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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2018
Gracenote, Inc., Emeryville, CA (US);
Kurt R. Thielen, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Shashank Merchant, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Peter Dunker, Weimar, DE;
Markus K. Cremer, Orinda, CA (US);
Chungwon Seo, Seoul, KR;
Seunghyeong Lee, Seoul, KR;
Steven D. Scherf, Oakland, CA (US);
Gracenote, Inc., Emeryville, CA (US);
Abstract
In one aspect, an example method includes (i) providing, by a playback device, replacement media content for display; (ii) determining, by the playback device, that a remote control transmitted to the playback device an instruction configured to cause a modification to operation of the playback device while the playback device displays the replacement media content; (iii) determining, by the playback device based on the instruction, an overlay that the playback device is configured to provide for display in conjunction with the modification; (iv) determining, by the playback device, a region within a display of the playback device corresponding to the overlay; and (v) modifying, by the playback device, a transparency of the region such that the overlay is visible through the replacement media content when the playback device provides the overlay for display.