EDITING APPARATUS AND EDITNG METHOD

• US 20100119204A1
• Filed: 03/13/2008
• Published: 05/13/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Grass Valley Canada (Belden Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canopus Corporation
• Inventors: Yamasaki, Naoya
• Granted Patent: US 9,875,772 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/278
• 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 a editing video sequence, comprises: 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, wherein 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 editing material data of a video or audio sequence, comprising:

an editing unit, in response to a request of a user, for setting a first range and second range to a portion of the material data, said second range be subsequent to said first range;

a file generating unit for generating a video sequence file including material data corresponding to the first and second range, and material data corresponding to an additional range, wherein the additional range is consecutively preceding to and/or subsequent to the first or second range; and

an output for outputting the video sequence file, wherein if the first and second ranges are overridden by at least a portion of both ranges, the video sequence file is to contain material data corresponding to from beginning of the first range to end of the second range and the additional range, the additional range being consecutively preceding to the first range and/or subsequent to the second range

2. An editing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an editing data file generating unit for generating an editing data file including editing information about the video sequence file;

wherein the output outputs the editing data file along with video sequence file.

3. An editing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

an input for reading in an edited video sequence file and the editing data file, the edited video sequence file being created by editing the output video sequence file by another editing apparatus, wherein the video sequence of the edited video sequence file is associated with the original video sequence by the editing data file.

4. An editing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a margin accepting unit for accepting an instruction related to the length of the additional range.

5. (canceled)

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7. An editing method for editing material data of a video or audio sequence, comprising steps of:

setting a first range to a portion of the material data;

setting a second range to a portion of the material data, said second range be subsequent to said first range;

generating a video sequence file including material data corresponding to the first and second ranges, and material data corresponding to an additional range, wherein the additional range is consecutively preceding to and/or subsequent to the first or second range; and

outputting the video sequence file, wherein

if the first and second ranges are overridden by at least a portion of both ranges, the video sequence file is to contain material data corresponding to from beginning of the first range to end of the second range and the additional range, the additional range being consecutively preceding to the first range and/or subsequent to the second range.

8. An editing method according to claim 7, further comprising steps of:

generating an editing data file including editing information about the video sequence file; and

outputting the editing data file along with the video sequence file.

9. An editing method according to claim 8, further comprising steps of

editing the output video sequence file by another editing apparatus;

reading in the edited video sequence file; and

associating the video sequence of the edited video sequence file with the original video sequence.

10. An editing method according to claim 7, further comprising a step of:

receiving an instruction related to the length of the additional range.

11. (canceled)

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14. A recording medium whereon a program for causing a computer to perform an editing method for editing material data of a video or audio sequence, wherein the editing method comprises steps of:

setting a first range to a portion of the material data;

setting a second range to a portion of the material data, said second range be subsequent to said first range;

generating a video sequence file, including material data corresponding to the first and second ranges and material data corresponding to an additional range, wherein the additional range is consecutively preceding to and/or subsequent to the first or second range; and

outputting the video sequence file, wherein

if the first and second ranges are overridden by at least a portion of both ranges, the video sequence file is to contain material data corresponding to from beginning of the first range to end of the second range and the additional range, the additional range being consecutively preceding to the first range and/or subsequent to the second range.