Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Yang-sun Ryu

Seung-Hwan Lee

Joo-heon Lee

Doo-Hee Lee

A display apparatus, including a display configured to display a multi-window screen image comprising a plurality of windows; and a controller configured to control the display to change an appearance of at least one window of the plurality of windows based on a setting provided by a user, and to display the at least one window using the changed appearance.

Display apparatus and display method

A broadcast signal processing apparatus and channel tuning method are provided. The method comprises a host including Open Cable Application Platform (OCAP) middleware for communication with an application program provided from a broadcasting station, and a memory for storing programs and data. The method further includes: transferring the input channel tuning key signal to the application program and a service context portion in the OCAP middleware; creating a virtual inner channel map in the service context portion, and obtaining channel information from the virtual inner channel map; performing channel tuning in advance using the obtained channel information; searching the channel information by the application program; requesting channel tuning to the OCAP middleware with the searched channel information; judging whether the searched channel information is identical to the obtained channel information; and completing channel tuning by taking the advance tuning if both channel information are identical to each other.

Broadcast signal processing apparatus and channel tuning method

A display apparatus and a driving method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a channel setting storage unit which stores mode selection information about a plurality of channel designation modes each of which designates a way of setting an initial channel to be automatically tuned to upon turning on the display apparatus. The display apparatus also includes a control unit which, upon turning on the display apparatus, determines one of the channel designation modes based on the stored mode selection information, and controls the display apparatus to automatically tune to a channel, designated to be the initial channel by the determined channel designation mode.

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Seongnam-si, South Korea

Yang-sun Ryu