System and method in a television for providing user-selection of objects in a television program

A system and method for identifying a user-selected object in television programming, the method comprising presenting television programming to a user (220), the television programming comprising user- selectable objects; determining an on- screen pointing location pointed to by a user of the telev...

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Hauptverfasser: Seshadri, Nambirajan, Karaoguz, Jeyhan
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Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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Zusammenfassung:A system and method for identifying a user-selected object in television programming, the method comprising presenting television programming to a user (220), the television programming comprising user- selectable objects; determining an on- screen pointing location pointed to by a user of the television (230); and identifying a user- selectable object in the presented television programming at which the user is pointing (240) based, at least in part, on the determined on-screen pointing location.