Reproducing of interspersed motion-picture scenes and still shots

US4198136A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• AGFA-Gervaert AG · DE

Inventors

• Frank Staudacher · Haan, DE
• Otto Stemme · Munich, DE
• Peter Lermann · Feldkirchen-Westerham, DE
• Werner Went · Leverkusen, DE
• Volkmar Stenzenberger · Unterhaching, DE
• Eberhard Herzig · Cologne, DE
• Friedrich Stumpf
• Thomas Scheller · Munich, DE
• Jurgen Sylla · Oberhaching, DE
• Friedrich Winkler · Unterhaching, DE
• Johann Zanner · Unterhaching, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 10, 1978
• Grant date: Apr 15, 1980
• Expiry date: Oct 10, 1998

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03B2217/246
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The reproducing apparatus, such as a motion-picture film projector, stops recording medium transport in response to interrupt-transport frame markings on the recording medium and reproduces the thusly marked image frames as still images. Interrupt-transport frame markings are provided at the terminal frame of each motion-picture scene on the recording medium, or at each still-shot image frame on the recording medium, or both. The user of the reproducing apparatus can select automatic reproduction of motion-picture scenes interspersed with automatic still reproduction of still shots, and can additionally select automatic still reproduction of the terminal frame of each motion-picture scene.