Method and apparatus for automatically editing television information

Abstract

Abstract AN AUTOMATIC EDITOR-CONTROLLABLE SYSTEM FOR SELECTING EXCERPTS FROM A SOURCE OF ELECTRONIC PICTURE INFORMATION AND FORMING A PROGRAM REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SEQUENCE OF THE EXECERPTS. MEANS ARE PROVIDED FOR STORING THE PICTURE INFORMATION SIGNALS IN A PREDETERMINED ORDER, EACH FRAME OF THE PICTURE INFORMATION HAVING AN ADDRESS ASSOCIATED THEREWITH. FIRST AND SECOND READING MEANS ARE PROVIDED FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY READING OUT PICTURE INFORMATION SIGNALS FROM TWO EDITOR-SELECTED REGIONS OF THE STORED PICTURE INFORMATION. FIRST AND SECOND DISPLAY MEANS COUPLED TO THE READING MEANS ARE ADAPTED TO SIMULTANEOUSLY DISPLAY TO THE EDITOR THE OUTPUTS OF THE READING MEANS. SWITCHING MEANS COUPLE THE FIRST AND SECOND READING MEANS TO THE FIRST AND SECOND DISPLAY MEANS. MEANS ARE PROVIDED FOR SENSING AND STORING THE ADDRESSES WITH THE TWO REGIONS CORRESPONDING TO AN EDITOR-SELECTED TRANSITION POINT AS BETWEEN THE TWO REGIONS. THE STORED ADDRESSES CORRESPONDING TO EDITOR-SELECTED TRANSITION POINTS CONSTITUE A "PROGRAM" OF EXCERPTS WHICH CAN LATER BE UTILIZED TO FROM A FINAL ASSEMBLED PROGRAM ON AN ULTIMATE STORAGE MEDIA. IN A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION THE ADDRESSES CORRESPONDING TO EDITOR-SELECTED TRANSISTION POINTS ARE STORED IN PROGRAM OPERABLE COMPUTING MEANS, THE COMPUTING MEANS GENERATING DIGITAL SIGNALS WHICH ARE A FUNCTION OF THE ADDRESSES. CONTROL CIRCUITS MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE DIGITAL SIGNALS ARE PROVIDED FOR ACTUATING THE FIRST AND SECOND READING MEANS TO READ OUT IN A REAL TIME THE SEQUENCE OF EXCERPTS CONSTITUTING THE FORMED PROGRAM. THIS REAL TIME READOUT OR "REHEARSE" IS ACCOMPLISHED BY VIEWING THE STORED PICTURE INFORMATION, ACTUAL SPLICING OR RERECORDING NOT BEING REQUIRED.

Inventors

• 👤 A Ettlinger

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