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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsThomas Mario Cipolla, Janusz Stanislaw Wilczynski
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An inventive system and method for continually advancing film through an air-bearing film flattening system having at least one scanning area through which the air-flattened film may be scanned. The film is provided to an air-bearing mechanism comprising two opposing air-bearing plates which create opposing air cushions for maintaining the planarity of the film. The scanning area may comprise at least one optical aperture in the air-bearing plate or plates through which the scanner views the film, or a "viewing" area occupied by bundled coherent optical fibers which sequentially pick up image information from aligned regions of the image. The system provides for time efficient, clean, and error-free reading of the scanned image.
Apparatus for providing a planar film surface to a scanning area for scanning of said film comprising:
A system for optical scanning of images on film comprising:
A system for optical scanning of images on film comprising:
A system for optical scanning of images on film comprising:
A method for planarizing film for scanning at a scanning area comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.