Lattice Screen Configuration for Digital Broadcasting Receiver
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional digital broadcasting receivers face challenges in efficiently displaying and searching multiple moving picture channels, leading to user inconvenience due to text-based channel lists that obscure content characteristics and require excessive time for channel selection.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus for controlling screen configuration in digital broadcasting receivers, which extracts and displays lattice-type moving picture contents categorized on a single screen, allowing for easy channel search and selection by partitioning the screen into rectangles and using a full-search mode to showcase multiple channels simultaneously.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If text-based channel lists are used to display broadcast channels, then the device complexity is reduced, but the visibility and ease of understanding content characteristics deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The screen is divided into multiple lattice regions, with each region displaying a different broadcast channel's moving picture content. This segmentation allows simultaneous display of multiple channels without requiring complex hierarchical navigation structures, resolving the contradiction between simple device structure and comprehensive information display.
2Ease of operation
If text-based channel lists are used, then the ease of operation is improved through simple interface, but the time required for channel search and selection increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from one-dimensional text listing to two-dimensional lattice display, allowing users to visually scan multiple channels simultaneously across the screen space. This dimensional change enables parallel viewing of multiple channels, dramatically reducing search time while keeping the interface intuitive through visual spatial arrangement.
3Loss of information
If multiple moving picture contents are displayed simultaneously, then the visibility and content search efficiency is improved, but the device complexity increases due to screen configuration control
Solution Approach 1:
The lattice screen configuration is designed to be dynamically adjustable, allowing the number of displayed channels and their arrangement to be flexibly modified based on user needs and screen resolution. This dynamic design enables the system to adapt to different scenarios without requiring complex fixed configuration structures.
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AI summary
Disclosed a method and apparatus for providing received broadcast data in a digital broadcasting system. The apparatus for controlling a screen configuration in a digital broadcasting receiver includes: a data reception/conversion unit for receiving head-end-side data including configuration data of lattice-type moving picture contents sent through a broadcasting network, and converting the received data into content screen configuration data; and a content screen configuration unit for editing content screen configuration data converted by the data reception/conversion unit, disposing the content screen configuration data according to each category in a display means of a user terminal, and performing a control operation such that the first category and the last category among multiple categories displayed through the display means are cyclically connected and displayed.