Television channel selection canvas
AssigneeBroadcom Corporation
InventorsJeyhan Karaoguz, James Bennett
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Abstract
A channel selection canvas for display on a video display device is disclosed. The video display device can be a television, a laptop computer, or personal digital assistant device. The channel selection canvas allows a user to preview and choose video signals to be watched. The channel selection canvas displays a set of television channel video thumbnails, which can be full motion video, slow motion video or sampled video snapshots. A channel selection canvas can also display video thumbnails for security cameras, baby monitors, video phones and the like. A channel selection canvas generator that generates channel selection canvases is also disclosed. The channel selection canvas generator can reside within a television, set top box or similar video processing device.
Claims17
A channel selection canvas generator comprising:
- a video selection engine configured to select channels to be displayed on a channel selection canvas as channel video thumbnails and to select an advertisement to be displayed on the channel selection canvas as an advertisement video thumbnail, wherein the video selection engine is configured to select the advertisement from a set of video advertisements appearing on one or more of the channels;
- a video integration engine configured to integrate the channel video thumbnails and the advertisement video thumbnail for display on the channel selection canvas;
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- an interface engine configured to support an interface to a video display device for displaying the channel selection canvas.
A method comprising:
- selecting channels to be displayed on a channel selection canvas as channel video thumbnails;
- selecting an advertisement to be displayed on the channel selection canvas as an advertisement video thumbnail from a set of video advertisements appearing on one or more of the channels;
- integrating the channel video thumbnails and the advertisement video thumbnail for display on the channel selection canvas;
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- supporting an interface to a video display device for displaying the channel selection canvas.
A method for generating a channel selection canvas for display on a video display device, comprising:
- selecting channels to be displayed on the channel selection canvas as channel video thumbnails;
- monitoring one or more of the channels for a set of video advertisements appearing on the one or more of the channels;
- selecting an advertisement to be displayed on the channel selection canvas as an advertisement video thumbnail from the set of video advertisements;
- integrating the channel video thumbnails and the advertisement video thumbnail for display on the channel selection canvas;
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- supporting an interface to the video display device for displaying the channel selection canvas.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.