Remote frames

• US 8,874,370 B1
• Filed: 01/28/2013
• Issued: 10/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Harris Technology LLC
• Original Assignee: Harris Technology LLC
• Inventors: Harris, Scott C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Frejd, Russell
• Application Number:
  US13/752,006
• Time in Patent Office: 638 Days
• Field of Search: 701408-412, 701/428, 701/431, 701/433, 701/434, 701/436, 701/487, 701/516, 701/532, 701/533
• US Class Current: 701/431
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• 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 21/42209 for displaying non-command information, e.g. electronic program guide [EPG], e-mail, messages or a second television channel
• 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 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47217 for controlling playback functions for recorded or on-demand content, e.g. using progress bars, mode or play-point indicators or bookmarks specific graphical features in visual interfaces H04N21/4312
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8549 Creating video summaries, e.g. movie trailer retrieval in video databases by using presentations in form of a video summary G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8227 the additional signal being at least another television signal

Abstract

A device that can operate according to a menu. A first aspect describes an array of preview frames were each preview frame can represent a program such as a video program or an intranet site. A selection window within the array allows selecting different preview frames. Another aspect describes use of this sliding array system within a GPS device.

Claims

1. A navigation device, comprising:

an electronic device having a user interface, and a screen which shows results of the user interface, and the user interface controls entering a destination for navigation, and the display displays navigation information indicative of a path to the destination for navigation, and where the navigation information includes multiple individual and separate pictures, each of said multiple individual pictures representing a different area of a path to the destination for navigation, wherein said multiple different pictures are arranged along a line that is in the same temporal order as the path of the navigation, and different pictures represent different times along the path,

where at least a first of said pictures includes a representation of an area at a current time and is labeled to indicate that said first picture represents a current time, and a second of said pictures includes a representation at a future time and is labeled to indicate an indication of said future time,

and where the multiple different pictures are arranged in a line and include a control to enable the user to slide between the multiple different pictures.

2. The navigation device as in claim 1, wherein said user interface controls selecting any of said individual pictures to obtain additional information about any of the pictures.

3. The navigation device as in claim 1, wherein said navigation information includes pictures of landmarks that will occur along the path.

4. The navigation device as in claim 1, wherein said pictures are photographs.

5. The navigation device as in claim 1, wherein said pictures are drawings.

6. The navigation device as in claim 1, wherein said user interface downloads a picture of a future area while the user is traveling towards the future area.

7. The navigation device as in claim 6, wherein said picture of said future time includes a display of a number of minutes until said picture will become a current picture.

8. The navigation device as in claim 6, wherein said picture of said future time includes an indication of when said picture will become a current picture by referring to an action to be taken during a guiding of the navigation.

9. The navigation device as in claim 6 wherein another of said pictures includes a representation at a past time.

10. The navigation device as in claim 1, wherein the pictures include pictures of insides of buildings and enables navigating within the building.

11. A navigation device, comprising:

an electronic device having a user interface, a processor and a screen which displays,

and the user interface controls entering a destination for navigation, and the processor controls providing information for guiding to the destination,

wherein the display shows multiple individual and separate frames of information, each of said multiple individual and separate frames of information representing a different area along a path to the destination for navigation at a different time during the navigation, wherein said multiple frames are in the same temporal order as the user will encounter during the path of the navigation, and at least a first frame includes an indication that it represents what a user should be seeing at a present time, and a second frame includes an indication that it represents what a user should be seeing at a future time, and said processor controls downloading a picture of a future area while the user is traveling towards the future area, and

where at least a first of said pictures includes a representation of an area at a current time and is labeled to indicate that said first picture represents a current time, and a second of said pictures includes a representation at a future time and is labeled to indicate an indication of said future time, and where the multiple different pictures are arranged in a line and include a control to enable the user to slide between the multiple different pictures.

12. The navigation device as in claim 11, wherein said user interface controls selecting any of said individual frames to obtain additional information about any of the frames.

13. The navigation device as in claim 11, wherein said second frame displays an indication of a number of minutes until said frame will become an indication of current surroundings.

14. The navigation device as in claim 11, wherein said second frame displays an indication of an indication of when said frame will become an indication of current surroundings by referring to an action to be taken during a guiding of the navigation.

15. The navigation device as in claim 11, wherein the frames include pictures of insides of buildings on a path of navigation and enables navigating within the building.

16. A navigation device, comprising:

an electronic device having a user interface, and a screen which shows results of the user interface, and the user interface controls entering a destination for navigation, and the processor controls providing information for guiding to the destination,

and the display displays navigation information indicative of a path to the destination for navigation, and also includes inside building information that is displayed to a user upon reaching a specified building, said inside building information indicative of navigation inside a building that is part of the navigation, where the navigation information includes multiple individual and separate pictures, each of said multiple individual pictures representing a different area of a path to the destination for navigation, wherein said multiple different pictures are arranged along a line that is in the same temporal order as the path of the navigation, and different pictures represent different times along the path,

wherein said individual pictures include pictures that are arranged in a timeline, where at least a first of said pictures includes a representation of an area at a current time and is labeled to indicate that said first picture represents a current time, and a second of said pictures includes a representation at a future time and is labeled to indicate a number of minutes until said second picture will be a current picture, and where the multiple different pictures are arranged in a line and include a control to enable the user to slide between the multiple different pictures.

17. The navigation device as in claim 16, where the user interface shows what the user is seeing at a current time, and downloads a picture of a future area while the user is traveling towards the future area.