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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Citations
40 Claims
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1-31. -31. (canceled)
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32. A method for changing the displayed time-position of a cached program on an interactive multi-channel graphic display in response to rotation of a hand-held input device in one of pitch, yaw or roll, the method comprising the steps of:
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displaying a range of selectable display time-positions on the display;
detecting the pitch, yaw or roll rotation of the input device;
selecting one of the display time-positions in response to the pitch, yaw or roll rotation of the input device; and
displaying the program at the selected display time-position on the interactive multi-channel graphic display in response to selection of the one display time-position.
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33-39. -39. (canceled)
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40. An apparatus for changing the displayed time-position of a cached program on an interactive multi-channel graphic display in response to rotation of a hand-held input device in at least one of pitch, yaw and roll, the apparatus comprising:
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means for displaying a range of selectable display time-positions on the display;
means for detecting at least one of the pitch, yaw and roll rotation of the input device;
means for selecting one of the display time-positions in response to at least one of the pitch, yaw and roll rotation of the input device; and
means for displaying the program at the selected display time-position on the interactive multi-channel graphic display in response to selection of the one display time-position.
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