US 4,685,003 A
VIDEO COMPOSITION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SIMULTANEOUS INPUTTING AND SORTING OF VIDEO SOURCE MATERIALGeneral
US 4,685,003 A
VIDEO COMPOSITION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SIMULTANEOUS INPUTTING AND SORTING OF VIDEO SOURCE MATERIAL
Tech Center:
2300
Examiner:
Alan Faber
Art Unit:
2305
Agent:
Irving M. Weiner, Joseph P. Carrier, Pamela S. Burt
Inventors:
WILLIAM F. WESTLAND
Assignee:
MID-AMERICA COMMERCIALIZATION CORPORATION
Priority:
08/04/87
Filed:
12/02/83
Granted:
08/04/87
Expiration:
08/04/07
Abstract
A video composition method and apparatus select segments from image source material stored on a plurality of storage media and denote serially connected sequences of the segments to thereby form a program sequence. The equipment inputs source material, records the source material on the storage media, and further segments the source material as it is being input. An analog-to-digital converter digitizes frames of the source material, as the source material is being input, and each segment has associated therewith at least one digitized frame. The apparatus further has a plurality of pictorial display monitors arranged in an ordered array for providing a visual presentation of video labels selected from the digitized frames, the video labels, in sequence, representing a sequence of the video segments. An operator control circuitry is operative with the stored digitized frames and, in combination with the composing control circuitry, selectively supplies each pictorial display monitor, while the source material is being input, with electrical data signals representing a selected one of the sequence of labels. Thereby, the operator can sort the label sequence being displayed on by the monitors while source material is being received.