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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. 02, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 03, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/93 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/93 ;
Abstract
An editing apparatus for editing video signals recorded on an optical disk. The editing apparatus comprises: a video signal reproducing unit for reproducing a first and a second video signal from the optical disk; a video signal merging unit for merging the first and the second video signal to generate a combined video signal for a transition from the first video signal to the second video signal in accordance with a predetermined transition period and a predetermined transition mode; and a video signal recording unit for recording the combined video signal to the optical disk. The combined video signal is recorded to the optical disk only with respect to the transition period.