JP2002010192A - Method and device for editing multimedia document - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow easy editing by displaying only such information as required for the editing on a screen display part at editing in each editing part, related to a multimedia document editing system where both a time-related editing part and a space-related editing part are present. SOLUTION: A multimedia document comprising a plurality of media data is received from outside while an edit time information representing specified time range which is designated from outside is received (S701). A regeneration time contained in each media data constituting the received multimedia document is compared with the received edit time information for each media data. Based on the comparison result, it is decided whether media data is displayed on the screen display device at editing or not (S702 and S703), and the media data which is decided to be displayed is displayed on the screen display device at editing (S704).

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a multimedia document editing apparatus, an editing method, and a storage medium.
In particular, the present invention is applied to a multimedia document editing apparatus including a time relation editing unit for editing a reproduction time relation of each media data and a spatial relation editing unit for editing a reproduction position relation of each media data, and is applied to the multimedia document editing apparatus. The present invention relates to an editing method to be performed and a storage medium storing a program for executing the editing method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, many digital documents have been used due to the spread of computers.
Along with this, for example, a Web standard has been established.
The Worldwide web Consortium (http://www.w3.org) has provided SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia In
integration language), SMIL,
This is a digital document standard that realizes dynamic presentation by combining moving images, still images, audio, music data, and the like.

In such a dynamic digital document, it is necessary to edit the arrangement of a plurality of multimedia data. That is, where to display the data,
It is necessary to edit the spatial and temporal arrangement of when to display.

A multimedia document editing apparatus for editing this arrangement is disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 8-11533.
No. 8 discloses this. There, editing is performed using a time-related editing unit and a spatial-related editing unit.

[0005]

However, in the above-described conventional multimedia document editing apparatus, the time-related editing unit performs editing in a state where the spatial-related information is missing, and the spatial-related editing unit lacks the time-related information. You are editing with the settings. Therefore, at the time of editing work in each editing unit, information unnecessary for the editing work is displayed on the screen display unit, and there is a problem that the editing work is difficult to perform.

For example, for media data to be reproduced between time 0:00 and time 0:40, the name (title) of the media data needs to be displayed on the screen display unit at the time of editing. For example, time 0: 5
For media data to be played between 0 and 1:30, even if it is not necessary to display the name of the media data on the screen display unit at the time of editing, conventionally, when the latter is edited, The name is displayed on the screen display unit. For this reason, there is a case where unnecessary information exists on the screen display unit at the time of the latter editing, and it is difficult to perform the editing operation.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of such a problem, and in a multimedia document editing apparatus having a time-related editing unit and a spatial-related editing unit, when editing in each of the editing units, It is an object of the present invention to provide a multimedia document editing apparatus in which only information necessary for the editing operation is displayed on a screen display unit to facilitate the editing operation.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, a time relation editing unit for editing a reproduction time relation of each media data, and a reproduction position relation of each media data. A multimedia document editing apparatus comprising a spatial relation editing unit for editing the editing unit, and an editing range control unit for controlling the editing range of the time relation editing unit and the editing range of the spatial relation editing unit collectively. Features.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, a multimedia document including a time relation editing unit for editing a reproduction time relation of each media data and a spatial relation editing unit for editing a reproduction position relation of each media data. In the editing apparatus, first receiving means for externally receiving a multimedia document composed of a plurality of media data; second receiving means for receiving externally designated editing time information indicating a predetermined time range; Comparing means for comparing, for each media data, the reproduction time included in each media data constituting the multimedia document received by the first receiving means and the editing time information received by the second receiving means; Displaying each media data on the screen display device at the time of editing based on the comparison result by the comparing means. Determining means for determining whether or not asked, the media data determined to be displayed by said determining means, and having a display control means for displaying on the screen display device at the time of editing.

According to the sixth aspect of the present invention, a multimedia document including a time relation editing unit for editing a reproduction time relation of each media data and a spatial relation editing unit for editing a reproduction position relation of each media data. In the editing apparatus, first receiving means for externally receiving a multimedia document composed of a plurality of media data, second receiving means for receiving externally designated editing area information indicating a predetermined display area range, A display area coordinate value included in each media data constituting the multimedia document received by the first receiving means;
Comparing means for comparing the editing area information received by the second receiving means for each media data, and whether or not each media data should be displayed on a screen display device at the time of editing based on a comparison result by the comparing means And display control means for displaying the media data determined to be displayed by the determining means on the screen display device at the time of editing.

[0011] According to the invention of claim 8, a multi-time editing apparatus includes a time relation editing unit for editing a reproduction time relation of each media data, and a spatial relation editing unit for editing a reproduction position relation of each media data. In an editing method applied to a media document editing apparatus, a first receiving step of externally receiving a multimedia document composed of a plurality of media data and an externally specified editing time information indicating a predetermined time range are received. A second receiving step, a reproduction time included in each media data constituting the multimedia document received by the first receiving step, and an editing time information received by the second receiving step. A comparison step of comparing each data; and a comparison step based on the comparison result of the comparison step. A determining step of determining whether each media data should be displayed on the screen display device at the time of editing, and a display control step of displaying the media data determined to be displayed at the determining step on the screen display device at the time of editing And characterized in that:

According to the tenth aspect of the present invention, a time relation editing unit for editing a reproduction time relation of each media data,
A first receiving step of externally receiving a multimedia document including a plurality of media data in an editing method applied to a multimedia document editing apparatus having a spatial relationship editing unit for editing a reproduction position relationship of each media data. A second receiving step of receiving externally designated editing area information indicating a predetermined display area range; and a display included in each media data constituting the multimedia document received by the first receiving step. A comparing step of comparing the area coordinate value with the editing area information received in the second receiving step for each media data; and, based on a comparison result of the comparing step, displaying each media data on a screen display device during editing. A deciding step of deciding whether to display or not; The media data determined to be displayed by step, and having a display control step of displaying on the screen display device at the time of editing.

Further, according to the twelfth aspect of the present invention,
An editing method applied to a multimedia document editing apparatus including a time relationship editing unit for editing the playback time relationship of each media data and a spatial relationship editing unit for editing the playback position relationship of each media data is stored as a program. A computer-readable storage medium, wherein the editing method includes: a first receiving step of receiving a multimedia document including a plurality of media data from outside; and an editing time indicating a predetermined time range specified from outside. A second receiving step of receiving information;
A comparing step of comparing, for each media data, a reproduction time included in each media data constituting the multimedia document received by the first receiving step with the editing time information received by the second receiving step; A determining step of determining whether or not each media data should be displayed on the screen display device at the time of editing based on the comparison result of the comparing step; and the media data determined to be displayed by the determining step at the time of editing. And a display control step of displaying on the screen display device.

According to the fourteenth aspect of the present invention, a time relation editing unit for editing the reproduction time relation of each media data,
A computer-readable storage medium storing, as a program, an editing method applied to a multimedia document editing apparatus including a spatial relation editing unit that edits a reproduction position relation of each media data, wherein the editing method is an external method. A first receiving step of receiving a multimedia document composed of a plurality of media data, a second receiving step of receiving externally designated editing area information indicating a predetermined display area range, and the first receiving step. A comparing step of comparing, for each media data, a display area coordinate value included in each media data constituting the multimedia document received by the step and the editing area information received by the second receiving step; When editing based on the comparison result of the comparison step A determination step of determining whether or not each media data is to be displayed on the screen display device; and a display control step of displaying the media data determined to be displayed by the determination step on the screen display device at the time of editing. It is characterized by the following.

[0015]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of a multimedia document editing apparatus according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, reference numeral 101 denotes an image display unit (not shown), which is an interface unit for controlling input from a user and displaying an editing status, and 102, a document control unit for operating a document. The interface unit 101 includes a spatial relation editing unit 103 for editing the spatial arrangement of the media data, a time relation editing unit 104 for editing the temporal arrangement of the media data, and an editing range control for controlling an editing range based on the temporal relation. And a unit 105.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of an operation screen displayed on the image display unit.

The operation screen includes a time-related editing window 20.
1 and two spatial relation edit windows 202 and an edit range control window 203 for realizing a close-up function.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the time-related editing window 201 in detail. The horizontal axis of the time-related editing window 201 is the time axis, and the vertical axis is the display area axis.

In this window, reference numeral 301 denotes media data to be reproduced in a display area named "explanation" during a period from 9 seconds to 15 seconds after the start of reproduction of the entire document. Note that data that does not require a screen display area, such as music data, has a special display area name (aud
io).

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the relationship between the display positions of a plurality of media data in the time-related editing window 201.

Media data 301 and 302 indicate media data reproduced in the same display area. They are arranged in the same row (row).
03 indicates media data displayed at the same time,
They are displayed in the same column.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the spatial relation editing window 202 in detail.

In this window, 501 is an expla
A rectangular display area named “nation” is shown, and coordinates (10, 300) and coordinates (630, 390) are diagonal vertices. Note that media data that does not require a screen display area and is managed by a display area name audio, such as music data, is not displayed in the spatial relation editing window 202.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the edit range control window 203 in detail.

In the edit range control window 203, the time axis is set in the horizontal direction similarly to the time-related edit window 201, and the total reproduction time of the document is set to 60 in the window.
1 and the editing time 602 are displayed. In the example shown in FIG. 6, the total playback time 601 is 25 from time 0:00 to 0:25.
Seconds, and the editing time 602 is from time 0:06 to 0:12.
6 seconds.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of editing range control performed by the editing range control unit 105.

In step S701, the editing range is changed using the editing range control window 203 (editing time 6
When the (02) setting operation is performed, in step S702, it is determined whether or not to display all the media data shown in the document in the time-related display window 201. The following rule 1 is used for the determination.

According to rule 1, the playback start time of the media data a is T _abegin , the playback end time of the media data a is T _aend , the start time of the _edit time is T _{edit — begin} , and the end time of the _edit time is T _edit. When _{_end} is set, if the following two conditions (1) and (2) are simultaneously satisfied, the media data a is displayed in the time-related display window 201.
Not displayed if not satisfied.

[0031] (1) the time _T abegin is earlier than the time T _edit _ _end.

(2) The time T _{edit — begin} is before the time T _aend .

Next, in step S703, the display area of the entire display area is
01 and the space relation edit window 202 are determined. The following rule 2 is used for the determination.
The display determination of the display area is applied to media data managed in the area audio without requiring a screen display area like music data, but is not applied to the spatial relation editing window 202. .

According to Rule 2, when the display determination result determined by Rule 1 is set to _DiR for media data i having R as a display area ( _DiR = 1 is displayed, and _DiR = 0 is set to _DiR = 0). If the sum of the display determination results _DiR over all the media data in the same display area is 0, the display area R is not displayed in the time-related display window 201 and the spatial-related edit window 202, and is 1 or more. If it is displayed.

Finally, in step S704, step S704
The display content of the spatial relation editing window 201 is updated according to the determination results of step 702 and step S703. Also,
In step S705, the time-related editing window 2 is set in accordance with the determination results in steps S702 and S703.
02 is updated.

Next, when an operation of changing the editing range (setting of the editing time 602) is performed, the contents displayed in the time-related display window 201 and the spatial-related editing window 202 are shown as specific examples. This will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a multimedia document described by SMIL.

FIG. 9 is a diagram collectively showing the reproduction time and display area of each media data in the multimedia document shown in FIG.

FIG. 10 shows a screen displayed by the image display unit when the editing range is set to the entire playback time 601 when the multimedia document shown in FIG. 8 is input to the multimedia document editing apparatus. FIG.

As can be seen from FIG. 10, when the editing range is the entire reproduction time, both the time-related editing window 201 and the spatial-related editing window 202 display all the media data and the entire display area.

FIG. 11 shows that when the multimedia document shown in FIG. 8 is input to the multimedia document editing apparatus, the editing range is changed from time 0:06 to 0:12.
FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating a screen displayed by the image display unit when the time is set to (edit time 602).

The editing start time T _edit _ _begin is 0:06, editing end time T _edit _ _end is 0:12, when the playback end time and reproduction end time of the media data is a value shown in FIG. 9, ahead According to rule 1 described in, the display area main
In the media data main1. jpg is hidden, media data main2. jpg is displayed, media data main3. jpg is hidden, media data mai
n4. jpg is determined to be non-display.

In the display area "explanation", media data exp1. html is displayed, media data exp2. html is determined to be non-display.

In the display area sub, the media data title1. html is hidden, media data t
itle2. html is determined to be non-display.

In the display area audio, the media data bgm. mid is determined to be displayed.

Then, in accordance with the above-described display determination result based on rule 1, the display area mai is determined according to rule 2 described above.
It is determined that n is displayed, the display area explanation is displayed, the display area sub is not displayed, and the display area audio is displayed.

The screen shown in FIG. 11 is displayed on the image display unit according to the display determination results based on the above-described rules 1 and 2. In the time-related editing window 201 shown in FIG. 11, the display area sub determined to be non-display is omitted. After time 0:12, the display indicates that the operation is not possible. In the spatial relation editing window 202 shown in FIG. 11, the display area s determined to be non-display is displayed.
The display area audio for media data such as ub and music data is not displayed.

As described above, in the multimedia document editing apparatus having the time-related editing section and the spatial-related editing section, only the information necessary for the editing work is displayed on the screen display section at the time of editing work in each editing section. It is displayed, making editing easier.

(Other Embodiments) In the above-described embodiment, the edit range control window 203 is provided independently.
Alternatively, a function corresponding to the function of the edit range control window 203 may be added along the time axis.

In the above-described embodiment, the vertical axis of the time-related editing window 201 is used as the display area axis. Instead, a group of media data whose playback time is not duplicated is defined as a "track". Edit window 201
May be the track axis.

At this time, for all the tracks, it is determined according to the following rule 3 whether or not the tracks are displayed in the time relation display window 201 and the space relation edit window 202.

That is, according to rule 3, the track K
When the display determination result determined by rule 1 is set to _DiK for the media data i arranged in ( _{i.e., Dik} = 1 is displayed and _DiK = 0 is not displayed), all the media in the same track are displayed. If the total value of the display determination results _DiK over the data is 0, the track K is not displayed in the time-related display window 201 and the spatial-related editing window 202, and is displayed if it is 1 or more.

In the above-described embodiment, the edit range control unit 105 performs control based on the time relationship. Instead, the edit range control unit 105 performs control based on the spatial relationship. Is also good.

That is, a multimedia document editing apparatus having an editing range control unit based on a time relationship is as follows.
Only the configuration of the edit range control window and the rules for determining the display of the media data and the rules for determining the display of the display area are changed.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a configuration of an edit range control window according to another embodiment.

The spatial relation editing window 202 shown in FIG.
Similarly, the layout of the display area at the time of reproduction is displayed, and a specific display area in the layout can be selected. Reference numeral 1001 denotes a selected editing area. Here, a display area sub having coordinates (420, 10) and coordinates (630, 290) as vertices on a diagonal line is an editing area 1
001 is selected.

In the editing range control process performed by the editing range control unit, first, display determination of a display area is performed. For this determination, the following rule 4 is applied instead of rule 2. This display determination is not applied to media data having no display area.

According to rule 4, the x coordinate of the display area i
X is the minimum value_imin, The maximum value of the x coordinate of the display area i
X_imax, The minimum value of the y coordinate of the display area i is Y_imin, Display area
The maximum value of the y coordinate of area i is Y_imaxAnd also selected
The minimum value of the x coordinate of the editing area 1001 is X_edit__min, Edit
The maximum value of the x coordinate of the area 1001 is X_edit__max, Editing area
The minimum value of the y coordinate of 1001 is Y_edit__min, Editing area 10
Y is the maximum value of the y coordinate of 01_{ed it}__maxAnd the following 4
If the two conditions are satisfied at the same time, the display area i
Relationship editing window 201 and spatial relationship editing window 2
02 in the editing area 1001 and if not satisfied
If not displayed.

(1) X _imin <X _{edit — max} (2) X _{edit — min} <X _imax (3) Y _imin <Y _{edit — max} (4) Y _{edit — min} <Y _imax Data display determination is performed. In determining the media data, the following rule 5 is applied instead of rule 1.

According to the rule 5, when the display area of the media data i is determined to be displayed according to the rule 4, the media data i is displayed. When the display area is determined not to be displayed according to the rule 4, the media data i is displayed. Do not display. However, media data having no display area is always displayed in the time-related editing window 201.

In the above description, the media data having no display area is always displayed in the time-related editing window 201. Instead, a selection area for the media data having no display area is provided in the editing range control window. The media data editing control may be performed.

A storage medium storing program codes of software for realizing the functions of the above-described embodiments is supplied to a system or an apparatus, and a computer (or CPU or MPU) of the system or the apparatus stores the storage medium in the storage medium. It goes without saying that the present invention is also achieved by reading and executing the program code thus set.

In this case, the program code itself read from the storage medium realizes the functions of the above-described embodiment, and the storage medium storing the program code constitutes the present invention.

As a storage medium for supplying the program code, for example, a floppy disk, hard disk, optical disk, magneto-optical disk, CD-ROM, CD
-R, a magnetic tape, a nonvolatile memory card, a ROM, or the like can be used.

The functions of the above-described embodiments are implemented when the computer executes the readout program code, and the OS or the like running on the computer is executed based on the instructions of the program code. It goes without saying that the present invention includes a case where some or all of the actual processing is performed and the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized by the processing.

Further, after the program code read from the storage medium is written into a memory provided in a function expansion board inserted into the computer or a function expansion unit connected to the computer, based on the instruction of the program code, It is needless to say that the present invention includes a case where the CPU or the like provided in the function expansion board or the function expansion unit performs part or all of the actual processing, and the processing realizes the functions of the above-described embodiments. .

[0067]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, in a multimedia document editing apparatus having a time-related editing unit and a spatial-related editing unit, the editing range control unit determines the editing range of the time-related editing unit. The editing range of the spatial relation editing unit is controlled collectively.

Thus, at the time of editing work in each editing unit,
Only the information necessary for the editing work is displayed on the screen display unit, which facilitates the editing work.

Further, the editing range control unit controls the editing range based on the time relationship, so that the user can control the editing range focusing on the time relationship.

Further, the editing range control unit controls the editing range based on the spatial relationship, so that the user can control the editing range focusing on the spatial relationship.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of a multimedia document editing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an operation screen displayed on an image display unit.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a time-related editing window in detail.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a relationship between display positions of a plurality of media data in a time-related editing window.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a spatial relation editing window in detail.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an edit range control window in detail.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating a processing procedure of editing range control performed by an editing range control unit.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a multimedia document described by SMIL.

9 is a diagram collectively showing a reproduction time and a display area of each media data in the multimedia document shown in FIG. 8;

10 is a diagram showing a screen displayed by the image display unit when the editing range is set to the entire reproduction time when the multimedia document shown in FIG. 8 is input to the multimedia document editing device.

FIG. 11 shows that when the multimedia document shown in FIG. 8 is input to the multimedia document editing apparatus, the editing range is from time 0:06 to 0:12 (editing time).
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a screen displayed by the image display unit when the setting is set to.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a configuration of an edit range control window according to another embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

Reference Signs List 101 Interface section (first receiving means, second receiving means, display control means) 102 Document control section 103 Spatial relation editing section 104 Time relation editing section 105 Editing relation control section (comparing means, determination means) 201 Time relation editing Window 202 Spatial relation editing window 203 Editing range control window 601 Total playback time 602 Editing time (editing time information) 1001 Editing area (editing area information)

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Claims (15)

[Claims] 1. A multimedia document editing apparatus comprising: a time relationship editing unit for editing a playback time relationship of each media data; and a spatial relationship editing unit for editing a playback position relationship of each media data. A multimedia document editing apparatus, comprising: an editing range control unit that controls an editing range of a unit and an editing range of the spatial relation editing unit collectively. 2. The multimedia document editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the editing range control unit performs the control based on a time relationship. 3. The multimedia document editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the editing range control unit performs the control based on a spatial relationship. 4. A multimedia document editing apparatus comprising a time relationship editing unit for editing a playback time relationship of each media data and a spatial relationship editing unit for editing a playback position relationship of each media data. First receiving means for receiving a multimedia document composed of the following media data; second receiving means for receiving externally designated editing time information indicating a predetermined time range; and receiving by the first receiving means. Comparing means for comparing, for each media data, the reproduction time included in each media data constituting the multimedia document and the editing time information received by the second receiving means; To determine whether each media data should be displayed on the screen display device at the time of editing based on Stage and the media data determined to be displayed by said determining means, multimedia document editing apparatus characterized by having a display control means for displaying on the screen display device at the time of editing. 5. The determination means, if at least a part of the time range defined by the playback time of the media data is included in the time range of the editing time information, displays the media data on the screen display device at the time of editing. 5. The multimedia document editing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein it is determined that the multimedia document should be displayed. 6. A multimedia document editing apparatus comprising a time relationship editing unit for editing a playback time relationship of each media data and a spatial relationship editing unit for editing a playback position relationship of each media data. First receiving means for receiving a multimedia document composed of the following media data; second receiving means for receiving externally designated editing area information indicating a predetermined display area range; and receiving by the first receiving means. Comparing means for comparing, for each media data, a display area coordinate value included in each media data constituting the obtained multimedia document with the editing area information received by the second receiving means; Based on the comparison result, it is determined whether each media data should be displayed on the screen display device at the time of editing. Determining means for the media data determined to be displayed by said determining means, multimedia document editing apparatus characterized by having a display control means for displaying on the screen display device at the time of editing. 7. If the at least a part of the area defined by the display area coordinate value of the media data is included in the display area range of the edit area information, the determination means displays the media data on the screen when editing. 7. The multimedia document editing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein it is determined that the multimedia document should be displayed on the apparatus. 8. An editing method applied to a multimedia document editing apparatus including a time relationship editing unit for editing a playback time relationship of each media data and a spatial relationship editing unit for editing a playback position relationship of each media data. A first receiving step of receiving a multimedia document composed of a plurality of media data from outside; a second receiving step of receiving editing time information indicating a predetermined time range designated from outside; A comparing step of comparing, for each media data, a reproduction time included in each media data constituting the multimedia document received by the receiving step and the editing time information received by the second receiving step; Based on the comparison result of the comparison step, each media data is edited A determination step of determining whether or not to display on the surface display device; and a display control step of displaying the media data determined to be displayed by the determination step on the screen display device at the time of editing. Editing method to do. 9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the determining step includes, if at least a part of the time range defined by the playback time of the media data is included in the time range of the editing time information, displaying the media data on the screen display device during editing. 9. The editing method according to claim 8, wherein it is determined that the image should be displayed. 10. An editing method applied to a multimedia document editing apparatus including a time relationship editing unit for editing a playback time relationship of each media data and a spatial relationship editing unit for editing a playback position relationship of each media data. A first receiving step of receiving a multimedia document composed of a plurality of media data from the outside; a second receiving step of receiving editing area information indicating a predetermined display area range designated from the outside; A comparing step of comparing, for each media data, a display area coordinate value included in each media data constituting the multimedia document received in the first receiving step with the editing area information received in the second receiving step; Based on the comparison result of the comparison step, A determining step of determining whether or not the data should be displayed on the screen display device, and a display control step of displaying the media data determined to be displayed by the determining step on the screen display device at the time of editing. Editing method to be featured. 11. The determining step includes displaying the media data on the screen during editing if at least a part of an area defined by the display area coordinate value of the media data is included in the display area range of the edit area information. 2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of determining that the information is to be displayed on a device.
0 editing method. 12. An editing method applied to a multimedia document editing apparatus including a time relation editing unit for editing a reproduction time relation of each media data and a spatial relation editing unit for editing a reproduction position relation of each media data. A computer-readable storage medium storing, as a program, a first receiving step of receiving a multimedia document including a plurality of media data from outside, and a predetermined time specified externally. A second receiving step of receiving editing time information indicating a range; a reproduction time included in each media data constituting the multimedia document received by the first receiving step; and a reproducing time received by the second receiving step. And edit time information for each media data A determining step of determining whether or not each media data should be displayed on a screen display device at the time of editing based on a comparison result obtained by the comparing step; and determining the media data determined to be displayed by the determining step. A display control step of causing the screen display device to display the edited data at the time of editing. 13. The determining step, if at least a part of the time range defined by the playback time of the media data is included in the time range of the editing time information, the media data is displayed on the screen display device during editing. 13. The storage medium according to claim 12, wherein the storage medium is determined to be displayed. 14. An editing method applied to a multimedia document editing apparatus including a time relation editing unit for editing a reproduction time relation of each media data and a spatial relation editing unit for editing a reproduction position relation of each media data. A computer-readable storage medium storing, as a program, a first receiving step of receiving a multimedia document composed of a plurality of media data from outside, and a predetermined display designated from outside. A second receiving step of receiving editing area information indicating an area range; a display area coordinate value included in each media data constituting the multimedia document received by the first receiving step; and the second receiving step The editing area information received by A comparison step of comparing each media data based on a result of the comparison step; and a determination step of determining whether or not each media data should be displayed on a screen display device at the time of editing. A display control step of displaying media data on the screen display device at the time of editing. 15. The determining step, if at least a part of the area defined by the display area coordinate value of the media data is included in the display area range of the edit area information, display the media data on the screen during editing. 2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of determining that the information is to be displayed on a device.
4. The storage medium according to 4.