Sony Corporation

Sony Electronics Inc

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Gerard J Boetje

David C Collier

Scott D Smyers

Peter A Dare

A computer system is provided for recording, processing, and distributing video information. The computer system includes a bus for driving compressed digital video and audio information and compressed digital information associated therewith. The computer system also includes at least one digital video camcorder, a processor, a memory, and a user interface. The computer system preferably further includes a mass storage device including a database. The database stores video information and digital information associated with the video information. The computer system also includes a deck for recording and playing information received from the DVCR and from the mass storage device.

System for acquiring, reviewing, and editing sports video segments

A method and apparatus for performing broadcast operations that enables a programmer to schedule broadcast constituents, such as programs, schedules, commercials, etc. according to relative sequential orderings indicative of the sequence the constituents are played. The corresponding material which manifests select of the constituents and the media which manifests the material are also identified such that to play the broadcast, the structure is accessed to identify the sequence of play and the media to be played.

Method and apparatus for performing broadcast operations

The method and apparatus of the present invention enables scheduled broadcast elements to be represented by a material indicative of the signal and media indicative of where the signal is coming from. For each element, at least one corresponding material that represents the broadcast element and at least one corresponding media that represents the material are specified. Thus, for a particular broadcast element, the media that manifests the broadcast element based upon the material and media specified is easily determined.

Method and apparatus for manifesting representations of scheduled

The system and method creates a broadcast tree comprising a hierarchy of broadcast constituents, each constituent represented as a node in the tree. The tree includes at least two nodes representing at least two of the following constituents arranged in accordance with the following hierarchical order; channel, schedule, program, pod and element, wherein the channel is the highest order constituent and the element is the lowest order constituent and wherein each higher order constituent can be composed of one or more constituents of the same or lower order. Associations are provided between constituents to be used to identify the sequence the constituents are played in order to generate a broadcast. These associations identify the paths to be taken from a higher order node to a lower order node. Thus, to generate a broadcast, the tree is traversed beginning at the highest order constituent, and for each higher order constituent, the associations among lower order constituents of the same order are evaluated to determine the sequence the lower order constituents are to be played.

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San Ramon, CA, United States of America

Gerard J Boetje