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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2007

Filed:

Apr. 02, 2003
Applicants:

Fumio Okano, Tokyo, JP;

Masayuki Sugawara, Tokyo, JP;

Kohji Mitani, Tokyo, JP;

Takayuki Yamashita, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Fumio Okano, Tokyo, JP;

Masayuki Sugawara, Tokyo, JP;

Kohji Mitani, Tokyo, JP;

Takayuki Yamashita, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Nisson Hoso Kyokai, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 13/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A process for taking a slow motion picture is disclosed which comprises: setting a plurality of cameras each having a shutter so that each of them can take an image with a similar view; and continuously taking fields of a subject by said a plurality camera in a timely staggered manner. In this process, timing of opening the shutter of each camera is staggered so that each camera takes a picture timely staggered, and a time for opening the shutter of each cameras is set to be a shorter than one field time of said each camera. Also, disclosed is an apparatus for taking a slow motion picture, which comprises: a plurality of cameras each having a shutter, arranged so that each of them can take an image with a similar view; means for setting the opening time of the shutter, which sets the timing for opening the shutter of each camera to be staggered so that each camera takes a picture timely staggered, and which makes the picture taken by each camera shorter than one field time of said each camera; and a recorder which records the pictures taken by each camera.


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