Scrolling navigational display system
First Claim
1. A display system comprising:
- a marquee area on a first portion of a display, said marquee area displaying one of a plurality of items as a current item;
a category area on a second portion of the display, said category area displaying one of a plurality of categories as a current category, said current category being associated with the current item; and
a scrolling mechanism for scrolling through the plurality of items ordered by the plurality of categories,wherein said marquee area is updated by the scrolling mechanism to display successive items from the plurality of items as the current item, and said category area is updated to display the one of the plurality of categories associated with the current item as the current category.
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Abstract
A user-interface system adapted to navigate through a plurality of menus is disclosed. The system comprises a display system comprising a display having a category area on a first portion of the display, the category area displaying a plurality of categories, including a currently displayed category. Each of the plurality of categories has a plurality of items. The display also has a marquee area on a second portion of the display, which displays items of the currently displayed category. The system further comprises a scrolling mechanism for scrolling through items of each category of the plurality of categories. The marquee area is updated by the scrolling mechanism to display the corresponding items in each category. The scrolling mechanism also indicates a position of a currently displayed item of a currently displayed category by updating the category area. Various embodiments are disclosed.
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26 Claims
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1. A display system comprising:
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a marquee area on a first portion of a display, said marquee area displaying one of a plurality of items as a current item; a category area on a second portion of the display, said category area displaying one of a plurality of categories as a current category, said current category being associated with the current item; and a scrolling mechanism for scrolling through the plurality of items ordered by the plurality of categories, wherein said marquee area is updated by the scrolling mechanism to display successive items from the plurality of items as the current item, and said category area is updated to display the one of the plurality of categories associated with the current item as the current category. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 19)
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11. In an electronic unit, a user interface system comprising:
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a marquee area on a first portion of a display, said marquee area displaying one of a plurality of items as a current item; a category area on a second portion of the display, said category area displaying one of a plurality of categories as a current category, said current category being associated with the current item; and a scrolling mechanism for scrolling through the plurality of items ordered by the plurality of categories, wherein said marquee area is updated by the scrolling mechanism to display successive items from the plurality of items as the current item, and said category area is updated to display the one of the plurality of categories associated with the current item as the current category; wherein the plurality of categories are user selectable entertainment options and said current item is one of a plurality of items within a selected entertainment option, said current item being selected by a user. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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20. A method for displaying items comprising:
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providing a display having a marquee area on a first portion of a display, said marquee area displaying one of a plurality of items as a current item, said display also having a category area on a second portion of the display, said category area displaying one of a plurality of categories as a current category, said current category being associated with the current item; scrolling through the plurality of items ordered by the plurality of categories; updating the marquee area to display successive items from the plurality of items as the current item; updating the category area to display the one of the plurality of categories associated with the current item as the current category. - View Dependent Claims (21)
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22. A computer program embodied in data signals, said computer program for displaying a plurality of items where each item is associated with one of a plurality of categories, said computer program comprising:
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a first segment for displaying a current item from the plurality of items in a first display area; a second segment for displaying a category associated with the current item in a second display area; a third segment for providing an indicator that indicates the category associated with the current item; a fourth segment for receiving a control signal to cause successive items to be displayed sequentially in the first display area as the current item, said successive items ordered by the associated categories. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26)
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