Display device and display device control method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12301913-B2
Application number	US-202318538286-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 13, 2023
Priority date	Sep 17, 2021
Publication date	May 13, 2025
Grant date	May 13, 2025

Abstract

A display device comprises a display unit, a communication unit and a processor, which identifies, based on an IR signal received through the communication unit, whether there is a pairing history of a remote controller and the display device, identifies whether there is a Bluetooth connection between the display device and the remote controller, counts a number of times the Bluetooth connection had been cut off between the display device and the remote controller, and controls, based on the counted number of times the Bluetooth connection had been cut off, the display unit so that a user interface (UI) for pairing with the remote controller is displayed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A display device comprising:
a display unit;
a communication unit; and
a processor configured to:
receive an InfraRed (IR) signal from a remote controller through the communication unit, the IR signal including identification information of the display device;
identify whether there is a pairing history of a pairing the remote controller with the display device based on the identification information;
based on the identifying that there is the pairing history, identify whether the pairing was made using a Bluetooth connection; and
count a number of times that the pairing using the Bluetooth connection had been cut off based on the pairing history; and
based on identifying that the pairing between the display device and the remote controller is required based on the counted number of times, control the display unit to display a user interface (UI) to pair with the remote controller.

2. The display device of claim 1 ,
wherein the UI comprises:
information to guide a user instruction that needs to be input into the remote controller to pair with the remote controller, and

the processor is further configured to:
based on the counted number of times being greater than or equal to a predetermined number, control the display unit to display the UI for the pairing with the remote controller.

3. The display device of claim 1 ,
wherein the processor is configured to:
acquire a first identification value generated by the remote controller based on the pairing history;
generate a second identification value based on the identification information of the display device; and
identify whether the first identification value and the second identification value coincide to identify the pairing history of the pairing between the display device and the remote controller.

4. The display device of claim 2 ,
wherein the processor is configured to:
periodically identify whether there is the Bluetooth connection between the display device and the remote controller; and
based on the identifying that there is the Bluetooth connection between the display device and the remote controller, initialize the counted number of times.

5. The display device of claim 4 ,
wherein the UI further comprises:
information indicating that pairing with the remote controller is being performed, and

the processor is further configured to:
based on the identifying that the pairing connection between the display device and the remote controller had been cut off based on the counted number of times, transmit an IR signal to request a pairing connection with the display device to the remote controller through the communication unit.

6. The display device of claim 3 ,
wherein the processor is configured to:
based on the identifying that the first identification value and the second identification value do not coincide, transmit an IR signal to request a pairing connection with the display device to the remote controller; and
control the display unit to display a UI including information indicating that pairing with the remote controller is being performed.

7. The display device of claim 3 ,
wherein the remote controller is configured to:
identify whether there is the display device having the pairing history with the remote controller; and
based on the identifying that there is the display device having the pairing history with the remote controller, identify whether there is the Bluetooth connection with the display device, and based on the identifying that the Bluetooth connection with the display device had been cut off, generate the first identification value, and transmit the IR signal including the first identification value and a control signal corresponding to a control instruction input into the remote controller to the display device.

8. The display device of claim 7 ,
wherein the processor is configured to:
identify whether the remote controller has the pairing history with the display device based on the first identification value; and
control an operation of the display device based on the control signal.

9. A control method of a display device, the method comprising:
receiving an IR signal including identification information of the display device, from a remote controller;
identifying whether there is a pairing history of a pairing of the remote controller with the display device based on the identification information of the display device;
based on the identifying that there is the pairing history of the pairing of the remote controller and the display device, identifying whether is the pairing was made using a Bluetooth connection;
counting a number of times that the Bluetooth connection between the display device and the remote controller had been cut off based on the pairing history; and
based on the identifying that the pairing between the display device and the remote controller is required based on the counted number of times that the Bluetooth connection has been cut off, displaying a user interface (UI) to pair with the remote controller.

10. The control method of claim 9 ,
wherein the UI further comprises:
information to guide a user instruction that needs to be input into the remote controller to pair with the remote controller, and

the displaying the UI comprises:
based on the counted number of times being greater than or equal to a predetermined number, displaying the UI for a pairing with the remote controller.

11. The control method of claim 9 ,
wherein the identifying whether there is the pairing history of being paired comprises:
acquiring a first identification value generated based on the identified pairing history;
generating a second identification value based on the identification information of the display device; and
identifying whether the first identification value and the second identification value coincide to identify the pairing history of the pairing between the display device and the remote controller.

12. The control method of claim 10 ,
wherein the identifying whether there is the Bluetooth connection comprises:
periodically identifying whether there is the Bluetooth connection between the display device and the remote controller; and
based on the identifying that there is the Bluetooth connection between the display device and the remote controller, initializing the counted number of times.

13. The control method of claim 12 ,
wherein the UI further comprises:
information indicating that pairing with the remote controller is being performed, and

the control method further comprises:
based on the identifying that the pairing connection between the display device and the remote controller had been cut off based on the counted number of times that the Bluetooth connection had been cut off, transmitting the IR signal to request a pairing connection with the display device to the remote controller.

14. The control method of claim 11 , further comprising:
based on the identifying that the first identification value and the second identification value do not coincide, transmitting the IR signal to request a pairing connection with the display device to the remote controller; and
displaying the UI comprising information indicating that pairing with the remote controller is being performed.

15. The control method of claim 11 ,
wherein the remote controller is configured to:
identify whether there is the display device having the pairing history; and
based on the identifying that there is the display device having the pairing history of the pairing with the remote controller, identify whether there

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Song Kihyun
• Kim Kwanyoung
• Kim Minsup
• Yoon Sukhoon
• Lee Wonjae
• Lee Jongkeun

Classifications

• H04W76/19

  Connection re-establishment · CPC title

• H04N21/41265

  having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device (unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204) · CPC title

• H04N21/42221

  Transmission circuitry, e.g. infrared [IR] or radio frequency [RF] · CPC title

• H04N21/4363

  Adapting the video stream to a specific local network, e.g. a Bluetooth® network · CPC title

• H04N21/485

  End-user interface for client configuration · CPC title