公开(公告)号：WO2005104130A1

公开(公告)日：2005-11-03

申请号：PCT/US2005/012775

申请日：2005-04-15

Applicant: AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC.

IPC: G11B27/034

CPC classification number: G11B27/034 ,  G11B27/329

Abstract: To address needs of journalists and other editors, an audiovisual editing system associates segments of audiovisual materials with segments of related text. The editing system permits an editor to edit both the audiovisual materials of the segments and to edit the related text. The data structure representing the story includes a list of media segments and a list a text segments and a correspondence among the segments. Each media segment has a type, such as script, SOT and voice, and includes a list of video clips. These data structures enable the editing system to provide a simple and intuitive interface for editing a story, and can be transformed in a straightforward manner into a conventional, multitrack sequence used to represent an audiovisual composition. The editing system automatically defines parameters, such as designating the correct audio tracks, which minimize the chance for errors and speeds the workflow. Automatic ducking of these tracks also can be provided. For media segments with associated script in a corresponding text segment, an estimated time for reading the related script aloud by the newscaster may be determined. This estimated time for reading the text related a script segment may be compared to the actual duration of the audiovisual material of the script segment. The difference in the duration of the audiovisual material and the duration of the related text may be displayed to the editor, making it easier for the editor to match video to a script. Similarly, the duration of voice and SOT clips can be compared to the duration of video clips in a media segment. The difference in the duration of the video clips and the voice and SOT clips may be displayed to the editor, making it easier for the editor to match the video to the audio. Stories can be stored as text documents in a markup language. Data representing the audiovisual segments can be embedded in these stories. The editing system also may be interco ected through a computer network in a newsroom to a variety of other systems including asset management system, shared storage for media and a story database. By having the editing system store stories in the story database and sequences in the asset management system, both sequences and stories are made available to other editing systems.

Abstract translation: 为了满足记者和其他编辑的需要，音像编辑系统将视听材料的各个部分与相关文本的部分相关联。 编辑系统允许编辑器编辑段的视听材料并编辑相关文本。 代表故事的数据结构包括媒体段的列表和列表，文本段和段之间的对应关系。 每个媒体片段都有一个类型，例如脚本，SOT和语音，并且包括视频剪辑列表。 这些数据结构使得编辑系统能够提供用于编辑故事的简单和直观的界面，并且可以以简单的方式转换成用于表示视听作品的传统的多轨迹序列。 编辑系统自动定义参数，例如指定正确的音轨，最大限度地减少错误的机会并加快工作流程。 也可以提供这些轨道的自动排除。 对于在相应文本段中具有相关脚本的媒体段，可以确定新闻播放器朗读的相关脚本的估计时间。 可以将与脚本段相关的阅读文本的该估计时间与脚本段的视听材料的实际持续时间进行比较。 视听材料的持续时间和相关文本的持续时间的差异可能会显示给编辑器，使编辑器更容易将视频与脚本进行匹配。 类似地，语音和SOT剪辑的持续时间可以与媒体段中的视频片段的持续时间进行比较。 视频剪辑和语音和SOT剪辑的持续时间的差异可以显示给编辑器，使得编辑器更容易将视频与音频相匹配。 故事可以以标记语言存储为文本文档。 代表音像片段的数据可嵌入这些故事。 编辑系统还可以通过新闻编辑室中的计算机网络与包括资产管理系统，媒体共享存储和故事数据库在内的各种其他系统进行交互。 通过将编辑系统存储在故事数据库中的故事和资产管理系统中的序列，序列和故事都可用于其他编辑系统。

公开(公告)号：WO2004102477A1

公开(公告)日：2004-11-25

申请号：PCT/US2004/014189

申请日：2004-05-07

Applicant: AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC. ,  UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

Inventor： CORNOG, Katherine, H. ,  DUTTA, Mitrajit

IPC: G06T1/00

CPC classification number: G06T1/005 ,  G06T2201/0051 ,  G06T2201/0052 ,  G06T2201/0061 ,  G06T2201/0081 ,  G06T2201/0083

Abstract: A structured watermark may be embedded in data by applying an irregular mapping of variations defined by the structured watermark to frequency domain values representing the data. In particular, the frequency domain representation of the data comprises an ordered set of frequency domain values. The structured watermark is used to define an ordered set of variations to be applied to the frequency domain values. Each variation is a value defined by the structured watermark. An irregular mapping from positions in the ordered set of variations to positions in the ordered set of frequency domain values is defined. This irregular mapping is one-to-one and invertible. Application of the irregular mapping to the set of variations results in a set of values that may appear to be noise both in the frequency domain and in the signal domain of the data. The signal domain of the data may be n-dimensional, and may be a spatial, temporal or other domain from which data may be converted to the frequency domain. The signal domain of the data may be continuous or discrete. Each frequency domain value is modified by the variation mapped to the position of the frequency domain value by the irregular mapping. A frequency domain value may be modified using an additive or multiplicative operation. Using additive embedding, the modifications to the frequency domain values may be effected in the signal domain without computing the frequency domain values of the data by transforming, to the signal domain, the results of applying the irregular mapping to the set of variations. The watermark may be detected in target data by using the inverse of the irregular mapping on the frequency domain representation of the target data. Because the watermark is structured, it may be perceptible in the target data after the target data is processed by the inverse of the irregular mapping. A similarity metric, such as correlation, also can be used to detect the presence of the structured watermark in the processed target data.

Abstract translation: 结构化水印可以通过将由结构化水印定义的变化的不规则映射应用到表示数据的频域值来嵌入在数据中。 特别地，数据的频域表示包括频域值的有序集合。 结构化水印用于定义要应用于频域值的有序变化集合。 每个变体是由结构化水印定义的值。 定义了从有序变化集合中的位置到有序频域集合中的位置的不规则映射。 这种不规则的映射是一对一的和可逆的。 将不规则映射应用于变体集合导致在数据的频域和信号域中可能看起来是噪声的一组值。 数据的信号域可以是n维的，并且可以是数据可以从其转换到频域的空间，时间或其他域。 数据的信号域可以是连续的或离散的。 通过映射到频域值的位置的变化通过不规则映射来修改每个频域值。 可以使用加法或乘法运算来修改频域值。 使用加法嵌入，可以在信号域中实现对频域值的修改，而不通过将对不规则映射应用于该变量集合的结果转换到信号域来计算数据的频域值。 可以通过使用目标数据的频域表示上的不规则映射的逆来在目标数据中检测水印。 由于水印是结构化的，所以在目标数据被不规则映射的反向处理之后，目标数据可能是可以察觉的。 诸如相关性的相似性度量也可用于检测已处理目标数据中结构化水印的存在。

公开(公告)号：WO02087231A3

公开(公告)日：2003-02-06

申请号：PCT/US0212307

申请日：2002-04-18

Applicant: AVID TECHNOLOGY INC

Inventor： PHILLIPS MICHAEL ,  COOPER BRIAN C ,  FAY LARISA

IPC: H04N5/91 ,  G11B27/00 ,  G11B27/02 ,  G11B27/034 ,  G11B27/34

CPC classification number: G11B27/034 ,  G06F17/218 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G06F17/30781 ,  G11B27/34

Abstract: Creation of a program with interactive content and time-based media would be improved by having several people working simultaneously on both the interactive content and the time-based media. The range of types of data that can be associated with the time-based media also can include a variety of types of content that enhance the time-based media, including data that is opaque to the editing system. To support editing of such programs, enhanced content may be edited into a program as either a clip or a locator, according to a user's selection. The components that represent enhanced content also may be edited in the same way as components that represent time-based media. Enhanced content may be represented by enhancement files that include data defining enhancements. An enhancement includes an identifier of the enhancement within the enhancement file, and a reference to a file defining enhanced content associated with the enhancement. Such enhancement files may be imported into a bin of an editing system to create components that describe the enhanced content referenced by the enhancements. The enhanced content may be modified using native applications for the enhanced content during editing of the program. The components describing the enhanced content in the editing system can be updated using identifiers of the enhanced content that are stored by the components. Enhanced content also may be automatically synchronized with time-based media.

Abstract translation: 通过让多个人在互动内容和基于时间的媒体上同时工作，可以改进创建具有互动内容和基于时间的媒体的节目。 可以与基于时间的媒体相关联的数据类型的范围还可以包括增强基于时间的媒体的各种类型的内容，包括对编辑系统不透明的数据。 为了支持这样的程序的编辑，根据用户的选择，可以将增强内容编辑为程序作为剪辑或定位器。 表示增强内容的组件也可以以与表示基于时间的媒体的组件相同的方式进行编辑。 增强内容可以由包括定义增强功能的数据的增强文件来表示。 增强包括增强文件内的增强的标识符，以及对定义与增强相关联的增强内容的文件的引用。 这样的增强文件可以被导入到编辑系统的bin中，以创建描述由增强引用的增强内容的组件。 在编辑程序期间，增强内容可以使用用于增强内容的本机应用来修改。 可以使用由组件存储的增强内容的标识符更新描述编辑系统中的增强内容的组件。 增强内容也可以与基于时间的媒体自动同步。

公开(公告)号：WO1997039411A1

公开(公告)日：1997-10-23

申请号：PCT/US1997006045

申请日：1997-04-11

Applicant: AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Inventor： AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC. ,  LOVEMAN, Jason, S. ,  ALLEN, Mark, S. ,  WHITE, Ronald ,  HAYNES, Charles, E.

IPC: G06F17/30

CPC classification number: G06F17/30017 ,  G11B27/031 ,  G11B27/034 ,  G11B27/34 ,  G11B27/36 ,  G11B2220/41

Abstract: A digital multimedia newsroom production system allows users of the system to create, browse and catalog multimedia assets. The system includes a multimedia capture and encoding system that captures multimedia data, and substantially simultaneously provides a first compressed version of the multimedia data having a first resolution, and a second compressed version of the multimedia data having a second resolution that is different from the first resolution; a multimedia storage system, coupled to the multimedia capture and encoding system, that stores multimedia information including the first and second compressed versions of the multimedia data; and a video editing and playback system coupled to the multimedia storage system. The video editing and playback system includes editing circuitry that generates a composition that uses a portion of the first compressed version, and playback circuitry that plays the composition using a portion of the second compressed version that corresponds to the portion of the first compressed version. The multimedia storage system stores multimedia information including the compressed versions of the multimedia data, and provides to a network the first compressed version of the multimedia data substantially simultaneously as the first compressed version is stored.

Abstract translation: 数字多媒体新闻编辑室生产系统允许系统的用户创建，浏览和编目多媒体资产。 该系统包括捕获多媒体数据的多媒体捕获和编码系统，并且基本上同时提供具有第一分辨率的多媒体数据的第一压缩版本和具有与第一分辨率不同的第二分辨率的多媒体数据的第二压缩版本 解析度; 耦合到多媒体捕获和编码系统的多媒体存储系统，其存储包括多媒体数据的第一和第二压缩版本的多媒体信息; 以及耦合到多媒体存储系统的视频编辑和回放系统。 视频编辑和播放系统包括编辑电路，其生成使用第一压缩版本的一部分的构图，以及播放电路，其使用与第一压缩版本的该部分对应的第二压缩版本的一部分来播放构图。 多媒体存储系统存储包括多媒体数据的压缩版本的多媒体信息，并且当存储第一压缩版本时，基本同时向网络提供多媒体数据的第一压缩版本。

公开(公告)号：WO1997013121A1

公开(公告)日：1997-04-10

申请号：PCT/US1996015847

申请日：1996-10-02

Applicant: AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Inventor： AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC. ,  BREITBARTH, Neal, E.

IPC: G01D05/26

CPC classification number: H03G1/0035

Abstract: An apparatus (10) indicating the position of an adjustable lever (18), such as a control lever in a digital audio console, is described. A frame member (12, 13, 15, 17) constrains movement of the adjustable lever (18). The lever is operatively connected to an encoder apparatus (22), such that movement of the lever (18) causes movement of the encoder apparatus (22) to provide an indication of position of the lever (18) within the frame member (12, 13, 15, 17).

Abstract translation: 描述了指示可调节杆（18）的位置的装置（10），例如数字音频控制台中的控制杆。 框架构件（12,13,15,17）限制可调节杆（18）的运动。 杠杆可操作地连接到编码器装置（22），使得杆（18）的运动引起编码器装置（22）的移动，以提供杆（18）在框架构件（12）内的位置的指示， 13，15，17）。

公开(公告)号：WO1993012613A1

公开(公告)日：1993-06-24

申请号：PCT/US1992010644

申请日：1992-12-10

Applicant: AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Inventor： AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC. ,  PETERS, Eric, C.

IPC: H04N07/133

CPC classification number: H04N19/18 ,  H04N19/117 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/126 ,  H04N19/15 ,  H04N19/154 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/60

Abstract: The method for adjusting quality during image capture includes computing a discrete cosine transform of a digital image to create DCT coefficients. A quantization table is generated that specifies frequency bands to be filtered and the DCT coefficients are digitized using the quantization table. It is preferred that the DCT coefficients be ordered in a zig-zag sequence to facilitate run-length encoding.

Abstract translation: 用于在图像拍摄期间调整质量的方法包括计算数字图像的离散余弦变换以产生DCT系数。 生成量化表，其规定要滤波的频带，并且使用量化表对DCT系数进行数字化。 优选的是，DCT系数以锯齿形序列排序以便于游程长度编码。

公开(公告)号：WO1993012481A2

公开(公告)日：1993-06-24

申请号：PCT/US1992010643

申请日：1992-12-10

Applicant: AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Inventor： AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC. ,  PETERS, Eric, C.

IPC: G06F05/06

CPC classification number: G06F5/06 ,  G11B27/034 ,  G11B27/28 ,  H04N5/85 ,  H04N5/907 ,  H04N5/9264 ,  H04N7/24 ,  H04N9/8042 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/126 ,  H04N19/15 ,  H04N19/152 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/60

Abstract: A data buffer that compensates the differences in data rates, between a storage device and an image compression processor. A method and apparatus for the real time indexing of frames in a video data sequence.

Abstract translation: 数据缓冲器，用于补偿存储设备和图像压缩处理器之间的数据速率差异。 一种用于在视频数据序列中实时索引帧的方法和装置。

公开(公告)号：WO2006031527A2

公开(公告)日：2006-03-23

申请号：PCT/US2005/031758

申请日：2005-09-09

Applicant: AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Inventor： POIMBOEUF, Michael ,  BITTLE, Scott, C. ,  CLEMENTSON, David, D. ,  WEITZ, John, C.

IPC: H04H7/00 ,  G10H1/00 ,  H04J3/06 ,  H04L7/04

CPC classification number: H04H60/04 ,  H04J3/0632 ,  H04L7/04

Abstract: In a live audio presentation system, a stage rack and a front of house rack are interconnected by a transmission medium that transmits digital audio data and control information between them. Packets of digital audio data and control information are sent at the audio sampling rate. The packets of data are encoded using an encoding technique that provides unique codes that may be detected, thus enabling clock recovery of a clock signal embedded in the data packets. Data packets may include data for error checking. A serial digital transmission medium may be used as the transmission medium. Such a transmission medium uses low voltage signals and supports high bit rates. The system is synchronized by the FOH rack which transmits data to the stage rack according to a local audio sample clock or an external audio sample clock to which it synchronizes. This clock is embedded in data packets sent to the stage rack. The stack rack recovers the audio sample clock from data received from the FOH rack and synchronizes its receive and transmit operations to this recovered clock. The FOH rack recovers the audio sample clock from data received from the stage rack and synchronizes its receive operations to this recovered clock. The FOH rack may include an embedded computer that processes the digital audio data, and may include DSP processing that handles so-called plug-in software. A digital audio workstation or sequencer also may be connected to the FOH rack to either record the live presentation or to inject edited, recorded audio into the live presentation.

Abstract translation: 在实况音频呈现系统中，舞台架和室内机架通过在它们之间传输数字音频数据和控制信息的传输介质互连。 数字音频数据和控制信息包以音频采样率发送。 使用提供可以被检测的唯一代码的编码技术对数据分组进行编码，从而实现嵌入在数据分组中的时钟信号的时钟恢复。 数据包可能包含用于错误检查的数据。 串行数字传输介质可以用作传输介质。 这种传输介质使用低电压信号并支持高比特率。 系统由FOH机架同步，FOH机架根据本地音频采样时钟或与其同步的外部音频采样时钟将数据发送到舞台机架。 该时钟嵌入发送到舞台机架的数据包中。 堆栈机架从FOH机架接收的数据中恢复音频采样时钟，并将其接收和发送操作同步到该恢复的时钟。 FOH机架从舞台机架接收的数据中恢复音频采样时钟，并将其接收操作与该恢复的时钟同步。 FOH机架可以包括处理数字音频数据的嵌入式计算机，并且可以包括处理所谓插件软件的DSP处理。 数字音频工作站或音序器也可以连接到FOH机架上，以记录实况演示或将编辑的录制音频插入实况演示。

公开(公告)号：WO2004091221A3

公开(公告)日：2005-04-21

申请号：PCT/US2004010243

申请日：2004-04-01

Applicant: AVID TECHNOLOGY INC

Inventor： KOTTKE DANE P ,  CORNOG KATHERINE H ,  RYNDERMAN MICHEL

IPC: H03M7/42 ,  H04N7/26 ,  H04N7/30 ,  H04N7/50

CPC classification number: H04N19/146 ,  H04N19/126 ,  H04N19/147 ,  H04N19/60 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/91

Abstract: High quality intraframe-only compression of video can be achieved using rate distortion optimization and without resizing or bit depth modification. The compression process involves transforming portions of the image to generate frequency domain coefficients for each portion. A bit rate for each transformed portion using a plurality of scale factors is determined. Distortion for each portion is estimated according to the plurality of scale factors. A scale factor is selected for each portion to minimize the total distortion in the image to achieve a desired bit rate. A quantization matrix is selected according to the desired bit rate. The frequency domain coefficients for each portion are quantized using the selected plurality of quantizers as scaled by the selected scab factor for the portion. The quantized frequency domain coefficients are encoded using a variable length encoding to provide compressed data for each of the defined portions. The compressed data is output for each of the defined portions to provide a compressed bitstream at the desired bit rate. The bit stream format includes, for each image, a picture header followed by image scan data. The image scan data includes data corresponding to a plurality of macroblock rasterscans. The data for each macrobbck rasterscan includes data for a plurality of macroblocks for a band of lines in the image followed by padding. The padding ensures that data for each macroblock rasterscan terminates on a data boundary. The picture header references an image scan index that indicates a number of macroblock rasterscans in the image scan data and a number of lines per macroblock rasterscan, followed by entries of the index. Each entry in the index includes an offset of the macroblock rasterscan in image scan.

Abstract translation: 可以使用速率失真优化并且不进行调整大小或位深度修改来实现高质量的仅帧内视频压缩。 压缩过程涉及转换图像的部分以产生每个部分的频域系数。 确定使用多个比例因子的每个变换部分的比特率。 根据多个比例因子估计每个部分的失真。 为每个部分选择比例因子以最小化图像中的总失真以实现期望的比特率。 根据所需的比特率选择量化矩阵。 使用所选择的多个量化器对每个部分的频域系数进行量化，如由该部分的所选择的scab因子缩放的。 使用可变长度编码对量化的频域系数进行编码，以为每个定义的部分提供压缩数据。 为每个定义的部分输出压缩数据，以提供所需比特率的压缩比特流。 对于每个图像，比特流格式包括图像头部，随后是图像扫描数据。 图像扫描数据包括对应于多个宏块镜像数据的数据。 每个宏块栅格扫描器的数据包括用于图像中的线条的多个宏块的数据，随后是填充。 填充确保每个宏块栅格数据可以在数据边界上终止。 图像标题引用图像扫描索引，其指示图像扫描数据中的多个宏块栅格数量和每个宏块rasterscan的行数，随后是索引的条目。 索引中的每个条目包括图像扫描中的宏块栅格扫描的偏移。

公开(公告)号：WO2005011287A2

公开(公告)日：2005-02-03

申请号：PCT/US2004/023636

申请日：2004-07-22

Applicant: AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Inventor： FASCIANO, Peter

IPC: H04N9/12

CPC classification number: H04N17/04 ,  H04N17/02

Abstract: A display color calibration system uses a spectrophotometer or other sensor connect to a computer along with a computer program running on the computer to provide a mechanism to calibrate and standardize the color performance of display devices used by video applications. Such display devices include both computer displays connected to the computer and video displays connected to the computer. In particular, test colors are presented as an ordered set of samples controlled by the computer program and are presented via a video application to the display devices. The video application may be, for example, software for a digital nonlinear video editing system (NLE) or any other video playback engine on the computer. Once calibrated, these display devices can present a gamut of colors as a standard color space. This calibration improves the display accuracy and consistency for critical viewing and color evaluation of images.

Abstract translation: 显示颜色校准系统使用分光光度计或其他传感器连同计算机一起连接到计算机上运行的计算机程序，以提供校准和标准化视频应用所使用的显示设备的颜色性能的机制。 这样的显示装置包括连接到计算机的计算机显示器和连接到计算机的视频显示器。 特别地，测试颜色被呈现为由计算机程序控制的有序样本集，并且经由视频应用呈现给显示设备。 视频应用可以是例如用于数字非线性视频编辑系统（NLE）的软件或计算机上的任何其它视频播放引擎。 一旦校准，这些显示设备可以呈现作为标准颜色空间的色域。 该校准提高了图像的关键观察和颜色评估的显示精度和一致性。