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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7264194 | Machine-detectable adhesive tape The invention relates to an adhesive tape for a flying reel change of a flat material wound up over a reel, provided with a main support, a self-adhesive composition on the face side and at least, on the back side, one strip of a double-sided adhesive tape which has... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7146553 | Error correction improvement for concatenated codes An enhanced forward error correction system is disclosed. Transmitted data is encoded into codewords in multiple dimensions. The decoding of received data by a decoder is performed in multiple passes in each dimension, with corrected data provided as an output from ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7029188 | Image forming apparatus, image forming apparatus setup system, and image forming apparatus setup method The image forming apparatus includes a printer that performs image printing on the sheet members supplied at preset intervals at the first transport speed and a processor that performs development processing on the printed sheet members transported at the second tra... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6952221 | System and method for real time video production and distribution A production system automates the control of production devices used to produce and broadcast a show. The system automation allows a video director to pre-produce, preview, and produce the live show from a single user interface. In an embodiment, a processing unit d... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6646060 | Resin composition containing crystalline polyimide A resin composition containing a mixture produced by blending a crystalline polyamide expressed e.g. by formula (1) ##STR1## (in the formula, R1 is a bivalent organic aromatic group or aliphatic group having a carbon number of 2 to 30, optional... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6335839 | Magnetic head device including a playback head and a recording head maintaining contact with a film A magnetic head device for reading and recording information from a magnetic recording section of a photographic film has a recording head and a playback head. The playback head and recording head are adjacently positioned by a head base plate. The head b... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6282501 | Disk drive testing The invention includes a method and integrated circuit for testing a disk drive. The invention internally generates test inputs to the host interface in the disk drive. The test inputs emulate the actual inputs that a host computer would provide to the ho... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6268971 | Camera having magnetic head and noise detector An unexposed-frame determining apparatus which determines an unexposed frame by reproducing magnetic information recorded on a film, includes a magnetic information reproducing device which reproduces magnetic information recorded on the film, and a magne... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6262856 | Magnetic information reproducing apparatus having power supply field cancellation facility A magnetic information reproducing apparatus includes a head which reads magnetic information from a magnetic recording medium, and an electric wire for supplying electric power from a power supply to a load, the electric wire being so disposed as to gene... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6249397 | Device for reading and writing data on magnetic recording layer of photo film A magnetic read-write device with a magnetic head consisting of a core and a coil. The read-write device is incorporated into in a camera. A writing circuit is connected directly and in parallel to the coil, for driving the coil with writing current in a ... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6151176 | Magnetic head attachment structure in a photographic film apparatus A magnetic head attachment structure for a photographic film comprises a head unit for supporting magnetic heads which read and/or write magnetic information to or from the photographic film. The magnetic head attachment structure also includes a pressure... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6084728 | Method of recording magnetic information A magnetic track on a roll of photographic film is divided into a leader track on the forward end part of the film and a frame track corresponding to each frame, which is located after the ladder part. A manufacturer identification code including the manu... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6072644 | Process and circuit for reading weal magnetically recorded signals A process and device are disclosed for reading weak magnetically recorded signals from a photographic film provided with a transparent thin magnetic layer. The signals from a magnetic read head obtained from the moving film are pre-amplified and the pre-a... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6028729 | Magnetic head with read and write coils and a circuit for interrupting a mutual induction of the coils An apparatus provided with a magnetic head including a core, a writing coil and a reading coil wound around the core; a writing circuit connected with the writing coil for driving the writing coil; a reading circuit connected with the reading coil for gen... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5987400 | System for monitoring the throughput performance of a disk storage system In a disk storage drive having a CPU, a disk and an EEPROM, the CPU measures throughput performance. The CPU measures the throughput performance for a measured area provided on a data-recording surface of the disk, in response to a test command supplied f... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5909328 | Magnetic recording device and camera with magnetic recording device A film pressure plate is provided with a magnetic head which records magnetic information in a magnetic recording section at lower edge of photographic film. A saddle-shaped pad is arranged at the front of a rail plate in such a manner as to face the magn... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5880897 | Apparatus in use of a film having information recording section An apparatus in use of a film having information recording section, wherein a magnetic head is held with a head guide member which is disposed on a pressure holder, so that the magnetic head could be movable and rotatable in a perpendicular direction to a... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5828506 | Magnetic head interface having a single narrow band of contact for longitudinal edge track record/reproduce on magnetics-on-film (MOF) Photographic apparatus for recording/reproducing information in a magnetic region along an edge of photographic film, the apparatus comprising: a magnetic head supported by said apparatus in contact with a magnetic region of film transported past the magnetic ... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5764427 | Magnetic recording method and device for magnetic recording binary code data on photo film A magnetic recording method for recording binary code data on magnetic recording tracks formed with a constant length on photo film. Each bit of the binary code data is recorded as a bit segment constituted of a first kind magnetic zone and a second kind ... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5742856 | Camera having magnetic recording head A camera of the kind having a magnetic head for magnetically recording data in a track part of each frame portion of a film is arranged such that, in re-recording information in the track part having a previous record of data, a predetermined signal for e... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5692094 | Film image scanning apparatus for picking up an image and magnetic data recorded on a film without deterioration from noise generated by a peripheral circuit A light source illuminates a developed silver salt photographing film having a magnetic recording portion on which magnetic data is recorded. A light source drive section drives the light source. An image read section reads image data from the film illumi... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5684661 | Magnetic head assembly and method for reading and/or writing data onto a thin magnetic layer placed on a photographic element A method and apparatus for reading and/or recording information on a photographic element having a thin magnetic layer. The apparatus includes a magnetic head assembly having a read and/or write head having an outer engaging surface for contacting the mag... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5682458 | Camera for recording shot data on a magnetic recording area of a film A camera and a video filing system practicable therewith are disclosed. The camera has a body and a plurality of component parts removably mounted on the body and including a lens and a stroboscope. The body and component parts each has a respective condi... | 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 |
| 5666185 | Method for recording a digital audio signal on a motion picture film Digital audio signals and a conventional audio track are recorded on a motion picture film by error correction encoding digital audio data to be recorded on the film, sequentially arranging the error encoded digital audio data in a direction perpendicular... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5646794 | Metal detection apparatus for detecting metal objects in a web of photographic material A photofinishing apparatus for reading and/or writing magnetic information on a web of photographic film. The web comprises a plurality of individual strips of film secured together end to end. The apparatus includes a film track for receiving the web, a ... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5640629 | Information recording device with control of film transport An information recording device of a camera permits recording of more information with an appropriate recording density without monitoring the film feeding speed constantly. The information recording device includes a feeding assembly to feed film mounted... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5634157 | Information recording apparatus having parallel to serial and PPM signal converters A camera comprises a photographic information output circuit section, a CPU, a PPM signal conversion circuit section, a drive section for a plurality of magnetic heads, and a film feeding section. The CPU converts several parallel data items which are out... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5617158 | Digital sound recording on motion picture film A motion picture film capable of reproducing the sound field full of ambience in the reproducing system. The digital sound tracks 5L and 5R, on which digital audio data have been recorded, are recorded so that temporally same digital audio signals are rec... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5600498 | Photographic printing apparatus with improved component spacing A photographic printing apparatus includes an exposure station disposed in a midway region of a transfer path between a transfer inlet and a transfer outlet along which a negative film having magnetic recording tracks provided thereon is transferred forwa... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5563751 | Longitudinal bending interface for thick film magnetic recording A magnetic read/write head suspension assembly for achieving high magnetic head compliance with at least one edge track of the MOF layer of relatively stiff photographic filmstrips particularly during photofinishing operations. The filmstrip has an emulsi... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5561531 | Camera for recording image data and shot data and video filing system for filing such data A camera and a video filing system practicable therewith are disclosed. The camera has a body and a plurality of component parts removably mounted on the body and including a lens and a stroboscope. The body and component parts each has a respective condi... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5555044 | Magnetics-on-film image area recording head suspension system A photographic still camera for receiving an elongated filmstrip having a cross-film curvature and having a substantially transparent magnetic layer deposited on the film surface and recording or reproducing information on or from the magnetic layer in th... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5555043 | Magnetics-on-film image area recording head and suspension system A photographic still camera for receiving an elongated filmstrip having a cross-film curvature and having a substantially transparent magnetic layer deposited on the film surface and for recording or reproducing information on or from the magnetic layer i... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5550603 | Motion picture film with digital sound track A device for recording/reproducing a digital pattern as a sound track of a cinefilm is disclosed. The device includes a cinefilm 1 having an image recording area 2 in which an image is recorded, a perforation section 3 for film feed and digital pattern da... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5541644 | Image reproducing apparatus An image reproducing apparatus for reproducing an image recorded on successive frames of a film having a storage medium which information for each frame is readable from and writable on, the reproducing apparatus includes a pick-up device for picking up t... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5535062 | Magnetic reading and/or recording apparatus for reading and/or recording information on a magnetic information track on a photosensitive medium A magnetic reading and/or recording apparatus for reading and/or recording information from/on a magnetic information track on a web comprises a magnetic reading and/or recording element and a flexible member for supporting the magnetic reading and/or rec... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5523996 | Laser light modulation method and apparatus for recording digital audio signals on cinefilm The present invention comprises a method and apparatus for recording digital audio information using light modulation of a laser beam on cinefilm. In the invention, a laser beam of low coherence and high output is radiated from a semiconductor laser havin... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5519462 | Dual function magnetic data read circuit for photographic equipment A dual function read data circuit for a mid-roll interrupt capable photographic camera reads magnetically recorded data from a magnetic layer on photographic film and outputs either a data present signal or an actual converted data signal in response to a... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5508761 | Apparatus for reproducing a digital pattern from motion picture film, and the motion picture film A motion picture film is provided on which a digital sound track for audio data is formed along the film running direction. Data tracks are disposed in the digital sound track along a direction normal to the film running direction and extend in the film r... | 04/16/1996 |
