Patent ID: 8320744

Claim:
A video signal processing apparatus that performs smart rendering editing of a section specified in units of frames of an encoded video signal, the apparatus comprising: determining means for determining whether EPB (Emulation Prevention Byte) problem occurrence prevention countermeasures have been taken in the encoded video signal which has been input; smart rendering editing means for decoding and re-encoding a leading end portion and a trailing end portion of the section specified in units of frames of the encoded video signal which has been input, and outputting an intermediate portion not included in the leading end portion or the trailing end portion of the section directly without decoding the intermediate portion; and EPB problem addressing means for detecting occurrence of an EPB problem indicating a first event in which a new EPB is inserted into an edited encoded video signal by rewriting a predetermined parameter in the encoded video signal in accordance with the re-encoding or a second event in which an EPB that has existed before editing disappears, deleting, when the first event has occurred, a filler or predetermined data inserted in advance in the encoded video signal, which corresponds to the inserted EPB, and inserting, when the second event has occurred, a filler corresponding to the EPB that has disappeared into the encoded video signal, wherein the processing of the EPB problem addressing means is omitted when it is determined by the determining means that EPB problem occurrence prevention countermeasures have been taken in the encoded video signal which has been input.