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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 1990
Filed:
Jun. 16, 1989
Ronald C Barker, Weston, MA (US);
Chester L Schuler, Sudbury, MA (US);
Kenneth C Kiesel, Wayland, MA (US);
Edwin C Moxon, Boxboro, MA (US);
Lex Computer and Management Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A video composition method and apparatus select segments from image source material stored on at least one storage medium and denote serially connected sequences of the segments to thereby form a program sequence. The apparatus and method employ pictorial labels associated with each segment for ease of manipulating the segments to form the program sequence. The labels are displayed in an ordered spatial array of display monitors to simulate the temporal relationship between the segments in what is typically a snapshot-style non-temporal display. The apparatus and method enable the images displayed on the monitors to be scrolled, in a visually pleasing fashion, across the monitors. The scrolling of labels across the monitors is implemented by an operator control circuitry.