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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2012
Howard Look, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert Vallone, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David Avraham Brown, Mountain View, CA (US);
Karen Bedard, San Jose, CA (US);
Wijnand Van Stam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ain Mckendrick, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Howard Look, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert Vallone, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David Avraham Brown, Mountain View, CA (US);
Karen Bedard, San Jose, CA (US);
Wijnand Van Stam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ain McKendrick, Menlo Park, CA (US);
TiVo Solutions Inc., San Carlos, CA (US);
Abstract
A television viewer interface system provides a viewer interface that allows the viewer to access different functions of a system. A highlight bar is responsive to the user's commands and is used to indicate the current menu item that can be selected by the user. Information is presented in a successive disclosure format where the user navigates through menus by moving the highlight bar to the right to obtain more information or to the left to see less information and return to the previous location. The background colors of each set of menus remains consistent throughout the user's experience such that the user intuitively knows what menu area he is in through the color cues. The invention provides indicators that tell the user that more information is available in a particular direction for a menu item.