Patent ID: 7448021
Filing Date: 2008-11-04
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A method for combining video/audio content with programmatic content comprising: generating authoring output comprising one or more definitions for one or more variables, and further comprising a representation of the video/audio content corresponding to video/audio content to be displayed, the representation of the video/audio content defining how the video/audio content is to be displayed; selecting one or more source files that correspond with at least one of the one or more definitions of the generated authoring output, where each of the one or more source files comprises at least one of the one or more variables; searching an instance of each of the one or more source files for said at least one variable, and with each instance of the one or more source files replacing said at least one variable with the corresponding definition for said at least one variable within that instance of the source file such that the instance of the source file contains the corresponding definition for said at least one variable; generating programmatic content in accordance with each of the selected one or more source files each comprising the corresponding definition in response to the searching and replacing; generating an image as a function of the programmatic content and the representation of the video/audio content; and combining the image with the video/audio content.