JPH08235375A - Information editing device and information reproducing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide an information editing device and an information reproducing device capable of shortening queuing time due to reproducing preparation at the time of skip reproducing for plural reproducing sections or reproducing for rough check. CONSTITUTION: A reproducing preparing/rearranging means 107 rearranges the order of reproducing preparation for display elements in each reproducing section and an edition result output means 113 outputs a final edition result to a portable storage means 114. The information reproducing device displays display elements whose reproducing preparation has been completed in accordance with the reproducing preparation order. An editor previously ranks the display elements, and when a user executes reproducing for rough check, display elements are successively reproduced from the most important display element.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a device for editing an electronic publication, a device for reproducing an electronic publication edited by the device, and an electronic publication.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as an information editing apparatus for editing an electronic publication, there is one shown in FIG. 1, for example. This is a display material storage unit 101, an editing operation instructing unit 102, a scene editing control unit 103 having a layout editing unit 104 and a sequence editing unit 105,
Editing information display means 106 and editing result output means 113
And a portable storage unit 114 having a display element actual data storage unit 115 and a scene management information storage unit 116. Then, the display material storage unit 101 stores the material data to be displayed. The editing operation instructing means 102 receives editing operations from the user such as selection, arrangement, and processing of display elements on the screen. The scene edit control means 103
A display material to be edited is selected from the display material storage unit 101 according to a user's instruction, the layout on the screen is edited by the layout editing unit 104, and the reproduction order on the time axis is edited by the sequence editing unit 105. Then, the edit contents are displayed by the edit information display means 106, and the edit result is output to the portable storage means 114 by using the edit result output means 113. The layout editing unit 104 performs layout editing on the screen. The sequence editing unit 105 edits the reproduction order on the time axis. Editing information display means 106
Displays, for example, scene editing information as shown in FIG. In the figure, the upper stage 21 is the layout information of the display screen corresponding to the start time point of each reproduction section, and the lower stage 22 is the reproduction of each display element on the display screen when the time axis is divided into reproduction sections of a certain time interval. It is order information. In addition, information such as position coordinates of the display element and reproduction time as shown in FIG. 3, that is, so-called detailed information is also displayed. The editing result output means 113 outputs the data of the result edited by the scene editing control means 103 to the portable storage means 114.
The portable storage means 114 includes a display element actual data section 115,
Information necessary for scene reproduction is stored in the scene management information storage unit 116. The display element actual data storage unit 115 stores actual data for each display element such as graphic data in the case of graphics. Scene management information storage unit 114
Stores scene management information including display element management information and reproduction section management information as shown in FIG. 4, for example.

Next, as an information reproducing apparatus for reproducing an electronic publication edited by a conventional information editing apparatus, for example, there is one shown in FIG. This is the reading means 20
1, scene management information storage means 202, scene reproduction control means 203, normal reproduction instruction means 204, reproduction section skip instruction means 205, and reproduction preparation control means 207.
And reproduction information display means 209. The reading means 201 reads the display element actual data from the display element actual data storage unit 115 and the scene management information from the scene management information storage unit 116, respectively. The scene management information storage means 202 stores the scene management information read by the reading means 201. Normal reproduction instruction means 204
Indicates to perform reproduction at a normal speed. The reproduction section skip instruction means 205 instructs skip reproduction in reproduction section units at a certain time interval set at the time of editing. The scene reproduction control means 203 reads the scene management information from the scene management information storage section 116 using the reading means 201, stores it in the scene management information storage means 202, and reads the display element actual data according to the scene management information. Two
01 is used for reading, and the reproduction preparation control means 207 is used to control the reproduction of the scene. Reproduction preparation control means 207
Controls the playback preparation of display elements in units of playback sections. The reproduction information display means 209 displays the reproduced information.

[0006] When a reproduction section having a scene included in an electronic publication edited by such a conventional information editing apparatus is reproduced by the conventional information reproducing apparatus, the procedure of the reproduction preparation control of the display element is, for example, , As shown in the flow chart of FIG. Since both the reproducing device and the editing device have a timer, the data of the display element to be reproduced at the beginning of the reproducing section is read into the main memory based on the timer to prepare for reproduction (a1). Then, when the reproduction time for reproducing the reproduction section comes, the expanded image is transferred to the frame buffer to start the reproduction (a2). The reproduction preparation also includes the reading time and the expansion time. Then, the plurality of media are synchronized only at the beginning of the reproduction section, and thereafter, if the reproduction ends exactly, the synchronization in each frame is not guaranteed. In particular,
In this case, since the data transfer amount from the CD-ROM is limited, there is a margin in usable memory in consideration of the case of reproducing a section including a display element that requires time to prepare as shown in (a3). If there is, prefetching is performed to prepare the display element for the next playback section. This ensures the synchronization of the reproduction section. Here, the margin of the used memory is checked by the Malloc function of C language, for example. Specifically, if the memory size you want to use is given as an argument, its address value if it can be used, NU if it cannot be used.
The value LL (0: zero) is returned. As a result, the presence / absence of usable memory is determined.

At this time, there is no particular rule in the order of reproduction preparation of each display element, that is, the reading of actual display element data from the portable storage means and the processing of processing the data at the time of reproduction. As shown in, the display elements are in the order in which they are selected during editing.

[0006]

However, in the conventional device, when skip reproduction such as jumping to the next reproduction section is completed before the reproduction of the current reproduction section is completely finished, all display elements are displayed. There are times when there is not enough time to complete the preparation for reproduction, and at this time, pre-reading for preparing the reproduction of the display element in the next reproduction section cannot be sufficiently performed. As a result, the user must wait until all display elements are ready to be played.

Further, even when it is desired to roughly see a plurality of reproduction sections within a certain time, it is impossible to see the contents of the sections until preparation for reproduction of all display elements is completed. The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is possible to reduce the waiting time of the user when performing skip reproduction or when roughly viewing a plurality of reproduction sections quickly, and an information editing apparatus and a reproduction apparatus. The purpose is to provide.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, in the invention of claim 1, a display material storage for preliminarily storing a plurality of material data of display elements such as figures, sentences and photographs to be reproduced on the screen. Means, an editing information display means such as a CRT for displaying editing contents, and an editing operation instruction means for accepting an editing operation such as a user of the apparatus, that is, which material of the editor is to be arranged and when. And the layout editing section that edits the layout of how to determine the display elements on the screen at a certain time, and the layout (or arrangement) of the hierarchical relationship are appropriate, and the time axis from the start of editing or playback. A sequence editing unit that edits the reproduction order of the display elements in the reproduction section unit divided by a certain time interval is selected from the display material storage means according to the operation of the user, A scene editing control means for controlling the editing of a scene (whether a still image or a moving image) consisting of one or a plurality of playback sections using the layout editing section and the sequence editing section, and a plurality of playback starting points at a certain time. Reproduction preparation order rearranging means for rearranging the order in which the reproduction preparation processing of the display elements is performed in a predetermined procedure, and real information (the same as the actual data at the time of display) of the display elements as the edited result and scene management information for managing the scene. And output to a portable (including portable) storage medium such as a CD-ROM or a hard disk.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in addition to the structure of the first aspect, the reproduction preparation order rearranging means determines a discriminating section for discriminating the kind of the display element and a reproduction preparation time for each kind of the display element. The reproduction preparation time calculation unit for performing the calculation according to the procedure, the calculation result storage unit such as a buffer for storing the calculation result, and the display element management information table included in the scene management information created by the scene editing unit are reproduced. And a display element management information table rearranging section for rearranging the preparation time required in order. According to the invention of claim 3, a reading means for reading the display element actual data and the scene management information from a storage means including a display element actual data storage section for storing the information of the display element and a scene management information storage section for managing the scene. , Scene management information storage means for storing the scene management information read by the reading means, normal reproduction instruction means for instructing reproduction at a normal speed, and predetermined skip (interlaced) reproduction for each reproduction section. A reproduction section skip instruction means for instructing, a scene reproduction control means for reading actual display element data according to the scene management information and controlling reproduction of the scene, and a normal control for controlling reproduction preparation of the display element during reproduction at a normal speed. Reproduction preparation control means for reproduction, reproduction preparation control means for skip reproduction for controlling reproduction preparation during skip reproduction, and reproduction element for displaying display element reproduction information. And information display means, is characterized in that normal and a switching means for switching the playback preparation control in reproduction and skip reproduction.

According to the invention of claim 4, instead of the display element management information table rearranging means, the editor designates the importance degree designating means for designating the importance degree of the display elements and the display element management information table in descending order of importance. The present invention is characterized by further comprising a display element management information table importance degree rearranging means for rearranging in a descending order of the reproduction preparation time when the rearrangement and the importance degrees are the same.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, a display element actual data storage section for storing actual information of display elements and scene management information used in the apparatus according to any one of the first to fourth aspects of the invention. And a management information storage unit for each scene that stores the information. A portable (including a portable type or a type that can be carried by several people) storage means.

[0012]

With the above structure, in the invention of claim 1,
In accordance with the operation of the user (editor) of this device, the layout editing section edits the layout relationship of the display material stored in the display material storage means on the screen, and the arrangement order of a plurality of scenes and The sequence editing unit edits the reproduction order on the time axis, such as the display of necessary characters overlaid, and outputs the edited contents to the reproduction preparation rearrangement means. The reproduction preparation rearranging means rearranges the reproduction preparation order of the display elements for each reproduction section according to a predetermined procedure, and the edit result output means continuously outputs the final editing result to the portable storage means, for example, concentrically. .

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the reproduction preparation preparation rearranging means discriminates the kind of the display element by the discrimination means, and the reproduction preparation time calculating means calculates the reproduction preparation time using the result. The result is stored in the calculation result storage unit. When the calculation of the reproduction preparation time for all the display elements in the reproduction section is completed, the display element management information table rearranging means rearranges the display element management information tables in ascending order of the required time based on the calculation result.

According to the third aspect of the invention, the reading means reads the scene management information and the display element actual data. The read scene management information is stored in the scene management information storage means. According to the scene management information, the scene reproduction control means outputs the reproduction section management information to the normal reproduction reproduction preparation control means through the switching means in the case of normal reproduction. In the case of skip reproduction, it is output to the reproduction section skip control means. The reproduction preparation control means for normal reproduction prepares the reproduction of the display element and outputs the reproduction information to the reproduction information display means. The reproduction preparation control means for skip reproduction prepares for skip reproduction of the display element and outputs the reproduced information to the reproduction information display means. The reproduction information display means displays the reproduction information selected by the switching means.

In the invention of claim 4, the user designates the degree of importance for each display element. The display element management information table importance rearranging means arranges the display element management information tables in descending order of importance. At this time, when the importance is equal, the reproduction preparation time is arranged in ascending order.
In the invention of claim 5, the display element actual data storage unit of the portable storage means stores the actual information of the display element. Similarly, the scene-based management information storage unit stores scene information.

[0016]

EXAMPLES The present invention will be described below based on examples. (First Embodiment) FIG. 7 is a block diagram of the first embodiment of the information editing apparatus according to the present invention. As shown in the figure, the information editing apparatus includes a display material storage unit 101, an editing operation instructing unit 102, a scene editing control unit 103 having a layout editing unit 104 and a sequence editing unit 105, and an editing information display unit. 106, a media discriminating unit 108, a reproduction preparation time calculation control unit 109, a medium-specific reproduction preparation time calculation unit 110, and a display element management information table rearranging unit 11
1, display element reproduction preparation order rearranging means 107 having 1 and calculation result buffer 112, edit result output means 113,
A display element actual data storage unit 115 and a portable storage unit 114 having a scene management information storage unit 116 are provided.

The display material storage means 101 stores a plurality of material data such as texts, animations, still images and moving images which are display elements to be reproduced on the screen. The editing operation instructing means 102 is used by the user to select display elements on the screen, arrange a photograph including enlargement and reduction, add a sentence stored in the memory of the editing device, and modify the sentence. Accepts editing operation instructions. Scene editing control means 10
3 is a layout editing unit 104 and a sequence editing unit 10
5, the editing information display means 106 displays the contents of scene editing.
Is output to the editing result output means 113. The layout editing unit 104 edits the layout relationship of the display elements on the screen at a certain time. The sequence editing unit 105 edits the reproduction order of the display elements on the time axis in units of reproduction sections divided by a certain time interval. Editing information display means 106
Displays the edited contents. The display element reproduction preparation order rearranging means 107 includes a media discriminating unit 108, a reproduction preparation time calculation control unit 109, and a media-specific reproduction preparation time calculation unit 110.
The display element management information table rearranging unit 111 and the calculation result buffer 112 are provided, the reproduction preparation time of the display element is calculated according to a predetermined procedure, and the scene management information obtained by rearranging the display element management information table is output as an editing result. Means 11
Output to 3. The media determination unit 108 determines the type of display element. The reproduction preparation time calculation control unit 109 performs control for calculating the reproduction preparation time. The media-specific reproduction preparation time calculation unit 110 calculates the reproduction preparation time for each medium according to an expression stored therein beforehand. The display element management information table rearranging unit 111 rearranges the display element management information tables according to the value of the calculation result buffer 112 in order of decreasing time required for reproduction. The editing result output unit 113 is a display element reproduction preparation rearrangement unit 10.
The scene edit information output from 7 is written in the portable storage means 114 which is a storage medium of the external storage device. The portable storage unit 114 has a display element actual data storage unit 115 and a scene management information storage unit 116, and stores the scene reproduction information separately written in both storage units. At this time, of course, the display element actual data storage unit 115 stores the actual data of the display element, and the scene management information storage unit 116 stores the scene management information.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram of the first embodiment of the information reproducing apparatus according to the present invention. As shown in this figure, this information reproducing apparatus has a reading means 201, a scene management information storage means 202, a scene reproduction control means 203, a normal reproduction instructing means 204, and a reproduction section skip instructing means 2.
05, a switching unit 206, a normal reproduction reproduction preparation control unit 207, and a skip reproduction reproduction preparation control unit 20.
8 and reproduction information display means 209.

The reading means 201 is a portable storage means 1
The actual data of the display elements stored in the display element actual data storage unit 115 of 14 and the scene management information stored in the scene management information storage unit 116 are read. The scene management information storage unit 202 stores the read scene management information. The scene reproduction control unit 203 switches the reproduction section according to the scene management information and mediates the reading of the display element actual data in the reproduction section, and the user of the reproduction apparatus (note, unlike the user of the editing apparatus, Control the playback according to the instructions of switching the playback method from the reader of the edited result.). The normal reproduction instruction means 204 gives an instruction for reproduction at a normal speed. Reproduction section skip instruction means 205
Indicates skip reproduction of the reproduction section. The switching unit 206 switches the reproduction preparation control under the instruction of the user. The reproduction preparation control means 207 for normal reproduction performs reproduction preparation control during normal reproduction. The reproduction preparation control means 208 for skip reproduction performs reproduction preparation control at the time of skip reproduction. The reproduction information display means 209 displays the reproduction information of the scene.

Next, some important techniques adopted by each of the above components will be described. (1) Display Element Playback Preparation Regarding Media Discrimination Method for Display Element in Sorting Unit 107: The display element is identified by the file name, and which medium the file corresponds to is determined by checking the format of the file. . For example, on a PC such as Macintosh, PICT for graphics, QuickTime for movies,
For audio, there is a fixed format for each media such as AIFF. Then, in the file format, identification information that can be uniquely identified is stored in the file. Therefore, this identification information is used for the determination.

(2) Similarly, regarding the method of calculating the playback preparation time for each medium: As typical display elements, there are three types of text, graphic (picture, picture), and moving image. In the case of text, It is decided by the formula. (Playback preparation time) = (Coefficient of half-width character) × (Number of half-width character) + (Coefficient of full-width character) × (Number of full-width character) Here, each coefficient is actually obtained by measuring the reproduction time in the reproducing apparatus. For example, if it takes 1 second to display a text containing 1000 single-byte characters, 1 /
1000 seconds. Similarly, full-width characters are also obtained.
Actually, the coefficient is obtained by changing the number of characters.

In the case of graphics, it is determined by the following formula. (Playback preparation time) = (coefficient of compression method) × (size of graphic data) Here, each coefficient is actually reproduced by the reproducing apparatus and is measured by measuring the time. For example, if it takes 0.31 seconds to display 100 kilobytes of data with simple Langlens compressed graphic data, the coefficient in this compression method is 0.31 / 100 seconds per kilobyte. . Similar to the text, this is also measured for various sizes and the coefficient is obtained.

The same applies to moving images. In addition to the above, in individual special cases such as generating bold font from standard font,
Necessary corrections are made accordingly. (3) In addition to the above, storage of display elements as data and specification of the arranged position are X (left and right) Y at the upper left point in the case of drawings.
(Upper and lower) coordinate values, width, height, etc. In the case of a sentence, it is made by a character code and a control signal such as a line feed.

Further, the apparatus has a character font or the like for editing work. However, since these are so-called well-known and obvious techniques, further description and reference will be omitted. In addition, the method of editing scenes is also conventional, such as the so-called PC (Macintosh) presentation software "Astound" or "Aldus Persuasion".
Since this is the same as the above, the description of this is also omitted.

Next, the reproducing operation of the information editing apparatus will be described with reference to the drawings. Now, FIG. 9 shows the reproduction preparation time of the display element when the rule is calculated independently. Also, those display elements are arranged in three reproduction sections as shown in FIG. Here, the flow of the rearrangement process of the display element reproduction preparation order will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

(Start) Since the user has finished editing the scene, the user "outputs the editing result" to the editing operation instructing means 102.
Make an order. Upon receiving this command, the scene edit control means 103 outputs the scene management information managed internally to the reproduction preparation time calculation control means 109. (B1, b2) The reproduction preparation time calculation control means 109 initializes a variable i representing the number of remaining reproduction sections and a variable j representing the number of remaining display elements.

(B3) Next, the calculation result buffer 112 is cleared. (B4) It is determined whether i is 0. (End) If i is 0 in (b4), the rearrangement is completed for all the reproduction sections, so the process ends, and the scene management information and the display element actual data are output to the editing result output means 113.
If not, proceed to (b5).

(B5) It is determined whether or not j is 0. (B5) Next, if j is 0, the calculation of the reproduction preparation time for all the display elements in the reproduction section is completed (b1)
Proceed to 6). If not, proceed to (b6). Since j is not 0 in (b6) to (b12) and (b5), the type of the display element is discriminated using the media discriminating means 108, and the reproduction preparation time calculating means 110 for each medium is used to reproduce each display element. Calculate the preparation time.

(B13) The calculation result thus obtained is written in the calculation result buffer 112. (B14) Next, j is decreased by 1. The process proceeds to the next display element. (B15) The process proceeds to the next display element. (B16) When the reproduction preparation time can be calculated for all the display elements in this way, the display element management information table rearranging means 111 is used to display the display element management information table of the reproduction section management information in ascending order of the reproduction preparation time. Rearrange.

(B17) i is decremented by 1. (B18) Processing is recommended for the next playback section. The rearranged results are shown in FIG. In this figure, it can be seen that the management information of each display element in the scene management information of FIG. 4 is rearranged for each reproduction section in the ascending order of the single reproduction preparation time shown in FIG.

Next, regarding the operation of the information reproducing apparatus,
This will be described with reference to the drawings. First, the scene reproduction control means 2
03 reads the scene management information from the scene management information storage unit by the reading unit 201 and stores it in the scene management information storage unit 202. Since the user wants to start reproduction, the normal reproduction instruction means 204 is instructed to this effect. The scene reproduction control means 203 outputs the management information of the first reproduction section and the next reproduction section to the normal reproduction reproduction preparation control means 207 through the switching means 206 according to the scene management information stored in the scene management information storage means 202. According to the flow of the procedure shown in FIG. 6, when the reproduction preparation for all the display elements is completed, the normal reproduction reproduction preparation control means 207 starts prefetching of the display element in the next reproduction section when there is enough memory. Playback starts from.

Here, since the user of the information reproducing apparatus wants to see the information of the next reproduction section before the reproduction of the reproduction section currently being viewed is finished, the reproduction section skip instruction means 205.
Scene reproduction control means 203
Suppose you have ordered The scene reproduction control unit 203 advances the processing to the next reproduction section, and outputs the management information of the current reproduction section and the management information of the next reproduction section to the reproduction preparation control unit 208 for skip reproduction through the switching unit 206. The reproduction preparation control means 208 for skip reproduction is shown in FIG.
Processing is performed according to the flow of processing shown in. This will be described below.

(C1) First, preparation for reproduction is started for all display elements for which preparation for reproduction has not been completed. (C2) Next, it is determined whether or not the preparations for reproduction of all display elements have been completed. (C5) If completed, check the remaining amount of used memory. (C6) If possible, the reproduction preparation of the display element included in the next reproduction section is started, and then the reproduction is started.

In (c3) and (c2), if not completed, it is determined whether there is any display element for which reproduction preparation is completed. If not, the procedure returns to (c2). If there is (c4), that display element is displayed on the reproduction information display means 209, and the process returns to (c2). In this way, the reproduction information is displayed on the reproduction information display means 209 in order from the display element for which reproduction preparation is completed. To specifically describe the case of the scene management information of FIG. 11, the synchronization point A
In, the display element 2, the display element 1, and the display element 3 appear on the screen in this order. Further, when the user performs skip reproduction using the reproduction section skip instruction means 205 at intervals of 30 milliseconds, the reproduction is most performed among the display elements displayed at the respective synchronization points A, B, and C. Specifically, the display element 2, the display element 5, and the display element 9 having a short preparation time are reproduced in the order of the synchronization points.

The same processing can be performed when reverse skip reproduction is performed in the previous reproduction section. In the present embodiment,
Wait time of the user when viewing multiple playback sections during skip playback due to the synergistic effect of starting playback preparation from a display element with a short playback preparation time and displaying on the screen from a display element that has completed playback preparation Can be reduced. (Second Embodiment) FIG. 13 is a block diagram of a second embodiment of the information editing apparatus according to the present invention. In this embodiment, the user (editor) can specify the importance of the display element. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 13, as compared with the first embodiment, the importance degree designating means 301 is a constituent element.
The display element management information table rearranging means 111 is replaced with a display element management information table importance rearranging means 302.

The degree-of-importance designation means 301 ranks the display elements that the editor who is the user of the information editing apparatus wants the reader who is the user of the information reproducing apparatus to pay attention to.
The screen display of this importance is displayed in the detailed information as shown in FIG. Next, FIG. 15 shows how the display element management information table is rearranged in this embodiment.
This will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

(D1) to (d3) First, the reproduction preparation time for each display element is calculated as in the first embodiment. (D4) Next, the display element management information table importance level rearranging means 302 is used to rearrange the display element management information table in descending order of importance. However, when the importance is equal, the calculation result buffer 112 is referred to and the reproduction preparation times are arranged in ascending order.

The above processes (d5, d6) are performed for all reproduction sections. FIG. 17 shows the result of rearrangement when the importance is set as shown in FIG. Since the subsequent processing is the same as that of the first embodiment, the description thereof will be omitted. Also, the information reproducing apparatus may be the same as that of the first embodiment.
This allows the editor to rank the display elements, so that the user does not have time, so even when using skip playback to roughly view multiple playback sections, the display element that the editor wants to pay attention to can be selected. You can show it first.

Although the present invention has been described above based on the embodiments, it goes without saying that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. That is, for example, the following may be performed. (1) For the convenience of manufacturing, etc., one of the essential items (components, constituent elements, means, parts) of the present invention may be divided into a plurality of parts, or conversely, a plurality of items may be integrated, or these may be appropriately combined. Are combined.

(2) The information editing device and its reproducing device are
It is possible to exchange information via communication lines. (3) The information editing device and its reproducing device are integrated. (4) Importance and skip are not in two steps but in a multi-step type. For this reason, for example, two or more types of codes having the degree of importance are given by the editor.

[0041]

As described above, according to the information editing apparatus and the information reproducing apparatus of the present invention, the reproduction preparation order of the display elements is rearranged in the ascending order of the reproduction preparation time at the time of editing, thereby reproducing at the time of reproduction. The synergistic effect of starting playback preparation from a display element with a short preparation time and displaying on the screen from a display element that has completed playback preparation can reduce the waiting time for users viewing multiple playback sections. It will be possible.

Further, since the importance of the display elements is ranked at the time of editing, even if a plurality of reproduction sections are roughly viewed by using the skip reproduction, it is not necessary to wait until the preparations for the reproduction of other display elements are completed. It is possible to show the display element that the editor wants to pay attention to first.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a conventional information editing device.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a display state of a layout editing screen and a sequence editing screen in a conventional information editing device.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing how detailed information of a conventional information editing apparatus is displayed on a screen.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing scene management information by a conventional information editing device.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a conventional information reproducing apparatus.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a control procedure at the time of reproduction by a conventional reproduction preparation control means.

FIG. 7 is a configuration diagram of a first embodiment of an information editing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a configuration diagram of a first embodiment of an information reproducing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a table showing a single reproduction preparation time of each display element of the above-described embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a rearrangement control procedure of the display element reproduction preparation order rearranging means of the above embodiment.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing the contents of scene management information by the information editing apparatus of the above embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a flow chart showing control of reproduction preparation by the reproduction preparation control means for skip reproduction of the above embodiment.

FIG. 13 is a configuration diagram of a second embodiment of the information editing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 14 is an explanatory diagram showing the contents of a layout editing screen, a sequence editing screen, and a detailed information screen of the information editing apparatus of the above embodiment.

FIG. 15 is a flow chart of a rearrangement control procedure of the display element management information table importance rearranging means in the above embodiment.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing the contents of scene management information by the information editing apparatus of the above embodiment.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing the contents of scene management information by the information editing apparatus of the above embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 101 Display Material Storage Means 102 Editing Operation Instructing Means 103 Scene Editing Controlling Means 104 Layout Editing Units 105 Sequence Editing Units 106 Editing Information Displaying Means 107 Display Element Playback Preparation Rearranging Means 108 Media Discriminating Units 109 Playback Preparation Time Calculation Control Units 110 By Media Playback preparation time calculation unit 111 Display element management information table rearranging unit 112 Calculation result buffer 113 Editing result output unit 114 Portable storage unit 115 Display element actual data storage unit 116 Scene management information storage unit 201 Reading unit 202 Scene management information storage unit 203 scene reproduction control means 204 normal reproduction instruction means 205 reproduction section skip instruction means 206 switching means 207 reproduction preparation control means 208 skip reproduction reproduction preparation control means 209 reproduction information display means 30 Importance of specifying means 302 display element management information table importance rearrangement means

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A display material storage means for storing a plurality of material data of display elements to be reproduced on a screen, an edit information display means for displaying edit contents, and an edit operation instruction means for receiving a user's edit operation. User operation including a layout editing section that edits the layout relationship of display elements on the screen at time and a sequence editing section that edits the playback order of display elements in playback sections that are separated by a certain time interval on the time axis A scene editing control means for controlling editing of a scene consisting of one or a plurality of playback sections by using the layout editing section and the sequence editing section to select an edit target from the display material storage means according to And a display element as an edited result, which is a reproduction preparation order rearranging means for rearranging the order of performing the reproduction preparation processing of a plurality of display elements in a predetermined procedure. An edit result output means for outputting real information and scene management information for managing a scene to a storage means including a display element real data storage section for storing real information of a display element and a scene management information storage section for managing a scene. Information editing device characterized by. 2. The reproduction preparation order rearranging means stores a determination unit for determining the type of display element, a reproduction preparation time calculation unit for calculating the reproduction preparation time for each type of display element, and the calculation result thereof. A calculation result storage unit; and a display element management information table rearranging unit for rearranging the display element management information tables included in the scene management information created by the scene editing control means in the ascending order of the stored calculation results. Claim 1 characterized by the above-mentioned.
Information editing device described in. 3. A reading means for reading the display element actual data and the scene management information from a storage means including a display element actual data storage section for storing display element information and a scene management information storage section for storing the scene management information. Scene management information storage means for storing the scene management information read by the reading means, normal reproduction instruction means for instructing reproduction at a normal speed, and reproduction section skip instruction means for instructing skip reproduction for each reproduction section. And scene reproduction control means for reading the display element actual data according to the scene management information and controlling the reproduction of the scene, and reproduction preparation control for normal reproduction for controlling the reproduction preparation procedure of the display element during reproduction at a normal speed. Means, a reproduction preparation control means for skip reproduction for controlling a reproduction preparation procedure at the time of skip reproduction, and a reproduction information table for displaying and reproducing a display element. Information reproducing apparatus characterized by comprising: means, and switching means for switching the playback preparation control in normal reproduction and the skip reproduction. 4. The display element management information table rearranging means is replaced with an importance degree designating means for designating the importance degree of display elements, and the display element management information table is rearranged in descending order of importance, and when the importance degrees are the same, 3. The information editing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a display element management information table importance degree rearranging unit that rearranges the reproduction element preparation order in ascending order. 5. The display element actual data storage unit for storing the actual information of the display element, and the scene-by-scene management information storage unit for storing the scene management information. An information editing device according to claim 4 or claim 3
Portable storage means for the described information reproducing device.