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Method for generating an on-screen menu

  • US 8,887,094 B1
  • Filed: 04/09/2014
  • Issued: 11/11/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for generating a displayable menu page from data of a menu data segment, the menu page comprising separately rendered selectable menu buttons, comprising:

  • accessing definition of at least one group of two or more menu buttons from the menu data segment, wherein the definition of the at least one group in the menu data segment comprises a parameter indicating the number of menu buttons in a respective group of the at least one group, and wherein each of the two or more menu buttons has associated a defined area on a display and for each of the menu buttons a numerically_selectable_flag is defined, and each menu button that belongs to the displayable menu page is separately rendered, and wherein a menu button belongs to not more than one group of the at least one group; and

    assigning a state to each separately rendered menu button, the state being “

    enabled”

    or “

    disabled”

    , wherein only an enabled menu button is displayed, wherein a menu button in the “

    enabled”

    state may have a further state of “

    normal”

    , “

    selected”

    or “

    activated”

    , and wherein the menu button is considered to be a same menu button irrespective of its state being the “

    disabled”

    state, the “

    enabled” and



    normal”

    state, the “

    enabled” and



    selected”

    state or the “

    enabled” and



    activated”

    state, and wherein not more than one menu button within a group may be enabled simultaneously, and wherein the numerically_selectable_flag indicates if the menu button is numerically selectable.

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