Storage of tags in video for carriage in real-time

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10021436-B2
Application number	US-201414514242-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 14, 2014
Priority date	Oct 14, 2014
Publication date	Jul 10, 2018
Grant date	Jul 10, 2018

Abstract

There is provided a system and method for storing tags in video for carriage in real-time. The system comprising a content creator and a television network, the content creating configured to retrieve a video from a memory for delivery to the television network, generate an ID3 tag for the video, the ID3 tag including information about the video, insert the ID3 tag into a vertical ancillary data (VANC) space of the video, and transmit the video including the ID3 tag to the television network. The television network configured to receive the video including the ID3 tag from the content creator and transmit the video including the ID3 tag to a display device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A television network comprising:
a processor configured to:
receive a video including an ID3 tag from a content creator, wherein the ID3 tag is inserted in a vertical ancillary data (VANC) space of the video;
extract the ID3 tag from the VANC space of the video;
insert the extracted ID3 tag into a video file formatted for a mobile device; and
transmit the video file including the ID3 tag to the mobile device.

2. The television network of claim 1 , wherein the ID3 tag includes a metadata container that includes information about the video.

3. The television network of claim 2 , wherein the information about the video includes at least one of a name of the video, a genre of the video, and how the video was created.

4. The television network of claim 1 , wherein the video includes a live feed.

5. A method comprising:
receiving a video including an ID3 tag from a content creator, wherein the ID3 tag is inserted in an ancillary data (ANC) space of the video;
extracting the ID3 tag from the ANC space of the video;
inserting the extracted ID3 tag into a video file formatted for a mobile device; and
transmitting the video file including the ID3 tag to the mobile device.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the video is a live feed.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the live feed including the ID3 tag inserted in the ANC space of the live feed.

8. The method of claim 5 , wherein the ID3 tag includes a metadata container that includes information about the video.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the information about the video includes at least one of a name of the video, a genre of the video, and how the video was created.

10. The method of claim 5 , wherein the ANC space is a vertical ancillary data (VANC) space of the video.

11. The method of claim 5 , wherein the ANC space is a horizontal ancillary data (HANC) space of the video.

Assignees

• Disney Entpr Inc

Inventors

• Strein Michael

Classifications

• H04N21/2187

  Live feed · CPC title

• H04N21/854

  Content authoring · CPC title

• H04N21/2353 Primary

  specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata · CPC title

• H04N21/84

  Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors {(systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73)} · CPC title