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US 6,553,187 B2Granted
Analog/digital camera and method
OwnerMichael J Jonesinventor
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Abstract
A camera having a digital image transducer and a film transport mechanism operable to advance film across a film focal plane. An imaging system generates an image on the image transducer, and generates an image on the film focal plane. A triggering system may operate to generate the images simultaneously, and the imaging system may include separate lenses having optical properties selected to generate images of essentially the same scene.
Claims22
A camera comprising:
- a digital image transducer;
- a digital image storage;
- a film transport mechanism operable to advance film across a film focal plane;
- first and second imaging means for generating a first optical image on the digital image transducer and for generating a second optical image at the film focal plane;
- and,
- a trigger coupled to both a shutter associated with the film focal plane and circuitry associated with the digital image transducer to essentially simultaneously expose the film with the second optical image and generate and store a digital image representation of the first optical image,
- the digital image representation of the first optical image having higher resolution than the film as exposed with the second optical image, the film as exposed with the second optical image serving as a security reference to ensure against tampering of the digital image representation of the optical image.
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An analog/digital camera comprising:
- a digital image transducer;
- a first lensing system that focuses an image upon the digital image transducer;
- a second lensing system that focuses the image upon a film focal plane;
- a shutter associated with the film focal plane;
- a digital image storage associated with the digital image transducer;
- and,
- a trigger coupled to both the shutter and digital image transducer that, upon activation, essentially simultaneously exposes the film with the image and storage a digital image file of the image in the digital image storage,
- the digital image file of the image having higher resolution than the film as exposed with the image, the film as exposed with the image serving as a security reference to ensure against tampering of the digital image file of the image.
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A method of generating images comprising:
- generating a first optical image on a digital image transducer;
- generating a second optical image at a focal plane of a photographic film;
- and
- essentially simultaneously exposing the photographic film with the second optical image and generating and storing a digital representation of the first optical image,
- the digital representation of the first optical image having higher resolution than the photographic film as exposed with the second optical image, the photographic film as exposed with the second optical image serving as a security reference to ensure against tampering of the digital representation of the first optical image.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.