Patent ID: 8891934

Claim:
A method of providing video data to a display subsystem, comprising: (a) capturing a sequence of video frames to provide video data; (b) editing on a reference display an image provided by the video data; (c) generating metadata identifying configuration parameters of the reference display and characteristics of the edited image; (d) embedding the metadata in the video data, wherein the embedding the metadata in the video further comprises: (i) retrieving a bit of metadata from a metadata packet to be delivered; (ii) locating a first guard bit in the video data; (iii) comparing a plurality of video bits preceding the first guard bit to a first word indicative of a reserved video word; and (iv) writing the bit of metadata in the first guard bit if the plurality of video bits preceding the first guard bit differs from the first word; (e) delivering the video data including the embedded metadata to the display subsystem; (f) extracting the metadata at the display subsystem; and (g) configuring the display subsystem or processing the video data for the display subsystem based at least in part on the metadata.