Multimedia control center
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsImran Chaudhri, Thomas Madden, Scott Forstall, Duncan Robert Kerr, Nick King, Stephen O. Lemay, Richard W. Fabrick, II, Bas Ording, Eric Seymour, Marcel van Os
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Abstract
Techniques and systems for centralized access to multimedia content stored on or available to a computing device are disclosed. The centralized access can be provided by a media control interface that receives user inputs and interacts with media programs resident on the computing device to produce graphical user interfaces that can be presented on a display device.
Claims13
A menu associated with a media control center, said menu comprising:
- a plurality of media items arranged in a list, at least some of the media items having viewable media content associated therewith;
- a movable selector feature capable of traversing through the list of media items so as to highlight one of the media items;
- and
- a view region displaying:
- viewable media content associated with a highlighted media item, the viewable media content comprising at least a representative image;
- and
- a reflection that continuously mirrors the viewable media content.
A method of operating a menu of a media control center, said method comprising:
- providing a plurality of media items, each media item having viewable media content associated therewith, the viewable media content comprising at least a representative image;
- presenting the media items in a list and including a movable selector feature capable of traversing through the list so as to highlight one of the media items;
- and
- when a media item is highlighted:
- presenting the viewable media content associated with the highlighted media item next to the list of media items;
- transforming the viewable media content associated with the highlighted media item;
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- displaying the transformed viewable media content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.