Ati International Srl

Data Translation, Inc.

Mark E Vrabel

David Allen Gould

Philip Borghesani

Bruce E Walsh

William Smith

Christine G Hagberg

John Herdrich

Karen Champagne

A method and apparatus for providing live video on a three-dimensional object begins by receiving a video stream into a capture buffer. The process then continues by mapping, directly from the capture buffer, the video stream onto the three-dimensional object. Having mapped the live video onto the three-dimensional object it is rendered into a frame buffer and subsequently displayed on a display device.

Method and apparatus for mapping live video on to three dimensional objects

A method and apparatus for providing a three-dimensional object on live video includes processing that begins by filling at least a portion of a back butler with a key color, where the key color indicates the presentation of the video. The processing then continues by writing the three-dimensional object into the back buffer. Note that by providing the key color into the back buffer as a clearing operation or having a back most Z value, when the three-dimensional object is written into the back buffer, it will be in a foreground viewing perspective with respect to the live video. The processing then continues by flipping the back buffer to become a primary surface such that the data stored in the primary surface is subsequently displayed on a display device.

Method and apparatus for providing a three dimensional object on live video

A computer based system for displaying and compressing video including a video capture card with a video compressor and a bus interface circuit that acts as a busmaster and outputs uncompressed video and compressed video to a computer bus for display of the uncompressed video on the computer monitor and storage of the compressed video on a memory of the computer. The system also includes a software virtual interrupt generator that uses timer events provided by a computer system service and a transfer status indicator to generate interrupts to initiate transfer of a new block of video; an overlay controller implemented in software that transfers video from the video capture card over the computer bus to a graphics subsystem for display in a window on the computer monitor in an overlay mode; a display controller implemented in software that causes display of uncompressed video from the video capture card or software decompressed video; a software controller that compresses audio in software and sends video data to be compressed across the computer bus to the compressor; a controller that is implemented in software and calibrates startup delay of the audio input subsystem and uses the delay to synchronize the audio and video; and a user interactive input mechanism for adjusting the rates of compression within a range of acceptable rates that varies as a function of the output target medium for compressed video.

Computer based video system

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Mark E Vrabel