Sony Corporation

Masakatsu Kaburagi

Hiroyuki Fujita

Norio Ebihara

Masayuki Takano

Shingo Yamauchi

Kiyoshi Inoue

Tetsuro Kato

Tsutomu Takamori

Satoru Kusaka

An image editing system having an excellent editing operational efficiency. A recording/reproducing unit where compressed images have been recorded and an editing terminal unit are interconnected through a communication line. The compressed image which is needed at the time of editing is transmitted via the communication line without having recourse to a physical recording medium.

Image editing system

Parallel multiple terminal image editing system and improved image

A first recording/reproducing unit 1, a second recording/reproducing unit 2 and a third recording/reproducing unit 3 are interconnected by a routing switch 4 to which is connected a bit rate converter 5 having first to third bit rate converting circuits 10 to 12 enabling data exchange between the recording/reproducing units 1 to 3. When the transmitting VTR and the receiving VTR are decided, the routing switch 4 transmits data from the transmitting VTR to the bit rate converter 5 where the bit rate of the data is changed to the bit rate handled by the receiving VTR before the data is supplied to the receiving VTR. Data exchange may be made between VTRs having different data bit rates.

Send-out convertors for a recording/reproducing system

An editing apparatus for editing digital video signals employs a number of video recording and/or reproduction devices, a signal processing mechanism, and a switching mechanism, wherein the number of transfer lines and the area occupied by the associated connectors is decreased by converting parallel signals into serial format.

Editing apparatus employing serial to parallel converters and parallel

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Tokyo, Japan

Masakatsu Kaburagi