Display apparatus and control method for displaying user menu
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsYun-sung Kim, Joon-hwan Kim
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Abstract
A display apparatus and a control method are provided in which a size menu item is changed, when the menu item is directed by a user. A display apparatus includes a user input part; a menu generator generating a user menu including at least one or more items; a display part displayed with the user menu generated from the menu generator; and a controller controlling the menu generator so that a size of a directed item according to an operation of the user input part among the items of the user menu displayed at the display part is reduced into a predetermined size and then is returned to an original size.
Claims16
A display apparatus, comprising:
- a user input part;
- a menu generator which generates a user menu including a plurality of items;
- a display part which displays the user menu;
- and
- a controller which controls the menu generator so that a size of an item directed according to an operation of the user input part among the plurality of items of the user menu displayed at the display part is reduced to a predetermined size and then returned to an original size from the predetermined size while the item is still directed by the operation of the user input part,
- wherein the controller controls the menu generator so that after the size of the directed item is reduced to the predetermined size and then returned to the original size, the directed item is enlarged to another predetermined size and then returned to the original size while the item is still directed by the operation of the user input part, and
- the controller controls the menu generator so that the size of the directed item is reduced to the predetermined size, and then returned to the original size and then enlarged to the another predetermined size and then again returned to the original size without an operation of the user input part directing an item different from the directed item.
A control method of a display apparatus comprising a user input part and a display part, the method comprising:
- displaying a user menu including a plurality of items on the display part by an operation of the user input part;
- and
- controlling a size of an item directed by the operation of the user input part among the plurality of items of the user menu to be reduced to a predetermined size and then returned to an original size from the predetermined size while the item is still directed by the operation of the user input part,
- wherein the controlling further comprises controlling the size of the directed item to be enlarged to another predetermined size and then returned to the original size, after the size of the directed item is reduced to the predetermined size and then returned to the original size while the item is still directed by the operation of the user input part, and
- the controlling the size of the directed item to be reduced to the predetermined size, and then returned to the original size and then enlarged to the another predetermined size and then again returned to the original size is performed without an operation of the user input paint directing an item different from the directed item.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.