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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2000
Andrew M. Proehl, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jan-Christoph Zoels, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Anne Hyan Jin Kim, Douglaston, NY (US);
Yutaka Hasegawa, Tokyo, JP;
Other;
Abstract
The efficient and intuitive presentation, navigation, and selection of AV information in a graphical user interface (GUI) displayed on a display apparatus of an AV system. Related AV information is organized as items within lists that correspond to various navigable fields of a status bar of the GUI during the GUI interactive mode. A highlighted navigable field of the status bar displays its list of related AV information and the items of the list are scrolled through the navigable field by a user causing a scrolling cylinder of a navigation and selection device to move in a scroll. A different field of the status bar may be selected by the user moving the scrolling cylinder in a lateral movement. Activation of the selection mechanism of the navigation and selection device will cause an AV device to be controlled in accordance with the currently displayed AV options.