Jimmie D Songer

US Patent:

39638650, Jun 15, 1976

Filed:

Jun 4, 1975

Appl. No.:

5/583649

Inventors:

Jimmie D. Songer - Hollywood CA

Assignee:

Trans-American Video, Inc. - Hollywood CA

International Classification:

H04N 316
H04N 144
H04M 170
H04N 578

US Classification:

178 71

Abstract:

There is disclosed herein a method and system for eliminating or deterring the unauthorized duplication or piracy of video program material, including video tape, cable and broadcast television material. A composite video signal is encoded when recording, or upon broadcast by wire or cable, for preventing unauthorized duplication of the video material and without the need for scramblers and unscramblers. The encoding method allows normal playback of the video material on a conventional television receiver or monitor, but prevents the video material from being effectively re-recorded or duplicated on any of a number of commercially available video recorders by eliminating or distorting the video image upon playback of the re-recording to thereby destroy its commercial value. No decoder or unscrambler is required at the television receiver or monitor for normal playback of the encoded video signals. The method and system involve changing the vertical interval of the video signal prior to recording or transmission.

US Patent:

58052054, Sep 8, 1998

Filed:

Mar 4, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/610741

Inventors:

Jimmie D. Songer - Burleson TX

Assignee:

Magma, Inc. - Fort Worth TX

International Classification:

H04N 1300

US Classification:

348 49

Abstract:

A system and method for imaging and viewing, by a viewer, color and monochrome images as simultaneously three-dimensional and two-dimensional images. The invention comprises a camera device, a viewing device for displaying the images, a transmitter for transmitting a drive signal, and at least one pair of viewing glasses. The camera device includes a single imaging lens having a bifurcated, dual-aperture light valve, and a single image space for receiving and overlaying a plurality of left-eye images and a plurality of right-eye images at a field rate driven by the drive signal. The pair of viewing glasses includes a left-viewing-light valve and a right-viewing-light valve. In response to receiving the drive signal, the left-viewing-light valve opens and closes, synchronized with the field rate, for viewing the plurality of left-eye images. The right-viewing-light valve, responsive to the drive signal, opens and closes synchronized with the field rate, but alternatingly with the left-viewing-light valve, for viewing the plurality of right-eye images. The plurality of left-eye images and the plurality of right-eye images appear three-dimensional when viewed through the pair of viewing glasses, and appear two-dimensional when viewed without the glasses.

US Patent:

55982255, Jan 28, 1997

Filed:

Jun 6, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/468133

Inventors:

Jimmie D. Songer - Burleson TX

Assignee:

Magma, Inc. - Fort Worth TX

International Classification:

H04N 514

US Classification:

348606

Abstract:

A video processor, having an input and an output, for compensating for accumulated phase and amplitude errors encountered during transmission of a video signal over a communications channel. The video processor includes a high-pass filter and amplifier, coupled to the input; a post-correction-phase-and-gain restorer; a wide-band-video-delay line coupled to the input; a pre-correction-comb-equalizer restorer; and a combining network, coupled to the output. The high-pass filter has a bandwidth characteristic which is approximately inverse to a low-pass characteristic encountered by the video signal during its transmission over the communications channel. The high-pass filter takes the video signal and outputs a filtered-video signal. The amplifier associated with the high-pass filter inverts the filtered-video signal. The post-correction-phase-and-gain restorer adjusts the inverted-filtered-video signal to generate a restored-video signal.

US Patent:

47107995, Dec 1, 1987

Filed:

Jun 22, 1984

Appl. No.:

6/623421

Inventors:

Jimmie D. Songer - Burleson TX

Assignee:

High Resolution Television, Inc. - Los Angeles CA

International Classification:

H04N 1106

US Classification:

358 12

Abstract:

The information signal for a green camera tube modulated to scan each line in an undulating path is sampled by a filter trap at the frequency of modulation in a narrow band (about. +-. 1/2 MHz) and combined with the red and blue camera tube signals in the same proportion that each contributes to the total luminance relative to the green information signal thereby pseudomodulating the red and blue camera tube information signals. Although it is preferable to do this at the camera, thereby having to do it only once for the television transmission system, it may be done at the display tube. This modulation of the green tube scan, and pseudomodulation of the red and blue tube scan not only increases resolution for color television but also eliminated aliasing because the scan of all color camera tubes is effectively undulating so that there can be no scan parallel to horizontal edges of an image that causes aliasing in normal interlaced field of scan lines that are straight horizontal lines.

US Patent:

51536200, Oct 6, 1992

Filed:

Jan 18, 1991

Appl. No.:

7/643575

Inventors:

Jimmie D. Songer - Burleson TX

Assignee:

Magma, Inc. - Ft. Worth TX

International Classification:

G03B 1918
G03B 2132

US Classification:

352 38

Abstract:

A method of creating motion picture film reduces strobing effect and increases resolution and density. Images are recorded on a first frame of the film from two frames viewed by the camera. These will be superimposed at equal exposure rates. Each frame of the processed film will have double exposures. The procedure may to be performed with photographic film and also with video tape.

US Patent:

56710070, Sep 23, 1997

Filed:

May 31, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/454656

Inventors:

Jimmie D. Songer - Burleson TX

Assignee:

Magma, Inc. - Fort Worth TX

International Classification:

H04N 718
H04N 1302

US Classification:

348 49

Abstract:

A system and method for imaging and viewing, by a viewer, color and monochrome three-dimensional and two-dimensional. images for broadcasting in accordance with NTSC, PAL, SECAM, and other world-wide electronic viewing formats. The invention comprises a camera device, a viewing device, a transmitter for transmitting a drive signal, and at least one pair of viewing glasses. The camera device includes a single imaging lens having a multi-aperture light value, and a single image space for receiving and overlaying a plurality of left-eye images and a plurality of right-eye images at a field rate driven by the drive signal. The pair of viewing glasses includes a left-viewing light valve and a right-viewing-light valve. In response to receiving the drive signal, the left-viewing-light valve opens and closes, synchronized with the field rate, for viewing the plurality of left-eye images. The right-viewing-light valve, responsive to the drive signal, opens and closes synchronized with the field rate, but alternatingly with the left-viewing-light valve, for viewing the plurality of right-eye images.

US Patent:

46202170, Oct 28, 1986

Filed:

Sep 22, 1983

Appl. No.:

6/534592

Inventors:

Jimmie D. Songer - Burleson TX

Assignee:

High Resolution Television, Inc. - Los Angeles CA

International Classification:

H04N 538
H04N 904

US Classification:

358 12

Abstract:

The full potential of high resolution television by synchronized modulation of the scan lines at the camera and display unit is achieved in standard transmission through band limited channels by: separating out of the video signal from the television camera the modulation frequency as sidebands with pixel information, for example 7. 16. +-. 1/2 MHz in the case of a color subcarrier at 3. 58 MHz under the NTSC standards and pixel information modulated on sidebands in a narrow band (about. +-. 1/2 MHz); converting the sidebands with pixel information down to within the color subcarrier band (in the range of 3. 75 MHz to 4. 2 MHz) using a heterodyne converter; and adding back to the video signal out of the camera the down-converted sidebands with pixel information before processing it through the color encoder for transmission through the bandwidth limited channel. The transmitted signal may be received and displayed by a standard television receiver or monitor, but to achieve the higher resolution which modulation of the scan line affords, the receiver, or monitor, must be modified to convert the color reference frequency to the line scan modulation frequency (synchronized with the color subcarrier) and, while using the color reference at the standard frequency for color decoding, using the modulation frequency to modulate the line scan of the color display tube at the same time the detected video signal is filtered to separate the down-converted sidebands with pixel information, convert the sidebands with pixel information back up to the modulation frequency using a heterodyne converter, and add the up-converted sidebands with pixel information back into the detected video signal for processing in the receiver or monitor modified to modulate the scan lines for display.

US Patent:

56965605, Dec 9, 1997

Filed:

May 31, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/454654

Inventors:

Jimmie D. Songer - Burleson TX

Assignee:

Magma, Inc. - Fort Worth TX

International Classification:

H04N 5222
H04N 5253
H04N 587

US Classification:

348436

Abstract:

An improvement to a motion picture distribution system providing a high quality motion picture system compatible with pre-existing NTSC systems and improving horizontal and vertical detail. The improvement includes a television camera having an anamorphic lens, an encoder coupled to the television camera, and a decoder at a receiver. The anamorphic lens can have an aspect ratio of two to one, and compresses an entire motion picture viewing field into the NTSC-standard, four to three aspect ratio, to produce a horizontally-compressed image. The horizontally-compressed image is output from the television camera as a horizontally-compressed-image signal. The encoder encodes the horizontally-compressed-image signal as a composite-wideband-video signal having increased bandwidth, and generates a subcarrier-composite signal. The composite-wideband-video signal may be directly broadcast to a receiver or recorded by a recording device for subsequent transfer to a receiver, if the receiver is NTSC-compatible, the decoder generates a decoded-subcarrier-composite signal for use by the NTSC-compatible receiver. If the receiver includes a high quality system, then the high quality system uses the subcarrier-composite signal directly, demodulating the entire bandwidth of the composite-wideband-video signal to generate a motion picture image having a quality similar to a 35-mm film distribution print.