Patent ID: 6430583
Filing Date: 2002-08-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A scenario editing apparatus for performing editing of multimedia, comprising:an input managing unit for managing an input from a user, the input indicating a specific multimedia data and a presentation position of the specific multimedia data; a data selecting unit coupled to the input managing unit and to a media data storage unit for determining ID information of the specific multimedia data from the media data storage unit; an electronic image input unit for inputting an electronic image; a position coordinate analyzing unit coupled to the electronic image input unit and analyzing the electronic image from said electronic image input unit to extract figure feature points of the electronic image to obtain position coordinates of the figure feature points to be used as candidates of a presentation position of the multimedia data, said presentation position corresponding to a reference position on a display screen; a position coordinate selecting unit coupled to said input managing unit and said position coordinate analyzing unit for selecting the position coordinates of one of said candidates as the coordinates of said presentation position of the specific multimedia data; a presentation position storing unit coupled to said position coordinate selecting unit and said data selecting unit for storing the position coordinates of said selected candidate and for storing associated therewith said ID information of said specific multimedia data; a scenario storage unit coupled to said presentation position storing unit for storing scenario information containing the ID information of the multimedia data and information on the presentation position, and for storing the ID information and the position coordinates of said selected candidate corresponding to said presentation position; and a screen output unit for displaying on the display screen the figure feature points of the electronic image and the specific multimedia data at the selected presentation position, thereby achieving an interactive editing.