Optics: motion pictures – Methods – Exhibiting
Reexamination Certificate
2007-04-03
2007-04-03
Fuller, Rodney (Department: 2851)
Optics: motion pictures
Methods
Exhibiting
C352S092000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11099099
ABSTRACT:
A projector automation system for controlling one or more controlled systems having functionality that is responsive at least in part to automation control signals. The automation system interacts with a digital projector having a control port and a film projector having a cue sensor that generates cue signals. A film-based cinema automation component receives the cue signals and generate at least some of the automation control signals to the one or more controlled systems. A second cinema automation component has a first interface coupled to the control port of the digital projector and the first cinema automation system. The second cinema automation component includes means for generating at least some of the automation control signals to the one or more controlled systems either autonomously, semi-autonomously, or in response to commands from an external scheduling system.
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Paige Robert F.
Schmidt Thomas J.
Thieste Christopher H.
Fuller Rodney
Hogan & Hartson LLP
Langley Stuart T.
Lembke Kent A.
Regal CineMedia Corporation
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