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AssigneeThomson Licensing
InventorsDirk Gandolph, Jobst Hoerentrup, Ralf Ostermann, Hartmut Peters, Carsten Herpel
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Optical disc players are today connectable to the Internet, and may contain local storage capability, e.g. ADD. Additional post-production content can be downloaded and locally stored. It is difficult to include downloaded additional post-production material in menus for keeping a menu always consistent with the actually available data. Ideally, the menu should reflect the available data even if certain content is deleted or replaced with e.g. Another version. A ‘linked-list’ approach for menu pages generates a dynamic menu structure. The menu consists of basic menu pages, which are retrieved from the disc, and additional pages that are downloaded together with the additional content. Page ranges may be reserved for e.g. audio, video or subtitles. The linked-list is implemented by an implicit link from each page to the next higher or lower page number.
Method for automatically generating an electronic menu including a plurality of menu pages, wherein menu pages contain selectable menu items with associated commands to be executed upon activation of the respective menu item, wherein
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An apparatus for automatically generating an electronic menu including a plurality of menu pages, wherein each menu page contains selectable menu items with associated commands to be executed upon activation of the respective menu item, wherein that the apparatus has
Optical storage medium for storing audio-visual content and menu data for a multi-page menu, wherein menu pages have page numbers, and wherein at least a first menu page contains a command for selecting a second menu page, wherein
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