Analog/digital video and audio picture composition apparatus and methods of constructing and utilizing same
First Claim
1. Composing apparatus for selecting segments from image source material stored in at lease one storage medium and for denoting serially connected sequences of said segments, said apparatus comprising:
- a pictorial display means;
an operator control means;
at least one first random access storage medium for storing a plurality of duplicate counterparts of image source material; and
a composing control means responsive to said operator control means for controlling said storage media, said random access storage medium, and said pictorial display means, said composing control means comprising;
means for denoting a start and an end of each of a plurality of segments of said source material;
means for identifying each said segment by at least one pictorial image segment label;
means for selectively displaying segments of said image source material on said pictorial display means;
means for assembling at least a plurality of said labels into a serially connected label sequence;
operator responsive means for locating any said segment by displaying said pictorial labels in said label sequence; and
said displaying means being further adapted for displaying the segment identified by a selected label.
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Abstract
A video composition apparatus and method select segments from image source material stored on at least one storage media (either random access and/or serial access) and denote serially connected sequences of the segments to thereby form a composition sequence. The apparatus and method employ a pictorial labels associated with each frame of image source material, and also associates at least one of such labels with each segment for ease of manipulating the segments to form the composition sequence. The labels are displayed on a plurality of ordered spatial arrays of display monitors to simulate the temporal relationship between the segments in what is typically a "snapshot" non-temporal display. The composition control function is highly user interactive and responds to user commands for selectively displaying segments from the source material on a pictorial display. The control function allows the user to denote a start and end of each of a plurality of selected segments to form defined segments, identify each selected segment by a pictorial image segment label which is displayed as described above, and assemble the selected and defined segments, and the corresponding labels, into a serially connected image sequence and a serially connected label sequence corresponding to the image sequence. The composition mode of operation employs continuous looping of the display segment(s) to aid the composing process.
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1. Composing apparatus for selecting segments from image source material stored in at lease one storage medium and for denoting serially connected sequences of said segments, said apparatus comprising:
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a pictorial display means; an operator control means; at least one first random access storage medium for storing a plurality of duplicate counterparts of image source material; and a composing control means responsive to said operator control means for controlling said storage media, said random access storage medium, and said pictorial display means, said composing control means comprising; means for denoting a start and an end of each of a plurality of segments of said source material; means for identifying each said segment by at least one pictorial image segment label; means for selectively displaying segments of said image source material on said pictorial display means; means for assembling at least a plurality of said labels into a serially connected label sequence; operator responsive means for locating any said segment by displaying said pictorial labels in said label sequence; and said displaying means being further adapted for displaying the segment identified by a selected label. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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