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System and method in a television for providing user-selection of objects in a television program

  • US 8,990,854 B2
  • Filed: 05/05/2010
  • Issued: 03/24/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for identifying a user-selected object in broadcast television programming, the method comprising:

  • in a television;

    presenting the broadcast television programming on a television screen, the broadcast television programming comprising user-selectable objects;

    determining an on-screen pointing location pointed to on the television;

    identifying a user-selectable object being pointed to in the presented broadcast television programming, at least in part, on the determined on-screen pointing location; and

    communicating information from the broadcast television programming indicating the identified user-selectable object to a television remote control device.

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