US 11,889,139 B2
Apparatus and method for controlling a display
Tae Ho Lee, Seoul (KR); Mun Jun Hur, Yongin-si (KR); Jong Pil Park, Seoul (KR); Kwang Seung Heo, Seoul (KR); and Kyowoong Choo, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul (KR); and KIA CORPORATION, Seoul (KR)
Filed by HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul (KR); and KIA CORPORATION, Seoul (KR)
Filed on Sep. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/486,711.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0144699 (KR), filed on Nov. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0141512 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 21/266 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/466 (2011.01); H04N 21/414 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/266 (2013.01) [H04N 21/4316 (2013.01); H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); H04N 21/466 (2013.01); H04N 21/41422 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for controlling a display, the apparatus comprising:
an output device configured to output at least one content; and
a controller configured to set a relationship index indicating a relationship between selected content, which is selected through an input of a user of the at least one content, and remaining content, which is not selected through the input of the user of the at least one content, and arrange an output screen of the output device, based on the relationship index,
wherein the relationship index is set to increase as a degree that the selected content is related to the remaining content is increased,
wherein the controller is configured to output the selected content, which is selected through the input of the user, to a main screen, which is set in an entire portion of the output screen,
wherein the controller is configured to dispose at least one sub-screen at one side of the main screen by splitting a specific region of the main screen, when content having a relationship index of a specific value or more is present, and to output the content having the relationship index of the specific value or more, to the at least one sub-screen,
wherein the controller is configured to adjust down the relationship index, when the content output to the at least one sub-screen is output-cancelled by the input of the user, and
wherein the controller is configured to prevent content, which has a relationship index changed to be less than the specific value, from being output to the at least one sub-screen, when the relationship index is consecutively adjusted down to be less than the specific value.