发明名称 VIDEO DEVICE WITH ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE APPLICATION AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH
摘要 An electronic program guide application generates an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) for display. The GUI includes a channel navigation region that displays a plurality of channel icons corresponding to a plurality of video channels in accordance with a linear ordering of the video channels. A channel lens pane presents a selected channel icon, channel information corresponding to a selected video channel, and an interactive channel rank control icon that responds to user interaction to modify a position of the selected channel icon in the linear ordering. A channel schedule region presents a nonlinear temporal ordering of program panes, each program pane corresponding to a program presented on the selected video channel. Each program pane includes a program icon, program schedule information relating to a time the program is presented on the selected video channel.
申请公布号 US2017070785(A1) 申请公布日期 2017.03.09
申请号 US201514848621 申请日期 2015.09.09
申请人 Morega Systems Inc. 发明人 Zou Zhifei
分类号 H04N21/482;H04N21/472;G06F3/0482;H04N21/485;G06F3/0481;H04N21/431;H04N21/475 主分类号 H04N21/482
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主权项 1. A video device comprising: a network interface configured to receive a plurality of video channels and program guide data from at least one media content provider network; a memory configured to store an electronic program guide application and the program guide data; a processor, coupled to the memory and the network interface, configured to execute the electronic program guide application, wherein the electronic program guide application generates an interactive graphical user interface for display on a display device associated with the video device, wherein when a channel guide is selected, the interactive graphical user interface includes: a channel navigation region that operates in response to user interaction to display a plurality of channel icons corresponding to at least a subset of the plurality of video channels and in accordance with a linear ordering of the plurality of video channels and a channel lens pane that presents a selected channel icon, channel information corresponding to a selected one of the plurality of video channels, and at least one interactive channel rank control icon configured to respond to user interaction to modify a position of the selected channel icon in the linear ordering of the plurality of channel icons; anda channel schedule region that presents a nonlinear temporal ordering of program panes, each program pane corresponding to one of a plurality of programs presented on the selected one of the plurality of video channels, wherein each program pane includes a program icon, program schedule information relating to a time the corresponding one of the plurality of programs is presented on the selected one of the plurality of video channels.
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