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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4278332 | Table apparatus for holding and moving cels for producing animated motion pictures Table apparatus for holding and moving cels for producing animated motion pictures includes a plurality of aligned elements movable relative to each other, with each individual element capable of holding a plurality of cels and with the elements of the ta... | 07/14/1981 |
| 4264157 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing masked motion picture film for simulated target practice A scene containing one or more targets for simulated target practice is pographed in a special motion picture camera such that only one half of each frame is exposed. After reversal development, a transparent template having two sets of aligned, spaced-a... | 04/28/1981 |
| 4260229 | Creating visual images of lip movements A system and method that creates visual images of lip movements on film, video tape, or other recorded media. Speech sounds are analyzed, digitally encoded and transmitted to a data memory device. Stored within the data memory device is a program for prod... | 04/07/1981 |
| 4214823 | Animation stand control system A control system for an animation stand including a stored program computer for monitoring and storing a plurality of manually produced positions of a camera and a support relative to each other and for calculating a plurality of driver command signals fr... | 07/29/1980 |
| 4174887 | Rotatable stage for a camera A stage for a slide camera has a two-railed circular track on a base. The rails are conductive and connected to a photostat-controlled electric power pack. On the track are a plurality of trucks having upstanding support members which carry a platform wit... | 11/20/1979 |
| 4160585 | Special effects device A special effects device for use in motion pictures, television, and the like having an outer, middle and inner frame. The middle frame is mounted in the outer frame for translational movement relative thereto and the inner frame is mounted in the middle ... | 07/10/1979 |
| 4150883 | Cineconversion machine To record a composite picture on a film, a projection objective inserted between a movable transparency support and a pair of large-diameter planoconvex field lenses produces an aerial image of a slide, mounted on the support, in the region of the field l... | 04/24/1979 |
| 4131342 | Stereoscopic optical viewing system An optical viewing system and method is described, whose operating principles are based on two psycho-physiological characteristics of the human visual system. One of these characteristics is the time delay between the arrival of a light stimulus or image... | 12/26/1978 |
| 4104625 | Apparatus for providing facial image animation An image animation apparatus includes a rotating disk having film negatives mounted around its periphery each film negative having a different facial expression on it. By use of an associated microprocessor which responds to certain control inputs the seq... | 08/01/1978 |
| 4035067 | Cineconversion machine To record a composite picture on a film, a projection objective inserted between a movable transparency support and a pair of large-diameter planoconvex field lenses produces an aerial image of a slide, mounted on the support, in the region of the field l... | 07/12/1977 |
| 4003653 | Method of producing color slides from black and white originals In the method of producing color slides from black and white originals, a light box, a glass plate and a camera are used. Also utilized is a positive and negative of a black and white original. In the first step, a film frame in the camera is exposed to t... | 01/18/1977 |
| 3978504 | Photographic superimposition device A photographic superimpositon device for maintaining photographic film in superimposed mutual position comprises a film holder having a rectangular frame having a first pair of spaced parallel members and a second pair of spaced parallel members perpendic... | 08/31/1976 |
| 3970379 | Animation method and system A system and method for producing an animated motion picture in which the scene contents for the next succeeding frame in a plurality of sequential picture frames may be aligned with respect to the previous frame scene content prior to the photographic re... | 07/20/1976 |
| 3941463 | Method of producing a colored film from a black-and-white picture The method of producing a colored film from an exposed black-and-white picture and especially from an exposed black-and-white motion picture film wherein a black-and-white image is projected onto a surface, opaque pastel colors are applied within selected... | 03/02/1976 |
