Abstract: A video image bank system for preparing an edit tape and associated edit list from a library of stock video image sequences uses a set of video disks with an associated library index. A microprocessor or personal computer is loaded with the library index, and an operator selects an initial set of image sequences from a menu or by using key words, specifically or highlighted in a word processor text file, for a desired effect. Groups of still frames, one from each identified image sequence, are displayed and the operator selects any one of the represented image sequences for addition to the edit tape and the associated edit list. Once all the desired stock video image sequences have been selected from the library and transferred to the edit tape and associated edit list, these sequences may readily be added to a production video sequence using normal editing procedures.

Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for transmitting video signals which produce images that can be viewed comfortably as two-dimensional images but when viewed through special glasses appear to be three dimensional. An illusion of depth is created for scenes including a moving object by combining one chrominance component of a past field with the luminance component of the current field. By "registering" the moving objects of the past and current fields, the background (stationary) objects of the past and current fields are displaced slightly relative to each other. These displaced images appear in complementary colors and can be viewed normally if the displacement is slight, with an unobjectionable color fringe. When viewed through appropriately filtered glasses, the displaced images create a three dimensional illusion.