BROADBAND VIDEO WITH SYNCHRONIZED HIGHLIGHT SIGNALS
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1. A method for providing an interactive video display output, comprising:
- serving video content to a client device to cause a video output, the video content comprising first and second video objects that are not encoded together and that are configured for display together in overlapping layers in a first window of a client video display, wherein at least one visible object shape in the first video object is associated with a fitted highlight in the second video object, and wherein the highlight is synchronized to appear with and draw attention to the visible object shape during a highlight event of substantially shorter duration than a total playing time for the first video object.
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A broadband video layer is integrated with a separately encoded highlight layer configured for presentation in a first window of a video display. One or more visible objects in the video layer are associated with corresponding fitted highlight shapes in the highlight layer. Appearance of the shape object in the video layer is synchronized to appearance of an associated highlight shape to define highlight events. A context may be defined for each highlight event. Occurrence of highlight events may be represented by icons or markers in a video progress bar. Contextual information may be presented in a second window synchronized with the highlight events.
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1. A method for providing an interactive video display output, comprising:
serving video content to a client device to cause a video output, the video content comprising first and second video objects that are not encoded together and that are configured for display together in overlapping layers in a first window of a client video display, wherein at least one visible object shape in the first video object is associated with a fitted highlight in the second video object, and wherein the highlight is synchronized to appear with and draw attention to the visible object shape during a highlight event of substantially shorter duration than a total playing time for the first video object. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
- 11. A computer-readable media comprising video content configured to cause a client to display the video content on a display screen, the video content comprising first and second video data that are not encoded together and that are configured for display together in a first window of the display screen, wherein at least one frame in the first video data is associated with a highlight in the second video data, and wherein the highlight is synchronized to appear with and draw attention to a predetermined object appearing in the at least one frame during a highlight event of substantially shorter duration than a total playing time for the first video data.
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