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AssigneeTiVo Inc.
InventorsHoward Look, Robert Vallone, David Avraham Brown, Karen Bedard, Wijnand Van Stam, Ain McKendrick
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A television viewer interface system provides a viewer interface that allows the viewer to access different functions of a system. The invention's construct allows items called video loopsets to be stored on a storage device and displays single or multiple video loopsets in the background area of the screen on a TV or monitor. Temporal elements are drawn onto the screen over the video loops. A highlight bar is responsive to the user's commands and is used to indicate the current menu item that can be selected by the user. Information is presented in a successive disclosure format where the user navigates through menus by moving the highlight bar to the right to obtain more information or to the left to see less information and return to the previous location. Whispering arrows are provided on each screen that tell the user that more information is available in that particular direction.
A process for an interactive television viewer interface, comprising the steps of:
An apparatus for an interactive television viewer interface, comprising:
A program storage medium readable by a computer, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform method steps for an interactive television viewer interface, comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.