# US 8,543,560 B2 · Audio and/or video generation apparatus and method of generating audio and/or video signals > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 8,543,560 B2 - Document ID: US8543560B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 13/465,667 - Filed: 2012-05-07 - Published: 2012-10-18 - Granted: 2013-09-24 - Earliest claimed: 1999-11-05 - Assignees: Sony United Kingdom Limited - Applicants: Mark John McGrath; Andrew Collins; Martin Rex Dorricott - Inventors: Mark John McGrath; Andrew Collins; Martin Rex Dorricott - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8543560B2 ## CPC - H04N 21/84: Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors {(systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73)} - G11B 27/031: Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals - G11B 27/032: on tapes (G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence) - G11B 27/11: by using information not detectable on the record carrier - G11B 27/3036: {Time code signal} - G11B 27/323: {Time code signal, e.g. on a cue track as SMPTE- or EBU-time code} - G11B 27/328: {on a tape [TTOC]} - H04N 5/77: between a recording apparatus and a television camera - H04N 9/79: Processing of colour television signals in connection with recording - H04N 9/8205: {involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal} - H04N 9/8227: {the additional signal being at least another television signal} - H04N 21/235: Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors - H04N 21/41265: {having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device (unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204)} - H04N 21/435: Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream - H04N 21/8126: {involving additional data, e.g. news, sports, stocks, weather forecasts} - H04N 21/8455: {involving pointers to the content, e.g. pointers to the I-frames of the video stream} - G11B 2220/90: Tape-like record carriers - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - G11B: INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER (recording measured values in a way that does not require playback through a transducer G01D9/00; recording or playback apparatus using mechanically marked tape, e.g. punched paper tape, or using unit records, e.g. punched or magnetically marked cards G06K; transferring data from one type of record carrier to another G06K1/18; circuits for coupling output of reproducer to radio receiver H04B1/20; gramophone pick-ups or like acoustic electromechanical transducers or circuits therefor H04R) ## Abstract An audio and/or video generation apparatus which is arranged in operation to generate audio and/or video signals representative of an audio and/or video source, the audio and/or video generation apparatus comprising a recording unit which is arranged in operation to record the audio and/or video signals on a recording medium, wherein the audio and/or video generation apparatus is arranged to receive metadata associated with the audio and/or video signals generated by a data processor, the recording unit being arranged in operation to record the metadata on the recording medium with the audio and/or video signals. The data processor may be arranged to receive signals representative of the time codes of the recorded audio/video signals, and the metadata may include time code data representative of the in and out points of a take of the audio/video signals generated by the data processor. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A system for generating audio/video material, comprising: an audio and/or video generation apparatus configured to generate audio and/or video material representative of an audio and/or visual source, said audio and/or video generation apparatus including a recording unit configured to record audio and/or video signals representing said audio and/or video material on a recording medium, and a metadata generation processor configured to receive said audio and/or video signals, and to generate metadata automatically in response to said audio and/or video signals, wherein said metadata includes location data representative of a location of edit points of one or more parts of the audio/video material, and said metadata includes an indication of a resolution of the video material, an audio/video storage device configured to receive said audio/video material, a portable device configured to receive said metadata, and a user controlled processing device connectable to said audio/video storage device and to said portable device and configured to process the video material using the resolution of the video material indicated by the indication of the resolution provided in said metadata. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said metadata includes an indication of the encoding format in which the video material is encoded, and said user controlled processing device is configured to process said video material using the encoding format of said video material indicated by the indication of the encoding format provided in said metadata. ### Claim 3 An audio and/or video generation apparatus configured to generate audio and/or video material representative of an audio and/or visual source, said audio and/or video generation apparatus comprising: a recording unit configured to record audio and/or video signals representing said audio and/or video material on a recording medium; and a metadata generation processor configured to receive said audio and/or video signals, and to generate metadata automatically in response to said audio and/or video signals, wherein said metadata includes location data representative of a location of edit points of one or more parts of the audio/video material, and said metadata includes an indication of a resolution of the video material. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The audio and/or video generation apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein said metadata includes an indication of the encoding format in which the video material is encoded. ### Claim 5 An audio and/or video generation apparatus configured to generate audio and/or video material representative of an audio and/or visual source, said audio and/or video generation apparatus comprising: a recording unit configured to record audio and/or video signals representing said audio and/or video material on a recording medium, and a metadata generation unit, including a processor, configured to receive said audio and/or video signals, and to generate metadata automatically in response to said audio and/or video signals, wherein said metadata includes location data representative of a location of edit points of one or more parts of the audio/video material, and said metadata includes an indication of a resolution of the video material, an audio/video connection unit connectable to an audio/video storage device, wherein when connected to the audio/video storage device, the audio/video connection unit is configured to feed the audio/video material to the audio/video storage device; and a metadata database connection unit connectable to a portable device, wherein when connected to the portable device, the metadata database connection unit is configured to feed said metadata to the portable device. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein said metadata includes an indication of the encoding format in which the video material is encoded, and said user controlled processing device is configured to process said video material using the encoding format of said video material indicated by the indication of the encoding format provided in said metadata. ### Claim 7 (depends on 5) A system comprising: the apparatus as claimed in claim 5 and a user controlled processing device connectable to said audio/video storage device and to said portable device and when connected, the user controlled processing device is configured to process the video material using the resolution of the video material indicated by the indication of the resolution provided in said metadata. ### Claim 8 A method for generating audio/video material, the method comprising: generating audio and/or video material representative of an audio and/or visual source; recording audio and/or video signals representing said audio and/or video material on a recording medium; receiving said audio and/or video signals; and generating metadata automatically in response to said audio and/or video signals, wherein said metadata includes location data representative of a location of edit points of one or more parts of the audio/video material, and said metadata includes an indication of a resolution of the video material. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method as claimed in claim 8, further comprising: receiving said audio/video material in an audio/video storage device; receiving said metadata in a portable device; connecting a user controlled processing device to said audio/video storage device and to said portable device; and processing the video material using the resolution of the video material indicated by the indication of the resolution provided in said metadata. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the generating the metadata automatically in response to said audio and/or video signals includes an indication of the encoding format in which the video material is encoded, and the method further comprising: processing said video material using the encoding format of said video material indicated by the indication of the encoding format provided in said metadata. ### Claim 11 A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with a computer program having computer executable instructions, which when loaded on to a data processor causes the data processor to perform a method of generating audio and/or video material representative of an audio and/or visual source, said method comprising: generating audio and/or video material representative of an audio and/or visual source; recording audio and/or video signals representing said audio and/or video material on a recording medium; receiving said audio and/or video signals; and generating metadata automatically in response to said audio and/or video signals, wherein said metadata includes location data representative of a location of edit points of one or more parts of the audio/video material, and said metadata includes an indication of a resolution of the video material.