Patent ID: 8503520

Claim:
A method for encoding a video sequence comprising a flash picture occurring in said video sequence, wherein the encoded picture data belong to a data stream representing the encoded video sequence, said method further comprising: determining whether or not a current picture is a flash picture; if not true, encoding said current picture in a normal way, wherein the normal way is a standard video encoding; if true, either: generating flash picture indication data and flash picture parameters data for insertion into said data stream, and not encoding the flash picture and not inserting the flash picture into said data stream, wherein the generated flash picture indication data and flash picture parameters data are used in decoding said data stream for generating from a previously decoded non-flash picture available in said decoding a flash effect picture for said flash picture; or generating flash picture indication data for insertion into said data stream, and not encoding the flash picture and not inserting the flash picture into said data stream, wherein the generated flash picture indication data and default flash picture parameters data stored at decoder side are used in decoding said data stream for generating said flash effect picture.