Patent ID: 8256899

Claim:
A method of exactly reproducing complex camera movements at different times, comprising the steps of: providing an articulated camera support that is capable of articulated movements at multiple joints; providing articulation sensors at each of said multiple joints to sense any of said articulated movements, wherein said articulation sensors create corresponding articulation data signals for said articulated movements; providing a wheeled cart having a drive motor and a drive motor sensor for sensing wheeled cart movements caused by said drive motor, wherein said drive motor sensor creates cart data signals indicative of said wheeled cart movements; mounting a camera to said articulated camera support; shooting a first scene with said camera, wherein said camera has a shooting position that is altered during said first scene by both said articulated movements of said articulated camera support and said wheeled cart movements of said wheeled cart; saving both said articulation data signals and said cart data signals created during said first scene; and utilizing both said articulation data signals and said cart data signals to exactly reproduce said articulation movements and said wheeled cart movements experienced during said first scene in a second scene shot at some time after said first scene.