ENHANCED PROGRAM METADATA ON CROSS-MEDIA BAR
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1. System comprising:
- video display;
processor controlling video display;
TV tuner providing TV signals for presentation on the display;
the processor presenting a user interface (UI) on the TV display, the UT listing icons representing respective media sources, at least one media source being the TV tuner represented by a TV icon and at least one media source being a non-TV source, wherein when the TV icon is active a list of TV channel icons is presented next to the TV icon, wherein responsive to a TV channel icon being active first metadata associated with a respective TV channel is presented on the display, wherein responsive to the TV channel icon being active for greater than a first period, second metadata associated with the respective TV channel is presented on the display without requiring the user to tune to the TV channel or invoke a program guide application, the second metadata being acquired from a program guide application.
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Abstract
When a user hovers a screen cursor over a TV channel icon on a cross-media bar (XMB) user interface (UI) for a threshold period, enhanced metadata from PSIP/XDS/EPG that pertains to the program currently available on the associated TV channel is presented in a pop-up window on the XMB UI.
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1. System comprising:
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video display; processor controlling video display; TV tuner providing TV signals for presentation on the display; the processor presenting a user interface (UI) on the TV display, the UT listing icons representing respective media sources, at least one media source being the TV tuner represented by a TV icon and at least one media source being a non-TV source, wherein when the TV icon is active a list of TV channel icons is presented next to the TV icon, wherein responsive to a TV channel icon being active first metadata associated with a respective TV channel is presented on the display, wherein responsive to the TV channel icon being active for greater than a first period, second metadata associated with the respective TV channel is presented on the display without requiring the user to tune to the TV channel or invoke a program guide application, the second metadata being acquired from a program guide application. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. Method comprising:
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presenting a user interface (UI) on a TV display, the UI showing representations of at least two sources of information, one of the sources being a TV tuner and another source not being a TV tuner; in response to activation of a representation of the TV tuner, presenting representations of TV channels available from the TV tuner; and presenting first metadata pertaining to a program currently carried on the channel at a first time and then presenting second metadata pertaining to the program currently carried on the channel at a second time, wherein the representations are icons and the second time is established when a screen cursor has hovered on a TV channel icon for at least a threshold period. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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15. Audio-video display assembly, comprising:
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video display; processor controlling the display; computer readable storage medium accessible to the processor and bearing instructions to cause the processor to; present, on the display, a user interface (UI), wherein the UT is not a program guide, including icons representing respective TV channels available for presentation on the display; present, next to each icon, a name of a program currently available on the associated channel; and in response to a user-controlled selection of an icon, present, in a window distanced on the display from the icon, enhanced information pertaining to the program, wherein the enhanced information is program information obtained from a program guide application. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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