Patent ID: 8270493
Filing Date: 2012-09-18
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for editing encoded data including an image sequence captured at a first image rate and encoded as an image sequence having a second image rate with information in the encoded image sequence indicative of images that are repeated when decoded, the method comprising: receiving image index information for the encoded image sequence, wherein the image index information includes at least one of a known amount of data for one or more images in the encoded image sequence and offset information, wherein the image index information is used to map a temporal position of an image in a decoded image sequence to a position of corresponding data in the encoded image sequence; permitting an editor to create a sequence of segments of encoded image sequences at a temporal resolution corresponding to the first image rate; and during playback of the encoded image sequence, decoding the encoded image sequence, using the image index information, to produce a decoded image sequence at the first image rate by not repeating images.