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Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 30, 2010
Applicants:

Kevin Wooley, San Francisco, CA (US);

Spencer Reynolds, San Francisco, CA (US);

Michael Sanders, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kevin Wooley, San Francisco, CA (US);

Spencer Reynolds, San Francisco, CA (US);

Michael Sanders, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G03B 17/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23293 (2013.01); G03B 17/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

A virtual director's viewfinder includes: a housing with a form factor of a director's viewfinder; at least one mechanical viewfinder control connected to the housing, the virtual director's viewfinder encoding a setting of the mechanical viewfinder control into digital setting information; at least one communication device for communication of the digital setting information to a computer system, and for receiving from the computer system an image generated using the digital setting information; and a display device that presents at least the image received from the computer system.


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