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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2010
Conor Sheehan, Arlington, MA (US);
Eric E. Dolecki, Framingham, MA (US);
Timothy William Saeger, Hopkinton, MA (US);
John Michael Sakalowsky, West Newton, MA (US);
Santiago Carvajal, West Newton, MA (US);
Benjamin D. Burge, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
Conor Sheehan, Arlington, MA (US);
Eric E. Dolecki, Framingham, MA (US);
Timothy William Saeger, Hopkinton, MA (US);
John Michael Sakalowsky, West Newton, MA (US);
Santiago Carvajal, West Newton, MA (US);
Benjamin D. Burge, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
Bose Corporation, Framingham, MA (US);
Abstract
A user interface for an audio/visual device enables a user to customize the selection of menu items that are displayable on a menu, perhaps a racetrack menu, provided by the user interface to enable the user to operate the audio/visual device, in which a multitude of menu items that may be selected for being so displayed are visually displayed and the user is able to operate a first manually-operable control (or a first set of manually-operable controls) to select a menu item from among that multitude for being displayed on the menu. It may be that the menu is simultaneously displayed with the multitude of menu items to enable the user to immediately see the results of their selections. It may be that the user is able to again select that menu item within the multitude of menu items to cause that menu item to cease being displayed on the menu. It may be that a second manually-operable control is provided to the user to enable the user to select another menu item already being displayed on the menu to cause that menu item to cease being displayed.