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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2008
Travis Charles Baurmann, San Diego, CA (US);
Steven Friedlander, San Diego, CA (US);
Tracy Ho, San Diego, CA (US);
Yuko Nishikawa, La Jolla, CA (US);
John Salisbury, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Edgar Allan Tu, Poway, CA (US);
Sabrina Tai-chen Yeh, Laguna Beach, CA (US);
Travis Charles Baurmann, San Diego, CA (US);
Steven Friedlander, San Diego, CA (US);
Tracy Ho, San Diego, CA (US);
Yuko Nishikawa, La Jolla, CA (US);
John Salisbury, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Edgar Allan Tu, Poway, CA (US);
Sabrina Tai-Chen Yeh, Laguna Beach, CA (US);
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A favorites GUI for a TV includes a carousel-type display of icons representing user-defined favorites that is overlaid on the current background video of the TV, with the center-most icon being the 'current' icon and being enlarged relative to the other icons. Live video appears in icons representing TV channels. Other icons can represent, e.g., favorite photo/music files, favorite games from a game console, favorite content from an ambient player, etc.