Patent ID: 8625663
Filing Date: 2014-01-07
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for distributing digital video data between one or more video service providers, the method comprising: receiving, at one or more computer systems associated with a first video service provider, first digital data comprising a first plurality of digital images at a first image resolution, wherein each digital image in the first plurality of digital images in the first digital data is encoded in a first color space, wherein the first color space is configured for playback on film video equipment; generating, with one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems associated with the first video service provider, second digital data comprising a second plurality of digital images at the first image resolution in response to the first plurality of digital images in the first digital data and in response to color grading input data, wherein each digital image in the second plurality of digital images in the second digital data is color-graded and encoded in a second color space according to the color grading input data, wherein the second color space is configured for video that utilizes consumer High Definition (HD) video equipment; distributing an encoded image data package that includes the second plurality of digital images in the second digital data compressed with a compression encoding substantially independent of integer pixel translation of the second plurality of digital images between the first video service provider and one or more second video service providers; and generating, with one or more processors associated with one or more computer systems associated with the one or more second video service providers, third digital data comprising a third plurality of digital images at a second image resolution in response to the encoded image data package and an encoding pipeline associated with the one or more second video service providers configured to at least resize the second digital data to the second image resolution for the consumer HD video equipment, wherein the first image resolution is different from the second image resolution.