Menu overlay including context dependent menu icon
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1. A method, comprising:
- presenting a video environment capable of displaying videos;
displaying a video in the video environment;
presenting an overlay within the video environment while maintaining the video within the video environment;
determining that a source for the video is a recorded video source;
automatically presenting an interactive delete icon within the overlay;
determining that the source for the video has changed from a recorded video source to a broadcast video source; and
automatically replacing the delete icon within the overlay with an interactive record icon.
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Abstract
A video device displays video in one of a plurality of contexts in an onscreen display area. In response to the menu command, the video device generates a menu overlay within the onscreen display area while maintaining the video within the menu overlay, and generates within the menu overlay a context icon based on the selected context.
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29 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
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presenting a video environment capable of displaying videos; displaying a video in the video environment; presenting an overlay within the video environment while maintaining the video within the video environment; determining that a source for the video is a recorded video source; automatically presenting an interactive delete icon within the overlay; determining that the source for the video has changed from a recorded video source to a broadcast video source; and automatically replacing the delete icon within the overlay with an interactive record icon. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 27)
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9. A method, comprising:
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presenting an onscreen display area capable of displaying videos in multiple contexts; receiving a video from a source; displaying the video in the onscreen display area in a particular context; receiving a user input; and in response to the received user input, determining that the source is a recorded video source, automatically presenting a first overlay that includes an interactive delete icon within the onscreen display area while displaying the video in a playback context and while maintaining the video within the onscreen display, determining that the source has changed from the recorded video source to a broadcast video source, and automatically replacing the first overlay with a second overlay that includes an interactive record icon within the onscreen display area while displaying the video in a received context and while maintaining the video within the onscreen display area. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A video processing system, comprising:
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a video input device to receive video data; a data store in communication with the video input device to provide the video data as either recorded video data or as broadcast video data; a handheld remote including an input to generate remote control signals; and a processing device in communication with the video input device, the data store and the handheld remote, the processing device configured to perform operations comprising; processing and displaying video data provided by the data store in multiple contexts in a video environment; displaying a video in the video environment; in response to a first user input received from the handheld remote, determining that the video is recorded video data, presenting an overlay within the video environment while maintaining the video within the video environment, presenting an interactive delete icon within the overlay when the video is displayed in a playback context, determining that the recorded video data has been replaced with broadcast video data, and automatically replacing the delete icon with an interactive record icon within the overlay when the video is displayed in a received context. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18)
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19. A video system, comprising:
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a display configured to present a video in a video environment in a playback context when the video is received from a source that provides recorded video or a received context when the video is received from a source that provides broadcast video; a handheld remote having an input device and configured to generate remote control signals in response to user input; a control engine configured to receive the remote control signals generated by the handheld remote in response to user input and to generate control signals in response; and a user interface engine in communication with the control engine and, in response to a first control signal from the control engine, configured to present an overlay within the video environment while maintaining a first video within the video environment, and configured to present within the overlay an interactive record when the video is received from the source that broadcasts video, and configured to automatically replace the record icon with an interactive delete icon when the video is received from the source that provides recorded video. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22)
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23. A video processing system, comprising:
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means for displaying a video in one of a playback context when the video is received from a source that records video or a received context when the video is received from a source that provides broadcast video in a first video environment; means for receiving user input; means for generating an overlay within the first video environment while maintaining the video environment in response to the user input, wherein maintaining the video environment comprises continuing to display the video; and means for generating within the overlay one or more context-dependent icons corresponding to the first context in which the video is being displayed, comprising generating an interactive delete icon when the video is received from the source that provides recorded video, and automatically replacing the delete icon with an interactive record icon when the video is received from the source that provides broadcast video.
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24. A method, comprising:
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displaying a video in a video environment; receiving a user input; in response to the received user input, determining that the video is received from a recorded video source, in response to determining that the video is received from the recorded video source, presenting an interactive delete icon within the video environment while continuing to display the video within the video environment determining that the video is received from a broadcast video source instead of the recorded video source, and in response to determining that the video is received from the broadcast video source instead of the recorded video source, automatically replacing the delete icon with an interactive record icon within the video environment while continuing to display the video within the video environment.
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25. A video processing system, comprising:
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a video interface configured to receive video data; and a processor in communication with the video interface and a handheld remote, the processing device configured to perform operations comprising; processing and displaying video in multiple contexts; in response to a first user input received from the handheld remote, receiving video data from a recorded video source; in response to receiving video data from the recorded video source, presenting an overlay within the video environment while continuing to display the video data within the video environment; presenting within the overlay an interactive delete icon when the video is displayed in a playback context; determining that the video data is received from a broadcast video source instead of the recorded video source; and in response to determining that the video data is received from the broadcast video source instead of the recorded video source, automatically replacing the delete icon with an interactive record icon when the video is displayed in a received context.
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26. A method, comprising:
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presenting a video environment capable of displaying videos in each of a plurality of contexts, wherein each context corresponds to a way video data is processed and the plurality of contexts include a playback context for the playback of recorded video when the video is received from a source that provides recorded video and a received context for presenting broadcast video when the video is received from a source that provides broadcast video; displaying a video in the video environment in a particular context; receiving a user input; in response to the received user input, determining that the video is received from the source that provides recorded video presenting an overlay within the video environment while maintaining the first video within the video environment, and presenting within the overlay an interactive delete icon when the video is displayed in the playback context, determining that the source has changed from the source that provides recorded video to the source that provides broadcast video, and in response to determining that the source has changed from the source that provides recorded video to the source that provides broadcast video, automatically replacing the delete icon with an interactive record icon when the video is displayed in the received context and when the video is received from the video source that provides broadcast video.
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28. A method, comprising:
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presenting a video environment capable of displaying videos in multiple contexts including a particular context that is either a playback context in which video displayed is recorded video received from a source that provides recorded video or a received context in which video displayed is received from a source that provides broadcast video; displaying a video in the video environment; receiving a user input; in response to the received user input, presenting an overlay within the video environment while maintaining the video within the video environment; determining the particular context; presenting within the overlay an interactive delete icon upon determining that the particular context is the playback context and that the displayed video is received from the source that provides recorded video; and automatically replacing the delete icon with an interactive record icon upon determining that the particular context is the a record context and that the displayed video is received from the source that provides broadcast video. - View Dependent Claims (29)
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