Patent 7103260 was granted and assigned to Quantel on September, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
There is described an editing system in which image data representing an initial moving image input in a first format at a corresponding rate is stored in a store and is manipulated to produce image data representing an edited moving image for output in a second format at a corresponding data rate. The system is arranged such that processing is effected at a data rate which is variable and determines the second data rate.