Video composition method for assembling video segments
CA 1292563 C · Owner: Tindell, James M. · Inventors: Tindell, James M.; Westland, William F.
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A video composition method selects segments from image source material stored on at least one storage medium and denotes serially connected sequences of the segments to thereby form a program sequence. The method employs pictorial labels associated with each segment for ease of manipulating the segments to form the program sequence. The labels are displayed on an ordered spatial array of display monitors. The composition control function is highly user interactive and responds to user commands for displaying, selectively, segments of the source material on a display monitor. The method identifies each segment by a pictorial image segment label and can assemble a plurality of labels into a …
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- Granted November 26, 1991. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended November 26, 2008.
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