Patent ID: 7319806
Filing Date: 2008-01-15
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An audiovisual system which receives audiovisual data and which stores for later playback at least a portion of the audiovisual data, the stored portion of the audiovisual data comprising a plurality of stored programs, each stored program comprising a plurality of program locations, each program location representing a starting point of a program segment of one of the plurality of stored programs, the audiovisual system connectable to a user display, the audiovisual system comprising: a system controller; a storage device to store the portion of the audiovisual data and to play back the stored portion of the audiovisual data; a marking module coupled to the system controller to create metadata in response to a control input for marking the program segments, the metadata comprising information regarding the program segments of the stored portion of the audiovisual data; a display generator coupled to the system controller to generate a mosaic representation of the program segments of the stored portion of the audiovisual data, wherein the mosaic representation comprises a plurality of cells representing a first plurality of respective stored program segments of a first stored program and a second plurality of respective stored program segments of a second stored program, the plurality of cells comprising images extracted from the respective stored program segments; and a program selector coupled to the system controller to select a program segment of the stored portion of the audiovisual data in response to a user input, the selected program segment selected based on the information of the metadata, whereby the audiovisual system selectively plays back selected program segments of the stored portion of the audiovisual data, thereby enabling a user to jump to and play back selected program segments of the plurality of programs.