Patent ID: 6829778
Filing Date: 2004-12-07
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A method for selectively limiting the number of observations of repetitive materials from at least one transmission signal containing a plurality of theatrical images and a plurality of non-theatrical images, said method comprising the steps of:decomposing each of said non-theatrical images into a plurality of component elements; determining an identifier for each of said non-theatrical images each of said identifiers based on content of at least one component element of a corresponding one of said non theatrical image; recording each of said identifiers not previously recorded; developing an indicator representative of a number of observations of said non-theatrical image identifier, wherein said indicator having a first state and a second state; merging each of said non-theatrical images with said plurality of theatrical images when said first indicator is in said first state, wherein said non-theatrical images are merged with said theatrical images in a substantially similar relation to their relation in said at least one transmission signal.