KR20140089475A - Display apparatus and Method for providing User Interface thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided are a display device and a UI providing method thereof. The UI providing method of the display device includes the steps of: searching a feed including a moving picture among feeds received from at least one social network if a preset command is inputted; and displaying UI including at least one feed including the moving picture.

Description

Technical Field [0001] The present invention relates to a display apparatus and a UI providing method thereof,

The present invention relates to a display device and a UI providing method thereof, and more particularly, to a display device capable of displaying a feed received from at least one social network service and a UI providing method thereof.

Modern display devices not only display broadcast content, but are also connected to an external network to provide various services.

Meanwhile, various social network services have been increasing in recent years, and display devices are also providing various services provided from social networks. For example, in recent years, TV has become available for social network services such as Facebook or Twitter.

Particularly, due to the characteristics of a display device providing a large and clear picture quality, a user wants to watch a moving picture among contents received from a social network using a display device. However, since the conventional display device simply provides a feed received from the social network, there is a problem that the user has to check the received feed in order to search for the feed containing the moving image. In particular, when a user receives a large number of feeds from various social network members, it takes a lot of time and effort to retrieve a feed containing a moving image among a large number of feeds.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device capable of providing a UI including a feed containing a moving picture by retrieving a feed containing a moving picture among the feeds received from a social network, And a UI providing method thereof.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing a UI of a display device, the method comprising: when a preset command is input, searching for a feed containing a moving image among the feeds received from at least one social network ; And displaying a UI including at least one feed including the moving image.

The displaying step may display a thumbnail image of a moving image in each of at least one feed included in the UI.

The retrieving may further include searching tag information included in a feed received from the at least one social network to search for a feed containing a moving image.

And displaying detailed information of the selected feed when one of the at least one feeds included in the UI is selected.

Further, the detailed information of the selected feed may include information about a social network providing the selected feed, a thumbnail image of a moving image included in the selected feed, comments of the creator who created the selected feed, comments of friends on the selected feed Or the like.

The moving image may be one of a moving image directly uploaded by the creator of the feed and the linked moving image.

In addition, the searching step may include a step of, when a plurality of social networks providing the feed are selected, if at least one of the plurality of social networks is selected, a feed containing a video among the feeds received from the selected at least one social network is searched .

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a display apparatus including a display unit; A communication unit for receiving a feed from at least one social network; And a display unit configured to display a UI including at least one feed including the moving picture, when the predetermined command is input through the input unit, to search for a feed containing a moving picture among the feeds received through the communication unit And a control unit for controlling the display unit.

The control unit may control the display unit to display a thumbnail image of a moving image in each of at least one feed included in the UI.

Also, the control unit may search for a feed containing the moving image by analyzing the tag information included in the feed received through the communication unit.

The control unit may control the display unit to display detailed information of the selected feed when one of the at least one feeds included in the UI is selected through the input unit.

Further, the detailed information of the selected feed may include information about a social network providing the selected feed, a thumbnail image of a moving image included in the selected feed, comments of the creator who created the selected feed, comments of friends on the selected feed Or the like.

The moving image may be one of a moving image directly uploaded by the creator of the feed and the linked moving image.

In addition, when at least one of the plurality of social networks is selected through the input unit, the control unit may be configured to, when a plurality of social networks providing the feed are selected, Can be searched.

According to the various embodiments as described above, the user can more easily and conveniently view the moving picture contents included in the feed received from the social network using the display device.

1 is a view schematically showing a configuration of a display device according to an embodiment of the present invention,
2 is a detailed view of the configuration of a display device according to an embodiment of the present invention,
3 is a diagram illustrating a UI including a feed containing moving images, according to one embodiment of the present invention;
4 is a view showing detailed information of a selected feed when a feed of one of UIs including a feed containing moving images is selected according to an embodiment of the present invention,
5 is a flowchart illustrating a UI providing method of a display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a display apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. 1, the display device 100 includes a communication unit 110, a display unit 120, an input unit 130, and a control unit 140. [ At this time, the display device 100 may be a smart TV, but it may be realized by various display devices such as a smart phone, a tablet PC, a notebook PC, a desktop PC, and the like.

The communication unit 110 performs communication with an external display device or a server. In particular, the communication unit 110 receives a feed from various sources via a social network. In particular, the feed may be a feed received from a member of the social network, but this is merely an example and may be implemented in a variety of feeds such as news feeds, RSS feeds, etc. At this time, , Photos, music, and the like.

The display unit 120 displays the image data under the control of the control unit 140. In particular, the display unit 120 may display a UI including a feed containing moving images. In addition, if one of the UIs including the feed including moving images is selected through the input unit 130, the display unit 120 can display detailed information about the selected feed.

The input unit 130 receives a user command for controlling the display device 100. In particular, the input unit 130 may receive a user command for generating a UI including a feed containing a moving image, and may receive a user command for selecting one of UIs including a feed including a moving image .

The control unit 140 controls the overall operation of the display device 100 according to a user command input through the input unit 130. [ In particular, when a predetermined command is input through the input unit 130, the control unit 140 searches for a feed containing a moving image among the feeds received from at least one social network, The display unit 120 may be controlled to display a UI including at least one feed.

Specifically, when a user command (e.g., a user command for selecting a predetermined icon of a menu) for confirming only a feed containing moving images is input through the input unit 130, the control unit 140 controls the communication unit 140 To retrieve a feed that contains a video from a feed received from at least one social network. At this time, the control unit 140 can check the tag information included in the feed received from at least one social network to search for the feed containing the moving image. Here, the video included in the feed may be a video directly uploaded by the creator or a linked video.

Meanwhile, in an embodiment of the present invention, a user can receive a feed from all the social networks used by the logged-in user, but this is merely an example, and the user can receive the feed using only the social network selected by the user. If at least one of the plurality of social networks is selected via the input unit 130, the control unit 140 determines whether the feed from among the feeds received from the selected at least one social network is included Can be searched.

The control unit 140 may control the display unit 120 to display a UI including at least one retrieved feed. At this time, the control unit 140 may control the display unit 120 to display a thumbnail image of the moving image in each of at least one feed included in the UI to more easily confirm the moving image included in the feed.

If one of the at least one feeds included in the UI is selected through the input unit 130, the control unit 140 may control the display unit 120 to display detailed information of the selected feed. At this time, the detailed information of the selected feed includes at least one of information about a social network providing the selected feed, a thumbnail image of a moving image included in the selected feed, comments of the creator who created the selected feed, and comments of friends of the selected feed can do.

With the above-described display device, the user can easily and easily check the moving images included in the feed, and can watch the moving images included in the feed of the social network using a display device having a large and clear display portion.

Hereinafter, the display device will be described in more detail with reference to Figs. 2 to 4. Fig. 2 is a block diagram illustrating the configuration of a display device 200 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. 2, the display device 200 includes a communication unit 210, a display unit 220, an image receiving unit 230, an audio output unit 240, a storage unit 250, an audio processing unit 260, A video processing unit 270, an input unit 280, and a control unit 290.

FIG. 2 is a view illustrating various components in a case where the display device 200 is a device having various functions such as a content recommendation function, a communication function, a moving picture playback function, a display function, and the like. Therefore, depending on the embodiment, some of the components shown in Fig. 2 may be omitted or changed, and other components may be further added.

The communication unit 210 is configured to perform communication with various types of external devices according to various types of communication methods. In particular, the communication unit 210 may perform communication with a social network server or other electronic device to provide a user with a social network service. In particular, the communication unit 210 can receive a feed in real time from at least one social network server. At this time, the feed may include contents such as author's comments and moving pictures, photographs, and music. Also, the feed may be a feed received from a friend registered with the logged-in user, but this is merely an example and may be implemented with various feeds such as news feeds and RSS feeds.

Meanwhile, the communication unit 210 may include various communication chips such as a Wi-Fi chip, a Bluetooth chip, an NFC chip, and a wireless communication chip. At this time, the Wi-Fi chip, the Bluetooth chip, and the NFC chip communicate with each other using the WiFi method, the Bluetooth method, and the NFC method. Among these, the NFC chip refers to a chip operating in an NFC (Near Field Communication) system using 13.56 MHz band among various RF-ID frequency bands such as 135 kHz, 13.56 MHz, 433 MHz, 860 to 960 MHz and 2.45 GHz. When a Wi-Fi chip or a Bluetooth chip is used, various connection information such as an SSID and a session key may be transmitted and received first, and communication information may be used to transmit and receive various information. The wireless communication chip refers to a chip that performs communication according to various communication standards such as IEEE, ZigBee, 3G (3rd Generation), 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), LTE (Long Term Evolution)

The display unit 220 displays at least one of a video frame processed by the video processing unit 270 and various screens generated by the graphic processing unit 293. In particular, the display unit 220 may display a UI including a feed containing moving images. In addition, when one of the UIs including the feed including moving images is selected through the input unit 280, the display unit 220 can display the detailed information of the selected feed.

The image receiving unit 230 receives image data through various sources. For example, the image receiving unit 230 can receive broadcast data from an external broadcasting station and can receive image data from an external device (e.g., a DVD device).

The audio output unit 240 is configured to output various kinds of audio data processed by the audio processing unit 260 as well as various types of announcement sounds and voice messages.

The storage unit 250 stores various modules for driving the display device 200. For example, the storage unit 250 may store software including a base module, a sensing module, a communication module, a presentation module, a web browser module, and a service module. In this case, the base module is a base module that processes a signal transmitted from each hardware included in the electronic device 200 and transfers the processed signal to an upper layer module. The sensing module is a module for collecting information from various sensors and analyzing and managing the collected information, and may include a face recognition module, a voice recognition module, a motion recognition module, and an NFC recognition module. The presentation module is a module for constructing a display screen, and may include a multimedia module for reproducing and outputting multimedia contents, a UI, and a UI rendering module for performing graphics processing. The communication module is a module for performing communication with the outside. A web browser module refers to a module that accesses a web server by performing web browsing. A service module is a module including various applications for providing various services.

As described above, the storage unit 250 may include various program modules, but it goes without saying that the various program modules may be omitted, modified or added depending on the type and characteristics of the display device 200. For example, when the display device 200 is implemented as a tablet PC, the base module may further include a position determination module for determining a GPS-based position, and the sensing module may further include a sensing module can do.

The audio processing unit 260 is a component that performs processing on audio data. In the audio processing unit 260, various processes such as decoding and amplification of audio data, noise filtering, and the like may be performed. The audio data processed by the audio processing unit 260 may be output to the audio output unit 240.

The video processing unit 270 is a component that performs processing on the video data received by the video receiving unit 230. The video processing unit 270 may perform various image processing such as decoding, scaling, noise filtering, frame rate conversion, resolution conversion, and the like on the image data.

The input unit 280 receives a user command for controlling the overall operation of the display device 200. At this time, the input unit 280 may be realized by a remote controller, but it may be realized by another input device that can control the display device 200 such as a touch panel, a pointing device, and the like,

In particular, the input unit 280 may receive a user command for generating a UI including a feed containing a moving picture, and may receive a user command for selecting one of the UIs including a feed containing a movie .

The control unit 290 controls the overall operation of the display device 200 by using various programs stored in the storage unit 250.

3, the control unit 290 includes a RAM 291, a ROM 292, a graphics processing unit 293, a main CPU 294, first through n interfaces 295-1 through 295-n, Bus 296. < / RTI > At this time, the RAM 291, the ROM 292, the graphic processor 293, the main CPU 294, the first through n interfaces 295-1 through 295-n, etc. may be connected to each other via the bus 296 .

The ROM 292 stores a command set for booting the system and the like. When the turn-on command is input and power is supplied, the main CPU 294 copies the O / S stored in the storage unit 250 to the RAM 291 according to the instruction stored in the ROM 292, To boot the system. When the booting is completed, the main CPU 294 copies various application programs stored in the storage unit 250 to the RAM 291, executes the application program copied to the RAM 291, and performs various operations.

The graphic processing unit 293 generates a screen including various objects such as an icon, an image, and a text using an operation unit (not shown) and a rendering unit (not shown). The operation unit computes an attribute value such as a coordinate value, a shape, a size, a color, and the like to be displayed by each of the objects according to the layout of the screen using the control command received from the user command input unit 280. [ The rendering unit generates screens of various layouts including the objects based on the attribute values calculated by the operation unit. The screen generated by the rendering unit is displayed in the display area of the display unit 220. In particular, the graphic processing unit 293 may generate a UI including a feed containing moving images.

The main CPU 294 accesses the storage unit 250 and performs booting using the O / S stored in the storage unit 250. [ The main CPU 294 performs various operations using various programs, contents, data stored in the storage unit 250, and the like.

The first to n-th interfaces 295-1 to 295-n are connected to the various components described above. One of the interfaces may be a network interface connected to an external device via a network.

In particular, when a pre-set command is input through the input unit 280, the controller 290 searches for a feed containing the moving image among the feeds received through the communication unit 210, and includes at least one feed containing the moving image And controls the display unit 220 to display the UI.

Specifically, a user command for generating a UI including a feed containing a moving image through the input unit 280 (e.g., a user command for selecting one of the menus displayed on the display unit 220, (E.g., a user command for selecting a button, a user voice command, a user motion command, and the like) is received, the control unit 290 can search through the communication unit 210 for a feed containing a moving picture among the feeds received from at least one social network have. In particular, when a specific user is logged in, the control unit 290 can receive a feed from at least one social network used by the logged-in user and search for a feed containing the moving image. At this time, the controller 290 can check the tag information of the received feed to check whether or not the moving image is included in the received feed.

On the other hand, according to an embodiment of the present invention, a moving image included in the feed may be one of a moving image directly uploaded by a creator of the feed and a linked moving image.

When a feed containing moving images is retrieved, the control unit 290 can control the display unit 220 to generate and display the UI 300 including the feed including the moving image as shown in FIG. 3, the UI 300 includes a plurality of feeds 310-1, 310-2, 310-3, 310-4, and 310-5 including a moving image, an area indicating information about a moving image included in the highlighted feed, (320), and an area (330) for social network filtering.

As shown in FIG. 3, each of the plurality of feeds 310-1, 310-2, 310-3, 310-4, 310-5 including a moving image included in the UI 300 includes a thumbnail image of a moving image included in the feed, At least a portion of the comments included in the feed, the date of creation of the feed, and information about the social network providing the feed.

As shown in FIG. 3, an area 320 indicating information on a moving image included in the feed with the highlight highlighted may include the title, recommendation information, and moving picture information of the moving image included in the highlighted feed.

The area for social network filtering 330 includes a filtering icon for selecting a social network for receiving the feed and a refresh icon for searching for a feed containing the video of the feed received from the selected social network. For example, when the user selects "Facebook" through the filtering icon and the refresh icon is selected, the control unit 290 searches for a feed containing a moving image among the feeds received via "Facebook" The display unit 220 may be controlled.

When one of the plurality of feeds 310-1, 310-2, 310-3, 310-4, 310-5 included in the UI 300 is selected, the control unit 290 displays the detailed information about the selected feed on the display unit 220, Can be controlled. More specifically, when the first feed 310-1 is selected in the UI 300 shown in FIG. 3, the controller 290 generates detailed information about the first feed 310-1 The display unit 220 may be controlled to display the page 400. [

4 includes a moving picture display area 410, an area 420 for displaying information about the selected feed 310-1, and a friend comment for the selected feed 310-1 And an area 430 for displaying an image.

At this time, the moving picture display area 410 can display a thumbnail of the moving picture included in the selected feed 310-1. When the moving image reproducing command is input, the moving image included in the selected feed 310-1 is displayed in the moving image display area 410. [

The area 420 for displaying information about the selected feed 310-1 also includes comments of the author that created the selected feed 310-1, time information that created the selected feed 310-1, 1), < / RTI > and the like.

Also, the area 430 for displaying a friend comment for the selected feed 310-1 may include ratings, recommendations, comments, etc. of friends on the videos included in the selected feed 310-1.

3 and FIG. 4, the user can easily and comfortably view the video contents received from the social network through the display device having a large and clear screen.

Hereinafter, a UI providing method of the display apparatus 100 will be described with reference to FIG.

First, the display apparatus 100 determines whether a preset command for creating a UI including a feed containing a moving image is input (S510). At this time, the predetermined command may be at least one of a user command for selecting one of the menus displayed on the display unit 120, a user command for selecting a preset button of the remote controller, a user voice command, and a user motion command, It is not.

When a predetermined command is input (S510-Y), the display apparatus 100 searches for a feed containing a moving image (S520). Specifically, the display device 100 can check the tag information included in the feed received from at least one social network to search for a feed containing the moving image. At this time, the video included in the feed may be a video that is directly uploaded by the feed creator or a video linked to a web page. In particular, the display device 100 may search for feeds containing videos from feeds received from all social networks utilized by logged-in users, but this is merely an example, You can search for feeds that contain videos.

Then, the display device 100 displays a UI including a feed containing the retrieved moving image (S530). Specifically, the display apparatus 100 may display the UI 300 including only the feed including the moving picture as shown in FIG. 3 based on the search result.

According to the UI providing method as described above, the user can more easily and conveniently view the moving picture contents included in the feed received from the social network by using the display device.

Meanwhile, in the above-described embodiment, a UI including only a feed containing a moving image is displayed. However, this is merely an embodiment, and an embodiment for displaying a UI composed of only feeds containing only other types of content is also applicable to the present invention Can be applied. For example, the display device may display a UI that includes only feeds containing music content.

In addition, the UI providing method of the display apparatus according to the above-described various embodiments may be implemented as a program and provided to a display apparatus. Also, a non-transitory computer readable medium in which the program is stored may be provided. A non-transitory readable medium is a medium that stores data for a short period of time, such as a register, cache, memory, etc., but semi-permanently stores data and is readable by the apparatus. In particular, the various applications or programs described above may be stored on non-volatile readable media such as CD, DVD, hard disk, Blu-ray disk, USB, memory card, ROM,

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, but, on the contrary, It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and detail may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.

110, 210: communication unit 120, 220:
230: image receiving unit 240: audio output unit
250: storage unit 260: audio processing unit
270: video processing unit 130, 280: input unit
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Claims (14)

A method of providing a UI of a display device,
Retrieving a feed containing a video from a feed received from at least one social network when a preset command is entered; And
And displaying a UI including at least one feed including the moving image. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the displaying comprises:
And displaying a thumbnail image of a moving image in each of at least one feed included in the UI. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the searching comprises:
And searching for a feed containing a moving picture by analyzing tag information included in a feed received from the at least one social network. The method according to claim 1,
And displaying detailed information of the selected feed if one of the at least one feeds included in the UI is selected. 5. The method of claim 4,
The detailed information of the selected feed,
A thumbnail image of a moving image included in the selected feed, a comment of a creator who created the selected feed, and comments of friends of the selected feed. How to provide UI. The method according to claim 1,
The moving picture includes:
And the uploaded video is one of a video uploaded directly by the creator who created the feed and a linked video. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the searching comprises:
Wherein when at least one of the plurality of social networks is selected, a feed containing a moving picture among the feeds received from the selected at least one social network is searched. In the display device,
A display unit;
A communication unit for receiving a feed from at least one social network;
An input unit
A display unit for displaying a UI including at least one feed including the moving image, and a display unit for displaying the UI including at least one of the feeds, And a control unit for controlling the display unit. 9. The method of claim 8,
Wherein,
And controls the display unit to display a thumbnail image of a moving image in each of at least one feed included in the UI. 9. The method of claim 8,
Wherein,
Wherein the controller analyzes the tag information included in the feed received through the communication unit to search for a feed containing the moving image. 9. The method of claim 8,
Wherein,
And controls the display unit to display detailed information of the selected feed when one of the at least one feeds included in the UI is selected through the input unit. 12. The method of claim 11,
The detailed information of the selected feed,
A thumbnail image of a moving image included in the selected feed, a comment of a creator who created the selected feed, and comments of friends of the selected feed. Display device. 9. The method of claim 8,
The moving picture includes:
And the content is one of a moving image directly uploaded by the creator who created the feed, and a linked moving image. 9. The method of claim 8,
Wherein,
When at least one of the plurality of social networks is selected through the input unit, the search unit searches for a feed containing a moving image among the feeds received from the selected at least one social network, when the plurality of social networks providing the feed are selected. / RTI >

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