Vertical click and drag to drill down into metadata on user interface for audio video display device such as TV

• US 8,504,939 B2
• Filed: 06/20/2011
• Issued: 08/06/2013
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Chow, Doon
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHIUSANO, ANDREW TSUTOMU
• Application Number:
  US13/163,923
• Publication Number:
  US 20120260212A1
• Time in Patent Office: 778 Days
• Field of Search: 725/40, 725/43, 715/808, 715/784, 345/172
• 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;

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;

receive a horizontal drag command;

responsive to the horizontal drag command, scrolling through a plurality of the information panels horizontally; and

wherein the vertical drag commands cannot be used to scroll through the information panels in contrast to the horizontal drag commands.

2. The AVDD of claim 1, wherein the relatively small metadata view 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 received from a touch pad of a remote control communicating wirelessly with the processor.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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;

wherein the first and second commands are first and second vertical drag commands;

receive a third command to scroll through a plurality of the information panels horizontally, the third command being a horizontal drag command;

wherein the GUI contains plural columns of information panels both onscreen and offscreen, but all of a plurality of rows of information panels always onscreen, such that vertical drag commands cannot be used to scroll through the information panels in contrast to the horizontal drag 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.

7. The AVDD of claim 6, wherein the second window substantially overlaps all but the edges of the information panels in first and third columns of the GUI.

8. The AVDD of claim 6, wherein the first window is superimposed on an information panel in a grid position below an information panel to which the first command pertains.

9. The AVDD of claim 6, wherein the second command is received by means of being input to the first window.

10. The AVDD of claim 6, 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.

11. The AVDD of claim 6, wherein the first command is received from a touch pad of a remote control communicating wirelessly with the processor.

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

13. The AVDD of claim 6, wherein the first command is received from a microphone detecting a verbal drag command and communicating with the processor.

14. The AVDD of claim 6, wherein the computer readable storage medium bears further instructions executable by the processor to:

present a currently selected content panel on the GUI presenting content selected by a user; and

responsive to the horizontal drag command to scroll through information panels, present additional content information panels on at least part of the GUI while continuing to present the currently selected content panel.