Patent ID: 7356242
Filing Date: 2008-04-08
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An editing device comprising: a non-linearly accessible recording medium; recording means for recording video and/or audio signals from a source onto the recording medium together with index picture information automatically produced and representing frames before and after video material in a program and frames before and after a scene change; display means for displaying a program configuration table indicating, every predetermined unit, images and/or sounds necessary for each program on the basis of configuration of the program; operating means for operating the program configuration table displayed by the display means; control means for performing control to register an identification code appended every predetermined unit of the program configuration table onto the program configuration table by using the operating means, and to cause the recording means to record said automatically produced index picture information and/or sound selected by operation of the operating means from predetermined units of images and/or sounds indicated by the registered identification codes; and special effect processing means to which the video and/or audio signals recorded on the recording medium are inputted and which makes a special effect on the video and/or audio signals, wherein operation of a video and/or audio special effect is carried out by the operating means on the predetermined unit of images selected and recorded by operation of the operating means and displayed on the program configuration table, and wherein operation information of the operation is inputted to the control means, the control means performing control so that video and/or audio signals as a target of the special effect corresponding to the operation information are inputted to the special effect processing means and so that the video and/or audio signals on which the special effect is made are recorded onto the recording medium.