Image display apparatus and method of displaying image for determining a candidate item to select
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsSung-hyuk Kwon, Jeong-hye Choi
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Abstract
An image display apparatus and a method of displaying an image are disclosed. The image display apparatus includes a display configured to display a plurality of items and display an item selected from among the plurality of items with a highlight, a detector configured to detect a user input for moving the highlight, and a controller configured to determine candidate items to which the highlight is to be moved in response to the user input, select one of the candidate items based on information about a moving path of the highlight, and move the highlight to a selected candidate item.
Claims12
An image display apparatus comprising:
- a display configured to display a plurality of items and display an item selected from among the plurality of items with a highlight;
- a detector configured to detect a user input for moving the highlight in one of an upward direction, a downward direction, a leftward direction, and a rightward direction;
- and
- a controller configured to determine candidate items to which the highlight is to be moved in response to the user input, select one of the candidate items based on information about a moving path of the highlight, and move the highlight to the selected candidate item,
- wherein the candidate items are adjacent to an item on which the highlight is currently located, in a direction corresponding to the user input, and the direction is one of the upward direction, the downward direction, the leftward direction, and the rightward direction, and
- wherein the controller is configured to select an item at which a change in location of the highlight in a direction perpendicular to the direction corresponding to the user input is minimized and to select a leftmost item or an uppermost item from among the candidate items when the change in location of the highlight with regard to each of the candidate items is identical.
A method of displaying an image, the method comprising:
- displaying a plurality of items and displaying an item selected from among the plurality of items with a highlight;
- detecting a user input for moving the highlight in one of an upward direction, a downward direction, a leftward direction, and a rightward direction;
- determining candidate items to which the highlight is to be moved, in response to the user input;
- selecting one of the candidate items based on information about a moving path of the highlight;
- and
- moving the highlight to the selected candidate item,
- wherein the candidate items are adjacent to an item on which the highlight is currently located, in a direction corresponding to the user input, and the direction is one of the upward direction, the downward direction, the leftward direction, and the rightward direction, and
- wherein the selecting of one of the candidate items comprises selecting an item at which a change in location of the highlight is minimized in a direction perpendicular to the direction corresponding to the user input, and selecting a leftmost item or an uppermost item from among the candidate items when the change in location of the highlight with regard to each of the candidate items is identical.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.