Digital television system which selects images for display in a video sequence
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1. A digital television system including a digital television receiver comprising:
- a memory for storing a user profile and computer-executable process steps;
a display processor for receiving video data, and for providing the video data as a video sequence;
a display for displaying the video sequence as a plurality of picture frames; and
a controller for receiving video data corresponding to at least two alternative images, and for executing the process steps stored in the memory so as (i) to select one of the alternative images based on information stored in the user profile, and (ii) to cause the display processor to include the selected one of the alternative images within the video sequence, wherein the alternative images comprise images of objects in the video sequence, said selected image then appearing, on said display, integrally in the picture frames of the video sequence.
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Abstract
A digital television system includes a memory which stores a user profile and computer-executable process steps, and a display processor which receives video data and which outputs the video data as a video sequence. A controller receives video data corresponding to at least two alternative images. The controller executes the process steps stored in the memory so as to select one of the alternative images based on information stored in the user profile, and to cause the display processor to include the selected one of the alternative images within the video sequence.
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1. A digital television system including a digital television receiver comprising:
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a memory for storing a user profile and computer-executable process steps; a display processor for receiving video data, and for providing the video data as a video sequence; a display for displaying the video sequence as a plurality of picture frames; and a controller for receiving video data corresponding to at least two alternative images, and for executing the process steps stored in the memory so as (i) to select one of the alternative images based on information stored in the user profile, and (ii) to cause the display processor to include the selected one of the alternative images within the video sequence, wherein the alternative images comprise images of objects in the video sequence, said selected image then appearing, on said display, integrally in the picture frames of the video sequence. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method for locally superimposing images in a video sequence, the method comprising the steps:
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storing a user profile containing information relating to a user of a digital television receiver; receiving video data defining the video sequence and video data defining at least two alternative images for display within the video sequence; selecting one of the alternative images based on the information in the user profile; and displaying the video sequence as a plurality of picture frames together with the selected one of the alternative images, wherein the alternative images are images of objects in the video sequence, said selected image then appearing integrally in the picture frames of the video sequence. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A digital television system comprising:
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a transmitter for transmitting coded data, the coded data comprising video data for a video sequence and video data for at least two alternative images for display within the video sequence; and a digital television receiver for storing a user profile comprising information on a user of the digital television receiver, and for decoding the coded data received from the transmitter, said digital television receiver selecting one of the alternative images for display within the video sequence based on the user profile, wherein the alternate images comprise images of objects in the video sequence, said selected image then appearing, on display, integrally in picture frames of the video sequence. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14)
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