Patent ID: 8613012

Claim:
A method for displaying a message on a screen of a television, comprising: displaying a television picture on said screen, the television picture appearing in-focus; displaying said message in a message region of said screen, wherein said television picture is at least partly visible within said message region by displaying the message region transparently over the television picture; rendering said television picture in said message region out-of-focus by blurring said television picture in said message region, wherein outside said message region said television picture is displayed without blurring, and adjusting a degree of blurring so as to adjust a degree of out-of-focus, said adjusting being controllable by the user; and modifying a color of the television picture so that the television picture in said message region is rendered in a color that is different from a color of the television picture in a remaining screen region, said modifying modifies the color of the television picture so that the television picture in the remaining screen is rendered in black and white.