Image editing apparatus and image editing method

• US 20050100308A1
• Filed: 09/23/2004
• Published: 05/12/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Moteki, Masataka
• Application Number:
  US10/947,609
• Publication Number:
  US 20050100308A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/241
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/216 Rewritable discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/218 Write-once discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2516 Hard disks
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2562 DVDs [digital versatile discs]; Digital video discs; MMCDs; HDCDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2575 DVD-RAMs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/455 said record carriers being in one device and being used as primary and secondary/backup media, e.g. HDD-DVD combo device, or as source and target media, e.g. PC and portable player
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8063 using time division multiplex of the PCM audio and PCM video signals
• 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 image editing apparatus comprises a recording unit configured to record a title including image information onto a recording medium; a dividing unit configured to divide the title into a plurality of chapters by setting information showing boundaries at arbitrary positions of a title recorded on the recording medium at the recording unit; a setting unit configured to set information showing attributes of chapters including the information, in the information showing boundaries included in the respective chapters divided at the dividing unit; and a control unit configured to sort the chapters on the basis of the information showing attributes set at the setting unit, and to apply predetermined editing processing with respect to the plural sorted chapters.

Claims

1. An image editing apparatus comprising:

a recording unit configured to record a title including image information onto a recording medium;

a dividing unit configured to divide the title into a plurality of chapters by setting information showing boundaries at arbitrary positions of a title recorded on the recording medium at the recording unit;

a setting unit configured to set information showing attributes of chapters including the information, in the information showing boundaries included in the respective chapters divided at the dividing unit; and

a control unit configured to sort the chapters on the basis of the information showing attributes set at the setting unit, and to apply predetermined editing processing with respect to the plural sorted chapters.

2. An image editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit comprises:

a display control unit configured to sort the chapters on the basis of the information showing attributes set at the setting unit, and to display said plurality of chapters in display modes which are different in accordance with an attribute of each chapter when said plurality of chapters are list-displayed.

3. An image editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit comprises:

an extracting unit configured to extract chapters with specific attribute information or chapters without specific attribute information on the basis of the information showing attributes set at the setting unit; and

a registering unit configured to register the chapters extracted at the extracting unit with a play list.

4. An image editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit comprises:

an extracting unit configured to extract chapters with specific attribute information or chapters without specific attribute information on the basis of the information showing attributes set at the setting unit;

a registering unit configured to register the chapters extracted at the extracting unit with a dubbing list; and

a dubbing unit configured to dub the chapters registered at the registering unit.

5. An image editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit comprises:

an extracting unit configured to extract chapters with specific attribute information or chapters without specific attribute information on the basis of the information showing attributes set at the setting unit; and

a deleting unit configured to delete the chapters extracted at the extracting unit from the recording medium.

6. An image editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit comprises:

an extracting unit configured to extract chapters with specific attribute information or chapters without specific attribute information on the basis of the information showing attributes set at the setting unit; and

a playback unit configured to playback-display all or some of the chapters extracted at the extracting unit.

7. An image editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit comprises:

an extracting unit configured to extract chapters with specific attribute information or chapters without specific attribute information on the basis of the information showing attributes set at the setting unit; and

a combining unit configured to combine the chapters adjacent to one another among the chapters extracted at the extracting unit into one chapter.

8. An image editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit comprises:

an extracting unit configured to extract chapters with specific attribute information or chapters without specific attribute information on the basis of the information showing attributes set at the setting unit; and

a setting unit configured to set new chapter boundaries at constant time intervals with respect to the chapters extracted at the extracting unit.

9. An image editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit comprises:

an extracting unit configured to extract chapters with specific attribute information or chapters without specific attribute information on the basis of the information showing attributes set at the setting unit; and

a changing unit configured to change the attribute information for the chapters extracted at the extracting unit into different contents.

10. An image editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit comprises:

an extracting unit configured to extract chapters with specific attribute information or chapters without specific attribute information on the basis of the information showing attributes set at the setting unit; and

a switching unit configured to provide said plurality of chapters extracted at the extracting unit as objects of editing processing while sequentially switching those.

11. An image editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit comprises:

an extracting unit configured to extract chapters with specific attribute information or chapters without specific attribute information on the basis of the information showing attributes set at the setting unit; and

an editing unit configured to apply predetermined editing processing with respect to said plurality of chapters extracted at the extracting unit collectively.

12. An image editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the setting unit is configured to set flag information which can be sorted into two or more types as the information showing attributes of the chapters in the information showing boundaries included in the chapters.

13. An image editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the setting unit is configured to set the information showing attributes of the chapters in accordance with presence/absence of text information in the information showing boundaries included in the chapters.

14. An image editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the setting unit is configured to set text information of a specific character string as the information showing attributes of the chapters in the information showing boundaries included in the chapters.

15. An image editing method comprising:

recording a title including image information onto a recording medium;

dividing the title into a plurality of chapters by setting information showing boundaries at arbitrary positions of a recorded title;

setting information showing attributes of chapters including the information, in the information showing boundaries included in the respective divided chapters; and

sorting the chapters on the basis of the set information showing attributes, and applying predetermined editing processing with respect to the plural sorted chapters.