Patent ID: 8533627
Filing Date: 2013-09-10
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A display apparatus comprising: a display unit; an image receiver which receives an image signal; an image processor which processes the image signal received by the image receiver and displays an image corresponding to the processed image signal on the display unit; and a controller which maps a plurality of objects in the image displayed on the display unit corresponding to four directions including up, down, right, and left, and controls the image processor so that a second object corresponding to a same row as a first object is selected, according to the mapped plurality of objects, in response to a first transfer command instructing a transfer in a first direction received through a user input, to a user input unit, of a directional signal corresponding to the first direction with the first object being selected among the plurality of objects, the first direction being one of the right direction and the left direction, wherein the plurality of objects is mapped corresponding to a plurality of rows based on object sizes, and wherein when the second object being mapped corresponding to a plurality of rows and a second transfer command instructing a transfer in the first direction is received with the second object being selected, the controller selects a third object based on location of the first object, among a plurality of the objects placed in the first direction of the second object.