Sony Corporation

Sony Electronics Inc

Hye Hoon Yi

Tonni Sandager Larsen

Milton Massey Frazier

Tanmay Agnihotri

Marvin DeMerchant

Aravind Asam

Libiao Jiang

Tracy Barnes

Dongwook Kim

Bryan John Mihalov

Takeshi Suzuki

Satoshi Ishiguro

Jonathan Paul Gaiser

Benjamin Wai-Ming Lo

An audio video display device (AVDD) can present recorded content that can be paused. During pausing, ancillary AV content is shown until such time as a play or other signal is received.

Providing audio video content during playback pause

Thus, in one embodiment an apparatus includes at least one processor, at least one display controlled by the processor, and at least one wireless transceiver communicating with the processor. The processor is configured to transmit a message accessible to at least one recipient that includes data representing at least one non-alphanumeric who icon representing a person, at least one non-alphanumeric what icon representing an event and/or activity, and at least one non-alphanumeric when icon representing a time associated with the event and/or activity. Furthermore, at least one of the following represented by data included in the message is modifiable based on input from at least one recipient: the at least one who icon, the at least one what icon, and the at least one when icon.

System and method for sharing event information using icons

An Internet TV video guide shows thumbnails of video assets available from one or more providers, and one or more of the assets may represent a playlist with two or more associated video clips. When a viewer selects a playlist asset, the thumbnail is expanded to show the individual clips so that a viewer can select a desired clip for play on the TV.

Expanded playlist for TV video player

A control device such as a tablet computer presents a scrollable image-based program guide (IBPG) on a display that a user can swipe to cause the device to command a display device to present an audio video (AV) program represented by the image. The IBPG is a subset of an electronic program guide (EPG) from a TV signal provider. Social networking information (SNI) related to a video program is presented on or adjacent an image in the IBPG representing the program.

Intuitive image-based program guide for controlling display device such as a television

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Escondido, CA, United States of America

Hye Hoon Yi