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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7369075 | Output circuit, digital/analog circuit and display apparatus An output circuit, a digital/analog conversion circuit and a display apparatus can reduce the number of required input voltages and the number of transistors to save the necessary area. The output circuit and the digital/analog conversion circuit comprise a selectio... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7260624 | Systems and methods for establishing interaction between a local computer and a remote computer Methods and devices provide for remote management of a local computer by transferring screen frames produced by the local computer for viewing at a remote computer. The screen frame data may be obtained by digitizing an analog video output of the local computer and ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259482 | Distance extender and method making use of same A distance extender (100, 200) for increasing a distance between a first device (145) and a second device (150) in electrical communication with the first device includes an electrical cable (130, 230) electrically coupled between the fir... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7233336 | Systems and methods for capturing screen displays from a host computing system for display at a remote terminal The present invention provides systems and methods for monitoring a host computing system from a maintenance computing system located at a remote location. The system of the present invention includes a frame grabber that is connected the digital output of a video c... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7227583 | Digital TV method for switching channel automatically A digital TV and a method of switching a channel automatically thereof provides a viewer with advance notice of an automatic channel switch using linkage descriptor information on HD broadcasting. Providing the viewer with notice of the switched channel reduces view... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228154 | Method and system for processing wireless digital multimedia A transmit digital processing system for wireless transmission of HDMI and/or DVI data using an FPGA. The FPGA converts the data into two data streams and includes a front end component multiplexing video data with control data. A complementary receive FPGA is also ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7181081 | Image sequence enhancement system and method Scenes from motion pictures to be colorized are broken up into separate elements, composed of backgrounds/sets or motion/onscreen-action. These background and motion elements are combined into single frame representations of multiple frames as tiled frame sets or as... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7116354 | Absolute intensity determination for a light source in low level light imaging systems The invention describes systems and methods to obtain and present imaging data in absolute units. The systems and methods convert relative image data produced by a camera to absolute light intensity data using a compensation factor. The compensation factor accommoda... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7110019 | Image reading apparatus A head of a spliced film is transported to downstream side along a path by feed roller pairs, nip roller pairs and transport roller pairs; while the head of the spliced film is detected by a sensor located before a transport merging portion, the nip roller pairs are... | 09/19/2006 |
| 6952264 | Dose radiometer The invention includes a method for collecting radiation. An electromechanical radiation collection device is disposed in a roll to collect radiation directed at the roll. The invention is also an apparatus comprising a roll having an outer surface. An electromechan... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6909454 | Calibration techniques in flying spot scanners & telecine machines A method of calibrating the light system in a flying spot scanner or telecine machine using a cathode ray tube light source and a photosensitive detector, wherein at a first level of light transmitted to the photosensitive detector a control signal to the photosensi... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6844894 | Image processing A method of and an apparatus for the conversion of cinematographic film to corresponding video data, in which the transport mechanism 3a of a telecine machine 2a is operated at a rate higher than the real time frame rate for the film to b... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6707943 | Method of monitoring the quality of distributed digital images by detecting false contours A method and device for monitoring the quality of distributed digital images coded by blocks of pixels in which a false contour phenomenon may be generated when the image is reproduced. An image average for pixels represented by at least one luminance respectively c... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6091446 | Consecutive frame scanning of cinematographic film A method and device are disclosed for transferring information from cinema film at a first speed to broadcast quality video signals at a second and different, predetermined speed which may be greater or less than the first speed in a telecine containing a... | 07/18/2000 |
| 5818518 | Film transfer apparatus An apparatus for use in a method for scanning an image on a film and generating a video signal therefrom. The apparatus having a signal processor (10) receiving a plurality of input raster lines representing a film image, and a control unit (11) having co... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5793418 | Shading correction on a CRT telecine A process and system for forming a video image with a telecine transfer device is disclosed, the process comprising converting a photographic film image into video signals representative of the image with a telecine transfer device which uses a cathode ra... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5680172 | Consecutive frame scanning of cinematographic film A new and useful method is disclosed for transferring information from cinema film at a first speed to broadcast quality video signals at a second and different, predetermined speed which may be greater or less than the first speed, in a telecine with an ... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5557322 | Telecines with simultaneous scanning of a plurality of frames A continuous-motion flying-spot telecine has twin objective lenses (13,14) which provide beams to scan two adjacent film frames simultaneously. Two sets of light detectors (16,17) are provided, one for each frame being scanned. The detector outputs are ap... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5438358 | Image signal conversion system An image signal conversion apparatus converts an image signal outputted from an image signal generation means into a film record signal in an image signal conversion means, and forms an image on a predetermined film on the basis of the film record signal.... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5402166 | Method and apparatus for compensating for film registration weave in film scanning systems A film instability compensating system compensates for the effects of film instability in a film gate. The film instability compensation system includes a positional transducer for measuring the position of the film edge relative to a sprocket hole which ... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5361092 | Method of and apparatus for scanning cinematographic film while avoiding blemishes in the phosphor face of a CRT scanner To avoid the effect of blemishes in a CRT phosphor of a CRT film scanner a map is produced identifying areas of the phosphor that are blemished. When a line scan traverses a blemish the signal produced by that scan is inhibited and the area of film is res... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5327247 | Compensation of losses and defects in telecine devices A signal produced by a telecine suffers from losses and defects caused by differences in response to incident light between different areas of the screen area scanned. These differences may arise from burning of the screen, blemishes, dirt in the system, ... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5321339 | Protection of cathode ray tubes To avoid burn in a scanning cathode ray tube, the address of the scanning spot at each clock period is recorded in a memory. During each frame period, the logarithms of the number of occurrences of each address are fed to a peak detector. The peak value i... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5299014 | Telecine method and apparatus for the production of high definition television signals A high definition video signal can be obtained from photographic film by a non-real time scanning operation. The image area to be scanned is divided into blocks and a number of subscans equal to the number of pixels in each block are performed on the imag... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5173780 | Method and apparatus for correcting drift in the level of a video signal in a telecine In a flying spot telecine including cathode ray tube scanning circuit for generating flying spot and a photodetector for receiving light transmitted by a film strip being scanned by the telecine, a control circuit is provided for causing the CRT scanning ... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5159441 | Flying spot telecine and method of operating same A flying spot telecine includes a control processor for generating and storing a MINIMUM GAIN REFERENCE value representing a minimum gain of each of a plurality of PMT sections which detect light transmitted by a film strip that is being scanned by a ligh... | 10/27/1992 |
| 4994921 | Halftone imaging system and method System and method for producing halftone images, which are particularly suitable for use in desk top publishing. An image of an object is displayed on a video display screen, and a picture of the screen is taken with a halftone camera to make a photograph... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4742397 | System and method for adjusting image brightness in electronic printer A system and method for displaying an image for photographic reproduction operates to calibrate the brightness of the image display prior to each photographic reproduction in a manner that accounts for the variations in the brightness characteristics of t... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4556914 | Photographic documentation systems for CRT or video imaging screens A photographic documentation apparatus for obtaining high resolution and continuous tone photographs of a TV monitor or CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) image, the apparatus including a main housing adapted to be mounted on the monitor to prevent movement and assur... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4356514 | Apparatus for use in scanning a cinematograph film In a flying spot film scanner for scanning a cinematograph film frame by frame during continuous movement of the film and producing a television video signal, apparatus is provided which processes signals representative of the direction of film movement, ... | 10/26/1982 |
| 4329715 | Apparatus for use in scanning a cinematograph film In a flying spot film scanner for scanning a cinematograph film frame by frame during continuous movement of the film and producing a television video signal, apparatus is provided which processes signals representative of the direction of film movement, ... | 05/11/1982 |
| 4191972 | Flying spot single field scan telecine apparatus In order to avoid the registration problems involved in multiple scanning of each film frame in a continuous motion flying spot telecine, the video information derived from one field scan only of each frame is used to build up the complete television sign... | 03/04/1980 |
| 4184177 | Television apparatus for consecutive frame scanning of continuous motion film The invention concerns a flying spot telecine apparatus wherein the film is driven at constant speed with a film frame rate which is not exactly half the television field frequency, for example at 24 frames per second where the field frequency is 60 field... | 01/15/1980 |
| 4104680 | Method and apparatus for film weave correction A method and apparatus for film weave correction is disclosed in connection with a moving beam-type recorder or flying spot scanner device having a continuous-motion film drive in which the film is edge-guided rather than sprocket hole-guided as during pl... | 08/01/1978 |
| 4054918 | Film scanning system providing automatic frame positioning There is provided an image reproduction system whereby a moving picture and a still picture can be selectively reproduced from a tape-shaped recording medium having images recorded thereon in sequential frames and which also enables simple and automatic f... | 10/18/1977 |
| 4038493 | Method and apparatus for phototypesetting Method and apparatus for use in phototypesetting operations wherein a character, e.g. in transparency form, is scanned, for example, by a lightspot output of a cathode ray tube of the phototypesetting apparatus, processed to a suitable format and stored, ... | 07/26/1977 |
| 3976832 | Circuit for detecting vertical mis-registration in a flying spot scanner This invention concerns a circuit for detecting vertical mis-registration in a flying spot scanner of the kind in which each film frame is scanned by at least two interlaced fields. For proper vertical registration each line of each field should fall midway ... | 08/24/1976 |
| 3953671 | Feed-back circuit for controlling the distance between vertically displaced scanning rasters produced by a cathode ray tube Errors in the raster of a flying spot scanner are measured by placing a semi-reflecting surface in the path of the light to the object being scanned to form a secondary raster image in a position where such measurements can be made without interfering wit... | 04/27/1976 |
