Patent ID: 6078005
Filing Date: 2000-06-20
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
An apparatus for editing multimedia events including musical events and visual events arranged in synchronization to the musical events, the apparatus comprising:a storage device that stores music information which can be processed to provide a progression of the musical events, image progression information which can be created to determine a sequence of the visual events, and visual event information which represents the visual events to be sequentially reproduced according to the image progression information, the sequence of the visual events being composed of a sub sequence of primary visual events representative of scenes and another sub sequence of secondary visual events representative of at least visual effects applied to the scenes and visual changes used to connect the scenes;a helper device that provides a plurality of scenarios, each of which determines a sub sequence of secondary visual events; anda selector device operable when the image progression information is created for allotting one of the scenarios to the music information such that the sub sequence of the secondary visual events determined by the allotted scenario is combined with the sub sequence of the primary visual events contained in the image progression information to constitute the sequence of the visual events.