APPARATUS FOR SELECTING MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION

• US 20130063339A1
• Filed: 08/30/2012
• Published: 03/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: FM Marketing GmbH
• Original Assignee: FM Marketing GmbH
• Inventors: Maier, Ferdinand
• Application Number:
  US13/599,510
• Publication Number:
  US 20130063339A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0362 with detection of 1D translations or rotations of an operating part of the device, e.g. scroll wheels, sliders, knobs, rollers or belts
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42222 Additional components integrated in the remote control device, e.g. timer, speaker, sensors for detecting position, direction or movement of the remote control, microphone or battery charging device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4383 Accessing a communication channel

Abstract

An apparatus for selecting multimedia information containing an operating unit that comprises an actuation device that is movable back and forth into and out of a neutral position causing an output signal depending on the shift position of the actuation device, which causes movement of display unit elements in a scrolling manner where the elements are represented one after the other on a display unit in such a manner that the respective forward element covers the subsequent elements only partially, and the respective rearward elements are smaller than the respective forward elements.

Claims

1. Apparatus for selecting multimedia information comprising:

an operating unit that comprises an actuation device and transmits signals to a receiver unit,

a display device connected to the receiver unit, on which display device several elements are represented simultaneously, which represent selectable multimedia information,

wherein

the actuation device of the operating unit is shiftable in at least one direction out of a neutral position to a shift position, and back to the neutral position,

the operating unit produces an output signal depending on the shift position of the shiftable actuation device,

the elements on the display device are represented one after the other, in such a manner that a respective front-most element only partially covers subsequent elements, and respective rearward elements are smaller than respective forward elements,

the receiver unit changes the represented elements depending on the output signal of the operating unit depending on the shift position of the actuation device in such a manner that the respective front-most element is replaced by another element, and all additional displayed elements change their size in accordance with their rank order, and

the speed of the change of the elements depends on the shift position of the shiftable actuation device.

2. The multimedia information selection apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the actuation device of the operating unit is shiftable in a straight line in said at least one direction out of the neutral position to the shift position.

3. The multimedia information selection apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the actuation device is shiftable out of the neutral position to a forward shift position for scrolling the displayed elements in a first direction and back to the neutral position to discontinue scrolling, and is shiftable out of the neutral position to a rearward shift position for scrolling the displayed elements in a second direction and back to the neutral position to discontinue scrolling.

4. The multimedia information selection apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the forward shift position and rearward shift position are on the same straight line.

5. The multimedia information selection apparatus of claim 2 wherein the actuation device is shiftable only on the straight line between the shift position and the neutral position.

6. The multimedia information selection apparatus of claim 4 wherein the actuation device is shiftable only on the straight line between the forward and rearward shift positions and through the neutral position.

7. The multimedia information selection apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the actuation device is prestressed by a spring or magnet force in the neutral position, and a shifting of the actuation device against this force occurs when the actuation device is shifted out of neutral position to the shift position.

8. The multimedia information selection apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the receiver device comprises a data storage unit in which the selectable multimedia information is stored.

9. The multimedia information selection apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the operating unit is integrated in the receiver unit or the display device.

10. The multimedia information selection apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the operating unit is a remote control that is separate from the receiver unit and from the display device.

11. The multimedia information selection apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the operating unit comprises a position and/or movement sensor whose output signal controls predetermined functions of the receiver unit and/or of the display device.

12. The multimedia information selection apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the position and/or movement sensor controls static, semi-dynamic or dynamic functions of the receiver unit and/or of the display unit.

13. The multimedia information selection apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the actuation device is prestressed by a spring or magnet force in the neutral position, and a shifting of the actuation device against this force occurs when the actuation device is shifted out of neutral position to the shift position.

14. The multimedia information selection apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the operating unit comprises a position and/or movement sensor whose output signal controls predetermined functions of the receiver unit and/or of the display device.

15. The multimedia information selection apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the position and/or movement sensor controls static, semi-dynamic or dynamic functions of the receiver unit and/or of the display unit.

16. The multimedia information selection apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the operating unit comprises a position and/or movement sensor whose output signal controls predetermined functions of the receiver unit and/or of the display device.

17. The multimedia information selection apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the position and/or movement sensor controls static, semi-dynamic or dynamic functions of the receiver unit and/or of the display unit.