US Patent Issued to Warner Bros. Entertainment on Feb. 17 for "Perfless and cadenceless scanning and digitization of motion picture film" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,644, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Perfless and cadenceless scanning and digitization of motion picture film" was invented by Steven Craig Klevatt (Los Angeles), Michael Charles Borquez (Lancaster, Calif.) and Christopher Eugene Gillaspie (Duarte, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Motion picture film is scanned by high-resolution, continuous sprocketless scanner, producing a first sequence of digital images each representing a plurality of motion picture frames and perforations (perfs) of the film input. The first sequence of images is processed using a processor running an...