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US 6,184,879 B2Granted
Multi-media title editing apparatus and a style creation device employed therefor
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsAtsushi Minemura, Makoto Sato, Kayoko Asai
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Abstract
The present invention aims to easily create multi-media title without requiring a high technique. A multi-media editing apparatus comprises: style creation 101 for creating a style that defines setups of all of layouts and display attributes; style storage 102 for storing a style acquired by the style creation element accumulation 103 for accumulating elements; element management 104; style interpretation 105 for interpreting a style; user input 107 for creating a title; and scenario storage 109 for storing a scenario of the title that is created.
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A multi-media title editing apparatus comprising:
- style creation means for creating a style in which a multi-media title screen is defined by using a set of display areas in which display methods for various multi-media data elements are designated;
- style storage means for storing said style that is created by said style creation means;
- element storage means for storing elements from which said multi-media data elements are selected;
- element management means for selecting one or more of said multi-media data elements in response to a user's command;
- style interpretation means for interpreting said style by detecting a type of multi-media data defined by said style for each of said display areas;
- user input means for creating a title, said user input means including a graphical user interface so that the user is able to input said user's command;
- data comparison means for comparing said type of each of said multi-media data defined by said style for each of said display areas with a type of data of said one or more of said elements selected by said element management means;
- indication means for indicating on said graphical user interface that a selected multi-media data element can be displayed at a selected one of said display areas when the data type of said selected multi-media data element is the same as that of said multi-media data defined by said style for each of said display areas;
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- scenario storage means for storing a scenario for said title, said scenario including a series of display commands which include a time at which a multimedia data element is to be displayed or not, an element ID indicative of said multi-media data element, a display attribute ID indicative of how to display said multi-media element with designation of one of said display areas, and action information by which said multi-media data element is to be displayed or not.
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A multi-media title editing apparatus comprising:
- style creation means for creating a style in which a multi-media title screen is defined by using a set of display areas in which display methods for various multi-media data elements are designated;
- style storage means for storing said style that is created by said style creation means;
- element storage means for storing elements from which said multi-media data elements are selected;
- element management means for selecting one or more of said multi-media data elements in response to a user's command;
- user input means for creating a title, said user input means including a graphical user interface so that the user is able to input said user's command;
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- scenario storage means for storing a scenario for said title, said scenario including a series of display commands each of which includes a time at which a multi-media data element is to be displayed or not, an element ID indicative of said multi-media data element, a display attribute ID indicative of how to display said multi-media element with designation of one of said display areas, and action information by which said multi-media data element is to be displayed or not;
- said scenario storage means thereby operating when a plurality of styles are employed for a single title having time base information, and when one of said styles is changed to another at a given instance, for storing said scenario including a command by which all of said elements which have been displayed till said given instance will not be displayed after said given instance.
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