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Image editing device with special effects using a recording medium in which two-channel reproduction and single-channel recording are simultaneously possible

Patent 5526132 Issued on June 11, 1996. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject November 22, 2013. 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

Application

No. 156809 filed on 11/22/1993

US Classes:

386/52, Editing360/13RECORD EDITING

Examiners

Primary: Tran, Thai
Assistant: Chevalier, Robert

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Patent References

  • 0440408 EP. 01/12/1991
  • 0476985 EP. 09/12/1991
  • 4121315 DE. 06/12/1991
  • WO87/07108 WO. 11/12/1987

International Classes

H04N 005/76
G11B 027/02

Foreign Application Priority Data

1992-11-27 JP

Abstract

The present invention provides an inexpensive video editing system capable of combining three or more shots simultaneously, and a time-saving method thereof. The video editing system comprises a video storage device for storing a video including a plurality of shots, having a readout unit capable of reading out two shots simultaneously; a shot-reproduce information storage device for storing information as to a shot-readout sequence, a video effect device for combining two shots simultaneously, and a control device for detecting a range of frames where three or more shots to be simultaneously reproduced by referring to the shot-reproduce information, reading out two shots included in the range from the video storage device, combining the two shots at the video effect device, storing a resulting combined shot into the video storage unit, and reading out the combined shot and one of remaining shots in the range from the video storage unit to combine the combined shot and the one of remaining shots at the video effect device, the shot-combining of the combined shot and the remaining shot being repeated until there exists a single resulting combined shot in the range.

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