Patent ID: 6944339

Claim:
A method of processing a digital video data signal (DVS) containing data relating to rectangular pictures, said method of processing comprising a segmentation step (SEG) for segmenting the digital video data signal so as to provide segmented video data signals (SVS), a segmented video data signal containing a video object (VO) which is a region of the rectangular picture, said method of processing comprises: an identification step (ID) for identifying with an identifier to which video object of the segmented video data signals a pixel of the rectangular picture belongs, and an insertion step (INS) for inserting the identifiers into the digital video data signal so as to form a modified digital video data signal (DVSm) to be encoded by a video-object-based encoding framework, wherein the digital video data signal is defined by the recommendation ITU-R BT.601-5 and the insertion step (INS) comprises a first sub-step of inserting (ADP) the identifiers into an ancillary data packet as defined in the recommendation ITU-R BT.1364, and a second sub-step of inserting (VBS) the ancillary data packet into a vertical blanking space of the digital video data signal at a row level.