Inventors:
Keith Reynolds Wehmeyer - Fishers IN
Jeffrey Philip Reavis - Indianapolis IN
Robert Howard Miller - Indianapolis IN
Foy Edward Wilkey - Fishers IN
Assignee:
Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc. - Indianapolis IN
International Classification:
H04N 550
Abstract:
A television receiver, provides a hierarchy of menus for controlling functions affecting the display of the video image. A "fetch" menu which can be customized by a user, which is absent from the screen during normal program viewing, and which is easily accessible by means of a single key, holds a given number of the user's favorite commands. The user may add commands to the fetch menu which normally reside any position in the menu hierarchy. The user may thereafter cause display of his list of favorite commands via a remote control key, and cause the execution of his desired command without having to find that command at its normal position in the hierarchy.