Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display driving control circuitry – Controlling the condition of display elements
Patent
1996-11-22
1999-12-21
Sax, Steven P.
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display driving control circuitry
Controlling the condition of display elements
345357, G06F 1730
Patent
active
060055634
ABSTRACT:
Web browser software is implemented in a processing system housed in a set-top box connected to a television and communicating over a wide-area network with one or more servers. The browser allows a user to use a remote control device to navigate between hypertext anchors in World-Wide Web pages displayed on the television. User inputs are entered from the remote control device using an infrared IR link in order to move a selection between hypertext anchors or various control buttons displayed on the television display. The browser is capable of downloading audio files from Web sites and generating sound through a speaker of the television set based on the audio files. Background music is generated during Web browsing based on audio files downloaded from one of the servers or audio files stored in memory in the set-top box. A background music audio file from a server can be downloaded while another background music audio file is played. An audio panel can be displayed when an audio file from a Web site is downloaded and played to form a user interface by which the user to play, stop, pause, rewind, or fast-forward the audio file.
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Anderson David R.
Britt, Jr. Joe F.
Krueger Mark H.
White Christopher M.
Yaksick Jeffrey D.
Sax Steven P.
WebTV Networks Inc.
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