A Microprocessor Based Camera Remote Control Unit

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY
Doc Type: Conference Paper
Content Type: Original Research
Volume: 1983, No. 20, pp. 247–252
Abstract: The introduction of the TK-47 automatic color camera at NAB 1978 added a new impetus to the evolution of TV camera technology. This represented the world's first color camera chain which decisively embraced the now firmly established digital semi-conductor memory. The multiplicity of remote control potentiometers traditionally found on color camera CCU's are now totally eradicated and replaced instead by a couple of chips of semi-conductor RAM. The latter, in turn, are supervised by a microprocessor and the loading or updating is from a remote digital terminal. Because this new memory is now resident within each individual camera chain and not, as formerly, within the CCU potentiometers the digital remote terminal no longer constitutes an integral component of the camera chain. Rather, it now assumes the role of technical supervisor and electrically it can now be delegated to any of a large number of cameras within a TV complex. The terminal affords microprocessor assisted manual alignment of the total camera chain, as well as at the touch of a button, a sophisticated automatic system that will completely and automatically align the camera chain. All control interconnections within the camera system are via a serial digital data bus.
Publication Date: 1983-02-01
DOI: 10.5594/M00612
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/M00612
Author(s): John A. GrayRCA Corp. Camden, New Jersey
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John Gray is the Unit Manager of Software for RCA's Camera Engineering activity and was the engineer responsible for the development of the “Smart Remote Control Unit.” Before joining RCA's Camden facility in 1980, he was manager of the software group at RCA's Jersey Isle plant where he was responsible for the design of the AE600-TH200 time code editing system interface.
Copyright: © 1983 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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