Patent ID: 7725825

Claim:
A method for creating media objects, the method comprising: receiving a first visual representation including reference information in the form of a non-encoded key frame; receiving a second visual representation, separate from the first visual representation, including manipulation information operable to be applied to the reference information to generate output media information, the second visual representation being in a compact machine-readable format, the output media information including at least one of audio and visual information; and creating an output media object based on the first visual representation and the second visual representation and containing the output media information, the output media object comprising time variant information, wherein the first visual representation is generated by analyzing an input media object to obtain reference information representative of a portion of input media information in the input media object, wherein the second visual representation is generated by analyzing the input media object to obtain manipulation information representative of a remainder of the input media information in the input media object based on the reference information, wherein applying the manipulation information to the reference information generates output media information that is substantially similar to the input media information of the input media object, and wherein the manipulation information of the second visual representation is unable to be used by itself to generate output media information that is substantially similar to the input media information of the input media object.