Patents by Inventor Beat Frick

Beat Frick has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5285235
    Abstract: In a photographic copying apparatus for processing exposed photographic film there are recorded in a measuring station, in addition to measurement data relating to the color composition of the negative, also splice events and perforation events and their occurrence on the film. The recorded data are fed to a calculating and evaluation unit and there stored in the form of a table (event table). The occurrence of splice events and perforation events on the film is recorded in one or more repositioning processing stations. Those data are stored in the calculating and evaluation unit in the form of a table (position table). In order to reposition the film in each processing station, the tables are correlated and any deviations established are taken into account when the film is repositioned. In order to detect the perforation and splice events, the measuring station (7) and the processing stations (8, 9) are equipped with perforation- and splice-detectors (72, 73 and 82, 83 and 92, 93, respectively).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1994
    Assignee: Gretag Imaging AG
    Inventor: Beat Frick
  • Patent number: 5087937
    Abstract: The light emitted by a source of light is passed by means of optical fibers or bundles of optical fibers in lines over a master to be scanned. In the process, an orifice of a disk rotated by a motor sequentially projects the light onto one optical fiber or bundle of fibers leading to the master. The light exiting from the light emitting end of the optical fiber or bundle of optical fiber illuminates the master. On the other side of the master a corresponding optical fiber or bundle of fibers receives the light coming from the master and conducts it to a receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1992
    Assignee: Gretag Systems
    Inventors: Beat Frick, Walter Kraft, Karl Ursprung
  • Patent number: 5041869
    Abstract: The photoelectric scanner is equipped with two circular disks having aligned light passage orifices and mounted on a common drive shaft. Lenses are located in these orifices, the focal points of which are in the plane of the copy master to be scanned. The beam emitted by the source of copying light and parallelized by the condenser arrives through the curved slot of a stationary diaphragm on the lens instantaneously moving through the area of the slot and is focused in the plane of the copy master. From the lens synchronously running on the other side of the copy master, the parallelized beam of light arrives through the curved slot of a subsequent stationary diaphragm and a condenser on a receiving and detection unit with dichroitic mirrors, absorption filters and photoelectric detectors. These detectors convert the optical signals into electric signals, which are conducted to the evaluating electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1991
    Assignee: Gretag Systems
    Inventor: Beat Frick
  • Patent number: 5036351
    Abstract: A exposure control process and a photographic color copying apparatus make possible the optimal adaptation of the evaluation of a copy master to the varying spectral sensitivities of different copy materials, without having to change the measuring filters. The measuring light components of each of the basic colors are detected by a wavelength selective detection device in at least two closely adjacent spectral ranges and the resultant measured values combined into prevailing color extract values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1991
    Assignee: Gretag Systems
    Inventors: Beat Frick, Walter Kraft
  • Patent number: 5015088
    Abstract: In an illuminating apparatus for projection purposes, in particular a film projector or television image projector by the eidophor system, four condensers are located around a source of light in a cube-shaped housing, the condensers reproducing via the use of deflecting mirrors, an image of the light source on several, spatially adjacent imaging mirror segments, which in turn reproduce the condenser images superimposed upon one another, via an output mirror, on an image aperture of the projection optics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1991
    Assignee: Gretag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bruno Rhomberg, Beat Frick