Re: Kodak's Patent

[P3D Ronald J Beck 840196 <rbeck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe somebody decided to take the disc camera film and add a frame!  What 
a concept, Instant VM!  It might even catch on faster than lenticulars :-) 
 I know I'd buy something like this.

Ron


photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:
> P3D Hayden B. Baldwin wrote:  While looking for information on a 
> patent I came across the following at the US Patent web site:  US 
> Patent 5,371,562 was issued Dec. 6, 1994 to Timothy Hahm & Joseph 
> Mainco of the Eastman Kodak Company for a "STEREOSCOPIC DISK and 
> VIEWER and METHOD OF MAKING. The abstract for the patent reads as 
> follows: "A stereoscopic disk for viewing stereo images in a 
> binocular viewer includes a film disk with a plurality of stereo 
> images pairs disposed around the perphery of the film disk, 
> sandwiched between two pairs of disks of opaque material defining 
> windows, in which the stereo images on the film disk are located."  
> Sounds like VIEW MASTER to me! Kodak patent in 1994? Something you 
> folks at the Rochester conference forgot to tell us?  :-) 

> The difference is that the Kodak disk is a single piece of film, the 
> multiple images being printed onto it from a single master negative, 
> rather than the Viewmaster method of making multiple film chip images 
> and mounting them into a cardboard disk.  Once the Kodak master disk 
> is made, this presumably simplifies the manufacturing process, and 
> eliminates mounting registration problems, at the expense of using 
> rather more film stock. 



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