METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INTEGRATING SUBJECT VIDEO AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDED WITH THE METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the method and device for integrating video by which the video as if it were viewed on the spot and free from unnatural feeling is formed by composing one or more actual video images of a subject together in an arbitrary background with proper positions and composition. SOLUTION: One or more subject video images which are previously fragmented into cuts and stored are stored as an object. The movement of the subject object and the position and direction of a viewpoint based upon the operation of a viewer are independently managed in a video space by a video space managing means 110. A viewer view generating means 109 generates a viewer view according to the viewpoint of the viewer in the video space and the position and direction of the subject object. A subject object included in this view is selected by a subject object selecting means 105 and the corresponding subject video is reproduced by a subject video reproducing means 103. A video composing means 108 puts reproduced subject video and background video one over the other according to the viewer view and displays the resulting video on a video display means 107, thus providing various actual video images matched with the movement of the viewer.