ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM WITH UNIFIED CONTENT SELECTION

• US 20080163049A1
• Filed: 12/31/2007
• Published: 07/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chestnut Hill Sound Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Chestnut Hill Sound Incorporated
• Inventors: Krampf, Steven
• Granted Patent: US 8,090,309 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/700
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/20 for coupling gramophone pick-up, recorder output, or microphone to receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 40/45 for FM stereophonic broadcast systems receiving
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/74 using programme related information, e.g. title, composer or interpreter
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2205/021 Aspects relating to docking-station type assemblies to obtain an acoustical effect, e.g. the type of connection to external loudspeakers or housings, frequency improvement

Abstract

A content selection interface for an entertainment system having apparatus for receiving signals broadcast on at least a first band and signals from at least one non-broadcast content source. The interface has a single content selector actuable by a user and a mechanism responsive to the content selector for selecting content from among the broadcast signals and non-broadcast content sources which presents the broadcast signals and non-broadcast content as successive adjacent positions in a sequence without the user having to manifest a change of source selection.

Claims

1. A content selection interface for an entertainment system having apparatus for receiving signals broadcast on at least a first band and signals from at least one non-broadcast content source, said interface having a single content selector actuable by a user and means responsive to the content selector for selecting content from among the broadcast signals and non-broadcast content sources which presents to the user said broadcast signals and said non-broadcast content as successive adjacent positions in a sequence without the user having to manifest a change of source selection.