SUBSTITUTING TOUCH GESTURES FOR GUI OR HARDWARE KEYS TO CONTROL AUDIO VIDEO PLAY

• US 20120204106A1
• Filed: 03/31/2011
• Published: 08/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Hill, Seth, Baurmann, Travis, Balasubramanian, Guru, Szabo, Scott
• Granted Patent: US 9,047,005 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/716
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1654 the display being detachable, e.g. for remote use
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A user can toggle between GUI input and touch screen input with the GUI hidden using touch gestures correlated to respective hidden GUI elements and, thus, to respective commands for a TV and/or disk player sending AV data thereto.

Claims

1. Method for controlling an audio video (AV) device comprising:

causing the audio video device to change channel up, change channel down, display an electronic program guide (EPG) using respective non-graphical user interface (GUI) element selection touch gestures on a display of the device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising causing a source of AV sending AV to the AV device to stop, play, and rewind using respective touch gestures against a display of the device.

3. The method of claim 1, comprising enabling a user to enable and disable touch gesture control of the AV device.

4. Consumer electronics (CE) device comprising:

processor;

touch screen display controlled by the processor; and

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

present a main graphical user interface (GUI) on the touch screen display, the main GUI including first and second main GUI elements manipulable by means of a wireless remote control (RC) at least to cause respective first and second control commands to be implemented by the processor, touch commands to control the display being disabled;

present at least one toggle element on the touch screen display selectable to hide the main first and second GUI elements and enable touch commands, first and second touch patterns on the touch screen display being respectively correlated to the first and second control commands.

5. The CE device of claim 4, wherein the first touch pattern is two successive swipes up the touch screen display starting nearer to a bottom edge of the display and ending nearer to a top edge of the display, and the first control command is channel up.

6. The CE device of claim 4, wherein the first touch pattern is two successive swipes down the touch screen display and the first control command is channel down.

7. The CE device of claim 4, wherein the first touch pattern is two successive long presses on the touch screen display and the first control command is “

display electronic program guide (EPG)”

, a long press being continuous contact against the display for longer than a predetermined period substantially in one place on the display, two successive long presses being two long presses separated from each other temporally by a time period, causing an EPG to be presented on the display.

8. The CE device of claim 4, wherein the first touch pattern is a single press against the touch screen display and the first control command is “

show menu”

, causing a menu to be presented on the display.

9. The CE device of claim 4, wherein the CE device receives audio video data from a video source and the processor sends the following commands to the video source when the following touch gestures are sensed and touch control is enabled:

(a) Play/Pause—

DOUBLE TAP

(b) 4 way (cursor)—

FLICK/SWIPE up/down/left/right

(c) Select—

TAP

(d) fast forward—

FLICK/SWIPE right

(e) rewind—

FLICK/SWIPE left

(f) record—

SPIRAL

(g) Next chapter—

2 SWIPE up

(h) Previous chapter—

2 SWIPE down

(i) Stop—

CIRCLE

10. The CE device of claim 4, wherein the CE device receives audio video data from a video source and the processor sends the following command to the video source when the following touch gesture is sensed and touch control is enabled:

Play/Pause—

DOUBLE TAP.

11. The CE device of claim 4, wherein the CE device receives audio video data from a video source and the processor sends the following command to the video source when the following touch gesture is sensed and touch control is enabled:

4 way (cursor)—

FLICK/SWIPE up/down/left/right.

12. The CE device of claim 4, wherein the CE device receives audio video data from a video source and the processor sends the following command to the video source when the following touch gesture is sensed and touch control is enabled:

Select—

TAP.

13. The CE device of claim 4, wherein the CE device receives audio video data from a video source and the processor sends the following command to the video source when the following touch gesture is sensed and touch control is enabled:

fast forward—

FLICK/SWIPE right.

14. The CE device of claim 4, wherein the CE device receives audio video data from a video source and the processor sends the following command to the video source when the following touch gesture is sensed and touch control is enabled:

rewind—

FLICK/SWIPE left.

15. The CE device of claim 4, wherein the CE device receives audio video data from a video source and the processor sends the following command to the video source when the following touch gesture is sensed and touch control is enabled:

record—

SPIRAL.

16. The CE device of claim 4, wherein the CE device receives audio video data from a video source and the processor sends the following command to the video source when the following touch gesture is sensed and touch control is enabled:

Next chapter—

2 SWIPE up.

17. The CE device of claim 4, wherein the CE device receives audio video data from a video source and the processor sends the following command to the video source when the following touch gesture is sensed and touch control is enabled:

Previous chapter—

2 SWIPE down.

18. The CE device of claim 4, wherein the CE device receives audio video data from a video source and the processor sends the following command to the video source when the following touch gesture is sensed and touch control is enabled:

Stop—

CIRCLE.

19. Method comprising:

receiving on a touch screen a touch gesture, the touch gesture being characterized by a predetermined continuous motion across a sequence of areas of the surface of the touch screen; and

implementing a single command in an audio video (AV) device responsive to the touch gesture.

20. The method of claim 19, comprising enabling a user to enable and disable touch gesture control of the AV device.