Patent ID: 8855472

Claim:
A video editing apparatus which cuts out, from three-dimensional video including right-eye video and left-eye video, part of the three-dimensional video between a first point in time and a second point in time different from the first point in time when a user selects a first editing point of the three-dimensional video at the first point in time and a second editing point of the three-dimensional video at the second point in time, the video editing apparatus comprising: a selection unit configured to receive the first and second editing points selected by the user; a representative value generation unit configured to generate a representative value of first disparity information on disparities of the first editing point and a representative value of second disparity information on disparities of the second editing point; a comparison value calculation unit configured to calculate, as a first comparison value, a value which is based on a comparison between the representative value of the first disparity information and the representative value of the second disparity information; and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the first comparison value calculated by the comparison value calculation unit is less than or equal to a predetermined value, wherein, when the first comparison value is greater than the predetermined value, the representative value generation unit, the comparison value calculation unit, and the determination unit perform a searching process to search a first predetermined range for a first alternative editing point which has a representative value of disparity information on disparities that, when compared with the representative value of the second disparity information, leads to a second comparison value less than or equal to the predetermined value, the first predetermined range being a time range based on the first point in time, and the second comparison value being a value which is based on a comparison between the first alternative editing point and the representative value of the second disparity information, and the video editing apparatus further comprises a presenting unit configured to present, to the user, the first alternative editing point searched for in the searching process.