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... He was an eminent authority on image evaluation in motion picture and television systems. He is best known for developing the concept of the modulation transfer function, which is widely applied to the evaluation of optical, photographic, and electronic image systems and to studies of the eye.
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... Price of Kodak wrote: "Much of the mystery surrounding lens 'quality' was cleared up in 1951 when Otto H Schade, Sr., of the Radio Corporation of America, described his investigation of lenses used in the entire chain of information transmission represented by a television system." He adds that with Otto Schade's concepts and a computer, "[now]
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... Otto Schade, Sr., received two additional awards: "The Karl Fairbanks Memorial Award to Dr.
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... Schade. By those who had the good fortune to work with Otto Schade, Sr., or even to know him in a passing fashion, he would be characterized as a gentle, unassuming, thoughtful man who combined the Old World ideals of perfection with understanding of the real world's deficiencies.
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