Patent ID: 7073200
Filing Date: 2006-07-04
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of providing secure content-based user experience enhancement in a player device for rendering digital content comprising: accepting encrypted first fidelity digital content by a player application module in the player device; securely decrypting the encrypted first fidelity digital content by the player application module into decrypted first fidelity digital content; securely and audibly rendering, by the player application module, the decrypted first fidelity digital content for perception by the user; securely downsampling, by the player application module, the decrypted first fidelity digital content into downsampled digital content having a second fidelity, the second fidelity lower than the first fidelity; and displaying images by a visual enhancement plug-in software module based on the downsampled digital content having the second fidelity in conjunction with the audible rendering of the decrypted first fidelity digital content by the player application module.