US 9,961,376 B2Granted

Customized program insertion system

OwnerSteven Schragainventor

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Abstract

An apparatus, method, and medium are provided for modifying a program. A selection of a character or game for which modification is to be performed is received, and a model object is stored in association with a profile. An original signal is received, and it is determined whether the original signal includes a source signal including the character or of the game. When the original signal includes the source signal including the character or of the game, at least one portion of the source signal to be overlaid is identified. The model object stored in association with the profile, and at least one portion of the model object is inserted into the original signal in correspondence with the portion of the source signal to be overlaid. The original signal including the inserted portion of the model object is configured to be displayed at a user site.

Claims22

Dependent claims

A display device in communication with remote apparatus for causing the insertion of a model insertion object into a program, including a video image signal, to be broadcast from a transmitter device to an audience, the display device comprising:

a memory that stores the program with the model insertion object;
and
a selector that makes a selection at the display device of the model insertion object for insertion into the program;
wherein when the model insertion object has been selected, the stored program, with the model insertion object inserted into the video image signal is formed by:
an object detector detecting portions of an image within the program corresponding to an object within the image;
a feature identifier identifying a first set of features of the object;
a motion vector determiner determining first set motion vectors that define movement of the first set of features of the object;
an inserter inserting the model insertion object into the program in correspondence with the object;
and
a motion adjuster moving a second set of features of the model insertion object relative to the object in the program by applying, to the second set of features, second set motion vectors similar to first set motion vectors that define the movement of the first set of features of the object within the program.

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Facts

Application: 15/225,308Filed 1 Aug 2016 · continuation
Priority: 10 Jan 2007
Published: US 2016/0345034 A124 Nov 2016
Granted: 1 May 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

H04N 21/23412
Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams or manipulating encoded video stream scene graphs: for generating or…
G11B 27/036
Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals: insert-editing
H04N 7/17318
Transmission or handling of upstream communications: direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
H04N 21/23424
Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams or manipulating encoded video stream scene graphs: involving splicing one…

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Application11/621,655Parent of this continuation · filed 10 Jan 2007
Application14/035,421Parent of this continuation · filed 24 Sep 2013
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Application14/695,465Parent of this continuation · filed 24 Apr 2015
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US 2016/0345034 A1Pre-grant publication · published 24 Nov 2016
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