Clock-Based User Interface for Audio/Video Play Lists Navigation/Editing

• US 20080209468A1
• Filed: 10/11/2005
• Published: 08/28/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Milosevski, Vlatko
• Application Number:
  US11/577,110
• Publication Number:
  US 20080209468A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/39
• CPC Class Codes: G04B 19/00 Indicating the time by visual means indicating the time optically by electric means G04C17/00, e.g. by electric lamps G04C17/02; display arrangements in general G09F
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/639 using playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/68 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/00 Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for transferring data from processing unit to output unit, e.g. interface arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/20 Disc-shaped record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/102 Programmed access in sequence to addressed parts of tracks of operating record carriers access by moving the head G11B3/08, G11B5/54, G11B7/085, G11B21/022; by moving the record carrier G11B15/005, G11B17/005, by driving of both record carrier and head G11B15/1816
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

An apparatus for navigating an area (218) of memory (142), such as a play list of recorded audio/video, includes a clock-face-based user interface (128) with superimposed, rotatable clock hands (132, 136, 404, 408). In one embodiment, items may be added to, or deleted from, the play list at the navigated-to location in the list (260). In another embodiment, a screen field (140) is updated in real time to indicate the item currently being played back (204), or during navigation, the item currently navigated to (260).

Claims

1. An apparatus for navigating an area (218) of memory (142), said apparatus comprising:

a clock face (128) sectorized into time intervals;

a user input device (116); and

a processor (141) configured for, responsive to user input from said device, rotating a clock hand (404) across said face to navigate said area whose contents correspond with the sectors (208).

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the time intervals are intervals of future time (216).

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the processor is configured to maintain, as time passes, sectorization into intervals of future time by updating the sectorization (204, 216).

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the updating is continuous with the passage of time, occurring at least once per minute (204, 216).

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said contents are divided into one-to-one correspondence with said sectors, granularity of the navigating being at the sector level (204, 208).

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said processor is configured for said rotating so as to navigate to a location in said area and, at said location (144, 148, 404, 408), for at least one of adding to, and deleting, contents of said area (164, 168).

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the clock hand is a first clock hand (404), said processor being configured to rotate another clock hand across said face for said navigating (408), in conjunction with the first clock hand, to said location.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein directionality, speed and smoothness of the rotating to navigate are controlled by means of said user input (152, 156, 160).

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein, correspondence-wise with said sectors, said area extends over an hour into the future (216).

10. The apparatus of claim 1, further configured to leave behind, upon said rotating to navigate, onto said face a clock hand for indicating a current time (132, 136).

11. The apparatus of claim 1, further configured to annotate, upon said rotating to navigate, said face with a present-time field that is displayed until navigated-to time coincides with a present time (264).

12. An apparatus for navigating an area (218) of memory (142), said apparatus comprising:

a display (120) for displaying a field (140) and a clock face (128) sectorized into time intervals;

a user input device (116); and

, a processor (141) configured for, responsive to user input from said device, rotating concentrically with the sectors (208) a clock hand across said face, and for displaying items (260) in said field in correspondence with the sector of said sectors that currently contains said hand.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the time intervals are intervals of future time (216).

14. A method for navigating an area (218) of memory (142), said method comprising:

sectorizing a clock face (128) into time intervals; and

responsive to user input from a user input device (116), rotating a clock hand (404) across said face to navigate said area whose contents correspond with the sectors.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the time intervals are intervals of future time (216).

16. The method of claim 15, further including updating, as time passes, to maintain the sectorizing into intervals of future time (204, 216).

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the updating is continuous with the passage of time, occurring at least once per minute (204, 216).

18. The method of claim 14, wherein said sectorizing divides said contents into one-to-one correspondence with said sectors, granularity of the navigating being at the sector level (204, 208).

19. The method of claim 14, wherein said rotating includes navigating to a location in said area and, at said location (144, 148, 404, 408), at least one of adding to, and deleting, contents of said area (164, 168).

20. A method for navigating an area of memory, said method comprising:

sectorizing a clock face (128) into intervals;

providing an associated field (140);

responsive to user input (116), rotating, concentrically with the sectors, a clock hand (404) across said face; and

displaying items in said field in correspondence with the sector (260) of said sectors that currently contains said hand.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the time intervals are intervals of future time (216).

22. A computer-program product having a medium (142) readable by a computer (141), said medium containing a program executable for navigating an area of memory, said program comprising:

instructions for sectorizing a clock face (128) into time intervals; and

instructions for, responsive to user input from a user input device (116), rotating a clock hand (404) across said face to navigate said area whose contents correspond with the sectors.

23. The product of claim 22, wherein the time intervals are intervals of future time (216).

24. The product of claim 22, wherein the instructions for rotating include instructions for navigating said area (218) to at least one of add to, and delete, said contents (164, 168).