Dual-Side Film Capture Camera for High-Resolution Imaging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cinematography systems face challenges in maintaining film image quality while adopting digital origination methods, due to the expense and cumbersome nature of film equipment, and the inability to visualize captured images as clearly as digital systems allow.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that concurrently captures and stores two distinct information records of a visual scene using a camera with an image capture assembly and an electronic imaging module, generating high-resolution images by modifying data from the emulsion and electronic captures, allowing for increased resolution without altering the capture equipment or media significantly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If film is used for capturing images, then image quality and resolution are improved, but equipment complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines film capture assembly and electronic imaging module into a single camera system. The film capture assembly captures high-resolution images on emulsion while the electronic imaging module captures the same scene digitally. Both systems work together to provide high resolution images while reducing equipment complexity by integrating multiple capture methods into one unified device.
Solution Approach 2:
The camera system is designed to perform multiple functions: it can capture images on film, capture images digitally, and process both types of captures. This multi-functional design allows the system to maintain high image quality through film while avoiding the complexity of separate dedicated film and digital camera systems.
2Productivity
If film emulsion is doubled to increase recording capacity, then recording time and quantity are improved, but material consumption and weight increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent exposes both sides of the film emulsion to the image, effectively utilizing the emulsion in two dimensions (front and back surfaces). This doubles the recording capacity of the film without increasing the physical quantity of emulsion material or the weight of the film, as the same emulsion layer is used for both captures.
3Ease of operation
If digital imaging is used instead of film, then ease of operation and visibility are improved, but image resolution and quality deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges film capture assembly with electronic imaging module, allowing the film to provide high-resolution captures while the electronic module provides ease of operation and immediate visibility. The electronic imaging module captures the same scene that the film captures, enabling digital convenience without sacrificing the resolution benefits of film.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This approach effectively doubles the emulsion available for recording while maintaining image quality, increasing resolution and efficiency, allowing for longer recording times with less material and equipment, and providing compatibility with future digital screening technologies.
Implementation Method 1
a camera comprising an image capture assembly for capturing and recording aspects of a visual scene within a photographic emulsion as high resolution image captures
Implementation Method 2
an electronic imaging module within the camera for capturing and recording aspects of the visual scene operating concurrently with the image capture assembly
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AI summary
A system, apparatus, or method is provided for imaging and for capturing visuals to provide image manipulation options for increasing resolution of subject images. A system, apparatus or method for increasing resolution of subject images using a camera to deliver unexposed photographic emulsion or a digital image and to generate images of greater resolution by modifying digital images or modifying digital and emulsion images.