CN1277384A - Video-frequency display device with thermal key function and its method - Google Patents
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Abstract
A video display apparatus having user-selected hotkey functions and a method of using them is disclosed in which a function of the video display system can be changed by a user. Information on a menu item is selected by a user from an OSD menu which the video display apparatus has stored in a memory unit as hotkey button information. The information is read from the memory unit to be executed whenever the user selects a given hotkey button. The hotkey button information may be re-set according to the user's desires, so that the user controls the functions of the video display apparatus with more ease and convenience.
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The present invention relates to have the video display devices and the method thereof of hot key function, relate to a kind of video display devices with hot key function and the method thereof of present mode that can select to change the total system of video display devices by user's hot key button specifically.
Device such as televisor, monitor etc. has various functions, and they can be conditioned according to user's intention.
For televisor, various functions are arranged, such as the volume control of color adjustment, sound signal, sound signal noise elimination etc., for monitor, various functions are arranged, such as screen size adjusting, screen position adjusting, Display Contrast/brightness regulation, sound signal noise elimination etc., these functions can be controlled by the user.
Promptly, most of video display devices have one or more buttons, so that the user controls them at above-mentioned functions, these buttons are used to output signal, are used for carrying out immediately the above-mentioned functions of control of video display device, and perhaps these buttons are used to output signal, be used for showing on the display screen (OSD, on-screendisplay) menu screen has one or more menu items on its each, makes the user can the control of video display device.
Simultaneously, along with the development of technology, more kinds of functions of video display devices are added into, and wherein much can be regulated immediately by the user.
Therefore, by using above-mentioned button to realize that immediately the method for above-mentioned functions has problem when needing additional buttons because of the needs additional function.
Therefore, function control method is realized with the OSD menu approach in video display devices, rather than realizes with traditional button method.
Here, with reference to figure 1 above-mentioned OSD menu approach is described.
If the user presses the OSD button on the front panel of video display devices, as shown in Figure 1, then this video display devices shows the OSD menu screen, has shown the OSD menu item on it, and a cursor is placed on the predetermined menu item.
Correspondingly, for user's choice menus item on the OSD menu screen, the user should be by arrow button on video display devices or the input equipment that provides in addition, the current location of moving cursor be provided.
That is, for the user selects " AUDIO MUTE (audio mute) " on the screen shown in Figure 1A, the user should move down cursor three times from the current location of cursor by using arrow button.
If behind the menu item of " AUDIO MUTE ", carry out an action command at moving cursor as mentioned above, then on video display devices, shown the OSD menu screen shown in Figure 1B, the audio sound by loudspeaker output is by noise reduction simultaneously.
Yet because the function of each video display devices is when being added into, the OSD menu display method should have additional OSD menu item, in the type of button display packing, so the OSD menu screen has one or more OSD sub-menu screen that will show.
Therefore, if one of user's OSD menu item by using video display devices rebulids the environment of video display devices, then have problem, because the user repeats to press arrow button to select the OSD menu item, so be used to select the time cycle of OSD menu item to be elongated.
In addition,, should reduce number, but because of multimedia cause, the function of video display devices is tending towards increasing at the menu selector button of the front of conventional video display device from designing consideration.Like this, exist problem, when emphasizing the design of video display devices, the user may feel inconvenience owing to function control method, perhaps when user friendly function control method is used, owing to the increase of the button that is equipped with according to the function that increases, it is thick that the design of video display devices can become.
Correspondingly, in order to address the above problem, an object of the present invention is to provide a kind of video display devices and method thereof with hot key function, this video display devices has some hot key buttons, if the user selects a hot key button as the frequent item of selecting of user from some of the function that is used for the control of video display device, the function of can enough users setting is controlled this video display devices, at the hot key button, this video display devices is transfused to.
To achieve these goals, a kind of video display devices with hot key function is used for button according to the user and is chosen on the screen the one or more OSD menus of output and is used for by using the pushbutton unit of being handled by the user to select a menu item to control total system from the OSD menu.This video display devices of the present invention comprises: also comprise the described pushbutton unit of hot key button, be used for exporting key signals corresponding to selected OSD optional items of menu respectively according to user's selection; Memory cell has the information about the OSD menu item for described hot key button settings; The OSD unit is used for exporting the OSD character display signal in response to the control signal of importing from the outside and shows OSD character with being used at screen to video processing unit; And control module, if be used for having selected a button of described pushbutton unit by described user, then read be stored in the described memory cell about the information of OSD menu item and be used to control described total system.
In addition, to achieve these goals, a kind of video display devices, has hot key function, be used for being chosen in the one or more OSD menu items of output on the screen according to user's button, select a menu item to control total system by using from described OSD menu item with being used for by the pushbutton unit of user's manipulation, this video display devices of the present invention comprises: also comprise the described pushbutton unit of hot key button, be used for exporting key signals corresponding to selected OSD optional items of menu respectively according to user's selection; Memory cell has the information about the OSD menu item for described hot key button settings; The OSD unit is used for exporting the OSD character display signal in response to the control signal of importing from the outside and shows OSD character with being used at screen to video processing unit; And control module, be used for if when pressing the hot key button by described user, if draw and passed through the preset time cycle by counting time cycle that described hot key button is pressed, the information corresponding to current selected OSD menu item of then judging whether is with consistent corresponding to the information of the OSD menu item of storing in described memory cell, if described two kinds of information are inconsistent each other with being used for, then make described memory cell have information about current selected described OSD menu item.
To achieve these goals, a kind of video display devices has some hot key functions, and described device comprises: a monitor; One is installed in the front panel on the described monitor; With some hot key buttons, be installed on the precalculated position of described front panel.
To achieve these goals, a kind of hot key button settings method that is used for video display devices, may further comprise the steps: (1) judges whether to have selected a menu item by the user from the OSD menu; (2) if selected described menu item, then export the OSD menu screen; (3) judge whether that described user has set the hot key button information about menu item on described OSD menu screen; (4) if described user has set the described hot key button information about described menu item, then change the described hot key button information of hot key button information of in memory cell, storing on described menu item, setting, and the hot key button information that storage sets in described memory cell.
In addition, to achieve these goals, a kind of hot key button settings method that is used for video display devices may further comprise the steps: judge whether that (A) user has selected a hot key button; (B), then judge whether to be present in the memory cell by the hot key button information that described user sets if described user has selected described hot key button; (C) if the described hot key button information of being set by described user exists, then read the described hot key button information of setting by described user, if perhaps described hot key button information does not exist, then read in the described memory cell hot key button information as default settings; (D) in function corresponding to the described hot key button information that reads, control total system or demonstration OSD menu screen.
By preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the annexed drawings, above-mentioned purpose of the present invention and other advantage will become clearer, in the accompanying drawing:
Fig. 1 is used to explain the screen view of selecting and handling according to the OSD menu item of prior art;
Fig. 2 is the figure that is used for the structure of the schematically illustrated video display devices that has hot key function according to an embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 3 is used for explaining the process flow diagram that is used for according to an embodiment of the invention in the method for storer replacement hot key button information;
Fig. 4 is used to explain the process flow diagram of the disposal route when the hot key button is selected according to an embodiment of the invention; With
Fig. 5 is the screen view that is used to explain embodiments of the invention.
Describe the preferred embodiments of the present invention in detail below with reference to accompanying drawing.
Fig. 2 is the figure that is used for the structure of the schematically illustrated video display devices that has hot key function according to an embodiment of the invention, and this embodiment is described below.
That is, pushbutton unit 10 has one or more buttons at least, is installed on the main body such as the video display devices of televisor, monitor etc.
In an embodiment of the present invention, be typically power key.
Pushbutton unit 10 can also comprise some hot key buttons, and each hot key button has the information of being selected by the user about one of OSD menu item.
If select an OSD menu item to show the OSD menu on screen by pushbutton unit 10, then control module 30 output OSD character display signals are to OSD unit 40.
In addition, if after OSD menu screen (the OSD menu is presented on the screen) is gone up the choice menus item, selected a hot key button by pushbutton unit 10, then control module 30 changes the hot key button information of storage in the memory cell 20, and storage is about the hot key button information of the change of the OSD menu item of current selection.
In addition, if select the hot key button by pushbutton unit 10, then control module 30 is controlled total system by reading the hot key button information that is stored in the memory cell 20.At this moment, if without any the information about selected hot key button, then control module 30 is controlled total system by the information about the OSD menu item that reads default setting.
If embodiments of the invention are restricted to monitor, then control module 30 does not illustrate in the drawings, but video card input chrominance signal and the synchronizing signal of control module 30 from be built in computing machine, the video processing unit 50 that control is described later, if embodiments of the invention are restricted to televisor, then control module 30 inputs are by the broadcast singal of antenna reception, with control of video processing unit 50.
The OSD character signal is exported according to the OSD character display signal from control module 30 inputs in OSD unit 40.
More specifically describe the storage hot key button information in the video display devices that has said structure according to an embodiment of the invention below with reference to accompanying drawing and select the disposal route of hot key button.
The control module 30 of An Zhuaning mainly contains two kinds of patterns in an embodiment of the present invention, a kind of is the setting pattern, the OSD menu of OSD menu user frequent access that is used for setting video display devices is as the hot key button information, another kind is a tupe, be used for if during the hot key button information that the user selects to set, based on hot key button information control total system.
At first, with reference to the setting pattern of the 30 pairs of hot key button informations in figure 3 description control unit.If the user is used to export the OSD menu that is contained on the video display devices by next button (not shown), then the button received signal of control module 30 from being pressed exported the OSD character display signal to OSD unit 40, so that show the OSD menu on screen.
OSD unit 40 receives the OSD character display signal, and output OSD character signal is to video processing unit 50, and video processing unit 50 is added to vision signal with the OSD character signal, so that show OSD menu (S320) on screen.
Therefore, control module 30 judges whether that the user has selected a menu item (S330) by pushbutton unit 10 from the OSD menu that is presented on the screen.If judged result is to have selected a menu item, then control module 30 judges whether to have selected hot key button (S340).As the judged result of step S340, if selected the hot key button, then control module 30 changes the hot key button information that is stored in the memory cell 20 and is the information about the OSD menu item of current setting, storage institute's change information (S350).
If as the judged result of step S340, do not select the hot key button, then control module 30 reads and carries out information (S370) corresponding to the current setting of OSD menu item from memory cell 20, with the whole functional of control of video display device.
If judged result as step S330, do not comprise the selected OSD menu item of exporting from screen of OSD menu, then control module 30 checks whether import cancelling signal by the user, perhaps whether has passed through the no signal cycle of setting input time, judges whether to have done cancellation (S360).
If as the judged result of step S360, done cancellation, then control module 30 stops its execution.
The tupe of the control module 30 that is used for the hot key button is described with reference to figure 4 simultaneously.
At first, control module 30 judges whether to have selected hot key button (S410) by the user.If selected the hot key button as judged result, then control module 30 judges whether to have set the information (S420) about the hot key button in memory cell 20.
If as judged result, there is information about the hot key button, then control module 30 reads information (S430) about the hot key button from memory cell 20, according to the operation of carrying out corresponding to the signal of this information the total system that will control (S450).
If, judged result as step S420, do not have the information about replacement hot key button in memory cell 20, then the control module 30 of video display devices reads out in the hot key button information (S440) of default settings in the factory, and the total system that control is carried out its operation (S450).
If, judged result as step S420, do not exist in the hot key button information of resetting in the memory cell 20, then the control module 30 of video display devices reads out in the hot key button information (S440) of default settings in the factory from memory cell 20, in response to this hot key button information, the total system that control is carried out its operation (S450).
Fig. 5 is the screen view that is used to explain embodiments of the invention.As shown in Figure 5, if select a button the button of user from pushbutton unit 10, be used to export the OSD menu screen, then control module 30 is controlled OSD unit 40, so that the OSD menu is presented on the screen, shown in Fig. 5 A.
At this moment, export under the state on the screen at aforesaid OSD menu, select a hot key button by the user, control module 30 changes the hot key button information of setting in memory cell 20 be " AUDIO MUTE " information, and store the hot key button information that is changed.
As mentioned above, when the hot key button information is set to " AUDIO MUTE ", if the user has selected the hot key button when video display devices is just being carried out any operation, shown in Fig. 5 B, then " AUDIOMUTE " message is output, and is eliminated the noise by the sound that the loudspeaker of video display devices is exported.
In addition, if, then can provide a plurality of sub-screens owing to the multiple function of video display devices has increased the OSD menu item.Can control desirable OSD menu screen in a plurality of sub-screens, be stored in the memory cell 20 as the hot key button information.
Correspondingly, in above-mentioned the present invention, if the user wants to control in OSD menu screen or the menu item frequent use and to the video display devices necessary function, then the user sets the hot key button information does not have other OSD menu screen with the OSD menu screen of show wishing, the effect that provides of this video display devices is that the user can be easier and the function of control of video display device easily like this.
Although described the preferred embodiments of the present invention, but it should be appreciated by those skilled in the art, the invention is not restricted to described preferred embodiment, under the situation of the spirit and scope of the present invention that do not break away from appended claims and limited, can change and revise the present invention.
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1. video display devices, has hot key function, be used for button according to the user and be chosen on the screen the one or more OSD menus of output and be used for by using the pushbutton unit of being handled by the user to select a menu item to control total system from described OSD menu, this device comprises:
The described pushbutton unit that also comprises the hot key button is used for exporting key signals corresponding to selected OSD optional items of menu respectively according to user's selection;
Memory cell has the information about the OSD menu item for described hot key button settings;
The OSD unit is used for exporting the OSD character display signal in response to the control signal of importing from the outside and shows OSD character with being used at screen to video processing unit; With
Control module, if be used for having selected a button of described pushbutton unit by described user, then read be stored in the described memory cell about the information of OSD menu item and be used to control described total system.
2. video display devices as claimed in claim 1, wherein the described OSD menu of being judged by described control module shows one or more OSD menu items on screen.
3. video display devices, has hot key function, be used for button according to the user and be chosen on the screen the one or more OSD menu items of output and be used for by using the pushbutton unit of being handled by the user to select a menu item to control total system from described OSD menu item, this device comprises:
The described pushbutton unit that also comprises the hot key button is used for exporting key signals corresponding to selected OSD optional items of menu respectively according to user's selection;
Memory cell has the information about the OSD menu item for described hot key button settings;
The OSD unit is used for exporting the OSD character display signal in response to the control signal of importing from the outside and shows OSD character with being used at screen to video processing unit; With
Control module, be used for if when pressing the hot key button by described user, if draw and passed through the preset time cycle by counting time cycle that described hot key button is pressed, the information corresponding to current selected OSD menu item of then judging whether is with consistent corresponding to the information of the OSD menu item of storing in described memory cell, if described two kinds of information are inconsistent each other with being used for, then make described memory cell have information about current selected described OSD menu item.
4. video display devices as claimed in claim 3, wherein the information about the hot key button of being stored by described control module in described memory cell is specific OSD menu item or the OSD menu screen with one or more OSD menu items.
5. a video display devices has some hot key functions, and described device comprises:
One monitor;
One is installed in the front panel on the described monitor; With
Some hot key buttons are installed on the precalculated position of described front panel.
6. video display devices as claimed in claim 5, wherein said hot key button is installed in the lower part of described front panel.
7. hot key button settings method that is used for video display devices may further comprise the steps:
(1) judges whether to have selected a menu item from the OSD menu by the user;
(2) if selected described menu item, then export the OSD menu screen;
(3) judge whether that described user has set the hot key button information about menu item on described OSD menu screen; With
(4) if described user has set the described hot key button information about described menu item, then change the described hot key button information of hot key button information of in memory cell, storing on described menu item, setting, and the hot key button information that storage sets in described memory cell.
8. hot key button settings method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the described hot key button information that sets in step (4) is OSD menu screen or the one or more OSD menu item with specific OSD menu item.
9. hot key button settings method that is used for video display devices may further comprise the steps:
(A) judge whether that the user has selected a hot key button;
(B), then judge whether to be present in the memory cell by the hot key button information that described user sets if described user has selected described hot key button;
(C) if the described hot key button information of being set by described user exists, then read the described hot key button information of setting by described user, if perhaps described hot key button information does not exist, then read in the described memory cell hot key button information as default settings;
(D) in function corresponding to the described hot key button information that reads, control total system or demonstration OSD menu screen.
10. hot key button settings method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the described hot key button information in step (2) is specific OSD menu item or the OSD menu screen with one or more OSD menu items.
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