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AssigneeWebTV Networks, Inc.
InventorsTimo A. Bruck, Bruce A. Leak, Steven C. Wasserman
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Web browser software implemented in a set-top box as part of a client system communicating over the Internet with one or more servers allows a user to adjust the picture quality of a monitor through World-Wide Web pages displayed on the monitor. The web browser software provides picture adjustment screens which contain instructions on how to adjust the monitor controls to optimize the picture quality. The picture adjustment screens also contain test patterns which provide reference and visual feedback of the monitor adjustment. The user adjusts the picture quality of the monitor using the monitor display controls and the test patterns provided on the picture adjustment screens. Picture adjustment screens are provided for display characteristics such as picture brightness, contrast, sharpness, color, and hue.
In a networked computer system which includes a plurality of server systems each of which is connected to a network infrastructure which provides access to a plurality of sites, each site including one or more pages containing text or graphics, and the networked computer system including at least one client system which is connected either directly or logically to one or more of said server systems, and each client system comprising a conventional television monitor on which to display said one or more pages of an accessed site, and an electronic unit for controlling said television monitor in order to provide a user of the client system with a graphical user interface by which the user can browse said sites or otherwise access said network infrastructure, a method for interactively prompting a user as to the proper adjustment of the television monitor in order to optimize display of a page accessed at one of said sites, the method comprising the steps of:
In a networked computer system which includes a plurality of server systems each of which is connected to a network infrastructure which provides access to a plurality of sites, each site including one or more pages containing text or graphics, and the networked computer system including at least one client system which is connected either directly or logically to one or more of said server systems, and each client system comprising a conventional television monitor on which to display said one or more pages of an accessed site, and an electronic unit for controlling said television monitor in order to provide a user of the client system with a graphical user interface by which the user can browse said sites or otherwise access said network infrastructure, a computer program product for use by said electronic unit to implement a method for interactively prompting a user as to the proper adjustment of the television monitor in order to optimize display of a page accessed at one of said sites, the computer program product comprising:
In a networked computer system which includes a plurality of server systems each of which is connected to a network infrastructure which provides access to a plurality of sites, each site including one or more pages containing text or graphics, and the networked computer system including at least one client system which is connected either directly or logically to one or more of said server systems, and each client system comprising a conventional television monitor on which to display said one or more pages of an accessed site, and an electronic unit for controlling said television monitor in order to provide a user of the client system wild a graphical user interface by which the user can browse said sites or otherwise access said network infrastructure, a computer program product for use by at least one of said server systems to implement a method for interactively prompting a user as to the proper adjustment of the television monitor in order to optimize display of a page accessed at one of said sites, the computer program product comprising:
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