The Fox Movietone News Preservation Project: The Progressive Scan CCD Camera

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE J
Volume: 105, No. 9, pp. 551–554
Abstract: This paper describes a high-speed charge-coupled device (CCD) camera that has been developed for commercial, industrial, and scientific applications. It uses a 1024-line progressive scan imager with two video output channels. The dual-channel outputs provide a total data rate of 40 million pixels/sec, using “square pixel” sampling. The camera incorporates electronic shuttering triggered by an external source, so that the exposure period and frame rate can be precisely controlled. The camera features high linearity, low noise, wide dynamic range, and low shading. An early prototype of this camera was used by Fox News, Inc., to digitize film news-reels for the Fox Movietone project.
Publication Date: 1996-09-01
DOI: 10.5594/J04611
ISSN: Print: 0036-1682
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J04611
Author(s): Ray BouvyMicroelectronics Technology Div., Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY 14650.
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Raymond Bouvy holds an A.A.S. degree in electrical technology from Niagara Community College and a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology. After joining Eastman Kodak Co. in Rochester, N.Y., in 1973, he worked as a development engineer on many electronic imaging projects, including the Kodak Megaplus Model XHF Camera. He is currently with the Image Acquisition Systems group of commercial and government systems at Kodak.
John VincentMicroelectronics Technology Div., Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY 14650.
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John Vincent holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Rose- Hulman Institute of Technology and an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. He joined the Eastman Kodak research laboratories in 1978, working with CCD image sensors and electronic imaging systems and developing flexible methods for designing timing logic for systems. His current interests include logic synthesis and programmable logic devices.
Ken ParulskiMicroelectronics Technology Div., Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY 14650.
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Ken Parulski holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following graduation, he joined the physics division of the Eastman Kodak Co. research laboratories in Rochester, N.Y. He is currently chief architect for digital cameras in the Digital and Applied Imaging Division of Kodak. — Parulski heads the U.S. delegation to the ISO standards group on Electronic Still Picture Imaging. The author of more than 30 technical papers, he has presented talks on digital photography to audiences in the U.S., Europe, and Japan and has been granted over 45 U.S. patents. He also serves on the Board of Editors for the SMPTE Journal. In 1993 he was recognized with an SMPTE Journal Certificate Award as co-author of a paper entitled “Source-Adaptive Encoding Options for HDTV and NTSC,” published in the October 1992 issue.
Kris BalchCo-authors Kris Balch and Gary Erickson are also with (he Motion Analysis Systems Div.
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Kris Balch holds a degree in electronic engineering from California Polytechnic at Pomona. After serving in the navy, in 1983 he joined Eastman Kodak Co. in San Diego, Calif. He now works in their Motion Analysis Systems Division. Balch has worked on several engineering and management assignments specializing in high-speed architectures. After serving as the division's technical director, he currently serves as the business manager of the high-speed motion analyzer product line.
Gary EricksonCo-authors Kris Balch and Gary Erickson are also with (he Motion Analysis Systems Div.
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Gary Erickson received an electrical engineering degree from Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., in 1969, after which he joined the Eastman Kodak Co. in Rochester, N.Y. He later received an M.B.A. from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Erickson transferred to Kodak's Spin Physics Media Division in San Diego, Calif., in 1984 and in 1989 joined the Motion Analysis Systems Division. Erickson is currently business manager/vice-president of the Industrial Electronic Vision Group, responsible for Kodak's Megaplus line of industrial electronic CCD cameras.
Michael MenadierMotion Analysis Systems Div., Eastman Kodak Co., San Diego, CA 92121.
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Michael Menadier received a B.S. degree in electronic engineering from California State Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo, with a specialty in communications systems. He worked as a senior design engineer for ten years, earning three U.S. Patents, before becoming a product engineer in the Kodak Motion Analysis Systems Division Marketing Dept. Menadier is currently responsible for new product definition and developmental coordination in the industrial camera product line.
Copyright: © 1996 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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