Patent ID: 9135956
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A playback timing correlation editing method for controlling a timing correlation establishing device to establish playback timing correlation between contents to be playbacked by different playback devices, wherein the timing correlation establishing device comprises a display device, a input device, a communication circuit, and a control circuit, the method comprising: utilizing the display device to display an editing screen containing a timeline; displaying a main device block corresponding to a main display device in the editing screen; when an editor requests to add a main video clip corresponding to the main display device through the input device, displaying a main event block corresponding to the main video clip in the main device block, and displaying a main event name corresponding to the main video clip and a main event graph representing a total time length of the main video clip in the main event block; when the editor requests to add a device block though the input device, displaying a first auxiliary device block corresponding to a first auxiliary display device in the editing screen; when the editor requests to add a first auxiliary video clip corresponding to the first auxiliary display device through the input device, displaying a first auxiliary event block corresponding to the first auxiliary video clip in the first auxiliary device block, and displaying a first auxiliary event name corresponding to the first auxiliary video clip and a first auxiliary event graph representing a total time length of the first auxiliary video clip in the first auxiliary event block; displaying a time marker on a position of a first time point on the timeline according to the editor's manipulation to the input device; when the editor selects the main event name or the main event graph through the input device, configuring the main event block to have a highlighted pattern; and when the time marker is located at the position of the first time point on the timeline, if the editor conducts a first set of predetermined manipulations through the input device, configuring the main video clip as a first trigger source event, configuring the first auxiliary video clip as a first trigger target event, and utilizing the control circuit to establish a first trigger timing data for indicating that the first auxiliary display device has to begin playbacking the first auxiliary video clip when the main display device playbacks the main video clip to the first time point.