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Process and apparatus for creating traveling mattes

US4537481A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateNov 1, 1982
Grant dateAug 27, 1985
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Expiry dateNov 1, 2002

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03B15/08
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A method and apparatus for creating traveling mattes in which a first image is photographed and then sensed. The first image is then electronically processed followed by the steps of photographing on the same film a successive image and simultaneously transmitting to a light valve an electronic signal to produce a high-contrast negative image corresponding to the first image so that the successive image is combined with the first image.

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