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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:
Nov. 09, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 08, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Timothy John Beckwith, Calcot Reading, GB;
Assignee:
Quantel, Ltd., Newbury, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G11B / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345328 ; 345507 ; 348575 ; 348715 ; 348722 ; 707104 ;
Abstract
An electronic video processing system comprises a store (11) for storing data defining plural video clips, and a processor (21, 27, 28, 29) for selecting from the stored video clips a plurality of clips and for selectively combining data defining the selected clips to form data defining a video story. A plurality of representative frames respectively representing selected video edits is displayable to portray a portion of the video story. Also, for each selected clip, a frame representative thereof is displayable together with a pair of smaller frames derived from the first and last frames of the clip.