VERTICAL CLICK AND DRAG TO DRILL DOWN INTO METADATA ON USER INTERFACE FOR AUDIO VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE SUCH AS TV

• US 20120260212A1
• Filed: 06/20/2011
• Published: 10/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Young, David, Friedlander, Steven, Yeh, Sabrina Tai-Chen
• Granted Patent: US 8,504,939 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/784
• 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

An initial vertical drag command input to a GUI of a display having a grid of content information panels causes metadata related to one of the content information panels to be displayed, typically overlaid on an information panel adjacent the selected panel. A subsequent vertical drag command causes enhanced metadata to be displayed in a larger window.

Claims

1. Audio video display device (AVDD) comprising:

processor;

video display; and

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

present on the display a grid of information panels, each information panel presenting visual information pertaining to respective audio video programs;

receive a vertical drag command;

determine the information panel to which the vertical drag command pertains; and

responsive to the vertical drag command and determination of which information panel the drag command pertains, present on the display metadata related to the information panel to which the vertical drag command pertains.

2. The AVDD of claim 1, wherein the metadata is presented in a window superimposed on an information panel in a grid position below the information panel to which the vertical drag command pertains.

3. The AVDD of claim 1, wherein the vertical drag command is a first vertical drag command and the metadata is a relatively small metadata view, and the processor, responsive to a second vertical drag command being received on the relatively small metadata view, presents on the display a relatively large metadata view containing metadata related to the information panel to which the first vertical drag command pertains.

4. The AVDD of claim 1, wherein the vertical drag command is a first vertical drag command and the metadata is a relatively small metadata view, and the processor, responsive to a second vertical drag command being received within a predetermined time period of receiving the first vertical drag command, presents on the display a relatively large metadata view containing metadata related to the information panel to which the first vertical drag command pertains.

5. The AVDD of claim 1, wherein the vertical drag command is received from a touch pad of a remote control communicating wirelessly with the processor.

6. The AVDD of claim 1, wherein the vertical drag command is received from a camera imaging a human gesture in free space and communicating with the processor.

7. The AVDD of claim 1, wherein the vertical drag command is received from a microphone detecting a verbal drag command and communicating with the processor.

8. Audio video display device (AVDD) comprising:

processor;

video display; and

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

present a graphical user interface (GUI) on the display, the GUI including plural content information panels each selectable to cause the processor to present on the display respective audio video content;

receive a first command pertaining to the GUI to access metadata related to an audio video program represented by a first one of the content information panels;

responsive to the first command, cause a screen shot to appear on the display to show condensed metadata related to a respective first audio video program represented by the first content information panel, the condensed metadata being presented in a window that is substantially the same size and shape as an information panel and being overlaid thereon;

receive a second command pertaining to the screen shot to access additional metadata;

responsive to the second command, cause a screen shot to appear on the display to show enhanced metadata related to the first audio video program, the enhanced metadata being presented in a second window larger than the first window.

9. The AVDD of claim 8, wherein the first and second commands are first and second vertical drag commands.

10. The AVDD of claim 8, wherein the GUI contains plural columns of information panels both onscreen and offscreen, but only three rows of information panels always onscreen, such that vertical drag commands cannot be used to scroll through more panels in contrast to horizontal commands and so can be leveraged for other purposes which will not confuse the processor in gaining access to metadata on a program quickly and intuitively.

11. The AVDD of claim 8, wherein the second window substantially overlaps all but the edges of the information panels in first and third columns of the GUI.

12. The AVDD of claim 8, wherein the first window is superimposed on an information panel in a grid position below an information panel to which the first command pertains.

13. The AVDD of claim 8, wherein the second command is received by means of being input to the first window.

14. The AVDD of claim 8, wherein the second command is received and interpreted as a second command for presenting the enhanced metadata only if the second command is received within a predetermined time period of receiving the first command.

15. The AVDD of claim 8, wherein the first command is received from a touch pad of a remote control communicating wirelessly with the processor.

16. The AVDD of claim 8, wherein the first command is received from a camera imaging a human gesture in free space and communicating with the processor.

17. The AVDD of claim 8, wherein the first command is received from a microphone detecting a verbal drag command and communicating with the processor.

18. Method, comprising:

presenting on a video display a graphical user interface (GUI) including plural content information panels each selectable to present on the display respective audio video content;

scrolling information panels using a first command pertaining to a first dimension such that information panels scroll onscreen and offscreeen responsive to the first command; and

displaying metadata pertaining to an audio video content represented by a first one of the content information panels responsive to a second command pertaining to a second dimension orthogonal to the first dimension.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the second command is an initial second command and the method further comprises presenting additional metadata pertaining to the audio video content represented by the first one of the content information panels responsive to a repeated second command following the initial second command.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the metadata is presented in a window superimposed on an information panel in a grid position below the information panel to which the second command pertains.