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US3817609A
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Animation system
Assignee: Individual
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Filing: 1972-09-08
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Granted: 1974-06-18
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Expires: 1992-09-08
Abstract
Abstract An animation system in which a camera means for exposing frames of film to photograph an object and a support means for supporting the object with respect to the camera means are moved relative to each other in accordance with motion data and status data converted by a computing means into a plurality of data outputs to which a motion means for moving the camera means and the support means relative to each other is responsive, each of the plurality of data outputs including a number of electrical pulses indicative of the motion data and occurring in response to status data. The motion data is converted by the computing means so that the numbers of electrical pulses in the data outputs differ selectively to cause that varying motion of the camera means and support means relative to each other which creates the illusion of an object accelerating or decelerating in the frames of film exposed by the camera means.
Inventors
- 👤 C Vaughn
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-29 04:07
CPC Classifications
G; G03; G03B; G03B15/00; G03B15/08; G05; G05B; G05B2219/00; G05B2219/30; G05B2219/45; G05B2219/45176
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 11
Claim 1
Independent Claim
146 words
In an animation system for taking a plurality of photographs of an object to provide a series of photographs which will depict change corresponding to desired motion data input when used as successive frames in a motion picture film, including a camera having centerline and a shutter operative to expose successive frames of film in said camera, a support means for positioning an object relative to said camera, and motion means for moving said camera and said support means relative to each other in response to each of a plurality of data outputs, the improvement comprising computing means operatively connected to receive input signals corresponding to the desired motion data input and to provide each of said plurality of data outputs to said motion means in response to motion data input indicative of a motion of said camera and said support means relative to each other.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
146 words
In an animation system for taking a plurality of photographs of an object to provide a series of photographs which will depict change corresponding to desired motion data input when used as successive frames in a motion picture film, including a camera having centerline and a shutter operative to expose successive frames of film in said camera, a support means for positioning an object relative to said camera, and motion means for moving said camera and said support means relative to each other in response to each of a plurality of data outputs, the improvement comprising computing means operatively connected to receive input signals corresponding to the desired motion data input and to provide each of said plurality of data outputs to said motion means in response to motion data input indicative of a motion of said camera and said support means relative to each other.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
131 words
The animation sYstem of claim 1 in which the motion means includes a first motor means for moving the camera and the platform means relative to each other in a first line of motion in response to a first pulse of data in one of said plurality of data outputs and a second motor means for moving the camera and the platform relative to each other in a second line of motion in response to a second pulse of data in said one of said plurality of data outputs, and both the first motor means and the second motor means are a stepping motor responsive to an electrical pulse, the improvement further comprising both said first pulse of data and said second pulse of data being a plurality of electrical pulses.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
43 words
The animation system of claim 2 in which said computing means selectively varies the frequency rate of said plurality of electrical pulses so that the frequency rate increases from an initial relatively low rate at the beginning of said plurality of electrical pulses.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
79 words
The animation system of claim 2 in which said first pulse of data includes a first series of said electrical pulses which cause the first motor means to move the camera and the support means in a first direction along said first line of motion and a final electrical pulse which causes the first motor means to move the camera and the support means in a second direction opposite to said first direction along said first line of motion.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
67 words
The animation system of claim 1, wherein each of said plurality of data outputs includes a number of electrical pulses, the motion means is operative as a function of the frequency rate of said electrical pulses, and said computing means is operative to selectively vary the frequency rate of said plurality of electrical pulses occurring in said data outputs as a function of said motion data input.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
138 words
The animation system of claim 1 in which each of said plurality of data outputs includes a number of electrical pulses and in which said number of electrical pulses in one of said plurality of data outputs and said number of electrical pulses in another of said plurality of data outputs are to each other as two segments of a base line, said base line having a length proportional to all of said electrical pulses and said segments having lengths defined by the projection on said base line of equal lengths of an arc of a circle subtended by said base line as the radius of said circle and by a second line perpendicular to said base line at the center of said circle, and said equal lengths being equal in number to said plurality of data outputs.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
76 words
The animation system of claim 6 in which said plurality of data outputs is a first plurality of data outputs, in which said motion of the camera and the platform means relative to each other is responsive to said electrical pulses and provided by said first plurality of data outputs and by a second plurality of data outputs, and in which all of said second plurality of data outputs include the same number of electrical pulses.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
45 words
The animation system of claim 7 in which the number of electrical pulses in the last of said first plurality of data outputs is substantially equal to said same number of electrical pulses included in each individual one of said second plurality of data outputs.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
45 words
The animation system of claim 7 in which the number of electrical pulses in the first of said first plurality of data outputs is substantially equal to said same number of electrical pulses included in each individual one of said second plurality of data outputs.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
114 words
The animation system of claim 7 in which all of said electrical pulses in all of said second plurality of data outputs are equal in number to Z . T/F - K (N - csc 90/N) where T is the number of electrical pulses in all of said first plurality of data outputs and in all of said second plurality of data outputs, F is the sum of the number of said first plurality of data outputs and the number of said second plurality of data outputs, N is the numbeR of said first plurality of data outputs, Z is the number of said second plurality of data outputs, and K is a constant.
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