Patent ID: 8650591

Claim:
An interactive media apparatus for generating a displayable edited video data stream from an original video data stream, wherein at least one pixel in a frame of said original video data stream is digitally extracted to form a first image, said first image then replaced by a second image resulting from a digital extraction of at least one pixel in a frame of a user input video data stream, said apparatus comprising: an image capture device capturing the user input video data stream; an image display device displaying the original video stream; a data entry device, operably coupled with the image capture device and the image display device, operated by a user to select the at least one pixel in the frame of the user input video data stream to use as the second image, and further operated by the user to select the at least one pixel to use as the first image; wherein said data entry device is selected from a group of devices consisting of: a keyboard, a display, a wireless communication capability device, and an external memory device; a digital processing unit operably coupled with the data entry device, said digital processing unit performing: identifying the selected at least one pixel in the frame of the user input video data stream; extracting the identified at least one pixel as the second image; storing the second image in a memory device operably coupled with the interactive media apparatus; receiving a selection of the first image from the original video data stream; extracting the first image; spatially matching an area of the second image to an area of the first image in the original video data stream, wherein spatially matching the areas results in equal spatial lengths and widths between said two spatially matched areas; and performing a substitution of the spatially matched first image with the spatially matched second image to generate the displayable edited video data stream from the original video data stream.