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US 9,661,236 B2Granted
Motion picture scanning system
AssigneeWindense Ltd.
InventorMichael Howell
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Abstract
Described herein is a film scanner, such as scanner for scanning motion picture film, the film scanner comprising one or more imaging devices configured to collect an image of an imaging area; and a transit system for producing relative motion of the film and the imaging device. Advantageously, at least one of the imaging devices comprises a digital single lens reflex (SLR) camera.
Claims23
A film scanner, comprising:
- one or more digital imaging devices configured to collect a digital image of an imaging area of a frame of a film which is a photographic processed film in a developed state in which said imaged area comprises an area within the frame of the film in which a picture having picture content is or can be present and a film having a plurality of film characteristics is present;
- said digital image has image content having pixels which represent data of the picture content of the imaging area and/or of the film characteristics of the film present in the imaging area;
- said device configured to identify at last one indicative portion of the image content of the imaging area based upon a one or more characteristics of the picture content or the film characteristics;
- and
- a transit system for producing a relative motion of the film and the imaging device.
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A processing system, comprising:
- a configuration to receive a video or a plurality of still digital images collected by one or more imaging devices, wherein the video and/or at least some of the plurality of still digital images comprise portions of one or more frames of a film that is a photographic processed film which is in a developed state;
- the processing system identifying at last one indicative portion of a frame of a film in which said indicative portion has an indicative portion data of a picture or of a film characteristic present in an area within the frame of the film in which a picture is or can be present;
- the processing system configured to identify the presence of the indicative portion data in another frame which is not the first frame;
- the processing system processing at least a plurality of the images using the indicative portion data;
- said indicative portion present in another frame which is not the first frame having a position that has a location which can be estimated to be present by said processing system based on a determined position of a corresponding indicative portion in a previously analyzed frame of the film;
- reconstituting a video based on the contents of the film.
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A method for forming a digital video, comprising the steps of:
- providing a film that is a photographic processed film which is in a developed state;
- receiving a video or a plurality of still digital images collected by one or more digital imaging devices, wherein the video and/or at least some of the plurality of still digital images comprise one or more of an indicative portion of an imaged area in which a picture is or can be present and/or of a film characteristic present in one or more frames of a film;
- identifying data of said one or more of an indicative portion of the digital image of the picture or the film characteristic of the imaged area;
- and
- processing a plurality of imaged areas of the film using said one or more of an indicative portion;
- identifying said one or more of an indicative portion as present at a position of in an frame of the film which has been estimated based on a determined position of a corresponding indicative said one or more of an indicative portion of another image in a different frame of the film;
- reconstitute a video based on said one or more of an indicative portion of the film.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.