Next generation user interface for audio video display device such as TV

• US 8,595,765 B2
• Filed: 07/20/2011
• Issued: 11/26/2013
• 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): RABOVIANSKI, JIVKA A
• Application Number:
  US13/186,806
• Publication Number:
  US 20120260285A1
• Time in Patent Office: 860 Days
• Field of Search: 725 37- 39, 725 44- 47, 725/135
• US Class Current: 725/37
• 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

A viewer of an audio video display device (AVDD) and transition from a nine panel graphical user interface (GUI) showing a summary degree of metadata to a six panel GUI showing a higher degree of metadata using a horizontal motion.

Claims

1. Audio video device (AVD) comprising:

processor configured for controlling a video display to present demanded images on the video display under control of the processor;

computer readable storage medium bearing instructions executable by the processor to;

present a first graphical user interface (GUI) on the display, the first GUI including a first number of information panels each being associated with respective content that can be played on the AVDD, at least some panels in the first GUI presenting a summary degree of metadata describing the respective content; and

responsive to a viewer motion input while the first GUI is presented, remove the first GUI from the display and present a second GUI on the display the viewer motion not being interpreted by the processor as being directed to any particular panel of the first GUI, the second GUI including a second number of information panels each being associated with respective content that can be played on the AVDD, the second number of information panels being fewer than the first number of information panels in the first GUI, at least some information panels in the second GUI presenting a detailed degree of metadata describing the respective content, the detailed degree including more metadata than the summary degree, wherein the first GUI has first, second, and third rows of information panels, the second GUI has information panels each corresponding an information panel from only first and second rows of information panels of the first GUI, and the information panels in the first and second rows of the first GUI establish the first and second rows of information panels in the second GUI, the information panels in the second GUI being larger than corresponding information panels in the first GUI.

2. The AVD of claim 1, wherein the first number is nine.

3. The AVD of claim 1, wherein the second number is six.

4. The AVD of claim 1, wherein the first number is nine and the nine panels in the first GUI are arranged in three rows of three, the second number is six, and the six panels in the second GUI are respectively associated with video content which is associated with respective panels in two rows of panels in the first GUI.

5. The AVD of claim 4, wherein the two rows of panels in the first GUI that correspond to the panels in the second GUI are a top row and a middle row of panels in the first GUI.

6. The AVD of claim 1, wherein all panels in the second GUI are larger than any panel in the first GUI.

7. The AVD of claim 1, wherein the viewer motion is a horizontal click and drag motion on an input device.

8. A method for enabling a viewer of an audio video device (AVD) to transition from a first graphical user interface (GUI) showing a summary degree of metadata to a second GUI showing a higher degree of metadata, comprising:

receiving a user motion input while the first GUI is presented;

correlating the input to a command to transition to the second GUI; and

responsive to the command, removing the first GUI from the AVD and presenting the second GUI on the AVD wherein the first GUI has first, second, and third rows of information panels, the second GUI has information panels each comes ondin an information panel from only first and second rows of information panels of the first GUI, and the information panels in the first and second rows of the first GUI establish the first and second rows of information panels in the second GUI, the information panels in the second GUI being larger than corresponding information panels in the first GUI the user motion not being directed to a particular panel of the first GUI.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the user motion input is a horizontal motion against an input device.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the first GUI includes nine information panels arranged in three rows of three, the second GUI includes six information panels respectively associated with video content which is associated with respective information panels in two rows of information panels in the first GUI.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the two rows of panels in the first GUI that correspond to the panels in the second GUI are a top row and a middle row of panels in the first GUI.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein both GUIs present information panels and all panels in the second GUI are larger than any panel in the first GUI.

13. Apparatus, comprising:

user input device;

display device receiving signals from the user input device, at least a first one of which signals is generated by translational motion of a person'"'"'s hand against the input device; and

processor responsive to the first one of the signals changing a level of metadata presented on the display device from more to less metadata, or from less to more metadata, a current video pane being presented in an unchanging location on the display device in both levels of metadata;

wherein the processor changes the level of metadata by changing from m a first GUI to a second GUI, and

wherein the first GUI has first, second, and third rows of information panels, the second GUI has information anels each corresponding an information panel from only first and second rows of information panels of the first GUI and the information panels in the first and second rows of the first GUI establish the first and second rows of information panels in the second GUI, the information panels in the second GUI being larger than corresponding information panels in the first GUI the motion of the person'"'"'s hand not being interpreted as being directed to a particular panel of the first GUI.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the first GUI includes a first number of information panels each being associated with respective content that can be played on the display device, at least some panels in the first GUI presenting a summary degree of metadata describing the respective content, and the second GUI includes a second number of information panels each being associated with respective content that can be played on the display device, the second number being fewer than the first number in the first GUI, at least some panels in the second GUI presenting a detailed degree of metadata describing the respective content, the detailed degree including more metadata than the summary degree.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the first number is nine.

16. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the second number is six.

17. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the first number is nine and the nine panels in the first GUI are arranged in three rows of three, the second number is six, and the six panels in the second GUI are respectively associated with video content which is associated with respective panels in two rows of panels in the first GUI.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the two rows of panels in the first GUI that correspond to the panels in the second GUI are a top row and a middle row of panels in the first GUI.