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Video editing apparatus, video editing method, and data storage medium for a video editing program

US6587506B1 · kind B1 · utility

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18Claims
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Filing dateNov 1, 2000
Grant dateJul 1, 2003
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Expiry dateJan 9, 2022

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N21/23406
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Picture quality loss is minimized and buffer underflow and overflow are prevented when extracting and recombining a plurality of consecutive scenes from an MPEG stream. The smallest number of pictures (equivalent at most to 1 second) that must be re-encoded so that the scene can be independently reproduced is detected to identify the re-encoding target picture. Then the picture type (I, P, B) after the pictures are re-encoded is determined. Buffer fullness is calculated, and the code allocation to the re-encoding range is calculated from buffer fullness and target picture count. The code allocation to each target picture is then calculated, and the target pictures are re-encoded and connected.

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