Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Kayoko Asai

Hitoshi Kato

Hiroaki Yoshio

Atsushi Minemura

Tsuyoshi Kato

Shun Matsuura

Tomomi Kaga

Satoshi Kageyu

Makoto Sato

Toshio Oka

Kensuke Maruya

Yoshihiro Hayakawa

A video editing system has the functions of: a) scene browsing with next and back icons and/or a scroll bar; b) recursive scene segmentation available with the browsing function; c) scene/clip specification with a reversing option (in case of a system with two display areas); d) recursive scene grouping; d) scene clipping based on selection by default; e) clip sorting in order of time or in a specified order; f) relative position restoration of a specified scene (in case of a system with a single display area); g) clamping a scene to its original play time; and h) scene transition processing.

Digital video editing method and system

A multimedia playing apparatus plays hypermedia titles each consisting of a plurality of monomedia objects including at least one finite time monomedia object such as a video object, which is formatted as a sequence of fixed-length playing sections such as video frames and functions as a base-axis object for providing a timing reference. The apparatus executes playing of a hypermedia title in accordance with processing time points specified as respective numbers of the playing sections, and stores and utilizes a plurality of sets of synchronization trigger data each of which designates that playing of a specific monomedia object other than the base-axis object is to be started, or is to be ended, at a specific processing time point, with the synchronization trigger data sets being successively accessed and used as the corresponding processing time points are respectively reached during playing of the hypermedia title.

Multimedia playing apparatus utilizing synchronization of scenario-defined processing time points with playing of finite-time monomedia item

A method and system for displaying a plurality of specified ones of pictures in an array of windows provided on a display screen of a computer based system. The size of moving and/or still pictures is reduced into size-reduced pictures with a size of the frames. The size-reduced pictures are coded into coded size-reduced pictures and stored in a hard disc. In response to a predetermined signal and a list of pictures to be displayed, a display frame is compiled from the coded size-reduced pictures specified by said list. The compiled frame is decoded and displayed.

System for displaying a plurality of pictures and apparatuses incorporating the same

A moving image composing system for displaying reduced and encoded images at arbitrary positions on a multi-image raster. The moving image composing system comprises a moving image reducing unit for reducing a moving image inputted, a moving image encoding unit for encoding the reduced moving image to produce an encoded moving image, an accumulating unit for storing and accumulating the encoded image, and a moving image composing unit for combining more-than-one encoded moving images accumulated to produce a multi-image combined moving image. The moving image encoding unit performs the encoding processing to facilitate the change of positional information the reduced moving image has, in consideration with the case that the change of the position information occurs due to the disposition of the reduced moving image at its combination. When there is a need to change the positional information of the reduced moving image due to the combination processing, the moving image composing unit changes the positional information to positional information required for the combination processing.

Moving image composing system

In a clip display method the contents of a clip are clearly displayed and can be used to facilitate the editing of a motion picture. Obtained by dividing a motion picture are displayed by-employing typical images of individual clips, a graphic representation,of the picture images for a motion picture is divided to provide segments corresponding to the ratio of the lengths of the clips to the overall length of the motion picture, and sequences of the separate graphic segments linked to typical are shown. The positions of the clips relative to the motion picture and the ratios of lengths of the individual clips to the overall length of the motion picture can be visually ascertained.

Clip display method and display device therefor

The present invention aims to easily create multi-media title without requiring a high technique. A multi-media editing apparatus comprises: style creation,for creating a style that defines setups of all of layouts and display attributes; style storage,for storing a style acquired by the style creation element accumulation,for accumulating elements; element management,style interpretation,for interpreting a style; user input,for creating a title; and scenario storage,for storing a scenario of the title that is created.

Multi-media title editing apparatus and a style creation device employed therefor

A multi-media title playing apparatus which dynamically changes play of a title according to an input by the user while the title is played has an external message receiving means for receiving a command from the outside of the apparatus and an external message interpreting means for processing the received command, in which an external application having a function to make a judgement on the basis of predetermined conditions on a user's input and send a command according to a result of the judgement to the multi-media title playing apparatus is described in a scenario.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kayoko Asai