Patent ID: 7324166
Filing Date: 2008-01-29
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. Apparatus for creating a story driven video in which images of a live participant are inserted, real time, as an actor in a background video formed by a pre-existing, well known video/story adapted to receive images of the live participant comprising: a digital library of background media of selectable pre-recorded, well known video media that has been adapted to receive the image of a live participant so as to appear an actor; operator input means; means for selecting a background media from the digital library and for playing the background media selected to provide a first signal source for video in response to operator input via the operator input means; means providing a lighted monochrome background for performance of the live participant; talent lights for the live participant and means for automatically illuminating the talent lights during the performance to approximate intensity and color temperature of the background media; a first video camera and a second video camera generating, respectively; a second video signal and a third video signal representing, respectively, images corresponding to different camera shots of a live performance of a participant, means for receiving the first signal of background media from the selection means and for selecting/switching between the second video signal and the third video signal and for providing a real time combination of a selected signal with the first video signal by a chromakey process, resulting in a fourth video signal of composition video; means for selecting between the first video signal and the fourth video signal to create a fifth video signal of combined video; and recording the fifth video signal as participant's performance video to a server hard drive as a single file for immediate and future playback and retrieval.