US 12,079,446 B2
Display device and control method therefor
Na Yeong Byeon, Suwon-si (KR); Jun Hwang, Suwon-si (KR); and Eu Moon Jung, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Appl. No. 17/289,084
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
PCT Filed Oct. 23, 2019, PCT No. PCT/KR2019/013985
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 27, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/091297, PCT Pub. Date May 7, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2018-0133619 (KR), filed on Nov. 2, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0011910 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); F24F 11/52 (2018.01); G06F 3/0484 (2022.01); G06F 9/451 (2018.01)
CPC G06F 3/0482 (2013.01) [F24F 11/52 (2018.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 9/454 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
a user interface;
a storage;
a display configured to display the user interface to include at least one menu providing at least one function of an external device;
a transceiver configured to receive at least one of weather information or environment information; and
at least one processor configured to:
in response to receiving, from a user, an execution command selecting a menu among the at least one menu, generate a user pattern including information about a function corresponding to the selected menu and time information about a time at which the execution command selecting the menu is received,
control the storage to store the user pattern,
based on the user pattern, reconfigure the menu,
control the display to display, in a first area of the user interface, a first menu determined based on the user pattern,
based on at least one of the weather information or the environment information, determine a recommended operation mode of the external device,
based on the determining of the recommended operation mode, control the display to display, on the reconfigured menu, a recommended function corresponding to the recommended operation mode of the external device,
control the display to display, in a second area of the user interface separate from the first area, a second menu providing functions not displayed in the first area, and
in response to receiving, from the user, an execution command selecting the second menu, reconfigure at least one subordinate menu for the second menu based on the user pattern and control the display to remove the first menu and the second menu from the user interface and display the reconfigured at least one subordinate menu for the second menu in at least the first area and the second area of the user interface.