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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2003
Donald F. Gordon, Los Altos, CA (US);
Edward A. Ludvig, Redwood City, CA (US);
Nathan W. Osborn, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jeremy S. Edmonds, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Donald F. Gordon, Los Altos, CA (US);
Edward A. Ludvig, Redwood City, CA (US);
Nathan W. Osborn, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jeremy S. Edmonds, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Comcast IP Holdings I, LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A program guide in which a video layer includes a plurality of video objects including title objects, each title object having associated with it a channel and at least one time slot, the video layer being formed in response to a received video stream; and a graphics layer comprising a plurality of graphics objects including title overlay objects, each of the title overlay objects selectively imparting at least a visual de-emphasis to a respective title object in the video layer, the visual de-emphasis being imparted to title objects not being associated with a desired time slot.