Sony Corporation

Tetsuro Nakata

Motomu Ueta

Tetsuya Harada

Atsushi Imai

Katsuakira Moriwake

Naomi Egashira

Yutaka Isobe

Ayumi Nakao

Kosei Yamashita

Yuji Kobayashi

Mitsuo Okumura

Tetsuro Miyazaki

Yoshiyuki Nakamura

Masaki Nishikawa

Tomohisa Shiga

Kenji Otsuka

Jo Wada

Sensaburo Nakamura

Ichitaro Sato

Nobuyuki Minami

Masafumi Matsui

Akihiro Takashima

Noboru Fujii

Toshiyuki Tanaka

Masao Hara

Yasuo Sakura

Toru Iwama

Naotaka Tachibana

Tooru Eto

There is provided an image processing device including a first housing, a second housing, a first display device, a second display device, a video input terminal, a video output terminal, a storage unit, a video combining unit, a configuration control unit, a first GUI control unit, a second GUI control unit.

Image processing device and GUI configuration command method for image processing device

There is provided an image processing apparatus including a graphics processing unit, a first computer that controls the graphics processing unit, an intermediate image storage unit that stores image data generated by the graphics processing unit, an image input unit that inputs a plurality of image data, an image switching unit that outputs a plurality of any image data among the plurality of image data input to the image input unit, an image combining unit that combines image data using the image data output from the image switching unit and the image data stored in the intermediate image storage unit, an image output unit that outputs the image data combined by the image combing unit, a second computer that controls the image switching unit and the image combining unit, and a connecting unit that connects the first computer and the second computer.

Image processing apparatus and control method of image processing apparatus

An editing apparatus comprises an editing processing unit for processing a video signal and an audio signal supplied as source materials, and a computer for controlling the editing processing unit, wherein the computer comprises a controlling means for displaying a viewer window, a log window, and a program window on a display of the computer, the viewer window allowing the editing operator to decide an edit point while viewing a video image of a source material so as to produce an event, the log window displaying a clip image corresponding to an event that is set on the viewer window, the program window allowing the editing operator to arrange a plurality of events on a time line in a desired order so as to produce a program list, and wherein the controlling means displays an icon that represents by what source device each event arranged on the time line is produced.

Editing device and editing method

A wipe pattern generating apparatus includes a first memory for storing polar coordinate data of the contour of a wipe pattern, a polar coordinate data forming unit for forming polar coordinate data indicating the position of the pixels on a display screen of a display unit, and a comparator for comparing distance data of the contour of the wipe pattern read out from the first memory on the basis of angle data outputted from the polar coordinate data forming unit and distance data outputted from the polar coordinate data forming unit, for forming switching data. The apparatus also includes a second memory for storing polar coordinate data of a portion of the wipe pattern contour within the range of 0.degree. to 360.degree.. The polar coordinate data of the entire wipe pattern contour formed on the basis of the polar coordinate data of the portion of the wipe pattern contour stored in the second memory are written in the first memory to allow to produce a wipe pattern of a desired shape with a lesser memory capacity. The apparatus also includes a modulating unit for modulating the angle data outputted from the polar coordinate data forming unit with the distance data. The polar coordinate data of the contour of the wipe pattern stored in the memory are read out with the aid of the modulated angle data to generate a spiral wipe pattern.

Wipe pattern generating apparatus

Special effect apparatus

A special effect picture device is disclosed in which a transformed picture which is non-linear with respect to an original signal is formed using a video signal and a key signal for the original signal. A video signal is stored in a video signal storage unit and a key signal is stored in a key signal storage unit. The read-out addresses for the information concerning an upper picture of the transformed picture and the information concerning a lower picture of the transformed picture and also the information concerning the depth are generated by a read-out address generating unit. The key signal read out from the key signal storage unit and the video signal read out from the video signal storage unit are respectively divided by a dividing unit into upper and lower key signals and upper and lower video signals responsive to the read-out address for the upper picture and read-out address for the lower picture. The upper picture and the lower picture are synthesized by a picture synthesizing unit using the upper and lower key signals and the upper and lower key signals divided by the dividing unit. The synthesized picture synthesized by the picture synthesizing unit is freed of unnecessary portions depending on the depth information generated by the read-out address generating unit for generating the transformed picture.

Special effect picture device

An image crop circuit performs a crop process for an input video image under the control of a CPU. An image shape changing circuit performs an image shape changing process such a mosaic process for a video signal that is cropped corresponding to a control signal. The image shape changing circuit supplies the video image to a graphic inserter circuit. A GDC that is a graphic dedicated CPU draws a positive region of a contour line of the crop region as a solid line and a negative region as a dotted line. The graphic inserter circuit superimposes the contour line with the video signal that is cropped and outputs the resultant signal to both a CRT monitor and an output terminal.

Video image special effect device

A three-dimensional image special effect apparatus wherein operation for setting a parameter can be performed simply and a special image can be moved smoothly to a distance only by a single manual operation of a track ball or a rotary ring is disclosed. A special image produced by an image special effect processing section is manually operated in first and second three-dimensional directions by a track ball and in a third three-dimensional direction by a rotary ring disposed along an outer periphery of the track ball. A condition in which a parameter for determining a condition of the special image can be set is established and a setting menu for setting a parameter which determines a condition of the special image is produced by a CPU. Under the control of the CPU, a cursor for designating a parameter on the setting menu is operated by way of the track ball, and a value of the parameter is set by way of the rotary ring.

Three-dimensional image special effect apparatus

During the carrying out of a dim effect, a signal generated at a generator is mixed with a video signal and a matt signal at a mixer, a key signal and background signal are added at an adder, and the resultant signal is outputted. During the carrying out of a fade effect, in similar manner, the signal is mixed with the key signal and a fixed value signal at the mixer, the video signal and background signal are added at the adder, and the resultant signal is outputted. Extended dim effect and extended fade effect give depth to a picture with a color approximation where the depth of the image does not completely merge into the background.

Special effect video apparatus for achieving extended dimming and fading

An apparatus and method of signal processing for rounding digital data, such as digital video data, wherein ten-bit digital data may be rounded to eight-bit digital data. Included is a bit pattern generator for generating at least four bit patterns, each bit pattern having at least two single-bit samples. One fixed bit pattern is selected whereby the value of the low-order two bits of the ten-bit digital data is rounded and added to the high-order eight bits to produce rounded eight-bit data. Since fixed bit patterns are used in the rounding process, the rounding of digital video data, and thus picture quality, is improved. In addition, the adverse generation of an inherent vertical bit pattern can be prevented by re-ordering the single-bit samples into a fixed bit pattern.

Digital data rounding

A signal transfer line of electrical equipment which is provided with a BNC connector as the external input/output connector to which a coaxial cable is connected and which performs transfer of signals between the BNC connector and a circuit board inside the equipment, wherein the BNC connector is mounted to a connector board, a DIN connector is mounted to the board, a line pattern portion connecting the BNC connector and DIN connector being constituted on the board, pins for signals of the DIN connector being comprised with a characteristic impedance the same as the characteristic impedance of the coaxial cable by suitably grounding surrounding pins or by the microstripping of the line pattern portion etc., whereby arrangement of wiring in the electrical equipment becomes unnecessary so that connections for transferring signals can be manufactured at a low cost.

Signal transfer line having a din connector

Image switching apparatus for selecting first or second video signals to be broadcasted, displayed or recorded, thereby producing special video effects. The output of a random noise generator is filtered by a filtering device having a variable filter characteristic that is controlled by an adjustable filter control signal. The filtered random noise signal is compared with a reference level that changes with respect to time, and the output of the comparator controls a switch to select one or the other of the video signals, depending upon whether the filtered random noise signal exceeds the changing reference level, thus producing special image switching effects.

Image switching apparatus for producing special video effects

In a wipe pattern generator for generating a wipe pattern signal on the basis of wipe pattern data stored in a memory, data indicating a contour of a wipe pattern expressed by polar coordinates is stored in the memory, angle data and distance data indicating a position of each pixel on a monitor apparatus in a polar coordinate system is generated, data indicating the contour of the wipe pattern is read out from the memory on the basis of the angle data and a wipe pattern signal is formed on the basis of the read angle data and the distance data.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Tetsuro Nakata