Method of navigating items at a media player
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorKarl Frans Mario Verheyden
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Abstract
A media player stores, or has access to, a set of media items. The player presents a first of the media items. The set of media items are ordered according to at least one criterion indicative of similarity of the media items to the first media item. The player determines what amount of the first media item was presented before an input is received from a user control. A second media item is selected for presenting using the determined amount as a measure for selecting the second media item from the ordered set of media items. A single user input (e.g. from a single button) can be used both to control the selection of the next item, and to determine the similarity of the next item. The ordering can be based on similarity of features or similarity of metadata.
Claims20
A method of navigating a set of media items comprising:
- selecting a first item from the set of media items;
- forming a first list of the media item by ordering the set of media items according to at least one criterion indicative of similarity of the media items to the first media item so that a next item from a current item is more similar to the current item than further next items of the first list;
- presenting the first media item and waiting for a user input during presentation of the first media item;
- upon receiving the user input, determining what amount of the first media item was presented before the input was received;
- forming a second list of the media item from the first list using the determined amount of the first media item presented before the input was received;
- and
- selecting from the second list a second media item for the presenting, wherein the act of forming the second list skips items from the first list closest to the current item, and wherein a number of the skipped items is proportional to the amount of the first media item presented before the input was received so that more media items of the first list are skipped when the determined amount of the first media item is large and less media items of the first list are skipped when the determined amount of the first media item is small.
A device for navigating a set of media items comprising:
- a memory for storing media items or an interface for accessing a store of media items;
- a user interface for receiving user input;
- and
- a processor configured to cause performance of the acts of:
- selecting a first item from the set of media items;
- forming a first list of the media item by ordering the set of media items according to at least one criterion indicative of similarity of the media items to the first media item so that a next item from a current item is more similar to the current item than further next items of the first list;
- presenting the first media item and waiting for a user input during presentation of the first media item;
- upon receiving the user input, determining what amount of the first media item was presented before the input was received;
- forming a second list of the media item from the first list using the determined amount of the first media item presented before the input was received;
- and
- selecting from the second list a second media item for the presenting, wherein the act of forming the second list skips items from the first list closest to the current item, and
- wherein a number of the skipped items is proportional to the amount of the first media item presented before the input was received so that more media items of the first list are skipped when the determined amount of the first media item is large and less media items of the first list are skipped when the determined amount of the first media item is small.
A non-transitory computer readable medium embodying computer instructions for navigating a set of media items, wherein the computer instructions, when executed by a processor, configure the processor to cause performance of the acts of:
- selecting a first item from the set of media items;
- forming a first list of the media item by ordering the set of media items according to
- at least one criterion indicative of similarity of the media items to the first media item so that a next item from a current item is more similar to the current item than further next items of the first list;
- presenting the first media item and waiting for a user input during presentation of the first media item;
- upon receiving the user input, determining what amount of the first media item was presented before the input was received;
- forming a second list of the media item from the first list using the determined amount of the first media item presented before the input was received;
- and
- selecting from the second list a second media item for the presenting, wherein the act of forming the second list skips items from the first list closest to the current item, and
- wherein a number of the skipped items is proportional to the amount of the first media item presented before the input was received so that more media items of the first list are skipped when the determined amount of the first media item is large and less media items of the first list are skipped when the determined amount of the first media item is small.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.