USER INTERFACE FOR AUDIO VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE SUCH AS TV

• US 20120117601A1
• Filed: 09/13/2011
• Published: 05/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yeh, Sabrina Tai-Chen, Nishikawa, Yuko, Barnes, Tracy, Yi, Hyehoon, Friedlander, Steven, Hill, Seth Guy
• Application Number:
  US13/231,258
• Publication Number:
  US 20120117601A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4725 using interactive regions of the image, e.g. hot spots details of information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94

Abstract

For a graphical user interface (GUI) for an audio video display device (AVDD) showing current video on a portion of the display, a bottom row of category icons is presented on at one end of the row a column of content panes representing content related to a category of a selected one of the icons.

Claims

1. Audio video display device (AVDD) comprising:

processor;

video display presenting demanded images;

computer readable storage medium bearing instructions executable by the processor to;

present on the display a first graphical user interface (GUI) including an L-shaped menu that is accessible from all content by actuating a menu key of a controller, the GUI including a horizontal row of category icons arranged along one edge of the display, a vertical column of content panes being arranged along a vertical edge of the display, the row and column partially framing a remainder of the display in which live video from a current input source is presented, the content panes in the column representing content in a currently selected category represented by a currently selected icon.

2. The AVDD of claim 1, wherein content represented by the panes include live information.

3. The AVDD of claim 1, wherein content represented by the panes include promotions.

4. The AVDD of claim 1, wherein content represented by the panes include static icons used for launching other content.

5. The AVDD of claim 1, wherein responsive to a content pane being selected, content represented by the pane is presented on the display.

6. The AVDD of claim 1, wherein responsive to an icon being selected, the icon is moved to be directly beneath the column.

7. The AVDD of claim 1, wherein responsive to an icon being selected, the icon is moved to be directly beneath the column, and is enlarged relative to other icons.

8. The AVDD of claim 1, wherein responsive to an icon being selected, the icon is moved to be directly beneath the column, and is enlarged relative to other icons, and an alpha-numeric name of a category represented by the icon is presented on screen below the icon.

9. Audio video display device (AVDD) comprising:

processor;

video display presenting demanded images;

computer readable storage medium bearing instructions executable by the processor to;

receive a “

menu”

selection is received from a remote control (RC); and

responsive to the menu selection, present an L-shaped graphical user interface (GUI) on the display, shrinking current video to fit within a portion of the display not occupied by the GUI.

10. The AVDD of claim 9, wherein the processor, responsive to selection of a category icon from the GUI in a horizontal row of icons, presents “

N”

content panes in a column along a right side of the row of icons, the panes representing content related to a category of a selected icon.

11. The AVDD of claim 10, wherein substantially simultaneously with icon selection the selected icon is moved beneath the column of panes and is enlarged, with its category name presented beneath it.

12. The AVDD of claim 11, wherein the processor responsive to selection of one of the panes presents on the display content represented by the selected pane.

13. The AVDD of claim 12, wherein responsive to a subsequent reception of a “

menu”

signal, a horizontally elongated universal information banner is made to appear near a bottom of the display.

14. Remote control (RC) wirelessly communicating user commands to an audio video display device (AVDD), comprising:

a power on key that can be toggled to energize and deenergize the AVDD;

a four way directional pad with up, down, left, and right directional arrows against which a user can move his finger to correspondingly move a screen cursor up, down, left, and right on the AVDD;

a select key to select whatever item a screen cursor is positioned over;

a menu key to cause a graphical user interface (GUI) to be presented on the AVDD;

a volume up/down rocker key to alter volume output of the AVDD; and

no other keys.

15. The RC of claim 14, wherein the AVDD has a display and the GUI is an L-shaped menu that is accessible from all content by actuating the menu key, the GUI including a horizontal row of category icons arranged along one edge of the display, a vertical column of content panes being arranged along a vertical edge of the display, the row and column partially framing a remainder of the display in which live video from a current input source is presented, the content panes in the column representing content in a currently selected category represented by a currently selected icon.

16. The RC of claim 15, wherein content represented by the panes include live information.

17. The RC of claim 15, wherein content represented by the panes include promotions.

18. The RC of claim 15, wherein content represented by the panes include static icons used for launching other content.

19. The RC of claim 15, wherein responsive to an icon being selected, the icon is moved to be directly beneath the column, and is enlarged relative to other icons, and an alpha-numeric name of a category represented by the icon is presented on screen below the icon.