METHOD FOR CUSTOMIZING AN INTERFACE IN TELEVISION SET

• US 20120324509A1
• Filed: 06/19/2011
• Published: 12/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Shenzhen TCL New Technology Co., Ltd. (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Shenzhen TCL New Technology Co., Ltd. (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Fu, Yaoyuan, Li, Meng, Yang, Yingying
• Application Number:
  US13/379,004
• Publication Number:
  US 20120324509A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/47
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/431 Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
• 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 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/454 Content or additional data filtering, e.g. blocking advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4886 for displaying a ticker, e.g. scrolling banner for news, stock exchange, weather data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/63 Generation or supply of power specially adapted for television receivers

Abstract

A method for customizing an interface in a TV set is provided in the present disclosure. This method comprises the following steps of: step a: setting a TV playing region and a customized function region; step b: storing the customized interface setting parameters into a memory of the TV set; and step c: invoking and displaying the customized interface from the memory depending on the user'"'"'s settings when the TV set is powered on. By disposing a customized function region, the method for customizing an interface in a TV set according to the present disclosure allows the user who is watching the TV to also acquire other useful information depending on his own needs, and can also satisfy tastes of different users. This enriches functions of the TV set and makes it possible for the user to acquire interested information quickly through the TV set.

Claims

1. A method for customizing an interface in a TV set, comprising the following steps of:

step a;

setting a TV playing region and a customized function region;

step b;

storing the customized interface setting parameters into a memory of the TV set; and

step c;

invoking and displaying the customized interface from the memory depending on the user'"'"'s settings when the TV set is powered on.

2. The method for customizing an interface in a TV set of claim 1, wherein a plurality of customized interface parameters are set in the step b.

3. The method for customizing an interface in a TV set of claim 2, wherein in the step c, the customized interface is altered or invoked depending on the user'"'"'s desire after the TV set is powered on.

4. The method for customizing an interface in a TV set of claim 1, wherein the step a is operated with a remote control or a control panel of the TV set.

5. The method for customizing an interface in a TV set of claim 1, wherein the step a is operated by using a mouse device externally connected to the TV set.

6. The method for customizing an interface in a TV set of claim 1, wherein the customized function region includes a clock icon, local weather forecasts, real-time stock index curves, and scrolling program lists of channels.

7. The method for customizing an interface in a TV set of claim 1, wherein the TV set is a TV set having a network function, and the customized function region includes scrolling news reports that are updated synchronously with a network.

8. The method for customizing an interface in a TV set of claim 1, wherein the TV playing region is a full-screen movie playing region having a black screen area at both an upper side and a lower side, and the customized function region is disposed in the black screen areas.