Method, software product and system for reproducing video/audio data
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorAkemi Hatayama
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Abstract
A memory in a video/audio-processing unit retains data of video and audio received from a video mail system and data of new input video and audio. According to user operations, a video/audio-processing unit creates metadata. The metadata includes range data representing a quotation range or ranges of the received video and audio, and information that represents the arrangement order of the new input video and audio. In response to the received video and audio, the video mail system transmits only the metadata and the new input video and audio to a video mail system. According to the contents of the metadata, the video mail system uses the transmitted video and audio and thereby reproduces the overall new video and audio.
Claims18
A method of reproducing at least one of a video and an audio data set, comprising the steps of:
- (1) storing first data set of at least one of a video and an audio data set into first memory, and one or plural second data sets in a second memory;
- (2) copying the first data set from the first memory to second memory;
- (3) designating one or plural ranges in the first data set and a sequence of the ranges and the one or plural second data sets on the second memory;
- (4) generating a third data set that represents the ranges and the sequence and which includes the one or plural second data sets with reference to the second memory;
- (5) sending the third data set from the second memory to the first memory;
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- (6) reproducing the ranges of the first data set and the one or plural second data sets in order of the sequence with reference to the first memory.
A program storage device, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform a method for reproducing at least one of a video and an audio data set, the method comprising the steps of:
- (1) storing first data set of a video/audio data set into first memory, and one or plural second data sets in a second memory;
- (2) copying the first data set from the first memory to second memory;
- (3) designating one or plural ranges in the first data set and a sequence of the ranges and the one or plural second data sets on the second memory;
- (4) generating a third data set that represents the ranges and the sequence and which includes the one or plural second data sets with reference to the second memory;
- (5) sending the third data set from the second memory to the first memory;
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- (6) reproducing the ranges of the first data set and the one or plural second data sets in order of the sequence with reference to the first memory.
A system for reproducing at least one of a video and an audio data set by computer, the system comprising:
- first memory for storing first data set of at least one of a video and an audio data set;
- second memory for being copied the first data set from the first memory and storing one or plural second data sets;
- means for designating one or plural ranges in the first data set and a sequence of the ranges and the one or plural second data sets on the second memory;
- means for generating a third data which represents the ranges and the sequence and which includes the one or plural second data sets with reference to the second memory;
- means for sending the third data set from the second memory to the first memory;
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- means for reproducing the ranges of the first data set and the one or plural second data sets in order of the sequence with reference to the first memory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.