller controls the user interface generator to position the icon based on the grid, according to an instruction of a user.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 12, further comprising an instruction receiver which receives a direction signal from a remote control comprising a direction key, wherein the controller moves the icon based on the direction signal of the direction key of the remote control, received at the instruction receiver.

14. The display apparatus according to claim 12, further comprising an instruction receiver which receives a direction signal from a pointing device, wherein the controller moves the icon based on the direction signal of the pointing device received at the instruction receiver.

15. A method of displaying a user interface, the method comprising:

generating a grid comprising a grid line interval, and

positioning a displayed icon based on grid points of the grid, the grid points being based on the grid line interval,

wherein the grid line interval is set based on a frequency of icon placement.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the grid line interval is at a region of the grid and the frequency of icon placement is a number of times icons have been positioned at the region.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein an amount of the grid line interval is inversely proportional to the frequency of icon placement.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the grid line interval is a first grid line interval and the frequency of icon placement is a first frequency of icon placement,

the grid further comprising a second grid line interval based on a second frequency of icon placement, that is greater than the first grid line interval,

wherein the first frequency of icon placement is greater than the second frequency of icon placement.