AUTOMATICALLY PLAYING A VIDEO CLIP ASSOCIATED WITH AN ICON THAT IS IN FOCUS

• US 20080282193A1
• Filed: 05/07/2007
• Published: 11/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Larsen, Christopher W., Bennetts, Christopher L.
• Granted Patent: US 9,207,842 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/835
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence

Abstract

A system comprises a display and logic coupled to the display. The logic automatically begins playing a video clip associated with an icon that is in focus on the display.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a display;

logic coupled to said display, wherein said logic automatically begins playing a video clip associated with an icon that is in focus on said display.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein said logic automatically begins playing the video clip after said icon has been in focus for more than a threshold amount of time.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein said logic begins playing the video clip in a preview window on said display.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the video clip comprises a preview clip associated with a media track.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the video clip ceases playing when a different icon is in focus.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein said icon is associated with one of a channel identifier, genre type, show name, and title name.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein, upon a user selecting an icon that is in focus, said logic causes a media track to begin playing, wherein said video clip plays for less time than said media track.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein said logic receives metadata that comprises an identifier of the video clip.

9. A computer-readable medium (CRM) comprising software that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to:

automatically play a video clip associated with an icon that is in focus on a display.

10. The CRM of claim 9 wherein said software also causes the processor to enable a user to select an icon to be in focus.

11. The CRM of claim 9 wherein said software causes said processor to automatically begin playing the video clip after the icon has been in focus for more than a threshold amount of time.

12. The CRM of claim 9 wherein the video clip comprises a preview clip associated with a media track.

13. The CRM of claim 9 wherein the software causes the processor to cease playing the video clip when a different icon is in focus.

14. The CRM of claim 9 wherein the icon is associated with one of a channel identifier, genre type, show name, and title name.

15. The CRM of claim 9 wherein the software causes the logic to receive metadata that comprises an identifier of the video clip.

16. A method, comprising:

selecting an icon to be in focus; and

automatically playing a video clip associated with the icon that is in focus on a display.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein automatically playing the video clip comprises automatically playing the video clip after the icon has been in focus for more than a threshold amount of time.

18. The method of claim 16 further comprising selecting an icon that is already in focus.

19. The method of claim 16 further comprising ceasing playing the video clip upon a different icon being in focus.

20. The method of claim 16 wherein automatically playing the video clip comprises playing a video clip associated with a media track, said video clip being of a shorter duration than the media track.