METHOD FOR PROVIDING MULTI-ANGLE BROADCASTING SERVICE, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND MOBILE DEVICE USING THE SAME

• US 20120306722A1
• Filed: 05/31/2012
• Published: 12/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Dae-woong, YI, Kyu-yull
• Application Number:
  US13/484,591
• Publication Number:
  US 20120306722A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/1.2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/21805 enabling multiple viewpoints, e.g. using a plurality of cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42222 Additional components integrated in the remote control device, e.g. timer, speaker, sensors for detecting position, direction or movement of the remote control, microphone or battery charging device

Abstract

A method for providing a multi-angle service by a display apparatus. The method includes receiving a multi-angle image signal in which content is picked up from a number of different angles, displaying an image signal picked up from one angle, transmitting the image signal to a mobile device according to a user command, and when the mobile device is rotates, transmitting to the mobile device another image signal picked up from another angle corresponding to the condition of the mobile device being rotated among a plurality of angles.

Claims

1. A method for providing a multi-angle service by a display apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving a multi-angle image signal in which content is picked up from a plurality of different angles;

displaying a first image signal picked up from a first angle among the plurality of angles according to the received multi-angle image signal;

transmitting the displayed first image signal to a mobile device according to a user command; and

if the mobile device is rotated, transmitting to the mobile device another image signal picked up from another angle corresponding to a condition of the mobile device being rotated among the plurality of angles.

2. The method for providing a multi-angle service by the display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said another image signal is an image signal picked up from the angle of rotation of the mobile device or an angle adjacent to the angle of rotation.

3. The method for providing a multi-angle service by the display apparatus according to claim 1, the method further comprising:

generating at least one seamless image between the first angle and a second angle by using the first image picked up from the first angle and a second image picked up from a second angle, wherein if the mobile device is rotated, the first angle corresponds to the condition before the angle of rotation of the mobile device is changed and the second angle corresponds to the condition after the angle of rotation of the mobile device is changed; and

transmitting the generated at least one seamless image to the mobile device.

4. The method for providing a multi-angle service by the display apparatus according to claim 1, the method further comprises:

receiving information regarding the angle and a direction of rotation of the mobile device or receiving a command requesting transmission of an image signal picked up from one angle among the plurality of angles according to the angle and a direction of rotation of the mobile device.

5. The method for providing a multi-angle service by the display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display apparatus is a television and the mobile device is an MP3 player or a mobile telephone.

6. A method for providing a multi-angle service to a mobile device, the method comprising:

receiving a first image signal picked up from a first angle among a plurality of angles from a display apparatus, wherein the display apparatus receives a multi-angle image signal in which content is picked up from a plurality of different angles,

displaying the received first image signal;

detecting rotation of the mobile device;

transmitting to the display apparatus a control signal corresponding to the detected rotation of the mobile device;

receiving from the display apparatus a second image signal picked up from a second angle corresponding to the rotated mobile device among the plurality of angles; and

displaying the received second image signal.

7. The method for providing a multi-angle service to the mobile device according to claim 6,

wherein the rotated mobile device is a condition comprising at least one of the angle and a direction of rotation of the mobile device.

8. The method for providing a multi-angle service to the mobile device according to claim 6, the method further comprises:

setting a condition that corresponds to the rotated mobile device wherein positioning of the display apparatus is a reference condition,

wherein the detecting the condition comprises detecting the second angle and a direction of rotation of the mobile device from the reference condition.

9. The method for providing a multi-angle service to the mobile device according to claim 6,

wherein the control signal corresponding to a condition that indicates the rotated mobile device comprises information regarding the second angle and a direction of rotation of the mobile device or a command requesting to transmit the second image signal picked up from the second angle among the plurality of angles.

10. A display apparatus providing a multi-angle service, the display apparatus comprising:

a receiving unit which receives a multi-angle image signal in which content is picked up from a plurality of different angles;

a display unit which displays a first image signal picked up from a first angle among the plurality of angles according to the received multi-angle image signal;

a communication interface unit which transmits the first image signal to a mobile device according to a user command; and

a control unit which controls the communication interface unit to transmit a second image signal picked up from a second angle corresponding to a condition of the mobile device being rotated among the plurality of angles, when the mobile device is rotated.

11. The display apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the second image signal is an image signal picked up from the angle of rotation of the mobile device or an angle adjacent to the angle of rotation.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 10,

wherein the control unit controls the display apparatus to generate a seamless image between the first angle and the second angle by using a first image picked up from the first angle and a second image picked up from the second angle, and

wherein the first angle corresponds to a condition before the angle of rotation of the mobile device is changed and the second angle corresponds to the condition after the angle of rotation has been changed, and

wherein the control unit controls the communication interface unit to transmit the generated seamless image to the mobile device.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the communication interface unit receives information regarding the second angle and a direction of rotation of the mobile device or a command requesting transmission of the second image signal picked up from the second angle among the plurality of angles according to the second angle and a direction of rotation of the mobile device.

14. The display apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the display apparatus is a television, and the mobile device is an MP3 player or a mobile phone.

15. A mobile device with a multi-angle service, the mobile device comprising:

a communication interface unit which receives from a display apparatus a first image signal picked up from a first angle among a plurality of angles, wherein the display apparatus receives a multi-angle image signal in which content is picked up from the plurality of angles;

a display unit which displays the received first image signal;

a detection unit which detects a condition of the mobile device being rotated; and

a control unit which controls the communication interface unit to transmit a control signal corresponding to the detected condition of the mobile device being rotated, to receive from the display apparatus a second image signal picked up from a second angle corresponding to the condition of the mobile device being rotated among the plurality of angles, and which controls the display unit to display the second image signal.

16. The mobile device according to claim 15, wherein the condition of being rotated of the mobile device includes at least one of the second angle and a direction of rotation of the mobile device.

17. The mobile device according to claim 15, wherein the control unit controls to set a reference condition to a position of the mobile device when the display apparatus picks up the multi-angle image and controls the detection unit to detect the second angle and a direction of rotation of the mobile device from the reference condition.

18. The mobile device according to claim 15, wherein the control signal corresponding to the detected condition of being rotated comprises information regarding the second angle and a direction of rotation of the mobile device or a command requesting the display apparatus to transmit a second image signal picked up from the second angle among the plurality of angles according to the second angle and the direction of rotation of the mobile device.

19. A display method comprising:

displaying an image on a mobile device;

rotating the mobile device;

detecting a degree of rotation of the mobile device,

selecting by a display apparatus the image at a different angle based on the degree of rotation of the mobile device; and

displaying by the mobile device the image at the different angle on the mobile device based on the selection.

20. The display method of claim 19, wherein:

the image has same contents;

the display apparatus selects the image at a different angle based on a multi-angle image signal received from the mobile device, said multi-angle image signal provides said same contents at different angles, and

the different angle is selected by the display apparatus based on the detecting degree which comprises at least one of the angle of rotation and a direction of rotation.