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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2011
Seth Guy Hill, La Mesa, CA (US);
Jaime Chee, San Diego, CA (US);
Ted Mark Dunn, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An audio video (AV) device presents a user interface (UI) on the display. The UI has plural UI selector elements, including a left-most column of tabbed selector elements including a 'video' tab, a 'cast' tab, a “related” tab, with the tabs representing types of information and/or AV programs related to a seed input to the processor. The tabbed selector elements are selectable to cause, the information and/or AV programs represented by the respective tab to be presented on a central information/video area. The UI also includes a right-most column of iconified selector elements for selecting respective AV program sources from which information and/or AV programs related to the seed are available. The iconified selector elements are selectable to cause information and/or AV programs related to the seed to be received from the respective source and presented on the central information/video area.