Patent ID: 7117517

Claim:
In a video hyperlinked annotation data system, a computer-readable medium storing data for access by a computer program executed by a processor in the hyperlinked annotation data system, the computer-readable medium comprising: a sixth data structure element storing image overlay data for a plurality of objects in a video frame, the sixth data structure element being associated with a visibility indicia indicative of whether the plurality of objects in the video frame are enabled for being visually identified for a particular video shot, the sixth data structure element further being associated with a sixth identifier; a first annotation data structure element identified by said sixth identifier, the first annotation data structure element including an object reference for each of the plurality of objects in the video frame, each of the objects in the video frame having a corresponding first identifier; and a second annotation data structure element identified by said first identifier, said second annotation data structure element including a first set of annotation data references.