Video browsing system and method

• US 20070011706A1
• Filed: 11/28/2005
• Published: 01/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Inventors: Chiu, Chaucer, Chen, Li-Jun
• Application Number:
  US11/289,227
• Publication Number:
  US 20070011706A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/56
• 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 21/4383 Accessing a communication channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4821 using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

A video browsing system and method applied in an electronic device having a display unit for playing video, the system includes a processing unit; an input unit for allowing a user to input a switching instruction and a selecting instruction, and sending the instructions to the processing unit; an intercepting module for intercepting a plurality of channel information when the switching instruction is a multi-picture display instruction; and a storage unit for storing the plurality of the channel information intercepted by the intercepting module to be displayed by the processing unit on the display unit in a multiple-picture display mode, wherein upon receiving the selecting instruction sent from the input unit, the processing unit obtains the channel information corresponding to the picture indicated by the selecting instruction and dynamically plays the information on the display unit.

Claims

1. A video browsing system applied in an electronic device having a display unit for playing channel information, the video browsing system comprising:

a processing unit;

an input unit electrically connected with the processing unit, for allowing a user to input a switching instruction of a displayed picture and a selecting instruction, and sending the switching instruction and the selecting instruction to the processing unit;

an intercepting module electrically connected with the processing unit, for intercepting a plurality of records of channel information when the switching instruction received by the processing unit from the input unit is a multi-picture display switching instruction; and

a storage unit electrically connected with the processing unit and the intercepting module, for storing the plurality of records of channel information intercepted by the intercepting module, allowing the plurality of records of channel information to be displayed by the processing unit on the display unit in a display mode of multiple pictures in at least one page,

wherein in response to receiving the selecting instruction sent from the input unit, the processing unit is configured to obtain channel information corresponding to a picture indicated by the selecting instruction and dynamically play the obtained channel information on the display unit.

2. The video browsing system of claim 1, wherein the input unit for allowing the user to input the switching instruction of the displayed picture is performed through a switch interface provided thereon.

3. The video browsing system of claim 2, wherein the input unit is one of a remote controller and a set of keys provided on the electronic device.

4. The video browsing system of claim 1, wherein the switching instruction sent from the input unit further comprises a single-picture display instruction, allowing the processing unit to display the channel information as a single picture on the display unit upon receiving the single-picture display instruction from the input unit.

5. The video browsing system of claim 1, wherein the input unit for allowing the user to input the selecting instruction is performed through a select interface provided thereon.

6. The video browsing system of claim 5, wherein the input unit is one of a remote controller and a set of keys provided on the electronic device.

7. The video browsing system of claim 1, wherein the channel information obtained by the processing unit based on the picture indicated by the selecting instruction is picked up by the intercepting module after receiving the selecting instruction.

8. The video browsing system of claim 1, wherein the multiple pictures are static pictures, which are static pictures of the channel information at a predetermined time point intercepted by the intercepting module and stored in the storage unit.

9. The video browsing system of claim 8, wherein the storage unit is further configured to update the storage of static pictures according to the static pictures of the channel information intercepted by the intercepting unit at the predetermined time point.

10. The video browsing system of claim 1, wherein each of the multiple pictures includes channel information corresponding to each of them.

11. The video browsing system of claim 1, wherein the processing unit is further configured to allow the display unit to page by page display pictures corresponding to channel information of multiple channels on corresponding display pages according to the plurality of records of channel information stored in the storage unit, and allow the display unit to flip pages according to a page-flipping instruction received by the input unit.

12. A video browsing method applied in an electronic device having a display unit and an input unit for playing channel information, comprising the steps of:

having the electronic device intercept and store a plurality of records of channel information upon determining that a switching instruction is received by the input unit and comprises a multi-picture display switching instruction;

reading the stored plurality of records of channel information, and displaying the channel information on the display unit in a display mode of multiple pictures in at least one page for browsing; and

upon determining that the input unit receives a selecting instruction of desired channel information, having the electronic device obtain channel information corresponding to a picture indicated by the selecting instruction and dynamically play the obtained channel information.

13. The video browsing method of claim 12, wherein the channel information obtained by the electronic device based on the picture indicated by the selecting instruction is picked up after receiving the selecting instruction.

14. The video browsing method of claim 12, wherein the multiple pictures obtained by reading the stored plurality of records of channel information and displayed on the display unit in the at least one page are static pictures.

15. The video browsing method of claim 14, wherein the static pictures are updated at a predetermined time point according to the intercepted channel information.

16. The video browsing method of claim 12, wherein each of the multiple pictures includes channel information corresponding to each of them.

17. The video browsing method of claim 12, wherein the electronic device is configured to allow the display unit to page by page display pictures corresponding to channel information of multiple channels on corresponding display pages according to the stored plurality of records of channel information, and allow the display unit to flip pages according to a page-flipping instruction received by the input unit.

18. The video browsing method of claim 12, wherein the input unit is one of a remote controller and a set of keys provided on the electronic device.

19. The video browsing method of claim 12, wherein the switching instruction received by the input unit further comprises a single-picture display instruction, allowing the electronic device to display the channel information as a single picture on the display unit upon receiving the single-picture display instruction sent from the input unit.