AUDIO AND/OR VIDEO GENERATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF GENERATING AUDIO AND/OR VIDEO SIGNALS

• US 20070147775A1
• Filed: 03/07/2007
• Published: 06/28/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony United Kingdom Limited (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony United Kingdom Limited (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Foster, Richard, Turner, Alan, Dorricott, Martin, McGrath, Mark, HARRADINE, Vincent
• Application Number:
  US11/683,018
• Publication Number:
  US 20070147775A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/200
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/90 Tape-like record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/28 by using information signals recorded by the same method as the main recording G11B27/22 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3027 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/322 used signal is digitally coded
• 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 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23892 involving embedding information at multiplex stream level, e.g. embedding a watermark at packet level
• 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 21/8352 involving content or source identification data, e.g. Unique Material Identifier [UMID]
• 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 21/854 Content authoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/222 Studio circuitry; Studio devices; Studio equipment cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors, or control thereof H04N23/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/262 Studio circuits, e.g. for mixing, switching-over, change of character of image, other special effects ; Cameras specially adapted for the electronic generation of special effects

Abstract

An audio and/or video generation apparatus comprises a recording processor which is operable to record audio and/or video signals on a recording medium, a meta data generation processor which is operable to generate meta data identifying the content of the audio/video signals, and a communications processor which arranged to communicate the meta data separately from the recording medium. Furthermore, the meta data generation processor may be operable to generate at least one sample image which is representative of a video image from the recorded video signals, and to associate the sample image with an address on the recording medium at which the video image is recorded. The video and/or audio generation apparatus provides an advantage in generating and utilising meta data to facilitate the generation of audio/video productions. Accordingly, a system for generating an audio and/or video production comprises an acquisition processor operable in use to receive instructions from a user which instructions are representative of a list of content items for the audio and/or video production. The audio and/or video generation apparatus is arranged in use to receive information representative of the list of content items, and to generate audio and/or video signals in accordance with the content items on the list. An ingestion processor may be provided to receive the list of content items, and the audio and/or video signals and to form the audio and/or video production by associating the audio and/or video signals with the list of content items.

Claims

1. An acquisition processor for use in generating an audio/video production, comprising

a control processor coupled to a data store,

a user interface coupled to the control processor for receiving commands from a user, and

a communications interface coupled to the control processor and arranged in operation to receive data representative of pre-planned audio/video material items, wherein said control processor is arranged in use to communicate data indicative of at least one of said pre-planned audio/video material items to be generated by an audio/video generation apparatus.

2. An acquisition processor as claimed in claim 1, wherein said pre-planned audio/video material items are representative of a plurality of takes of audio/video material items to be acquired by said audio/video generation apparatus.

3. An acquisition processor as claimed in claim 1, wherein said communications interface is arranged to receive signals representative of meta data identifying at least one audio/video material item recorded onto a recording medium corresponding to said at least one of said pre-planned audio/video material items.

4. An acquisition processor as claimed in claim 3, wherein said control processor operates to store said meta data identifying said at least one recorded audio/video material item in said data store in association with the corresponding pre-planned audio/video material item.

5. An acquisition processor as claimed in claim 1, wherein said user interface is arranged to receive a command indicative of a preferred one of a plurality of audio/video material items to be used for one of said pre-planned audio/video material items, and said control processor is arranged in operation to store said indication in said data store in association with said selected audio/video material item.

6. An acquisition processor as claimed in claim 5, wherein said indication is a good shot marker or the like.

7. An audio and/or video generation apparatus for generating audio and/or video signals, said audio and/or video generation apparatus comprising

a recording means which is arranged in operation to record said audio and/or video signals on a recording medium,

a communications interface arranged in operation to receive data indicative of at least one of a plurality of pre-planned audio/video material items, and

a meta data generation processor coupled to said communications interface and to said recording means and arranged in operation to generate meta data identifying at least one audio/video material item recorded on to said recording medium corresponding to said at least one pre-planned audio/video material item.

8. An audio and/or video generation apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein said meta data generation processor is arranged to operate in combination with said communications interface to communicate said meta data to an acquisition processor.

9. An audio and/or video generation apparatus as claimed in claim 7, comprising

a user interface coupled to said meta data generation processor and arranged in use to receive a command indicative of a preferred one of a plurality of audio/video material items to be used for one of said pre-planned audio/video material items, and said meta data generation processor is arranged in operation include in said meta data identifying said preferred one of said audio/video material items data representing said preferred indication.

10. An audio and/or video generation apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein said preferred indication includes a good shot marker or the like.

11. A computer program providing computer executable instructions, which when loaded onto a data processor configures said data processor to operate as an acquisition processor for use in generating an audio/video production, comprising

a control processor coupled to a data store,

a user interface coupled to the control processor for receiving commands from a user, and

a communications interface coupled to the control processor and arranged in operation to receive data representative of pre-planned audio/video material items, wherein said control processor is arranged in use to communicate data indicative of at least one of said pre-planned audio/video material items to be generated by an audio/video generation apparatus.

13. A computer program product having a computer readable medium having recorded thereon information signals representative of the computer program claimed in claim 11.

12. A computer program providing computer executable instructions, which when loaded onto a data processor configures said data processor to operate as an audio and/or video generation apparatus, said audio and/or video generation apparatus comprising

a recording means which is arranged in operation to record said audio and/or video signals on a recording medium,

a communications interface arranged in operation to receive data indicative of at least one of a plurality of pre-planned audio/video material items, and

a meta data generation processor coupled to said communications interface and to said recording means and arranged in operation to generate meta data identifying at least one audio/video material item recorded on to said recording medium corresponding to said at least one pre-planned audio/video material item.

14. A computer program product having a computer readable medium having recorded thereon information signals representative of the computer program claimed in claim 12.