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AssigneeIntegrated Images, Inc.
InventorsRoger L. de Montebello, Ronald P. Globus, Howard S. Buck
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A method is disclosed of forming apparatus for use in a three stage integral photography process that includes a camera for taking the integral photographs; printing apparatus for converting the psuedoscopic negative produced by the camera into an orthoscopic positive; and a viewing screen for the positive. The apparatus comprises arrays of lenslets formed on transparent plastic sheets and plates with arrays of apertures on the same centers as the lenslets and the elements must have very precise dimensional relationships to one another. In the method, all of the elements are produced by symmetrical, multi-stage processes using the same array of elemental mold parts in the first stage in the process. One elemental mold part or "Janus plug" is provided for each optical element in the array. The plugs consist of hexagonal-sided bars, each having one end formed with a domed side used in the formation of the viewing screen and an opposite cylindrically recessed side used to receive spherical inserts for forming the camera array and annular bushings used to form inserts in the camera/printing apparatus.
The method of forming integral photograph apparatus which includes a camera comprising a transparent plate having an array of lenslets formed on one of its surfaces and sheets with arrays of image forming optics embedded within the plate, as well as a viewing screen for an integrated photograph, the viewing screen comprising a transparent sheet with an array of lenslets on one surface formed on the same axes as the lenslets of the camera and being larger in diameter, the method comprising:
The method of forming an integral camera comprising a transparent sheet with an array of lenslets formed on one side and perforated sheets having holes formed on the center of the lenslets embedded therein and additionally forming a transparent plastic viewing screen having a lenslet array on one face formed on the same centers as the lenslet array of the camera, said method comprising:
A master array for use in forming an integral photography camera which includes a transparent screen having an array of lenslets formed on one surface, as well as an integral photography viewing screen comprising a transparent sheet having a similar array of lenslets formed on one surface, comprising:
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