Patent ID: 7360230
Filing Date: 2008-04-15
Classification: G06F,G09G,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of personalizing a broadcast stream, comprising: providing a broadcast video stream; personalizing the stream at a central distribution station and in a manner that reduces a visual quality of said provided video stream, wherein reducing the visual quality of the video stream includes using different compression parameters for different GUI display elements of a frame within the video stream, and such that standard GUI display elements of the frame, comprising one or more border and one or more menu, are compressed to a lower quality than unknown GUI display elements of the frame, comprising GUI display elements other than the one or more border and one or more menu, and such that the standard GUI display elements and the unknown GUI display elements are identified by a process that does not require human interaction while adding personalized information, and wherein reducing the visual quality of the video stream further includes selecting modifiable parameters for performing compression on the broadcast stream, and wherein selection of the modifiable parameters is based at least in part on a prediction of future frames of the broadcast stream; and transmitting the personalized broadcast stream to the user system using a compressed video transport.