Digital video effects system for reproducing moving effects

Patent 5253065 Issued on October 12, 1993. Estimated Expiration Date:

February 27, 2012. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Sony United Kingdom Limited

Application

No. 842424 filed on 02/27/1992

US Classes:

348/579, Strobe (e.g., ball tracker)348/586, Foreground/background insertion348/588, Multiple distinct images (e.g., splitscreen)348/590Specified details of key signal generation or processing

Examiners

Primary: Kostak, Victor R.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Frommer; William S., Sinderbrand; Alvin

Foreign Patent References

2157126 GB. 10/13/1985
2223910 GB. 04/13/1990
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International Class

H04N 005/272

Foreign Application Priority Data

1991-04-30 GB

Abstract

A digital video effects system for emulating motion blurring includes a digital video effects apparatus for manipulating an input image to generate an effect, and a controller for controlling the apparatus to generate an output image sequence comprising a sequence of output images at respective output image timings in which different manipulations are applied for successive images such that the effect changes with time. The controller causes the apparatus to combine a set of constituent images for each output image, the constituent images manifesting manipulations commensurate with respective constituent image timings. The constituent images for each set of constituent images are combined to form a respective output image in the output image sequence.