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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1983
William F Westland, Southboro, MA (US);
James M Tindell, Boston, MA (US);
Lex Computer and Management Corporation, Keene, NH (US);
Abstract
A video composition method selects segments from image source material stored on at least one storage medium and denotes serially connected sequences of the segments to thereby form a program sequence. The method employs pictorial labels associated with each segment for ease of manipulating the segments to form the program sequence. The labels are displayed on an ordered spatial array of display monitors. The composition control function is highly user interactive and responds to user commands for displaying, selectively, segments of the source material on a display monitor. The method identifies each segment by a pictorial image segment label and can assemble a plurality of labels into a label sequence. The method operates upon a sequentially related plurality of labels as a single label, the single label identifying a plurality of segments.