Patent ID: 8826318

Claim:
A method of providing interaction capabilities with information band in a television signal, further referred to as ticker band, comprising: intercepting said television signal using a intercept device to get video frames comprising video content and ticker band; identifying two dimensional coordinates representing area of ticker band in relation to one of said frames of said television signal; capturing a ticker snapshot image of said area of ticker band at said coordinates wherein area of said snapshot image is selected from group consisting of full area, and partial area; detecting boundaries of information sets inside said ticker snapshot image using boundary recognizing graphics algorithms; automatically partitioning said ticker snapshot image into plurality of information slots comprising subset images representing said information sets based on said boundaries detected, further referred to as information images in said information slots; assigning a slot index value and a screen coordinate to each of said information slots of said ticker snapshot image, wherein said slot index value increments sequentially from a configurable beginning integer value; marking configurable number of said information slots as slots that are of interest to user; extracting said information images from said information slots that are of interest to user into temporary memory buffers of said intercept device; assigning a image index value to each of said extracted information images; and storing said extracted information images into a list of images in a storage medium associated with said intercept device along with said image index value.