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US 2011/0298980 A1Published application
Resizing tv graphic elements and reorienting graphics plane for user position
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsSuranjit Adhikari, Eric Hsiao
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Abstract
The size of UI elements on a TV display are enlarged responsive to a determination from sensors that a viewer is beyond a nominal distance from the TV. As well, the graphics plane in which the UI elements are presented can be rotated relative to the video plane to account for a viewer being positioned at an oblique angle relative to the plane of the display.
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TV comprising:
- display defining a display plane and a normal to the display plane;
- processor communicating with a TV tuner and controlling presentation on the display;
- computer readable storage medium accessible to the processor and storing logic causing the processor to:
- present user interface (UI) elements in a graphics plane presented on the display along with a video plane presenting video content, the UI elements being presented in a nominal size and nominal layout;
- and
- responsive to a determination that a viewer is positioned at an oblique angle relative to the normal, rotating the graphics plane relative to the video plane.
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Method comprising:
- determining a distance of a viewer from a TV;
- based on the distance, altering a size of at least one user interface (UI) element presented on a display of the TV;
- and
- undertaking at least one of:
- responsive to a determination that the distance exceeds a rearrange distance, rearranging UI elements on the display relative to each other;
- responsive to a determination of a viewer angle relative to a normal to a plane defined by the display, altering an apparent angle at which UI elements are made to appear on the display.
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Assembly comprising:
- display receiving video signals;
- processor communicating with the display;
- and
- computer readable medium bearing instructions executable by the processor to:
- responsive to a determination that a distance between a viewer and the assembly exceeds a rearrange distance, rearrange user interface (UI) elements on the display relative to each other;
- and
- responsive to a determination of a viewer angle relative to a normal to a plane defined by the display, alter an apparent angle at which UI elements are made to appear on the display.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.