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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 1997
Filed:
Nov. 08, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Terence William Mead, Hertford, GB;
Assignee:
Rank Cintel Limited, , GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348106 ; 348103 ;
Abstract
Film unsteadiness in a flying spot film scanner (10) is measured by reference to film image movement based on a measure of the direction of movement acquired by examination by a movement compensator 30 of spatial and temporal differences around a given pixel. A correction signal is generated and applied as a feedback signal to the X and Y circuits of the scan generator (20).