US 2013/0159854 A1Published application

User Interface For A Device For Playback Of Multimedia Files

AssigneeThomson Licensing

InventorsMatthew AU, Sai Fan Dominic CHAN, Kin Pou LIE

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Abstract

The present invention relates to a user interface for a multimedia device having means for navigating within a plurality of multimedia files and/or means for changing a playback order. According to the invention, the user interface includes means for changing the sorting order and/or playback order of the plurality of multimedia files, whereby upon changing the sorting order and/or playback order of the multimedia files the currently selected multimedia file is kept and the new sorting order and/or playback order is determined by at least one property of the currently selected multimedia file, wherein the means for changing the sorting order and/or the playback order include a button for changing the order by running through a predefined sequence of properties of the currently selected multimedia file.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A device for playback of multimedia files, wherein the device comprises:

means for generating a first ordered list of multimedia files for playback or display from a library of multimedia files, wherein the first ordered list of multimedia files is ordered in accordance with a first property of the multimedia files;
means for selecting a multimedia file from said first ordered list of multimedia files to determine a selected multimedia file;
and
at least one button for receiving a user command instructing the means for generating said first ordered list of multimedia files to generate a second ordered list of multimedia files for playback or display from said library of multimedia files, wherein:
said second ordered list of multimedia files is ordered in accordance with a second property of said multimedia files different from said first property;
said second ordered list of multimedia files comprises at least one multimedia file not comprised in said first ordered list of multimedia files;
said selected multimedia file is maintained as selected multimedia file;
and
said first and second properties are consecutive properties selected from a list of properties having a predefined order.

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Application: 13/633,683Filed 2 Oct 2012
Priority: EP 04290020.95 Jan 2004
Published: 20 Jun 2013
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Classification11 codes

G06F 3/0484
Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]: for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or…
G06F 3/048
Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer: interaction techniques based on graphical…
G06F 3/0482
Based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like…:…
G06F 16/634
Query formulation: query by example, e.g. query by humming

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Application10/584,370Continuation · filed 11 May 2007
Application13/633,683Continuation
US 2007/0276828 A1Published application
US 2013/0159854 A1This patent

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