Digital television terminal as well as method and device for generating context menu at application interface thereof

Abstract

The invention discloses a digital television terminal as well as a method and a device for generating a context menu at an application interface thereof. The method comprises the following steps: presetting context root menus corresponding to application interfaces of the digital television terminal; respectively setting expanded submenus of the context root menus based on the application interfaces, and receiving context root menu trigger signals; and inquiring and acquiring the expanded submenus corresponding to the context root menus of the current application interface and displaying the expanded submenus. With the invention, the usability, expandability and uniformity of the context menu generated based on the application interface of the digital television terminal are improved.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to digital television technology, in particular to a digital television terminal and a method and device for generating an associated menu on an application interface thereof. Background technique [0002] With the improvement of people's living standards and the continuous development of video technology, there are more and more various digital TV terminals, and their functions are becoming more and more powerful. In addition, with the full launch of triple play, video products that are too single in content and not very interactive can no longer satisfy users' pursuit of a good user experience and operators' pursuit of multifunctional products. In order to meet the ever-growing demands for the integration of various media services, it is necessary to continuously strengthen the service carrying capacity of the front-end platform and the application interface of the digital TV terminal. For example, users hope to operate ...

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Problems solved by technology

[0005] 1) Low usability: For some operation items that users are already familiar with, the prompt information displayed on the application interface always exists, and, for some necessary but not commonly used operation items, the displayed prompt information will have a negative impact on the user's use. unnecessary distraction

Especially when the prompt information displayed on the application interface is too long, the complexity of the application interface will be increased, which will greatly reduce the friendliness to users, resulting in low usability of the application interface

[0006] 2) Low consistency: There are different functional operation items on different application interfaces, and the number of shortcut associated keys on the remote control is limited, so that the same shortcut associated key on the remote control may be associated with different functions on different application interfaces Operation items, for example, the red key is associated with the delete function operation item in some application interfaces (music playlist pages), while in other application interfaces (channel or movie playlist pages) it is associated with adding to favorite function operation items; further , for most application interfaces, different design styles will inevitably lead to different positions and presentation styles of prompt information, which lead to the consistency of shortcut associated keys and low ease of use, which greatly improves the user's learning and mastery of shortcuts. cost of association key

[0007] 3) The function and operation items provided by the application interface are limited: as mentioned above, the shortcut associated keys are not enough or the number of shortcut associated keys on the remote control that limits the use of a single application interface due to ease of use will cause the application interface to provide The functionality of action items is very limited

[0010] But in practical application, due to figure 2 In the application interface, based on the need for a simple application interface, which interface elements have associated menus and which interface elements do not have associated menus, and no obvious prompt information is given in the application interface, which often leads to user confusion and causes user operations. Unpredictability; furthermore, for the same type of interface elements, such as music or movies, some application interfaces have context menus that pop up automatically, while others do not; moreover, for some non- For a certain interface element and non-associated function operation item, this method of popping up the context menu cannot be adopted

In this way, the ease of use, scalability and consistency of the associated menu generated based on the digital TV terminal application interface are still low, and for most application interfaces, the design cannot be used

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