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AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsChristopher E. Wheeler, Gary W. Ahlquist, Wayne K. Shaffer, Roger A. Morton
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A system for providing motion picture photographic film with encoded information, such as unique film footage and frame identification, which can be machine read prior to film processing. This system provides machine readable encoded information markings on the raw stock film which may be read in a camera or other photoprocessing device with a reader prior to or concurrent with the film image capture process. The machine readable encoded information markings may be easily converted into a “video image” for display in a real time video from a CCD imager in the film camera or other device. Furthermore this pre-processing machine readable encoded information may be used in conjunction with optical latent image recorded information which becomes machine or human readable after processing as presently provided by film manufacturer's according to industry standards.
A camera origination photographic film comprising pre-processing readable encoded information markings recorded thereon, and latent image post-processing readable encoded information markings recorded in the photographic film which are synchronized with the pre-processing readable encoded information markings.
A camera origination photographic film comprising pre-processing readable encoded information markings recorded thereon, wherein the film comprises a transparent support, an emulsion layer coated on one side of the support, and an opaque backing layer on the opposite side of the support, and the pre-processing readable encoded information comprises laser ablated markings in the backing layer, further comprising encoded information recorded in the emulsion layer in the form of a latent image synchronized with the pre-processing readable laser ablated markings.
A system for encoding motion picture film with information for use in a motion picture camera such that the camera can read encoded information prior to film processing when the film is in the camera, comprising
A system for encoding motion picture film with information for use in a motion picture camera such that the camera can read encoded information prior to film processing when the film is in the camera, comprising
A method for encoding light sensitive motion picture photographic film with pre-processing machine readable information, comprising physically marking the film with encoded information using laser ablation, inkjet printing, or holographic or binary optic embossing, and further comprising recording latent image post-processing readable encoded information markings in the photographic film which are synchronized with the marked pre-processing readable encoded information.
A method for recording synchronized pre-processing readable marks and latent image marks in a photographic film which comprises a transparent support, an emulsion layer coated on one side of the support, and an opaque backing layer on the opposite side of the support, the method comprising (i) laser ablation marking the backing layer to form a pre-processing readable mark, and (ii) exposing the emulsion layer through the transparent support using the ablation marking of the backing layer as a mask to form a latent image in the emulsion layer which corresponds to the ablation marking in the backing layer, which latent image becomes readable after photographic processing.
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