DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF HIGHLIGHTING OBJECT ON IMAGE DISPLAYED BY A DISPLAY APPARATUS

• US 20150324092A1
• Filed: 05/06/2015
• Published: 11/12/2015
• 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
• Granted Patent: US 10,678,408 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 configured to display an image comprising 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 among the plurality of objects in a direction associated with the highlight moving key to a target object among the plurality of objects; and

a controller configured to;

determine the target object that satisfies a predetermined condition as the target object among the plurality of objects biased from the first object toward the direction associated with the highlight moving key, and

move the highlight from the first object to the target object.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of objects within the image 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 controller is further configured to:

if a horizontal axis extended from a vertex of a rectangular screen in a horizontal direction is an X-axis and a vertical axis extended in a vertical direction is 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 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.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the controller is further configured to determine an effective object of the plurality of objects biased toward the direction associated with the highlight moving key according to:

if the direction is a left direction, the object is the effective object when RectN.r<

RectF.r and RectN.l<

RectF.l;

if the direction is a right direction, the object is the effective object when RectF.l<

RectN.l and RectF.r<

Rect.r;

if the direction is an up direction, the object is the effective object when RectN.d<

RectF.d and RectN.u<

RectF.u; and

if the direction is 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 an object curSel currently marked with the highlight.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the predetermined condition comprises 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 object curSel currently marked with the highlight 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 object curSel currently marked with the highlight and a corresponding side of the target object Obj.

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

8. The display apparatus according to claim 7, wherein if there are two or more objects having the smallest value D, the controller is configured to determine that the target object that has the 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 controller is further configured to determine that the target object 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 object curSel currently marked with the highlight and the boundary pattern RectN of the target object Obj, the controller is configured to determine that the target object 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 predetermined direction is the effective object.

11. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the highlight moving key is input, the controller is further configured to apply the input of the highlight moving key to objects of an image frame next to the image frame 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 highlight is marked on the boundary pattern of the object.

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

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

displaying an image comprising a plurality of objects;

receiving an input of a highlight moving key in order to move a highlight from a first object among the plurality of objects in a direction associated with the highlight moving key to a target object among the plurality of objects; and

determining the target object that satisfies a predetermined condition as the target object among the plurality of objects biased from the first object toward the direction associated with the highlight moving key, and

moving the highlight from the first object to the target object.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the plurality of objects within the image 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 if a horizontal axis extended from a vertex of a rectangular screen in a horizontal direction is an X-axis and a vertical axis extended in a vertical direction is 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 associated with the highlight moving key according to:

if the direction is a left direction, the object is the effective object when RectN.r<

RectF.r and RectN.l<

RectF.l;

if the direction is a right direction, the object is the effective object when RectF.l<

RectN.l and RectF.r<

Rect.r;

if the direction is an up direction, the object is the effective object when RectN.d<

RectF.d and RectN.u<

RectF.u; and

if the direction is 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 an object curSel currently marked with the highlight.

20. The method according to claim 19, wherein the predetermined condition comprises a comparison of a value L and a value D of the target object Obj,

wherein the value L is the length of overlapping in a direction between the boundary pattern RectF of the object curSel currently marked with the highlight 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 object curSel currently marked with the highlight 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 that has at least a nonzero value L and the smallest value D among the target 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 that has the 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 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 object curSel currently marked with the highlight and the boundary pattern RectN of the target object Obj, the determining the second object comprises determining that the target object 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 predetermined direction is the effective object.

25. The method according to claim 15, wherein when the highlight moving key is input, the determining the second object comprises applying the input of the highlight moving key to objects of an image frame next to the image frame displayed on the display.

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

27. The method according to claim 16, wherein the highlight is marked on the boundary pattern of the object.

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

29. A method of manipulating a highlight displayed on a display, the method comprising:

displaying a plurality of objects on the display, wherein at least one of the plurality of objects is highlighted;

receiving an input selecting a position on the display of a target object among the plurality of objects;

comparing a position of the highlighted at lest one of the plurality of objects with the positions of each of the plurality of objects;

determining a next highlighted object according to the position of the highlighted at least one of the plurality of objects, the position of the target object, and the positions of the objects on the display based on the result of the comparing; and

moving the highlight from the highlighted at least one of the plurality of objects to the next highlighted object.