Video signal selecting method and video processing apparatus

• US 8,724,025 B2
• Filed: 02/03/2012
• Issued: 05/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Ki-hong, Choil, Young-kil
• Primary Examiner(s): Harold, Jefferey
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rahman, Mustafizur
• Application Number:
  US13/366,157
• Publication Number:
  US 20120133832A1
• Time in Patent Office: 830 Days
• Field of Search: 348/554, 348/114, 348/569, 348/570, 348/552, 348/564, 348/565, 348/567, 348/715, 348/711, 348/725, 348/734, 348/731, 725/37, 725/38, 725/47, 725/59, 715/844, 715/845
• US Class Current: 348/554
• 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 21/4221 Dedicated function buttons, e.g. for the control of an EPG, subtitles, aspect ratio, picture-in-picture or teletext
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42215 by measuring the time interval during which a key is pressed, e.g. for inputting sequences of digits when selecting a television channel
• 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 21/44016 involving splicing one content stream with another content stream, e.g. for substituting a video clip

Abstract

A video processing apparatus and a method capable of selecting various video signals are provided. The video processing apparatus includes an input unit which receives a video signal select key value by which a video signal select command to select one of the plurality of video signals is recognized; a storage unit which stores a plurality of video signal names corresponding to the plurality of video signals; and a control unit which sets a first display mode or a second display mode according to the duration of the video signal select key value, the first and second display modes indicating opposite orders in which the video signal names corresponding to the plurality of video signal units are displayed, and displays the video signal names sequentially in the set display mode. Thus, a user can conveniently select the video signal.

Claims

1. A video processing apparatus, comprising:

a plurality of video signal units for receiving a plurality of video signals comprising a broadcasting signal, the apparatus comprising;

an input unit which is equipped with a video signal select key;

a storage unit which stores a plurality of video signal names corresponding to the plurality of video signals; and

a control unit which sets a display direction of the plurality of video signal names according to a video signal select command received from the video signal select key and displays the plurality of video signal names sequentially in the set display direction.

2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control unit sets a first display mode or a second display mode according to the duration of the video signal select command received from the video signal select key, the first and second display modes indicating opposite orders in which the plurality of video signal names corresponding to the plurality of video signal units are displayed, and displays the plurality of video signal names sequentially in the set display mode.

3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the control unit controls to display the video signal names sequentially in a display order corresponding to the first display mode each time the video signal select command received from the video signal select key is received over a duration falling within a set time range.

4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein when the video signal select command is recognized, the control unit checks a currently selected and displayed one of the plurality of video signals and controls to display the video signal names sequentially in the display order corresponding to the first display mode starting from a video signal name subsequent to a current video signal name corresponding to the checked video signal.

5. The apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the control unit sets the second display mode in which the video signal names are displayed sequentially in an opposite order to a display order corresponding to the first display mode when the video signal select command received from the video signal select key is received over a duration exceeding a set time range.

6. The apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein when the video signal select command is recognized, the control unit checks a currently selected and displayed one of the plurality of video signals, and controls to display the video signal names sequentially in the opposite order to the display order corresponding to the first display mode starting from a video signal name previous to a current video signal name corresponding to the checked video signal each time the video signal select command received from the video signal select key is received over a duration falling within the set time range after the second display mode is set.

7. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a display unit;

wherein the control unit controls the display unit to display a video signal name simultaneously with a video signal corresponding to each of the sequentially displayed video signal names.

8. A method for selecting a video signal in a video processing apparatus comprising a plurality of video signal units for receiving a plurality of video signals comprising a broadcasting signal, the method comprising:

receiving a video signal select command from a video signal select key;

setting a display direction of the plurality of video signal names according to a video signal select command received from the video signal select key; and

displaying the plurality of video signal names sequentially in the set display direction.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the setting comprises setting a first display mode or a second display mode according to the duration of the video signal select command received from the video signal select key,

wherein the displaying comprises displaying the first and second display modes indicating opposite orders in which the plurality of video signal names corresponding to the plurality of video signal units are displayed, and displays the plurality of video signal names sequentially in the set display mode.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the displaying comprises displaying the video signal names sequentially in a display order corresponding to the first display mode each time the video signal select command received from the video signal select key is received over a duration falling within a set time range.

11. The method as claimed in claim 10, further comprising:

when the video signal select command is recognized, checking a currently selected and displayed one of the plurality of video signals,

wherein the displaying comprises displaying the video signal names sequentially in the display order corresponding to the first display mode starting from a video signal name subsequent to a current video signal name corresponding to the checked video signal.

12. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the setting comprises setting the second display mode in which the video signal names are displayed sequentially in an opposite order to a display order corresponding to the first display mode when the video signal select command received from the video signal select key is received over a duration exceeding a set time range.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12, further comprising:

when the video signal select command is recognized, checking a currently selected and displayed one of the plurality of video signals,

wherein the displaying comprises displaying the video signal names sequentially in the opposite order to the display order corresponding to the first display mode starting from a video signal name previous to a current video signal name corresponding to the checked video signal each time the video signal select command received from the video signal select key is received over a duration falling within the set time range after the second display mode is set.

14. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the displaying comprises displaying a video signal name simultaneously with a video signal corresponding to each of the sequentially displayed video signal names.