Display Device and Arrangement Method of OSD Switches

• US 20120001942A1
• Filed: 12/27/2006
• Published: 01/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: Abe, Masatoshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,030,497 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/650
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1671 Special purpose buttons or auxiliary keyboards, e.g. retractable mini keypads, keypads or buttons that remain accessible at closed laptop G06F1/1666 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/08 Arrangements within a display terminal for setting, manually or automatically, display parameters of the display terminal
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0492 Change of orientation of the displayed image, e.g. upside-down, mirrored
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092

Abstract

A display device in the invention comprises an OSP section and OSD switches 10 configured to include a plurality of switches for performing various kinds of setting operations using the OSD section. In OSD switches 10, switches 10a and 10b are disposed on a right side of a front bezel 2 and switches 10c and 10d are disposed on a lower side of the front bezel 2. By that, the OSD switches can be disposed so that a switch operation can be visually performed without an uncomfortable feeling, without increasing the thickness of a front bezel even if the front bezel is narrow.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

On Screen Display section; and

a plurality of OSD switches performing various kinds of setting operations using the On Screen Display section,

wherein the OSD switches are disposed to be divided into two sides of a front bezel surrounding a display screen of the display device.

2. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein the OSD switches are disposed to be divided into two adjacent sides of the front bezel.

3. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein the OSD switches are configured by switches for a direction of upper, lower, left, and right directions or configured by the switches for the direction and a switch other than for the direction.

4. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein the display device is configured to be rotatable in left and right directions within a plane parallel to the display screen by a rotation mechanism.

5. The display device according to claim 4, further comprising:

a control section exchanging operation functions of the OSD switches disposed on the front bezel when the display device has been rotated by the rotation mechanism.

6. The display device according to claim 4,

wherein the OSD switches include each switch for a direction of upper, lower, left, and right directions, and

further comprising a control section exchanging operation functions of each switch for the direction when the display screen has been rotated by the rotation mechanism.

7. The display device according to claim 4,

wherein the OSD switches include a switch for a direction of upper, lower, left, and right directions and a switch for function, and

further comprising a control section exchanging operation functions of the switch for the direction and the switch for function when the display screen has been rotated by the rotation mechanism.

8. The display device according to, claim 1 further comprising:

a section displaying key guide of the OSD switches on the display screen.

9. The display device according to claim 3, further comprising:

a section displaying key guide of the OSD switches on the display screen.

10. The display device according to claim 6, further comprising:

a section displaying key guide of the OSD switches on the display screen.

11. The display device according to claim 7, further comprising:

a section displaying key guide of the OSD switches on the display screen.

12. The display device according to claim 8, further comprising:

a section changing contents of display of the key guide corresponding to operation functions of the OSD switches change according to the type and set value of an OSD setting operation.

13. The display device according to claim 9, further comprising:

a section changing contents of display of the key guide corresponding to operation functions of the OSD switches change according to the type and set value of an OSD setting operation.

14. The display device according to claim 10, further comprising:

a section changing contents of display of the key guide corresponding to operation functions of the OSD switches change according to the type and set value of an OSD setting operation.

15. The display device according to claim 11, further comprising:

a section changing contents of display of the key guide corresponding to operation functions of the OSD switches change according to the type and set value of an OSD setting operation.

16. The display device according to claim 4, further comprising:

a determination section determining a rotation state of the display device by the rotation mechanism.

17. The display device according to claim 6, further comprising:

a determination section determining a rotation state of the display device by the rotation mechanism.

18. The display device according to claim 7, further comprising:

a determination section determining a rotation state of the display device by the rotation mechanism.

20. The display device according to claim 2,

wherein the OSD switches are configured by switches for a direction of upper, lower, left, and right directions or configured by the switches for the direction and a switch other than for the direction.

19. An arrangement method of OSD switches in a display device comprising an OSD section and a plurality of OSD switches performing various kinds of setting operations using the OSD section, comprising:

disposing the OSD switches to be divided into two sides of a front bezel surrounding a display screen.