Automated portrait studio
CA 2078298 C · Owner: Lifetouch Portrait Studios Inc. · Inventors: Surma, Michael; Adolphi, John; Lindenfelser, Jerry
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A portrait studio system for use by a photographer in automatically setting plurality of photographic parameters corresponding to distinct photographic poses of a subject comprising data processing means including data storage means having information stored therein regarding the photographic parameters corresponding to the distinct photographic poses data input means operatively connected to the data processing means for inputting a selection of a desired pose or sequence of poses and data output means for communicating the photographic parameters corresponding to the pose or sequence of poses selected.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed September 15, 1992 and granted April 27, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 15, 2012.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by September 15, 2014.
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