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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2017
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Seth Hill, La Mesa, CA (US);
Tracy Ho Barnes, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/445 (2011.01); H04N 21/443 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/488 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/462 (2011.01); H04N 21/432 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4438 (2013.01); H04N 5/44513 (2013.01); H04N 5/44543 (2013.01); H04N 5/44582 (2013.01); H04N 5/44591 (2013.01); H04N 21/432 (2013.01); H04N 21/4314 (2013.01); H04N 21/4316 (2013.01); H04N 21/4622 (2013.01); H04N 21/47205 (2013.01); H04N 21/488 (2013.01); H04N 21/8126 (2013.01); H04N 21/8146 (2013.01); H04N 21/8173 (2013.01);
Abstract
A user interface (UI) for an Internet enabled TV lists content genre such as photos, music, and video, and for each genre a sub-list of content is provided regardless of the source of the content, i.e., regardless of whether the content in the particular genre is stored locally or is sourced from the Internet.