HōME

The HōME Application Creation Platform

The HōME Application Creation Platform is a flexible client-server architecture that enables product development teams to create custom pointer-based applications suitable for TV.

HōME incorporates a flexible mechanism to display the myriad of applications and services on TV. It presents content in a compelling format using Visual Directories™. Visual Directories can display large volumes of content, enable consistent presentation of content from any source, and make it easy to navigate content using a pointer.

Reference applications developed for HōME include Photos, Music, and Videos,- known as HōMEmedia. Hillcrest Labs has also developed games, TV, DVR and on-demand broadband content applications.

HōME includes features such as:

Graphical, zoomable interface

• Dramatically increases the efficiency of both the presentation of and interaction with digital media
• Displays up to twenty times as many choices per screen than today's textual program guides
• Takes advantage of the human cognitive ability to process significantly more graphical information than textual information at a glance

Cross-media navigation

• Helps consumers find and manage everything from live television to broadband video to personal music and photographs
• Enables users to very quickly find content categories or specific choices that interest them

Flexible application set

• Easily embedded in HDTVs and in a broad range of AV devices
• Customizable to meet the needs of a specific product and its technology architecture
• Advanced backend services
• Dynamic application and service updates over the life of the product
• Activity logging to determine service areas of highest usage
• Commerce capabilities to support ongoing backend service revenue

"Did you know that 82% of Internet consumers watch online video? Sure, but did you know that four in five would prefer to watch online video on their primary TV instead of their PC monitor?" The Diffusion Group

"Humans weren't made for scrolling and searching. We were made for zooming..." Newsweek