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I think it is nessisary to mention that a video tap is not exactly what the camera operator is seeing. There is very often a diffence in color balance as images produced by a CCD are very different from the physical format of film. I think that part of this artical should be revised.
A Jerry Lewis patent for video assist was mentioned on the Oscars show tonight, and I see it's also mentioned in this article, but I can't find it.
I searched the full USPTO database under "Jerry Lewis" as well as "Joseph Levitch" in combination with keywords as basic as "camera" without finding anything. I did find the 1990 patent Video assist system for motion-picture camera, which includes a list of prior-art patents. None of these are from Jerry Lewis, or even in the right timeframe.
So is this just an urban legend, or what? 67.164.125.7 ( talk) 03:10, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Followup Comment: The USPTO database only goes back to 1975. This invention would have been sometime in the late 50s or early 60s. You'd need the patent number to look it up. According to the TCM Movie Database, VAIDigital.com, and SOC.org, the "Closed Circuit Television Applied to Motion Pictures" machine was invented in 1956 and perfected by Paramount and Ampex. Lewis is said to own the patent on the specific machine: a video camera mounted in parallel to a motion picture camera... not the idea. Apparently others may have invented similar systems, but it was Lewis' invention that got noticed. 71.203.166.14 ( talk) 05:44, 24 February 2009 (UTC)Chris Ch.
I really wish people would stop removing the dubious tag without actually resolving the issue. The only way to resolve the issue is to identify the patent by number and provide a link to it. If we do that, I'm fine. I'm not trying to prove Lewis didn't invent something. I like the guy. But that has nothing to do with the factual claim here. If Wikipedia says a patent exists, there has to be a patent number! 67.164.125.7 ( talk) 07:16, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
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I think it is nessisary to mention that a video tap is not exactly what the camera operator is seeing. There is very often a diffence in color balance as images produced by a CCD are very different from the physical format of film. I think that part of this artical should be revised.
A Jerry Lewis patent for video assist was mentioned on the Oscars show tonight, and I see it's also mentioned in this article, but I can't find it.
I searched the full USPTO database under "Jerry Lewis" as well as "Joseph Levitch" in combination with keywords as basic as "camera" without finding anything. I did find the 1990 patent Video assist system for motion-picture camera, which includes a list of prior-art patents. None of these are from Jerry Lewis, or even in the right timeframe.
So is this just an urban legend, or what? 67.164.125.7 ( talk) 03:10, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Followup Comment: The USPTO database only goes back to 1975. This invention would have been sometime in the late 50s or early 60s. You'd need the patent number to look it up. According to the TCM Movie Database, VAIDigital.com, and SOC.org, the "Closed Circuit Television Applied to Motion Pictures" machine was invented in 1956 and perfected by Paramount and Ampex. Lewis is said to own the patent on the specific machine: a video camera mounted in parallel to a motion picture camera... not the idea. Apparently others may have invented similar systems, but it was Lewis' invention that got noticed. 71.203.166.14 ( talk) 05:44, 24 February 2009 (UTC)Chris Ch.
I really wish people would stop removing the dubious tag without actually resolving the issue. The only way to resolve the issue is to identify the patent by number and provide a link to it. If we do that, I'm fine. I'm not trying to prove Lewis didn't invent something. I like the guy. But that has nothing to do with the factual claim here. If Wikipedia says a patent exists, there has to be a patent number! 67.164.125.7 ( talk) 07:16, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
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