Patent ID: 8295347
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus for executing a process of splicing first compressed image data with second compressed image data, the apparatus comprising: a decoding device configured to perform a decoding process for a first decoding interval including a first editing point set to the first compressed image data to produce a first non-compressed image signal and performing a decoding process for a second decoding interval including a second editing point set to the second compressed image data to produce a second non-compressed image signal; a re-encoding device configured to perform a re-encoding process for a predetermined re-encoding interval of a third non-compressed image signal wherein the first and second non-compressed image signals are spliced at the first and second editing points to produce third compressed image data; a control device configured to set the re-encoding interval extended from a basic encoding interval based on a generation code amount upon the re-encoding process by said re-encoding device to control the re-encoding process by said re-encoding device; and an editing device configured to alternatively output compressed image data in an interval for which the re-encoding process is not performed from within the first and second compressed image data and the third compressed image data produced by the re-encoding by said re-encoding device to produce edited editing compressed image data, wherein said control device controls allocation of a generation code amount in the re-encoding process in the re-encoding interval by said re-encoding device, and sets, where a generation code amount to be allocated to the basic encoding interval from within the re-encoding interval is smaller than a predetermined amount, the re-encoding interval extended from the basic encoding interval to control the re-encoding process by said re-encoding device.