Edited-list creating apparatus, editing apparatus and editing method

• US 6,292,620 B1
• Filed: 08/13/1999
• Issued: 09/18/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ohmori, Shigeru, Tsukimori, Koji, Kushizaki, Makoto
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, HUY THANH
• Application Number:
  US09/374,555
• Time in Patent Office: 767 Days
• Field of Search: 386/46, 386/52, 386/55, 386/65, 345/328, 345/473
• US Class Current: 386/281
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• 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

Abstract

An editing apparatus displays a second mark of the length corresponding to the material length of a specified image/sound material at the corresponding position on the first track in an edited-list creating screen; when a first mark displayed on one of first and second track is specified on the edited-list creating screen, emphatically displays the specified first mark and a first mark displayed on the second or first track corresponding to this in the case where video information and audio information of the video/audio material corresponding to the specified first mark are linked and registered; in obtaining edited image and/or sound, continuously plays back edit material to be played back with the same playback device; in edit-processing a plurality of continuous second edit materials of edit processing period of time is included in a first edit material on the time axis, creates edited data for continuously performing said edit processing on individual second edit materials from the first of second edit material to the last of second edit material.

Claims

1. An edited-list creating apparatus, comprising:

means for creating an edited list with edit content defined in such a manner that;

one or more desired image/sound material segments are specified out of a plurality of pre-registered image/sound material segments and then one or more corresponding desired positions on a first track provided along a time axis is specified and thereby, one or more first marks of lengths corresponding to material lengths of said one or more specified image/sound material segments are displayed at said specified positions on said first track;

first display control means for displaying said one or more first marks at said one or more positions specified on said first track;

second display control means for displaying one or more second marks of lengths corresponding to the material lengths of said one or more specified image/sound material segments at corresponding positions on said first track, till the positions on said first track at which said one or more first marks are displayed is determined; and

means for determining one or more continuous edit ranges of said one or more specified image/sound material segments in accordance with said edited list.

2. The edited-list creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

said first track has a second track for image and a third track for sound;

said first display control means displays said one or more first marks with the same lengths at the same positions on said time axis of said second track and said third track, if video information and audio information of corresponding ones of said one or more specified image/sound material segments are linked and registered; and

said second display control means displays said one or more second marks with the same lengths at the same positions on said time axis of said second track and said third track, if said video information and said audio information of corresponding ones of said one or more specified image/sound material segments are linked and registered.

3. The edited-list creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

said one or more first marks each comprise a frame in which identity information of corresponding said one or more specified image/sound material segments is displayed; and

said one or more second marks each comprise a shadow.

4. An edited-list creating apparatus, comprising:

means for creating an edited list with edit content defined in such a manner that;

desired image/sound material is specified out of pre-registered image/sound material and then a desired position on one of a first track for image and a second track for sound provided along a time axis is specified and thereby, a mark of a length corresponding to a material length of said specified image/sound material is displayed at said specified position on said one of a first and second track;

display means for displaying said first and second tracks; and

display control means, in a case where said mark displayed on one of said first and second tracks is specified, for emphatically displaying only said specified mark if video information and audio information of said image/sound material corresponding to said specified mark are unlinked and registered, and on the other hand, for emphatically displaying said specified mark and said mark correspondingly displayed on the other of said first and second tracks if said video information and said audio information of said image/sound material corresponding to said specified mark are linked and registered.

5. The edited-list creating apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

said second display control means highlights corresponding said mark.

6. The edited-list creating apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

said mark is composed of a frame in which identity information of corresponding said image/sound material is displayed.