Patent ID: 7561160

Claim:
A computer-readable recording medium storing thereon a computer-executable program which three dimensionally displays video data on a display screen of a display and edits the video data in accordance with received user input, the program, when executed by a computer causes the computer to perform a method, comprising: a time line generating step of generating a time line expressing a lapse of time in a three-dimensional space; a data placing step of placing a series of frames of the video data as a three-dimensional object along the time line generated in the time line generating step, wherein said three-dimensional object includes a plurality of video frames, each video frame being displayed as a separate three-dimensional object and wherein the time line intersects only a portion and not the entirety of each of said three-dimensional video frame objects; a viewpoint setting step of setting a viewpoint position from which the three-dimensional object is observed; a display step of displaying, on the display screen, the three-dimensional space including the three-dimensional object including the plurality of three-dimensional video frame objects along the time line observed from the set viewpoint position, such that said three-dimensional video frame objects and said time line are displayed on said display screen; a time line operating step of inputting an instruction to operate at least one of a shape of the displayed time line and placement of the time line in the three-dimensional space; an object changing step of changing a shape of at least a part of the displayed three-dimensional object or placement of at least a part of the displayed three-dimensional object in the three-dimensional space in accordance with the instruction input in the time line operating step; and a playback step of moving the three-dimensional object along the time line simultaneously in synchronism with playback of the video data with a lapse of time.