Display apparatus and user interface screen providing method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9247303-B2
Application number	US-201414274287-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 9, 2014
Priority date	May 10, 2013
Publication date	Jan 26, 2016
Grant date	Jan 26, 2016

Abstract

A display apparatus comprising a display configured to display a plurality of spaces in a form of a polyhedron is provided. The plurality of spaces each correspond to a different category. The apparatus displays a rotatable Graphical User Interface (GUI), a user interface is configured to receive a user interaction for the GUI, and a controller is configured to, when one of the plurality of spaces in a form of a polyhedron is selected as the GUI is rotated according to the user interaction, control to display a selected space as a main space, and display at least one content-related information included in a category corresponding to the selected space.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A display apparatus comprising:
a display configured to display a rotatable Graphic User Interface (GUI) which has a plurality of spaces in a form of a polyhedron, each of the plurality of spaces corresponding to a different information category;
a user interface configured to receive a user interaction for the GUI; and
a controller configured to, when one of the plurality of spaces in the form of the polyhedron is selected according to the received user interaction, control to display the selected space as a main space, and display at least one content-related information included in a category corresponding to the selected space, wherein
the rotatable GUI comprises a path area disposed in a center of the GUI, and the plurality of spaces, each in a form of a cube, are connected to each other surrounding the path area, and spaced apart from each other.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the rotatable GUI comprises at least one
icon which represents the at least one content-related information included in the category corresponding to the plurality of spaces in the form of the polyhedron respectively.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the controller displays a plurality of screens on a first area of a main screen of the display apparatus, and the rotatable GUI on a second area of the main screen according to a predetermined event, and when at least one icon included in the GUI is selected, controls to playback a content corresponding to the selected icon on one of the plurality of screens.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the controller controls to display the at least one content-related information included in the category corresponding to the selected space as the GUI in the form of the polyhedron.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the controller controls to display a guide
GUI which guides an operation state of the GUI according to a predetermined event.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the guide GUI is an animation user interface (UI) in which a symbolic shape of the GUI rotates.

7. The display apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the controller controls to display a user authentication screen, and display differently at least one of category information and the at least one content-related information included in each category according to user information which is input through the user authentication screen.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the different category comprises at least
one of a category of watching television (TV) in real time, a category based on video on demand (VOD) content, a category based on sharing of Simple Notification Service (SNS) content, a category of providing an application, and a category of personal content.

9. A method of providing a user interface (UI) screen of a display apparatus, the method comprising:
displaying a rotatable Graphic User Interface (GUI) which has a plurality of spaces in a form of a polyhedron, each of the plurality of spaces corresponding to a different information category;
receiving a user interaction for the GUI; and
when one of the plurality of spaces in the form of the polyhedron is selected, according to the received user interaction, displaying the selected space as a main space, and displaying at least one content-related information included in a category corresponding to the selected space wherein
the rotatable GUI comprises a path area disposed in a center of the GUI, and the plurality of spaces, each in a form of a cube, are connected to each other surrounding the path area, and spaced apart from each other.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the rotatable GUI comprises at least one icon which represents the at least one content-related information included in the category corresponding to the plurality of spaces in the form of the polyhedron respectively.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
displaying a plurality of screens on a first area of a main screen of the display apparatus, and the rotatable GUI on a second area of the main screen according to a predetermined event; and
when at least one icon included in the GUI is selected, playing back a content corresponding to the selected icon on one of the plurality of screens.

12. The method of claim 9 , wherein the displaying comprises displaying at least one content-related information included in the category corresponding to the selected space as the GUI in the form of the polyhedron.

13. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
displaying a guide GUI which guides an operation state of the GUI according to a predetermined event.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the guide GUI is an animation user interface (UI) in which a symbolic shape of the GUI rotates.

15. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
displaying a user authentication screen,
and the displaying comprises displaying differently at least one of category information and the at least one content-related information included in each category according to user information which is input through the user authentication screen.

16. The method of claim 9 , wherein the different category comprises at least one of a category of watching television (TV) in real time, a category based on video on demand (VOD) content, a category based on sharing of Simple Notification Service (SNS) content, a category of providing an application, and a category of personal content.

17. A method of providing a UI screen of a display apparatus, the method comprising:
displaying a rotatable Graphical User Interface (GUI) which has a plurality of spaces in a form of a polyhedron,
wherein each of the plurality of spaces comprises a first wall, a second wall and a third wall,
wherein each of the plurality of spaces corresponds to a different category of information and,
wherein the rotatable GUI comprises a path area disposed in a center of the GUI, and the plurality of spaces, each in a form of a cube, are connected to each other surrounding the path area, and spaced apart from each other.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the polyhedron is star-shaped.

19. The method of claim 17 , wherein the categories of information comprises at least one of real-time television (TV) shows, video on demand (VOD) content, Simple Notification Service (SNS) content, an application, and personal content.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Phang Joon-Ho
• Moon Joo-Sun
• Kim Hong-Pyo
• Park Yi-Sak
• Bangle Christopher E

Classifications

• H04N21/4312

  involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations · CPC title

• H04N21/472

  End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content {(end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612)} · CPC title

• H04N21/478 Primary

  Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application · CPC title

• G06F3/04817

  using icons (graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34) · CPC title

• H04N21/4882

  for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders (arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895) · CPC title