Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Su-gyeong Hyeon

Bong-hyun Cho

Min-sun Park

Byung-jeong Jeon

Pill-kyoung Moon

Young-Hwan Lee

Jong-ho Lea

Seok-hyun Kim

Sung-bin Im

Seung-Hyuk Choi

Sang-wook Kang

Soo-Yeoun Yoon

Chi-Won Kim

Hye-jin Kang

Sang-Wook Cho

A method of controlling a display apparatus for generating a symbol. The method includes displaying a plurality of images corresponding to a plurality of functions on a display, and in response to one of the plurality of images being selected by a user, determining a symbol corresponding to the selected image, matching a function corresponding to the selected image with the symbol, and storing the matched symbol with a correlation to the selected image.

Display apparatus for generating symbol and method thereof

A method for providing information which is performable by a display device is provided. The method includes: receiving at least one piece of broadcasting program information; obtaining at least one of viewing history information which relates to at least one piece of content that was watched before a predetermined point of time and recording information which relates to at least one piece of content that was recorded before the predetermined point of time; and displaying at least one piece of broadcasting program information from among the at least one piece of broadcasting program information which corresponds to the predetermined point of time on a first region of the display device based on the predetermined point of time, and displaying at least one of the viewing history information and the recording information on a second region of the display device based on the predetermined point of time.

Method of providing information and display device thereof

An electronic device includes a detector configured to detect a user input and a controller configured to determine a favorite channel group according to a user's viewing history, scan channels in response to detecting an input of a control signal corresponding to a channel shift button for a predetermined time, and decrease a channel shift speed in a favorite channel group section corresponding to the determined favorite channel group and increase the channel shift speed in a section other than the favorite channel group section.

Electronic device and method of scanning channels in electronic device

A method and apparatus for transceiving television (TV)-content-related information based on a social network. A TV content sharing method for providing TV-content-related information to a plurality of TV users based on a social network includes receiving from a TV user a request to check in a TV content sharing service; providing real-time user information regarding users who check in a content checked-in by the TV user, in real time; and providing related service information regarding accessible related services in the social network in relation to the checked-in content.

Method and server for the social network-based sharing of TV broadcast content related information

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Su-gyeong Hyeon