Terry Lee Zarnowski

US Patent:

7616877, Nov 10, 2009

Filed:

Aug 22, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/210022

Inventors:

Terry Lee Zarnowski - Homer NY, US
Jeffrey J. Zarnowski - Homer NY, US
Iain A. Neil - Calabasas CA, US

Assignee:

Panavision Imaging, LLC - Homer NY

International Classification:

G03B 17/02
H04N 5/262
H04N 3/14
H04N 5/335
G02B 13/08
G02B 15/14
G02B 7/02

US Classification:

396 85, 396 79, 396535, 3482403, 348294, 348340, 348345, 359668, 359676, 359824

Abstract:

An efficient image capture system is disclosed that integrates functions to control a lens including one or more of focus or object distance, zoom, temperature compensation, and stabilization within an image signal processor (ISP) with appropriate algorithms. In particular, the integrated ISP circuitry may control the motion of the focus and zoom optics of an optical assembly, control stabilization, control the flash, provide enhanced functions and features for controlling the zoom and focus lenses to enable enhanced image capture sequences and/or tracking lens data, provide a set of algorithms within the ISP to alter the aspect ratio (both height and width of an image) of the image, for example to compensate for the addition of an anamorphic lens, and integrate an anamorphic lens into the module to alter an image's projected aspect ratio onto the focal plane array.

US Patent:

20170116864, Apr 27, 2017

Filed:

Oct 22, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/919762

Inventors:

Terry L. Zarnowski - Fulton NY, US
Michael A. Marley - Liverpool NY, US

Assignee:

UNIMAR, INC. - North Syracuse NY

International Classification:

G08G 5/00
F21V 7/00
G08B 5/36
F21V 29/70
F21S 8/08
F21V 7/06
F21V 5/04

Abstract:

A beacon assembly for use as a marker on an elevated obstruction has a top cover and an associated bottom cover centered on a vertical axis with a ring of light-emitting elements situated between the top and bottom covers. Upper and lower reflectors are integrated into the lower side of the top cover and into the upper side of the lower cover. These reflectors are surfaces of rotation, about the vertical axis, of a horizontal parabola whose focus lies substantially on the ring of light-emitting elements. A cylindrical collimating lens lies radially outside the ring of light-emitting elements, and concentrates the center portion of the light onto the horizontal plane. Light outside the center portion is redirected by the upper and lower reflectors parallel to the horizontal plane. A twin-beacon version has a pair (or more) of these assemblies stacked one on the other.