Audio and/or video generation apparatus and method of generating audio and/or video signals

• US 10,200,767 B2
• Filed: 07/29/2016
• Issued: 02/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: McGrath, Mark John, Dorricott, Martin Rex, Collins, Andrew
• Primary Examiner(s): Boccio, Vincent F
• Application Number:
  US15/223,327
• Publication Number:
  US 20160337714A1
• Time in Patent Office: 921 Days
• Field of Search: 707741, 386224, 386239
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/90 Tape-like record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/032 on tapes G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3036 Time code signal
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/323 Time code signal, e.g. on a cue track as SMPTE- or EBU-time code
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/328 on a tape [TTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8126 involving additional data, e.g. news, sports, stocks, weather forecasts
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8455 involving pointers to the content, e.g. pointers to the I-frames of the video stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/79 Processing of colour television signals in connection with recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8227 the additional signal being at least another television signal

Abstract

An audio and/or video generation apparatus which is arranged in operation to generate audio and/or video signals representative of an audio and/or video source, the audio and/or video generation apparatus comprising a recording unit which records the audio and/or video signals on a recording medium, wherein the audio and/or video generation apparatus is arranged to receive metadata associated with the audio and/or video signals generated by a data processor, the recording unit records the metadata on the recording medium with the audio and/or video signals. The data processor receives signals representative of the time codes of the recorded audio/video signals, and the metadata includes time code data representative of the in and out points of a take of the audio/video signals generated by the data processor. The metadata also includes unique identification code for identifying the audio/video signals. The unique identification code is a UMID or the like.

Claims

1. A camera comprising:

circuitry configured to

generate metadata related to a motion image signal, and

associate the motion image signal with generated metadata, the motion image signal and the generated metadata being recordable on a recording medium; and

an interface configured to provide bi-directional wireless communication between the circuitry and a portable device,

wherein the interface is configured to communicate at least part of the generated metadata to the portable device for display and the interface is further configured to receive metadata from the portable device for display, the received metadata from the portable device representing at least information related to a scene to be associated with the motion image signal and being based on an input to the portable device.

2. The camera according to claim 1, wherein the generated metadata represents at least a marker generated during a recording process of the motion image signal.

3. The camera according to claim 2, wherein the generated metadata represents at least time codes of the motion image signal.

4. The camera according to claim 3, wherein the generated metadata represents at least an operating parameter of the camera.

5. The camera according to claim 4, wherein the operating parameter of the camera represents at least one of a shutter speed and an aperture setting.

6. The camera according to claim 1, wherein the generated metadata represents at least one of identification information of the motion image signal and identification information of the recording medium.

7. The camera according to claim 1, wherein the recording medium is a random access memory.

8. The camera according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to receive the motion image signal.

9. The camera according to claim 1, further comprising:

a lens.

10. The camera according to claim 1, wherein the portable device includes a screen to display the at least part of the generated metadata received from the camera.

11. A method for generating metadata by a camera comprising:

generating metadata related to a motion image signal, and

associating the motion image signal with the generated metadata to record the motion image signal and the generated metadata;

wirelessly communicating, by an interface configured to provide bi-directional wireless communication between the camera and a portable device, at least part of the generated metadata to the portable device for display; and

receiving, by the interface, from the portable device metadata for display, the received metadata from the portable device representing at least information related to a scene to be associated with the motion image signal and being based on an input to the portable device.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the generated metadata represents at least a marker generated during a recording process of the motion image signal.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the generated metadata represents at least time codes of the motion image signal.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the generated metadata represents at least an operating parameter of the camera.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the operating parameter represents at least one of a shutter speed and an aperture setting.

16. The method according to claim 11, wherein the generated metadata represents at least one of identification information of the motion image signal and identification information of the recording medium.

17. The method according to claim 11, wherein the recording medium is a random access memory.

18. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

receiving the motion image signal.

19. The method according to claim 11, wherein the portable device includes a screen to display the at least part of the generated metadata received from the camera.

20. A system comprising:

a portable device; and

a camera including

circuitry configured to

generate metadata related to a motion image signal, and

associate the motion image signal with the generated metadata to record the motion image signal and the generated metadata, and

an interface configured to provide bi-directional wireless communication between the circuitry and the portable device,

wherein the interface is configured to communicate at least part of the generated metadata to the portable device for display and is configured to receive from the portable device metadata for display, the received metadata from the portable device representing at least information related to a scene to be associated with the motion image signal and being based on an input to the portable device.