Patent ID: 8584028

Claim:
On a portable media device including a processor and a display, a method of displaying data on the display of the portable media device, the method comprising: controlling the display via the processor to display a display image that comprises a background image and text; allowing selection of an option; and responsive to the selection of the option, controlling the display via the processor to display additional text over the background image; automatically determining a menu depth of the additional text to be displayed; and automatically evaluating via the processor the background image to determine a darkness amount in the background image; automatically adjusting via the processor a darkness setting of the background image to display a darkness gradient across at least a section of the background image that is beneath the additional text, the darkness gradient progressing spatially from a lighter area to a darker area in a direction dependent on the darkness amount in the background image, wherein automatically adjusting a darkness setting further comprises automatically adjusting a background color of a section of the background image behind the additional text to be displayed to a color corresponding to the menu depth of the additional text; and automatically returning the darkness setting of the background image for a previous display image to an original value if from the display of the additional text a selection is made to return to a previous display image.