Patent ID: 6850250

Claim:
A method of distorting add-on graphics to be composited with a streaming video feed comprising: receiving a streaming video feed captured using a real camera, said streaming video feed including an image frame taken from a particular view point and a particular field of view, said real camera introducing image distortions into the image frame; measuring a plurality of camera instrumentation data corresponding to at least said view point, said field of view, and distortion parameters corresponding to the image distortions of the image frame; creating a virtual camera; setting the virtual view point and the virtual field of view of the virtual camera using the plurality of camera instrumentation data; generating add-on graphics having a size and an insertion position within the image frame based on the virtual camera; creating a distortion grid; distorting the add-on graphics to match the image distortions of the image frame; and compositing the distorted add-on graphics with the image frame of the streaming video feed.