Patent ID: 8761266

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving plural representations of a video signal, the video signal comprising plural sequenced pictures corresponding to at least a portion of a video program, wherein two or more of the plural representations of the video signal (PROTVS) includes a respective sequence of latticed pictures obtained by selecting a corresponding pixel from a sampling matrix superimposed on successive pictures of the video signal and one or more of the other PROTVS includes a respective sequence of non-latticed pictures; and providing in plural successive non-overlapping segments distribution interval (SDIs) compressed versions of the PROTVS in a single video stream, wherein each SDI consists of plural non-overlapping, consecutive segments, each of the plural non-overlapping consecutive segments originating from a respective one of the collective PROTVS, wherein the consecutive segments are in a display order based on a promotion of one or more of the latticed pictures among one or more of the SDIs corresponding to an increase in the respective picture importance by changing picture type; wherein the one or more of the other PROTVS include a portion of the plural sequenced pictures of the video signal designated as non-reference pictures in compressed form; wherein the providing further comprises compressing the pictures of the PROTVS, segmenting the compressed pictures, and ordering the segments within each SDI and among the plural SDIs.