Patent ID: 11902688
Assignee: WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 8:
9. An apparatus comprising at least one processor coupled to a memory, the memory holding program instructions, that when executed by the at least one processor, causes the apparatus to perform:
accessing a digital image sequence produced by a film scanner from motion picture film in a computer memory, wherein images in the sequence include a plurality of frames;
determining a count of perfs and perf image positions in each of the images;
assigning one of a finite number of image states to the each of the images, based at least in part on the perf image positions in the each of the images;
extracting at least one frame of the motion picture from the each of the images, based at least in part on the image states; and
preparing a sequence of frames extracted by the extracting sequenced according to the motion picture film.