Patent ID: 6292619
Filing Date: 2001-09-18
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
An image editing system comprising:An image compressing unit for compressing a video signal at a predetermined compressibility and generating a compressed image;a recording/reproducing unit for recording or reproducing said compressed image or an editing image; anda plurality of editing terminal units, each operable to read said compressed image from said recording/reproducing unit via a communication line and to generate an independent edited image so that a user at each of said plurality of editing terminal units can view an independent edited image that is not seen on any other of said plurality of editing terminals, and can store edits to each of said independent edited images at said recording/reproducing unit independent of edits made at any other of said plurality of editing terminal units and independent of said compressed image, said edits comprising edit instructions so that only one copy of a complete image comprising said compressed image is maintained.