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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7382280 | Parking violation recording system and method A parking violation recording system capable of recording violations based on the location of a violating vehicle, is provided. The system includes at least one camera located on a mass transit vehicle, oriented so that it is capable of viewing a violating vehicle a... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7196722 | Multiple camera video system which displays selected images Multiple streams of data are streamed to a user's terminal with images from different cameras. Low resolution thumbnail images tell the user what image streams are available. A focus stream provides high resolution images from a selected camera. A user can switch th... | 03/27/2007 |
| 6456319 | Image sensing apparatus There is disclosed a video camera which has a normal moving image sensing mode, and a still image sensing mode for sensing an image on a negative film set in a film adapter attached as a still image. An optical image of a subject is photoelectrically conv... | 09/24/2002 |
| 5825410 | Apparatus for reproducing still images of a plurality of frames In still frame images from a film, the first frame of an image block is produced in a fade-in manner for gradually outputting a picture. If the end of a beginning part of a theme block is detected from information for a next frame, the process is advanced... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5790187 | Film holder, image reading device and method for reading a film original with an image reading device A film holder holds a film original and an image reading device uses the film holder for the purpose of easily changing the frames of the film original. The film holder is provided with a holder main body and an adapter. The holder main body holds the fil... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5682200 | Telecine scanner A telecine scanner having a capstan roll (3) continuously advancing the film through a picture scanning station, includes a capstan motor (2) controlled by a phase signal derived from a tachodisc (7) of a sprocket (8) driven by the film (1). To improve ve... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5671008 | Telecine system A portable and economical telecine machine for rapidly converting images recorded on motion picture film to electronically available and manipulable video signals with extremely high frame accuracy and temporal correspondence. On a commercially-available ... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5631696 | Film image input method A width of a illumination light being transmitted through a film is restricted within a distance between frames of the film. The film is transported to a position where only an area between frames is illuminated after the image of one frame is picked up, ... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5493330 | Telecine apparatus utilizing an equal-interval pull-down technique In a telecine apparatus for converting a light passed through a film into a video signal comprises a transporting device for transporting the film intermittently, operation of a shutter is controlled so that a light from an irradiating device becomes inci... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5376961 | Method and apparatus for a rotating shutter in real-time film-to-video conversion A telecine system for converting motion picture film to video contains a pulldown mechanism and a rotating shutter. The telecine system creates a 3-2 film frame to video frame conversion. The pulldown mechanism transports the film and the rotating shutter... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5177615 | Apparatus for recovering a film signal from a television video signal A film image recorded on an initial movie film is converted into a television video signal which is thereafter converted into another film image and recorded an another movie film. The initial movie film includes an identification film part formed in the ... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5119191 | Flicker processor for cinema video assist In a video assist system, an intermittent composite video signal produced by a modified television camera from a motion-picture image is converted to a composite video output signal in a continuous television format, by writing a largely unprocessed inter... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5018019 | Method and apparatus for improving signal to noise ratio in a telecine machine A method and apparatus is disclosed for operating CCD sensors of a telecine machine at full well potential during a conversion mode of operation and at 1/2 full well potential during shuttle mode operations. The disclosed method and apparatus optimize the... | 05/21/1991 |
| 4833544 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus is capable of reading an original image with an arbitrary image magnification, by projecting an original image onto a linear image sensor through an optical system of a variable image magnification, and moving the original im... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4164761 | Telecine apparatus having improved reproduction during panning and tilting scenes This invention relates to a method and apparatus for improving the reproduction of a television picture derived from a cinema film by a telecine apparatus during a period of panning and/or tilting in the scene recorded on the cinema film. The improvement ... | 08/14/1979 |
| 4157570 | TV-Cine conversion projector The TV-cine conversion projector adapted to carry out the ordinary film projection of the projector at the feeding rate of the film frames of substantially 24 frames/sec. and 18 frames/sec., while, in cooperation with a TV camera tube such as a vidicon, i... | 06/05/1979 |
