Patent ID: 7158676
Filing Date: 2007-01-02
Classification: H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for associating interactive data with an object in a digital video programme including means for providing a digital video programme having plural individual frames at least some of which incorporate said object, means for parsing the video programme by identifying separate shots in the video programme to produce an edit list, means for identifying shots containing related content to form a sequence of shots containing related content, means for selecting at least one key-frame within each sequence of shots, means for selecting said object within the key-frame with which the interactive data is to be associated, means for extracting attributes of the object from the key-frame, means for associating the interactive data with the object in the key-frame, means for utilising the attributes of the object for tracking the object through the sequence of shots, whereby said interactive data is associated with the object in the sequence of shots and said interactive data is embedded with data representative of said object in a data sequence.