Patent ID: 8701040

Claim:
A media-playing device, comprising: a display to present a full-screen panoramic graphical user interface, the display having a first dimension along a first axis and a second dimension along a second axis, the full-screen panoramic graphical user interface comprising: a contiguous background of two or more space-orientating graphical elements, each space-orientating graphical element visually distinct from one or more other space-orientating graphical elements, the contiguous background sized to fit within the first dimension of the display and sized to extend beyond the second dimension of the display; and a collection of mixed-media content objects anchored over the contiguous background, the collection of mixed-media content objects arranged to fit within the first dimension of the display and arranged to extend beyond the second dimension of the display; and an input subsystem to translate user input into commands for controlling at least the full-screen panoramic graphical user interface, such commands including a pan command for moving the contiguous background and collection of mixed-media content objects along the second axis so as to change which portions of the contiguous background and which portions of the collection of mixed-media content objects are presented by the display, where the full-screen panoramic graphical user interface launches with an opening sequence that begins with an opening view of mixed-media content objects and automatically pans across a collection of mixed-media content objects over at least a portion of the contiguous background to an ending view of different mixed-media content objects and leaves one or more space-orientating graphical elements partially visible on the display and partially extending beyond the second dimension of the display; where the pan command is useable to return to the opening view and where the mixed-media content objects include icons that, when selected, launch an application that assumes control of the display from the full-screen panoramic graphical user interface.