Data Entry via On-Screen Display

• US 20080247733A1
• Filed: 06/16/2008
• Published: 10/09/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: D&M Holdings US Incorporated (Masimo Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Digital Networks North America, Inc. (Masimo Corporation)
• Inventors: Hyatt, Richard R.
• Granted Patent: US 8,755,667 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/126
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/022 Control panels
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2545 CDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2562 DVDs [digital versatile discs]; Digital video discs; MMCDs; HDCDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/002 Programmed access in sequence to a plurality of record carriers or indexed parts, e.g. tracks, thereof, e.g. for editing; transfer of record carriers from magazine G11B15/68, G11B17/10; G11B17/22
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums

Abstract

A recording playback device having a database of recordings with titles, automatically enters a title input mode upon receiving character input from a user while a recording is being played if the there is not title in the database for the recording. Playback of the recording is not interrupted in the title input mode. In the case of a DVD player, the on-screen display mode is used to display the characters entered by the user on the same video display used for video content from the DVD.

Claims

1-25. -25. (canceled)

26. A method of inputting text associated with a recording, comprising:

playing the recording on a video screen;

during playback of the recording, detecting a first text character entered by a keyboard;

in response to detection of the first text character, entering a text input mode, wherein playback of the recording is continued on at least a portion of the video screen, and wherein the first text character is displayed on the video screen;

during the text input mode, receiving subsequent text characters entered by the keyboard and displaying the subsequent text characters on the video screen; and

storing the first text character and subsequent text character as text associated with the recording.

27. A method as recited in claim 26, further comprising:

in response to detection of the first text character, determining whether a title of the recording is previously stored;

wherein the text input mode is entered only if the title of the recording is not previously stored.

28. A method as recited in claim 26, wherein the first text character and subsequent text characters are stored as the title of the recording.

29. A method as recited in claim 26, wherein the recording is a digital versatile disc.

30. A method as recited in claim 26, wherein entering a text input mode includes generating a text display by a digital versatile disc player using on-screen display capability.

31. A method as recited in claim 30, wherein the storing uses a database accessible by the digital versatile disc player, the database including at least identifiers and titles for digital versatile discs, and wherein the method further comprises determining, in response to detection of the first text character, whether the digital versatile disc currently being played has a corresponding identifier in the database.

32. A system comprising:

a video player operative to play a recording by outputting a video signal stored on the recording, the video player further being operative to generate an on-screen text display;

a keyboard;

a storage unit that associates recording identifiers with text data; and

a control unit coupled to the video player, the keyboard, and the storage unit, the control unit being operative, during playing of the recording, to detect a first text character entered by a keyboard, to enter a text input mode in response to detection of the first text character, to receive subsequent text characters, and to cause the storage unit to store the first text character and subsequent text characters entered by the keyboard during the text input mode as text associated with the recording.

33. A system as recited in claim 32, wherein the control unit is operative to communicate the first text character and subsequent text characters entered by the keyboard during the text input mode control unit to the video player, and wherein the video player is operative to display the first text character and subsequent text characters in the on-screen text display while continuing to play the recording.

34. A system as recited in claim 32, the control unit further being operative, in response to detection of the first text character, to determine whether, in the storage unit, text data is associated with a recording identifier that corresponds to the recording being played, the control unit being operative to enter the text input mode only upon a determination that no text data is associated with the recording identifier.

35. A system as recited in claim 32, further comprising a video screen coupled to the video player to receive the video signal, wherein the video player is operative to overlay the video output with the on-screen text display in the text input mode.

36. A system as recited in claim 32, wherein the text associated with the recording is the title of the recording.

37. A system as recited in claim 32, wherein the recording is a digital versatile disc, wherein the storage unit includes a database, and wherein the database associates titles of digital versatile discs with identifiers of digital versatile discs.

38. At least one program embodied on a computer readable medium, the program controlling a programmable device to perform a method comprising:

playing a recording on a video screen;

during playback of the recording, detecting a first text character entered by a keyboard;

in response to detection of the first text character, entering a text input mode, wherein playback of the recording is continued on at least a portion of the video screen, and wherein the first text character is displayed on the video screen;

during the text input mode, receiving subsequent text characters entered by the keyboard and displaying the subsequent text characters on the video screen; and

storing the first text character and subsequent text characters as text associated with the recording.