Patent ID: 7436886

Claim:
A method of generating a scene transition in a video sequence between at least a first and a second scene, the first scene being an ending scene and the second scene a beginning scene, at least one of said scenes comprising independently decodable video frames coded in accordance with at least a first frame format, and video frames coded in accordance with a second frame format, at least one of the video frames according to the second frame format being predicted from at least one other video frame, the method comprising determining that the duration of the presentation time of at least one whole video frame of the first scene is equal to the duration of the presentation time of at least one whole video frame of the second scene during the scene transition, said video frames being scene transition video frames, determining scene transition information for at least one video frame of at least one scene for generating a scene transition with a decoder, coding at least said one scene transition video frame of the first scene and at least said one scene transition video frame of the second scene in the encoder into the video sequence such that at least the scene transition video frames of at least the first and second scenes are placed onto different scalability layers in the video sequence, and coding said scene transition information in the encoder into the video sequence.