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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2006
Applicants:
Gregory C. Smith, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Thomas J. Quinn, Los Gatos, CA (US);
James J. Leftwich, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Gregory C. Smith, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Thomas J. Quinn, Los Gatos, CA (US);
James J. Leftwich, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Thomson Licensing, Boulogne, Billancourt, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A user interface for multimedia centers advantageously utilizes hand-held inertial-sensing user input devices to select channels and quickly navigate the dense menus of options. Extensive use of the high resolution and bandwidth of such user input devices is combined with strategies to avoid unintentional inputs and with dense and intuitive interactive graphical displays.