Patent ID: 8456526
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of creating a video effect, comprising: identifying a particular video image and a corresponding base image, said particular video image is from a first video camera at an event, said base image is a still image from a second camera co-located with said first video camera at said event, said base image is of higher resolution than the particular video image, said base image depicts said event frozen in time, said particular video image depicts a portion of said base image; identifying two or more sub-images that are portions of said base image, one of the sub-images also appears in the particular video image; and identifying leader video from said first video camera, said leader video includes said particular video image; identifying trailer video from said first video camera; and creating, using a processor, a new video that includes said leader video from said first camera, a transition from said particular video image to said base image, virtual camera movement within said base image between said sub-images, a transition from said base image to said trailer video from said first camera and said trailer video from said first video camera; said new video provides an experience of freezing time in a video presentation of said event based on video from said first video camera, investigating the event during that frozen moment in time by said virtual camera movement, and resuming the action of the event in the video from said first video camera.