Display apparatus and control method thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorDae-gu Kim
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Abstract
A display apparatus and a control method thereof is provided in which channels corresponding to a predetermined broadcasting format are displayed on a display unit even though they are not separately selected by a user as desired channels. A display apparatus includes a display unit to display a picture thereon, and a tuner to select a channel, a broadcasting format selection unit to select a predetermined broadcasting format, a signal receiver to receive information about the broadcasting format, and a controller to control the tuner to allow the channel corresponding to the broadcasting format to be displayed on the display unit when the broadcasting format is selected through the broadcasting format selection unit.
Claims9
A display apparatus comprising:
- a display unit;
- a tuner;
- a broadcasting format selection unit which selects a broadcasting format;
- a signal receiver which receives a broadcasting signal;
- and
- a controller which controls the tuner, based on information in the broadcasting signal, to select a channel of the broadcasting signal corresponding to the broadcasting format selected through the broadcasting format selection unit so that the channel is displayed on the display unit.
A method of controlling a display apparatus comprising:
- receiving a broadcasting signal comprising information of a broadcasting format;
- selecting the broadcasting format;
- and
- controlling a tuner, based on information in the broadcasting signal, to select a channel corresponding to the broadcasting format which is selected so that the channel is displayed on a display unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.