Interactive video production system
First Claim
1. An interactive image processing system capable of simultaneously processing a plurality of digitized composite color images to provide a displayable resultant composite color image therefrom, each of said digitized composite color images having separate digitized red, blue and green image components and having an associated image information content, said system comprising retrievable storage means for retrievably storing each of said digitized red, blue and green image components in separate image storage planes for at least two different composite color images;
- digital image processing means operatively connected to each of said image storage planes for enabling separate simultaneous interactive processing between each of said stored red, blue and green image components of said two different composite color images on a pixel-by-pixel basis in accordance with a defined aspect ratio for said resultant composite color image;
interactive means operatively connected to said digital image processing means for enabling said simultaneous interactive controllable digital processing of the associated image information content of said two different digitized composite color images on said pixel-by-pixel basis; and
means operatively connected to said image processing means for providing an output signal corresponding to said resultant color image.
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Abstract
An improved interactive image processing system (200,300) is provided which is capable of simultaneous processing of at least two different digitized composite color images to provide a displayable resultant composite color image. Each of the digitized composite color images have separate digitized red, blue and green image components and have an associated image information content. The system (200,300) includes separate image storage planes (246,346,70'"'"',72'"'"',74'"'"',70",72",74",70"'"'"',72'"'"'", 74"'"'"',370,372,374,370'"'"',372'"'"',374'"'"',370",372",374) for retrievably storing each of the digitized red, blue and green image components or other image data as well as graphic planes (78'"'"',378) for storing graphic control data for processing of the images. The digital image processing of the image components is accomplished in a digital image processing portion (208,308) which includes an image processor (210,310) which contains the various storage planes in a refresh memory (246,346) which cooperates with a pipeline processor configuration (86'"'"'), image combine circuitry (270,272,274,270'"'"',272'"'"',274'"'"') and other control circuitry to enable the simultaneous processing between each of the corresponding image planes on a pixel by pixel basis under interactive control of a keyboard (50'"'"'), data tablet (54'"'"') or other interactive device. The system may be employed for interactive video processing (200) or as an interactive film printing system (300) in which the simultaneous processing of the two different images, which may be iterative, can be monitored in real time on a television monitor (44'"'"',315). In the video system (200), the combining format of the image planes may be interactively varied on a pixel-by-pixel basis by creating different digital control masks for each pixel which are stored in refresh memory (246,346). In either system (200,300), the interactive simultaneous digital processing of the images is accomplished in an RGB format.
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37 Claims
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1. An interactive image processing system capable of simultaneously processing a plurality of digitized composite color images to provide a displayable resultant composite color image therefrom, each of said digitized composite color images having separate digitized red, blue and green image components and having an associated image information content, said system comprising retrievable storage means for retrievably storing each of said digitized red, blue and green image components in separate image storage planes for at least two different composite color images;
- digital image processing means operatively connected to each of said image storage planes for enabling separate simultaneous interactive processing between each of said stored red, blue and green image components of said two different composite color images on a pixel-by-pixel basis in accordance with a defined aspect ratio for said resultant composite color image;
interactive means operatively connected to said digital image processing means for enabling said simultaneous interactive controllable digital processing of the associated image information content of said two different digitized composite color images on said pixel-by-pixel basis; and
means operatively connected to said image processing means for providing an output signal corresponding to said resultant color image. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
- digital image processing means operatively connected to each of said image storage planes for enabling separate simultaneous interactive processing between each of said stored red, blue and green image components of said two different composite color images on a pixel-by-pixel basis in accordance with a defined aspect ratio for said resultant composite color image;
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34. A method of interactively simultaneously processing a plurality of different composite color film images to provide a displayable resultant composite color film image print therefrom, said method comprising the steps of digitizing said composite color film images, each of said digitized composite color images having separate digitized red, blue and green image components and having an associated image information content;
- retrievably storing each of said digitized red, blue and green film image components in separate image storage planes for at least two different composite color film images;
digitally processing the image contents of each of said image storage planes by controllable separate simultaneous interactive digital processing between each of said stored red, blue and green film image components of said two different composite color film images on a pixel-by-pixel basis in accordance with a defined aspect ratio for said resultant composite color film image for processing the associated film image information contents of said two different digitized composite color film images on said pixel-by-pixel basis; and
providing an output signal corresponding to said resultant composite color film image print. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37)
- retrievably storing each of said digitized red, blue and green film image components in separate image storage planes for at least two different composite color film images;
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