USER INTERFACE FOR AUDIO VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE SUCH AS TV

• US 20120260173A1
• Filed: 07/16/2011
• Published: 10/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: FRIEDLANDER, STEVEN, Yeh, Sabrina Tai-Chen, Young, David
• Application Number:
  US13/184,525
• Publication Number:
  US 20120260173A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/720
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4314 for fitting data in a restricted space on the screen, e.g. EPG data in a rectangular grid
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72

Abstract

For a graphical user interface (GUI) for an audio video display device (AVDD) showing plural content information panels arranged in a grid, the loading time during which the content information panels are retrieved and presented on the AVDD is used to display, in the area in which the loading information panel will be, a text description of the category of the panel content. The text also explains the meaning of an icon that is displayed next to the content information panel after the loading is completed.

Claims

1. An audio video display device (AVDD), comprising:

a processor;

a video display presenting demanded images;

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

present on the display a first graphical user interface (GUI) including plural content panels, each content panel representing a respective video;

responsive to a viewer input requiring a change to the content panels, retrieve new video content for presentation on the GUI;

during a load period during which the new content is being retrieved for loading in the GUI, presenting, in each GUI location corresponding to a respective content panel, a respective text description of a category of the new content to be loaded into the respective content panel; and

after the load period, replacing the text descriptions with respective new content panels.

2. The AVDD of claim 1, wherein the GUI includes eight content panels and a current video panel together arranged in a three by three grid, the eight content panels being changed responsive to the viewer input requiring a change to the content panels, the current video panel not being changed responsive to the viewer input requiring a change to the content panels.

3. The AVDD of claim 1, wherein the processor presents next to each respective new content panel a respective icon representing the respective category.

4. The AVDD of claim 1, wherein the processor presents next to each respective text description a respective icon representing the respective category.

5. The AVDD of claim 4, wherein the icons each have a respective category color, icons of the same category having the same category color, icons of the same category not having the category color of icons of any other category.

6. The AVDD of claim 5, wherein the text descriptions are presented in the same category colors as the respective icons associated with the respective text descriptions.

7. The AVDD of claim 1, wherein the processor presents next to each respective text description an animated load icon presented as moving on the display during the load period.

8. A method, comprising:

presenting on a video display a first graphical user interface (GUI) including plural content panels, each content panel representing a respective video;

responsive to viewer input requiring a change to the content panels, retrieving new content for presentation on the GUI;

during a load period during which the new content is being retrieved for loading in the GUI, presenting, in each GUI location corresponding to a respective content panel, a respective text description of a category of the new content to be loaded into the respective content panel; and

after the load period, replacing the text descriptions with respective new content panels.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the GUI include eight content panels and a current video panel together arranged in a three by three grid, the eight content panels being changed responsive to the viewer input requiring a change to the content panels, the current video panel not being changed responsive to the viewer input requiring a change to the content panels.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising presenting next to each respective new content panel a respective icon representing the respective category.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising presenting next to each respective text description a respective icon representing the respective category.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the icons each have a respective category color, icons of the same category having the same category color, icons of the same category not having the category color of icons of any other category.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the text descriptions are presented in the same category colors as the respective icons associated with the respective text descriptions.

14. The method of claim 8, further comprising presenting next to each respective text description an animated load icon presented as moving on the display during the load period.

15. An audio video display device (AVDD), comprising:

a processor;

a video display presenting demanded images;

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

present on the display a graphical user interface (GUI) including plural thumbnails, each thumbnail representing respective media content;

responsive to input requiring a change to the thumbnails, retrieve new content for presentation on the GUI;

during a load period during which the new content is being retrieved for loading in the GUI and association with at least one respective new thumbnail, present, in each GUI location where a thumbnail will be placed, a respective text description of the content to be loaded in the GUI and associated with the respective thumbnail; and

after the load period, replacing the text descriptions with respective new thumbnails.

16. The AVDD of claim 15, wherein the processor presents next to each respective thumbnail a respective icon representing a genre associated with the respective content and/or a status identifier associated with the respective content.

17. The AVDD of claim 15, wherein the processor presents next to each respective text description a respective icon representing a genre associated with the respective content and/or a status identifier associated with the respective content.

18. AVDD of claim 15, wherein the processor presents on each respective new thumbnail a respective logo representing the content source of the respective content.

19. The AVDD of claim 15, wherein the processor presents next to each respective text description a respective logo representing the content source of the respective content.

20. The AVDD of claim 15, wherein the processor presents next to each respective text description an animated load icon presented as moving on the display during the load period.