Editing apparatus and editing method

• US 10,311,914 B2
• Filed: 12/07/2017
• Issued: 06/04/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Grass Valley Canada (Belden Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Gvbb Holdings SARL (Vislink Technologies, Inc.)
• Inventors: Yamasaki, Naoya
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Thai Q
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hasan, Syed
• Application Number:
  US15/835,286
• Publication Number:
  US 20180114544A1
• Time in Patent Office: 544 Days
• Field of Search: 386278, 386280, 386 E5028, 386 E5051, 386344, 386243, 386248, 386281, 386318, 386326, 386241, 386282, 386283, 386284, 386328, 348 E5051, 360 13, 360 7, 715723, 715835, 345547, 345552, 711161, 711173, 713 1, 713 2, 713100, 717140
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/00 Accessing, addressing or allocating within memory systems or architectures digital input from, or digital output to record carriers, e.g. to disk storage units, G06F3/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/49 Segmenting video sequences, i.e. computational techniques such as parsing or cutting the sequence, low-level clustering or determining units such as shots or scenes
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 15/1875 adaptations for special effects or editing signal processing or indexing therefor G11B27/00
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence

Abstract

An editing apparatus for an editing video sequence that includes an editing unit for setting a first range to one part of the video sequence; a video sequence file generating unit for generating a video sequence file including video sequence corresponding to the first range and video sequence corresponding to a second range, within the second range is consecutively preceding to and/or subsequent to the first range; and an output for outputting the video sequence file.

Claims

1. An editing apparatus for generating and exporting an editable video file configured to be trimmed before video production, the apparatus comprising:

a video sequence generator configured to automatically select a video sequence from original material data based on a reference range that identifies a clip of the original material data to be edited by a video editing application;

a supplemental range generator configured to receive a margin quantity that identifies a time length for supplemental material data and to automatically determine, based on the received margin quantity, a supplemental range of the original material data that either consecutively precedes and/or consecutively follows the reference range for the clip of the original material data;

a supplemental content identifier configured to automatically access supplemental material data in the original material data based on the determined supplemental range of the original material data; and

a video sequence file generator configured to automatically generate an editable video sequence file by combining the accessed supplemental material data and the selected video sequence, wherein the editable video sequence file is configured to be edited by the video editing application by trimming at least a portion of the supplemental material data.

2. The editing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the supplemental range generator automatically determines the supplemental range based on the margin quantity having a time length that is specified based on a user input by a user of the editing apparatus.

3. The editing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a reference range generator configured to set the reference range that identifies a start time and time length for the clip of the original material data to be edited by the video editing application.

4. The editing apparatus of claim 3, wherein the reference range generator is configured to automatically set the reference range for the clip of the original material data based on a user input by a user of the editing apparatus.

5. The editing apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

an editing data file generator configured to automatically generate an editing data file that includes editing information relating to the selected video sequence, including position and length information about the selected video sequence, and information associating the original material data, the selected video sequence and the supplemental material data; and

a project file generator configured to generate a project file that includes the generated editable video sequence file and the editing data file.

6. The editing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the video sequence file generator is configured to generate a single editable video sequence file when the video editing application is configured to perform nondestructive editing, and to generate a pair of editable video sequence files when the video editing application is configured to perform destructive editing.

7. The editing apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the supplemental range generator is configured to automatically determine a pair of supplemental ranges of the original material data that consecutively precede and consecutively follow, respectively, the reference range for the clip of the original material data, and

wherein the supplemental content identifier is configured to automatically access the supplemental material data in the original material data based on the determined pair of supplemental ranges of the original material data.

8. A editing system apparatus for generating an editable video file configured to be trimmed before video production, the system comprising:

a video editor configured to identify a video clip of original material data to be edited by a video editing application;

a video sequence file generator configured to automatically select a video sequence from the original material data based on the identified video clip of the original material data; and

an editing data file generator configured to automatically generate an editing data file that includes editing information relating to the selected video sequence and information associating the original material data, the selected video sequence and supplemental material data that either consecutively precedes and/or consecutively follows the selected video sequence,

wherein the video sequence file generator is configured to automatically access the supplemental material data in the original material data based on a received margin quantity for supplementing the selected video sequence,

wherein the received margin quantity is specified by the editing system apparatus or a user of the editing system apparatus and identifies a time length for supplemental material data, and

wherein the video sequence file generator is configured to automatically generate an editable video file by combining the accessed supplemental material data and the selected video sequence.

9. The editing system of claim 8, wherein the video sequence file generator is further configured to generate a project file that includes the generated editable video sequence file and the generated editing data file.

10. The editing system of claim 8, wherein the video sequence file generator is further configured to:

automatically determine a supplemental range of the original material data based on the received margin quantity, with the determined supplemental range either consecutively preceding and/or consecutively following the identified video clip, and

automatically access the supplemental material data in the original material data based on the determined supplemental range of the original material data.

11. The editing system of claim 8, wherein the editable video file is configured to be edited by the video editing application by trimming at least a portion of the supplemental material data.

12. The editing system of claim 8, wherein the editing information relating to the selected video sequence includes position and length information about the selected video sequence.

13. The editing system of claim 8, wherein the video sequence file generator is further configured to generate a single editable video file when the video editing application is configured to perform nondestructive editing, and to generate a pair of editable video files when the video editing application is configured to perform destructive editing.

14. An editing apparatus for generating an editable video file configured to be trimmed by an video editing application, the editing apparatus comprising:

a supplemental content identifier configured to automatically access supplemental material content from original material data based on a received margin quantity specified by the editinq apparatus or a user of the editing apparatus and that identifies a time length for the supplemental material content, wherein the accessed supplemental material content is configured to supplement an identified clip of original material data by either consecutively preceding and/or consecutively following a selected video sequence that corresponds to the identified clip; and

a video sequence file generator configured to automatically generate an editable video sequence file by combining the accessed supplemental material content and the selected video sequence, wherein the editable video sequence file is configured to be edited by the video editing application by trimming at least a portion of the supplemental material content.

15. The editing apparatus of claim 14, further comprising:

an editing data file generator configured to automatically generate an editing data file that includes editing information relating to the selected video sequence and information associating the original material data, the selected video sequence and the accessed supplemental material content that either consecutively precedes and/or consecutively follows the selected video sequence; and

a project file generator configured to generate a project file for the video editing application that includes the generated editable video sequence file and the editing data file.

16. The editing apparatus of claim 14, further comprising a video sequence generator configured to automatically select the video sequence corresponding to the identified clip from the original material data based on a reference range that identifies the clip of the original material data to be edited by the video editing application.

17. The editing apparatus of claim 16, further comprising a reference range generator configured to set the reference range that identifies a start time and time length for the identified clip to be edited by the video editing application based on a user input by a user of the editing apparatus.

18. The editing apparatus of claim 16, wherein the video sequence file generator is configured to generate a single editable video sequence file when the video editing application is configured to perform nondestructive editing, and to generate a pair of editable video sequence files when the video editing application is configured to perform destructive editing.

19. The editing apparatus of claim 14,

wherein the supplemental range generator is configured to automatically determine a pair of supplemental ranges of the original material data that consecutively precede and consecutively follow, respectively, the set reference range for the clip of the original material data, and

wherein the supplemental content identifier is configured to automatically access the supplemental material content from the original material data based on the determined pair of supplemental ranges of the original material data.