Patent ID: 8731047
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: designating at least one reference flame comprising a flame of a first or second content portion capable of being used to extract and separate the first and second content portions from a composite video content, each of the first and second content portions comprising multiple frames of video; appending the second content portion to the end of one flame of the first content portion, overlapping at least one flame of the first content portion with at least one frame, but less than all the frames, of the second content portion comprising multiple frames to produce a composite video content, the overlapping including using a mixing function to combine at least one entire flame of the first portion with at least one entire flame of the second portion to cause distortion to occur when the overlapping frames are played; encoding and transmitting the reference flame and information required for separating the second content portion from the first content portion out-of-band via a media track separate from the composite video content to a client device, the information including information on the mixing function; and encoding and transmitting the composite video content to the client device for removal of the distortion and separation of the second content portion from the first content portion using the reference flame and the information.