US 11,968,426 B2
Systems, devices, and methods for selecting TV user interface transitions
Karthigayan Anand, Bangalore (IN); Anthony Leigh, Workingham (GB); and Peter Benjamin Matthews, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to Synamedia Limited, Staines Upon Thames (GB)
Filed by Synamedia Limited, Staines Upon Thames (GB)
Filed on Dec. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/545,082.
Claims priority of application No. 202141053018 (IN), filed on Nov. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0156280 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/445 (2011.01); H04N 21/462 (2011.01); H04N 21/61 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/4621 (2013.01) [H04N 21/6125 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a server, a request for transitioning from presenting a first screen including a television (TV) user interface (UI) on a client device to presenting a second screen on the client device while in a real-time content presentation mode; and
in response to receiving the request and while in the real-time content presentation mode,
obtaining, by the server, one or more presentation conditions associated with the client device,
selecting, by the server, one or more transition characteristics for transitioning from the first screen to the second screen based on costs of transitions associated with the one or more transition characteristics and the one or more presentation conditions,
rendering one or more UI video segments including a plurality of frames and having the costs of transitions according to the one or more transition characteristics, wherein the costs of transitions are determined based on a function of costs of rendered UI objects in the plurality of frames and based on types of frames in transition, and
streaming the one or more UI video segments to the client device for presentation.