Method and system for continuing in a second graphics page display of live video previously presented in a first graphics page when a user navigates from the first graphics page to the second graphics page

• US 8,438,497 B2
• Filed: 08/26/2011
• Issued: 05/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Nguyen, Nga Marie
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN BA, HOANG VU A
• Application Number:
  US13/219,053
• Publication Number:
  US 20120036436A1
• Time in Patent Office: 620 Days
• Field of Search: 725/40, 725/43, 725/131, 715/210, 715/760, 715/768, 715/790, 345/629, 345/635
• US Class Current: 715/790
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/205 Parsing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2805 Home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2814 Exchanging control software or macros for controlling appliance services in a home automation network arrangements for maintenance or administration involving configuration of the network and network elements H04L41/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/21805 enabling multiple viewpoints, e.g. using a plurality of cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2187 Live feed
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23412 for generating or manipulating the scene composition of objects, e.g. MPEG-4 objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42216 for quick navigation, e.g. through an EPG
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• 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 21/4622 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 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4821 using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/854 : Content authoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8541 : involving branching, e.g. to different story endings
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 : using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8545 : for generating interactive applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 : by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02

Abstract

A system and method for controlling a media generation system where a media event may be selected via a stateless software module, the system receiving a media event protocol file corresponding to the selected media event. The media generation system generates the media event based on the received media event protocol file.

Claims

1. A method of controlling an audio video system, comprising:

a) generating a user selectable media event in the system, the system presenting a first graphics page in which the media event appears along with user-selectable selector elements, the media event being live video;

b) receiving a user selection to change the graphics page to a second graphics page different from the first graphics page, the second graphics page including user-selectable selector elements, at least some of which user-selectable selector elements on the second graphics page are different than the user-selectable selector elements on the first graphics page; and

c) directing a continuing generation of the media event in the audio video system and the media event appearing in the second graphics page that includes the user-selectable selector elements on the second graphics page that are different than the user-selectable selector elements on the first graphics page, the media event being the same video as was presented with the first graphics page, a media event protocol indicating a first portion of the first graphics page to be made transparent, the first portion of the first graphics page being where the video is combined with the first graphics page such that the video appears in the first portion of the first graphics page, second portions of the first graphics page also appearing with the video being presented in a first portion of the second graphics page, the media event being processed while a user of the audio video system navigates to the second graphics page which does not necessarily refer to the media event, the video, when the user navigates from the first graphics page to the second graphics page, remaining visible in the second graphics page in a first portion of the second graphics page, the first portion of the second graphics page occupying the same location as the first portion of the first graphics page.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of parsing the media event protocol file and wherein step c) includes directing the generation of the media event in the media generation system based on the parsed media event protocol file.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the system includes a television set top box.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the media event protocol file includes the screen location for the video media event within a page of a Web Browser.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the media event protocol file includes the height and width of the video media event within the page of the Web Browser.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the media event protocol file includes the channel location of the video media event.

7. A method of controlling an audio video system, comprising:

a) generating a user selectable media event in the audio video system, the system presenting a first view in which the media event appears, the media event being live video;

b) receiving a user selection to change view to a second view different from the first view, the second view including the media event, the media event continuing as a single media event from the first view to the second view;

c) directing continuing generation of the media event in the media generation audio video system and the media event appearing in the second view, the media event being the same video as was presented with the first view, a computer data structure indicating a view location of the first view where the video is presented such that the video appears in the first view, the media event being processed while a user of the audio video system navigates to the second view, the video, when the user navigates from the first view to the second view, being visible in the second view.