Abstract:
Fiducial markings having different relative contrasts are sensed from an information carrier. Different first electric signals corresponding, respectively, to the different relative contrasts are generated in response to the fiducial markings. Sensing signals indicative of the fiducial markings substantially independently of the different relative contrasts are produced by converting the different first electric signals into corresponding second electric signals having at least one common characteristic.
Abstract:
Motion picture projection apparatus, for use with filmstrips having aligned images areas and spaced discontinuities such as sprocket perforations or frame lines having fixed spacial relationships to the locations of the image areas on the film, includes a drive mechanism for continuously moving film through an illuminated film gate aperture. The resulting projected images are reflected by a rotatable mirror. An electromagnet clutch is actuable by a free-running multivibrator to interconnect the mirror and the film drive mechanism for rotating the mirror in timed relation to the film movement, thereby maintaining the projected image stationary. A shutter is responsive to the multivibrator output to permit illumination of the film in the gate during mirror movement in one direction and to prevent such illumination of the gate during the return stroke of the mirror. While the free-running time of the multivibrator is a few milliseconds longer than the film frame rate, it is synchronized with the frame rate by a trigger circuit controlled by a film discontinuity sensing device.