User interface for television schedule system,申请号US20040943288-传众专利搜索

User interface for television schedule system

申请公布号：US7209640(B2)

申请号：US20040943288

申请日期：2004.09.17

申请公布日期：2007.04.24

申请人：

STARSIGHT TELECAST, INC.

发明人：YOUNG PATRICK;ROOP JOHN H;EBRIGHT ALAN R;FABER MICHAEL W;ANDERSON DAVID

分类号：H04N5/7826;H04N5/91;B64C30/00;G04G15/00;G06F3/00;G06F3/023;G06F3/033;G06F3/048;G06F3/14;G06F13/00;G11B15/02;G11B27/00;G11B27/10;G11B27/11;G11B27/30;G11B27/32;G11B27/34;G11B27/36;G11B33/10;H04N5/44;H04N5/445;H04N5/45;H04N5/76;H04N5/7617;H04N5/765;H04N5/775;H04N5/782;H04N7/00;H04N7/025;H04N7/03;H04N7/035;H04N7/088;H04N7/16;H04N7/173

主分类号：H04N5/7826

摘要：Screen ( 10 ) for a user interface of a television schedule system and process consists of an array ( 24 ) of irregular cells ( 26 ), which vary in length, corresponding to different television program lengths of one half hour to one-and-one half hours or more. The array is arranged as three columns ( 28 ) of one-half hour in duration, and twelve rows ( 30 ) of program listings. Some of the program listings overlap two or more of the columns ( 28 ) because of their length. Because of the widely varying length of the cells ( 26 ), if a conventional cursor used to select a cell location were to simply step from one cell to another, the result would be abrupt changes in the screen ( 10 ) as the cursor moved from a cell ( 26 ) of several hours length to an adjacent cell in the same row. An effective way of taming the motion is to assume that behind every array ( 24 ) is an underlying array of regular cells. By restricting cursor movements to the regular cells, abrupt screen changes will be avoided. With the cursor ( 32 ), the entire cell ( 26 ) is 3-D highlighted, using a conventional offset shadow ( 34 ). The offset shadow ( 34 ) is a black bar that underlines the entire cell and wraps around the right edge of the cell. To tag the underlying position-which defines where the cursor ( 32 ) is and thus, where it will move next-portions ( 36 ) of the black bar outside the current underlying position are segmented, while the current position is painted solid.