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Walt Disney was no Mickey Mouse inventor. He devised a serious animation camera which he patented. With the device, his company created "Snow White".
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7209181 | System and method for compositing of two or more real images in a cinematographic puppetry production An improved cinematographic system and method for multiple compositing, within a virtual studio, of an image frame or image sequence of a real/action image of an action sequence of a puppet, with another image frame or image sequence of a real/action image of the sa... | 04/24/2007 |
| 5029997 | Stop-frame animation system An stop motion animation sequence of a tangible object is made by the steps of making a series of drawings representing three-dimensional object to be animated in various sequential positions; sequentially embodying the drawings on a projection medium suc... | 07/09/1991 |
| 4913539 | Apparatus and method for lip-synching animation The disclosed invention takes advantage of the fact that the speech information and processing needed for successful animation lip-synching is actually much less than the information and processing which is needed for identifying individual words, as in t... | 04/03/1990 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
