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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2014

Filed:

Feb. 06, 2008
Applicant:

David Eric Shanks, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Inventor:

David Eric Shanks, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Assignee:

The DIRECTV Group, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/445 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 5/45 (2011.01); H04N 21/61 (2011.01); H04N 21/218 (2011.01); H04N 21/443 (2011.01); H04N 5/44 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/44591 (2013.01); H04N 21/8126 (2013.01); H04N 21/4312 (2013.01); H04N 5/45 (2013.01); H04N 2005/4412 (2013.01); H04N 21/6143 (2013.01); H04N 21/21805 (2013.01); H04N 21/4438 (2013.01); H04N 21/4314 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention discloses a mosaic video channel and a system for generating the mosaic video channel. A mosaic video channel in accordance with the present invention is displayed on a monitor with a plurality of individual video feeds being presented at a given time, and comprises a plurality of video cells presenting at least video information, each video cell associated with one of the plurality of individual video feeds, a cursor, which can be moved between the plurality of video cells, for selecting at least one characteristic associated with a selected video cell, and a receiver, coupled to the monitor and receiving the mosaic video channel, wherein the mosaic channel is changed via a controller which initiates a logo wipe across the mosaic video channel.


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