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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Wolfgang Günzel, Pfungstadt, DE;
Peter Bachmann, Leidersbach, DE;
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 3/36 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 3/36 ;
Abstract
A scanner, in which the contents of an film frame (,) are converted into a video signal by opto-electronic converters (,), this video signal being post-processed in a video processing stage (,). The operation of post-processing the video signal may be monitored by an oscilloscope (,). In order that this monitoring can be carried out in a simple manner, a scaling signal is inserted into the video signal before the video processing stage (,) so that the video signal to be monitored and a scaling signal line are simultaneously displayed on the screen of, for example, the oscilloscope (,).