System and method for displaying a video menu

Details System and method for displaying a video menu System and method for displaying a video menu

1996-10-22

1999-11-23

Hsia, Sherrie

Television

Basic receiver with additional function

For display of additional information

348564, 348569, 348586, 348589, H04N 5445

Patent

active

059909722

ABSTRACT:
An interactive video menu system provides an economical method for the storage, transmission, and reception of data necessary for interactive video sessions, which allows high-resolution images to be broadcast to end users along with all the control information necessary to display and navigate through these images. A simple interpretive script is run on the end user's device which traps the broadcast information and allows rapid response time and control of the interactive session without requiring expensive high-bandwidth facilities. Buffer equalized coding is used so that still, picture-in-a-still; and moving video images can be compressed at rates below those typically used with the MPEG-2 standard and continuously transmitted as video backgrounds in a seamless loop saving bandwidth without degradation in video quality. Data that instructs the end-user device how to display the video backgrounds and what foreground text to overlay on the video backgrounds is broadcast simultaneously in the bit stream This creates the appearance of a dedicated connection to the server while minimizing bandwidth and equipment cost and complexity.

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patent: 4989081 (1991-01-01), Miyagawa
patent: 4991011 (1991-02-01), Johnson et al.
patent: 5291554 (1994-03-01), Morales
patent: 5541738 (1996-07-01), Mankovitz

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