Patent ID: 7653882

Claim:
A method for representing menu buttons in a menu for controlling the presentation of video data stored on a storage medium, the menu buttons having one out of three states, the states being normal, selected or activated, wherein the video data are presented on a display according to a given video frame rate, the method comprising the steps of retrieving from said storage medium data describing the menu buttons, the data comprising, for each button, image data, wherein said data describing the menu buttons further comprise two identifiers that specify a range of regions per button state, and each of the two identifiers addresses a button image of said sequence of pictures and each button image is addressable through at least one of said identifiers; retrieving from said storage medium a value representing a relative rate for animating a sequence of pictures, wherein the rate is relative with respect to the video frame rate and is an integer fraction of the video frame rate; setting, according to said retrieved value, the rate for animating sequences of pictures; and representing the menu buttons on said display, wherein a menu button is represented by different images corresponding to different image data depending on its state being normal, selected or activated, and wherein the image data representing a particular menu button state includes a sequence of pictures, the sequence of pictures being animated according to said relative rate.