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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2001
Applicants:
Hiroaki Adachi, Kanagawa, JP;
Katsuakira Moriwake, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Kawamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/93 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A variety of special effect processing is performed on video frames retrieved from a disk devicein effect processing stages ES, ES, and so on. A work memoryB is always interposed between processing at one stage and processing at the next stage. Further, a plurality of processing are performed in parallel at one effect processing stage. Frames having all of effect processing completed are stored in an input/output bufferin no special order through layering processing ESL. The plurality of edited frames stored in the input/output bufferare output in synchronization with an output clock (not shown) in realtime.