Patents Represented by Attorney Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP Wesh & Katz
  • Patent number: 7782344
    Abstract: A system for preparing a digital video stream for zooming by a content consumer system, including a video frame processor to prepare a plurality of video frames of the digital video stream, a zoom location processor to prepare a plurality of zoom location indicators in the digital video stream, each of the zoom location indicators including an element indicative of a least one horizontal position and at least one vertical position in the video frames, and a stream processor to temporally synchronize the zoom location indicators and the video frames in the digital video stream, such that the video frames are available to be zoomed by the content consumer system based on the zoom location indicators during playback of the digital video steam. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: NDS Limited
    Inventor: David Whittaker