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Video composition method for assembling video segments

  • US 4,979,050 A
  • Filed: 12/02/1983
  • Issued: 12/18/1990
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/02/1983
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A composing method for editing segments from image source material stored in at least one storage medium and for denoting serially connected sequences of said segments, said method comprising the steps of:

  • selectively displaying segments of said image source material on a pictorial display means;

    identifying each segment by a pictorial image segment label;

    assembling at least a plurality of said labels for said segments into a label sequence;

    operating upon a sequentially related plurality of said labels for said segments as a single label, said single label identifying a plurality of said segments;

    combining a sequentially related plurality of said labels for said segments into said single label;

    identifying each segment by a pictorial image segment label pair;

    said single label is a pictorial image segment label pair selected from the label frames identifying said segments;

    providing a plurality of pictorial display screens arranged in a first and a second spaced apart linear array;

    providing juxtaposed to each said display screen a cursor position indicating element;

    providing said display screens with electrical signals pictorially representing a selected sequence of label pairs, each label pair representing a segment;

    displaying on each spatially related pair of said display screens a said label pair, a screen of said first array displaying a beginning label and a spatially related screen of said second array displaying an ending label of said pair; and

    said combining step comprising the steps of;

    identifying, using said cursor indicating elements, a beginning label of said single label;

    identifying, using said cursor identifying elements, a later occurring, ending label of said single label; and

    collapsing said beginning label, said ending label, and all labels therebetween into said single label.

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