Real time production system and method
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    发明授权
    Real time production system and method 有权
    实时生产系统及方法

    公开(公告)号:US07302644B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-11-27

    申请号:US10121608

    申请日:2002-04-15

    IPC分类号: G06F3/00

    摘要: An integrated, fully automated video production system that provides a video director with total control over all of the video production devices used in producing a show. Such devices include, but are not limited to, cameras, robotic pan/tilt heads, video tape players and recorders (VTRs), video servers and virtual recorders, character generators, still stores, digital video disk players (DVDs), audio mixers, digital video effects (DVE), video switchers, and teleprompting systems. The video production system provides an automation capability that allows the video director to pre-produce a show, review the show in advance of “air time,” and then, with a touch of a button, produce the live show. In one embodiment, the invention provides a video production system having a processing unit in communication with one or more of the video production devices mentioned above. The processing unit displays on a monitor graphical controls for controlling the variety of video production devices that it is in communication with. A video director uses a keyboard and mouse that are interfaced with the processing unit to activate the graphical controls, and thereby remotely control the video production devices from one location. The processing unit also enables the video director to automate the production of a show. According to one embodiment, the video director pre-produces the show, defines a set of video production commands or instructions (hereafter “transition macro”) to be executed by the processing unit, and then, by activating a control button displayed by the processing unit, the video director instructs the processing unit to execute the transition macro. Each video production command in a transition macro directs the processing unit to transmit in series and/or parallel one or more control commands to one or more of the video production devices when required.

    摘要翻译: 一个集成的全自动视频制作系统,为视频总监提供对制作节目所用的所有视频制作设备的全面控制。 这样的设备包括但不限于相机,机器人摇摄/倾斜头,录像带播放器和记录器(VTR),视频服务器和虚拟记录器,字符发生器,静态存储器,数字视频盘播放器(DVD),音频混合器, 数字视频效果(DVE),视频切换器和电视诱导系统。 视频制作系统提供了一种自动化功能,允许视频导演预先制作节目,在“空中时间”之前查看节目,然后通过一个按钮进行现场演出。 在一个实施例中,本发明提供一种具有与上述视频制作装置中的一个或多个通信的处理单元的视频制作系统。 处理单元在监视器上显示用于控制与其通信的视频制作设备的各种各样的图形控件。 视频导演使用与处理单元接口的键盘和鼠标来激活图形控制,从而从一个位置远程控制视频制作设备。 处理单元还使得视频导演能够自动化展示的制作。 根据一个实施例,视频指导器预先生成节目,定义要由处理单元执行的一组视频制作命令或指令(以下称为“转换宏”),然后通过激活由处理显示的控制按钮 视频总监指示处理单元执行转换宏。 转换宏中的每个视频制作命令指示处理单元在需要时将一个或多个控制命令串行和/或并行传送到一个或多个视频制作设备。