Multimedia user interface
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Abstract
A user interface for multimedia centers advantageously utilizes hand-held inertial-sensing user input devices to select channels and quickly navigate the dense menus of options. Extensive use of the high resolution and bandwidth of such user input devices is combined with strategies to avoid unintentional inputs and with dense and intuitive interactive graphical displays.
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43 Claims
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1-20. -20. (canceled)
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21. An graphic user interface utilizing a free-space hand-held input device for distinguishing desired from undesired user inputs, wherein the input device is responsive to pitch and yaw rotations and the interface is characterized by movement of a state change on the display, the improvement comprising:
- thresholds for each of the responses, inputs below such thresholds being ignored, the improvement comprising;
decreasing the threshold value of one of the thresholds relative to another in response to the user interaction being associated with a first area on the graphic display and reducing the threshold value in response to the user interaction being associated with another area on the graphic display. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24)
- thresholds for each of the responses, inputs below such thresholds being ignored, the improvement comprising;
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25. A graphic user interface utilizing a free-space hand-held input device for distinguishing desired from undesired user inputs, wherein the input device is responsive to pitch and yaw rotations, and the user interaction is associated with a position on the display which maps changes in pitch to changes along the y-axis of the display and changes in yaw to changes along the x-axis of the display and the interface is further characterized by minimum thresholds for inputs in different directions, inputs below such thresholds being ignored, the improvement comprising:
increasing the threshold value of one of the thresholds in certain directions in response to the user interaction being associated with a first area on the graphic display and reducing the threshold value in response to the user interaction being associated with another area on the graphic display. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28)
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40. A graphic user interface for distinguishably displaying desired from undesired images by visual change on the display in response to inputs received from a free-space hand-held input device that produces the inputs indicative of pitch and yaw rotations relative to threshold values of movements, and comprising:
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altering a threshold value relative to another threshold value for user interactions in one area of the display; and
altering the threshold value for user interactions in another area of the display. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43)
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