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AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorKaichi Tatsuzawa
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Left and right video cameras 18L and 18R are disposed on both sides of a front video camera 18M. Solid-pictorial video signals used upon signal transmission are generated by using video signals outputted from the left and right video cameras with respect to a video signal outputted from the front video camera. The left and right video cameras make use of simplified video cameras and are cameras with no zoom functions or the like. The video signals obtained from the left and right video cameras are used as signals for forming a solid picture. In the present example, only solid information with respect to a main picture is transmitted as a video signal to reduce the amount of transmission. Since a motion-compensated DCT encode process using the front video signal as a reference picture is performed to extract only the video signal having the solid information from the left and right video signals. Since the simplified video cameras can be utilized, solid-pictorial video signals can be generated at low cost.
A solid-pictorial video signal generating apparatus, comprising:
A solid-pictorial video signal transmitting apparatus, comprising:
An apparatus for receiving a solid-pictorial video signal comprised of a front video signal and first and second solid-pictorial video signals each having a difference between each of left and right video signals and the front video signal,
A video signal transmission switching apparatus supplied with at least first and second solid-pictorial video signals, wherein said first and second solid-pictorial video signals are supplied to a special effect generating circuit from which a video signal for a special effect is generated.
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