Patent ID: 9032293
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of dynamically creating a user interface output for a multiple media player device, comprising: determining, via a multiple media player device, a media type currently associated with and playing on the multiple media player device; upon determining the media type, determining a current setting status associated with each of a plurality of adjustable options associated with the determined media type currently associated with and playing on the multiple media player device; identifying a plurality of option icons that each represent one of the plurality of adjustable options; pairing each identified option icon with the associated current setting status of each adjustable option, with each identified option icon and the associated current setting status of each identified option icon being paired together for display in a plurality of associated menu panes; detecting a first menuing input; responsive to detecting the first menuing input, displaying, over full-screen content on a display, an overlay user interface menu comprising only one option icon representing one of the plurality of adjustable options, where the icon's associated current setting status paired in its associated menu pane, on a lower right area of the display proximate to a vertical edge of the display; detecting a second menuing input; responsive to detecting the second menuing input, displaying over full-screen content on the display an overlay user interface menu comprising a stack of at least two of the paired identified option icons along the vertical edge of the display within their associated menu panes; displaying a first control pane to a left side of a bottom one of the stacked option icon and current setting status pairs comprising an adjustment control for a current setting status of the bottom one of the stacked option icon and current setting status pairs, where only the bottom one of the stacked option icon and associated current setting status in the associated menu pane and the associated current adjustment control pane are displayed; detecting one of an up arrow key input and a down arrow key input from a remote control device; and scrolling the stack of menu panes each containing the option icon and current setting status pairs vertically in a direction based upon the one of the up arrow key input and down arrow key input, where a current adjustment control pane is only displayed for the bottom one of the menu panes associated with the stacked option icon and the option icon's current setting status as the stack of menu panes is scrolled.