公开(公告)号：US20180352299A1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-06

申请号：US15761673

申请日：2016-08-11

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Liang WU ,  Zhangliang XIONG ,  Do-young KIM ,  Lixia WANG ,  Lei WANG

IPC: H04N21/462 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/454

CPC classification number: H04N5/445 ,  H04N5/50 ,  H04N21/4432 ,  H04N21/4622 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/4782 ,  H04N21/4821 ,  H04N21/4823 ,  H04N21/6125

Abstract: Provided is a method of operating an image display apparatus, the method including receiving a channel packet corresponding to a virtual channel from an external apparatus via a network and storing the received channel packet; obtaining channel attribute information of the virtual channel from the channel packet; and adding the virtual channel to a channel list including a normal channel by using the channel attribute information. The image display apparatus may increase the efficiency of accessing a virtual channel service, by adding and managing a virtual channel without necessitating major interventions of a user.