Patent ID: 8842964

Claim:
An audio and/or video generation apparatus configured to generate audio and/or video material representative of an audio and/or visual source, said audio and/or video generation apparatus comprising: recording circuitry configured to record audio and/or video signals representing said audio and/or video material to a recording medium; metadata generation circuitry configured to receive said audio and/or video signals, and to generate metadata automatically in response to receipt of said audio and/or video signals; storage circuitry configured to store the metadata generated by said metadata generation circuitry; and output circuitry configured to output a portion of the metadata stored in the storage circuitry, wherein the metadata includes location data representative of a location of edit points of one or more parts of the audio/video material, the metadata includes spatial coordinates of a location where the audio/video material was generated, the metadata includes one or more picture stamps providing a digital representation of an image generated from the video material, and the metadata includes at least one field for user generatable metadata, and wherein said audio and/or video generation apparatus is configured to output at least the portion of the metadata stored in the storage circuitry separately, using said output circuitry, without said audio and/or video signals, to outside said audio and/or video generation apparatus.