Patent ID: 9479713
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: G06T,G11B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method of enhancing a video stream, comprising: providing a live video broadcast of an event occurring in stadium, said stadium comprising changeable in-stadium signage displaying a display-object, said in-stadium signage being visible to spectators present in said stadium and to a television audience viewing said live video broadcast; providing an agent-object comprising one or more images of a computer-generated cartoon character; combining said images of said agent object with said live video broadcast using match-making methodology such that the computer-generated character is visible only to said television audience and appears to said television audience to be present in said stadium; initiating a change of said display-object being displayed on said in-stadium signage; said display-object and said change being visible to said spectators present in said stadium and to said television audience; and choreographing a movement of said computer-generated cartoon character, visible only to said television audience, to coincide with said change of said display-object being displayed on said in-stadium signage such said computer generated cartoon character appears, to said television audience, to be real and to be causing said change of said display-object being displayed on said in-stadium signage.