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Image editing apparatus

Assignee: Panasonic Holdings Corp
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Filing: 1996-07-11
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2016-07-11
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Abstract

Abstract To reduce an amount of image data to transmit, and thereby achieve efficient utilization of a data transmission line (106), only coarse image information containing at least DC components of compressed image data stored in compressed form in a video server (104) is transferred into a personal computer (105) for display, and based on the displayed image, an editor performs edit work on the image of interest and produces additional information relating to the image.

Inventors

  • 👤 Masaaki Higashida
  • 👤 Masataka Higuchi

Bibliographic Details

Application Number —
Jurisdiction EP
Data Source google_patents
Last Synchronized 2026-11-08 04:10
CPC Classifications
G; G11; G11B; G11B27/00; G11B27/02; G11B27/031; G11B27/034; G11B27/022; G11B27/028; H; H04; H04N; H04N5/00; H04N5/222; H04N5/262; G11B2220/00; G11B2220/20; G11B2220/25; G11B2220/2508; G11B2220/2512; G11B2220/60; G11B2220/61; G11B2220/90

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 9
Claim 1
Independent Claim 45 words
An image editing apparatus comprising: image storing means for storing image information including at least coarse image information representing a rough content of an image; and additional information producing means for producing additional information relating to said image information by displaying said coarse image information.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 39 words
An image editing apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein said image information is compressed through an orthogonal transform to form a compressed image, and said coarse image information contains at least a DC component of said compressed image.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 53 words
An image editing apparatus comprising: image storing means for storing image information including at least coarse image information representing a rough content of an image; and edit information producing means for performing virtual processing editing by displaying said coarse image information, and for producing processing edit information used to perform real processing editing.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 40 words
An image editing apparatus in accordance with claim 3, wherein said edit information producing means has index information for locating image information, and said processing edit information used to perform real processing editing is created based on said index information.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 39 words
An image editing apparatus in accordance with claim 3, wherein said image information is compressed through an orthogonal transform to form a compressed image, and said coarse image information contains at least a DC component of said compressed image.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 135 words
An image editing apparatus comprising: dividing means for dividing image information between coarse image information representing a rough content of an image and fine image information representing detail information of said image; coarse image information transmitting means for transmitting said coarse image information in a plurality of contiguous segments when transmitting said coarse image information and said fine image information; and fine image information transmitting means for transmitting said fine image information in a plurality of contiguous segments when transmitting said coarse image information and said fine image information, and wherein; provisions are made so that said plurality of segments of said coarse image information output from said coarse image information transmitting means are transmitted preceding or following said plurality of segments of said fine image information output from said fine image information transmitting means.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 116 words
An image editing apparatus comprising: dividing means for dividing image information between coarse image information representing a rough content of an image and fine image information representing detail information of said image; coarse image information storing means for storing said coarse image information; fine image information storing means for storing said fine image information; and control means for controlling said coarse image information storing means and said fine image information storing means, and wherein; said control means controls said coarse image information storing means and said fine image information storing means so that a plurality of segments constituting said coarse image information are transmitted preceding or following a plurality of segments constituting said fine image information.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim 119 words
An image editing apparatus comprising: dividing means for dividing image information between coarse image information representing a rough content of an image and fine image information representing detail information of said image; coarse image information transmitting means for transmitting said coarse image information in a plurality of contiguous segments; fine image information transmitting means for transmitting said fine image information in a plurality of contiguous segments; and recording means for recording said coarse image information and said fine image information, said plurality of segments of said coarse image information output from said coarse image information transmitting means being recorded preceding or following said plurality of segments of said fine image information output from said fine image information transmitting means.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim 175 words
An image editing apparatus comprising: dividing means for dividing image information between coarse image information representing a rough content of an image and fine image information representing detail information of said image; coarse image information storing means for storing said coarse image information; fine image information storing means for storing said fine image information; control means for controlling said coarse image information storing means and said fine image information storing means; image information recording means for recording said coarse image information and said fine image information; and recording control means for controlling said image information recording means, said control means controling said coarse image information storing means and said fine image information storing means so that a plurality of segments constituting said coarse image information are transmitted preceding or following a plurality of segments constituting said fine image information, and said recording control means controls said image information recording means so that said plurality of segments constituting said coarse image information are recorded preceding or following said plurality of segments constituting said fine image information.

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