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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1997
Adam Schmidt, Riedstadt, DE;
Markus Hasenzahl, Riedstadt, DE;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
To provide the possibility of introducing a time delay, or temporal offset, between video and audio data, an editing device (2) for non-linearly editing video data stored on a data storage medium (1) and audio data assigned to said video data, in which the video data are marked in a manner of assigned timecode data, and in which, during editing, the editing device (2) creates an editing list (3) which comprises, for each editing section, at least the assigned start and end timecode data of the video data of the editing section is characterized in that the editing device (2) edits the video data with reference to the assigned timecode data, in that, during editing of the video data, the editing device (2) allows the audio data assigned to the edited video data to be adjusted with a time delay relative to the video data, in that the editing device (2) comprises a unit which, dependent on the adjusted time delay, compute that number of sampling values of the audio data by which these audio data are displayed with a delay relative to the video data so that the desired time delay sets in at the display end, and in that the editing device (2) notes said number in the editing list (3).