Picture editing apparatus

US5892534A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• SONY GROUP CORPORATION · JP

Inventors

• Masahide Maruyama · Nara, JP
• Mitsuyoshi Shindo · Yokohama, JP
• Kiyosuke Suzuki · Saitama, JP
• Hideki Wanami · Yokohama, JP

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 30, 1996
• Grant date: Apr 6, 1999
• Expiry date: Sep 30, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

A first editor memory is supplied with picture data that a user has selected, a second editor memory is supplied with a template that the user has selected, and a key memory is supplied with a key information that the user has selected. A switch inserts the picture data into the template in accordance with key information to deliver it to a video memory. A picture synthesis section inserts the picture data stored in the first editor memory into the picture insertion area designated by the key information within the template stored in the second editor memory in accordance with instruction from the user.