Interactive television system and method for simultaneous transmission and rendering of multiple encoded video streams
First Claim
1. A method for simultaneous rendering of multiple encoded video streams, comprising:
- receiving the multiple encoded video streams;
modifying at least one of the received multiple encoded video streams for repositioning the at least one of the multiple encoded video stream for display, at least one of said multiple encoded video streams being broadcast from a broadcast center, said modifying generates at least one modified encoded video stream;
selecting at least one video stream from said at least one modified encoded video stream and multiple encoded video streams;
interleaving said selected video streams into a single composite interleaved video stream;
and outputting said single composite video stream.
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Abstract
A system and method for the simultaneous transmission and rendition of multiple encoded digital video signal streams in an interactive television application are disclosed. Simultaneous transmission and rendition of multiple encoded digital video signal streams in an interactive television application generally comprises modifying at least one of the multiple encoded video streams broadcast from a broadcast center for repositioning the at least one of the multiple encoded video stream for display, interleaving the modified multiple encoded video streams comprising the at least one modified encoded video stream into a single composite interleaved video stream, and outputting the single composite video stream. The method may further comprise receiving the multiple encoded video streams from a broadcast center. Each of the multiple encoded video streams is preferably encoded using MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 compression technology.
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37 Claims
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1. A method for simultaneous rendering of multiple encoded video streams, comprising:
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receiving the multiple encoded video streams;
modifying at least one of the received multiple encoded video streams for repositioning the at least one of the multiple encoded video stream for display, at least one of said multiple encoded video streams being broadcast from a broadcast center, said modifying generates at least one modified encoded video stream;
selecting at least one video stream from said at least one modified encoded video stream and multiple encoded video streams;
interleaving said selected video streams into a single composite interleaved video stream;
and outputting said single composite video stream. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A system for simultaneous rendering of multiple encoded video streams, comprising:
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an interactive decoder adapted to modify at least one of the multiple encoded video streams broadcast from a broadcast center for repositioning the at least one of the multiple encoded video stream for display and to generate modified multiple encoded video streams comprising the at least one modified encoded video stream and unmodified encoded video streams of the multiple encoded video streams, the interactive decoder further adapted to interleave the modified multiple encoded video streams comprising the at least one modified encoded video stream into a single composite interleaved video stream and to output said single composite video stream. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. An interactive decoder for simultaneous rendering of multiple encoded video streams, comprising:
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means for modifying at least one of the multiple encoded video streams broadcast from a broadcast center for repositioning the at least one of the multiple encoded video stream for display, said modifying means generates modified multiple encoded video streams comprising the at least one modified encoded video stream and unmodified encoded video streams of the multiple encoded video streams;
means for interleaving the modified multiple encoded video streams into a single composite interleaved video stream; and
means for outputting said single composite video stream. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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Specification