Patent ID: 9584862
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: A63F,H04N

Claim:
1. A system for real-time participation within a media presentation, comprising: a compositing processor programmed to a) generate a participant overlay by preprocessing said media presentation to extract a time-variant metadata stream associated with one or more interactive regions depicted in said media presentation, wherein said participant overlay includes simulated physics, wherein said simulated physics include boundaries of said one or more interactive regions defined in accordance with one or more content elements in said media presentation; b) provide a range of actions with which a participant can augment the media presentation by adding one or more interactive elements to said media presentation; c) capture a participant's interaction with said media presentation through said one or more interactive regions of said overlay and said one or more interactive elements; and d) combine said overlay with said media presentation for display to said participant on a display.