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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6351608 | One-time-use camera with external flash unit A one-time-use camera with a built-in flash unit and an external flash unit system in which the external flash unit is devoid of a charger circuit and battery power supply. The external flash unit is connected to the camera built-in flash unit's flash cap... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6275658 | Multi-zone autofocus system for a still camera A multi-zone autofocus system for a still camera having at least three autofocus distance zone focus settings in which a two-zone autoranging circuit is operated sequentially at different threshold settings corresponding to different distances from the ca... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6263288 | Method and apparatus for indicating proximity of film scanner to CRT display monitor A photographic film scanner having magnetic data read capability is provided with a function that senses an unacceptably high electromagnetic noise interference in the read head output, such as might be caused by the scanner being too close to a host comp... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6249648 | Camera flash circuit with optical data recording circuit In a camera having a single battery cell power source, a flash apparatus is provided in combination with an optical data recording circuit in which energy to illuminate an LED illumination device in the recording circuit is derived from charging current t... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6249358 | Method of scanning photographic film images using selectively determined system response gain calibration Gain factors for correcting pixel to pixel variations in system response in a multi-pixel scanner array are determined by calculating gain factors for a so-called "open gate" condition (with no film present), by calculating gain factors for a so-called "D... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6211975 | Method and apparatus for controlling image data transfer in a photographic film scanner A photographic film scanner has a line integration light sensor and a programmed controller which employs a plurality of lookup tables (LUT) sequenced by a common timer to control the timing of data collection and transfer to an asynchronously operating h... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6141500 | Control method for duty-cycling a camera A camera is enabled by film present and film door sensor switches to perform dry cycle operation for testing of camera operation only when film is not present and the film door sensor switch indicates that the film door is open. Provision is made to bypas... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6133983 | Photographic printing method and apparatus for setting a degree of illuminant chromatic correction using inferential illuminant detection A method of setting chromatic correction in exposure determining algorithms of an automatic photographic printer using inferential illuminant detection derived from data recorded at a camera during picture taking. For scenes having a scene light level abo... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6128446 | Method and apparatus for annotation of photographic film in a camera Camera apparatus and method with provision for selection of image annotations to be recorded with captured images. Camera user initiated keywords associated with groupings of annotations are inputted to the camera via voice recognition or handwriting reco... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6101069 | Magnetic head cleaning film strip and method of making same A film-based magnetic head cleaning medium in which the head cleaning areas are formed by puncturing the film all the way through with a plurality of sharp prongs to produce an area of projecting puncture edges which are raised from the surface of the fil... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6101006 | Method and apparatus for controlling image scanning and data transfer in a photographic film scanner In a photographic film scanner having a film transport drive stepper motor, an illuminant head having a plurality of spectrally separate light source, a light sensor and data collection and transfer circuits, each operationally responsive to a programmed ... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6076415 | Bi-directional, dual speed film transport gear drive apparatus with an open loop control gear mesh routine A dual speed film drive apparatus to achieve high speed and low speed film drive employs a limited speed range stepper motor with pinion input drive gear, and an output driven gear connected to a film advance mechanism. High and low speed drive is achieve... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6061532 | Animated image presentations with personalized digitized images Personalized story presentations, such as video movies, are prepared with the aid of a kit including a film camera, pose instruction set and chroma-key backdrop. The camera is preferably a special single-use camera having a visual aid strip seen in the vi... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6054814 | Camera flash charging apparatus for low cost single use camera In a flash circuit for a single use camera, a minimum residual charge voltage level is maintained on a flash capacitor to ensure availability of an energy source to operate an auxiliary circuit, such as an optical data recording circuit, even after prolon... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6055047 | Device for determining the degree of wear of a paper transport roller The degree of wear of the paper transport roller (10) is checked by means of a reflected light barrier (40). To that end, the paper transport roller (10) comprises two layers (13 and 15) applied to the core of the paper transport roller (10). The two laye... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6043625 | Battery charging system with battery type and polarity discrimination A battery charging system detects if multiple battery cells to be recharged include rechargeable, secondary batteries or non-rechargeable, primary batteries. If the system detects that any one of the cells is a primary battery, then the charging system ha... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6038408 | Optical data recording circuit for a film camera An optical data recording circuit includes an optical recording device normally illuminated from a camera battery means in conjunction with initiation of flash illumination in the camera flash illumination circuit. The data recording circuit includes a fi... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6035141 | Optical data recording circuit for a film camera An optical data recording circuit suitably adapted for a low cost, one-time-use camera in which an LED optical recording device is connected via a switch device from one terminal of a battery supply to the base of an oscillator transistor in an oscillator... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6018397 | Digital image processing with indication to user of hardcopy output image quality A digital image processor that establishes a boundary level of acceptable hardcopy print quality level based on selected image print size and printing magnification and provides a warning to the user prior to generation of the hardcopy print that alerts t... | 01/25/2000 |
| 6016984 | Spoolless film takeup chamber with improved spooling spring A spoolless film takeup chamber with a pair of expandable film coiling springs. The springs are flat springs coiled generally in a spiral configuration. The thickness of the springs varies from the point at which the springs are attached to the inner take... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5982350 | Compositer interface for arranging the components of special effects for a motion picture production A user interface is described for an image computing workstation for electronically arranging the components of a special effects job, such as image-compositing, from a plurality of image sequences obtained by the scanning of motion picture film. The inte... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5982477 | Film drive apparatus for a photographic film scanner Film scanning apparatus having a film cartridge chamber for receiving a film cartridge containing photographic film having images to be scanned, a film takeup chamber and a film scan gate therebetween. The apparatus has an upstream nip roller set position... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5974189 | Method and apparatus for modifying electronic image data An electronic reproduction apparatus is provided with a modeling routine that includes the steps of identifying a portion of an electronic image to be modified; defining an optical axis, a projection point, a density contour shape and a density gradient p... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5959720 | Method for color balance determination A method of color balance determination for use by a color copying apparatus utilizing a gray estimate established as a functional relationship among at least three basic color density values measured from regions within multiple image frames of a film or... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5960221 | Camera with automatic film initialization responsive to cartridge sensor In a low cost camera, film initialization to a first exposure frame by a time constant controlled drive circuit in which the time constant circuit is reset by a "cartridge present" sensor switch as a consequence of removing a film cartridge from the camer... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5960222 | Camera with automatic film initialization responsive to film loading door sensor In a low cost camera, film initialization to a first exposure frame by a time constant controlled drive circuit in which the time constant circuit is reset by a door sensor switch as a consequence of unloading and/or loading of film in the camera. This en... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5951015 | Interactive arcade game apparatus An interactive game apparatus in which players throw projectiles, such as soft balls, against a display panel on which a target image is projected and contact sensitive elements aligned with target areas in the projected image are activated by a hit from ... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5943523 | Semiautomatic film desplicer Manually controlled semi-automatic apparatus for desplicing film strips particularly as part of a photofinishing process includes a desplicing station mounted on a rocking arm for automatically positioning the desplicing station at first and second splice... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5903787 | Magnetic head apparatus with gimbaled load pad A gimbaled load pad mounting arrangement in which a rigid load pad is detachably mounted on the spherical end of a spring-loaded mounting shaft. The load pad is provided on the side with flexible retention hooks with finger portions that engage the unders... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5897230 | Sound still camera and film cassette classifier system Sound with still image film system, camera and cassette classifier apparatus wherein indicium such as a deformable tab on the film cassette is modified to indicate sound is or will be recorded in association with pictures taken on the film in the cassette... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5872616 | Method of printing frame numbers from DX-coded photographic film In a photoprinter having a bar code reader, a method is provided of automatically assigning a reference frame number to the last bar code on a film order. The reference number is the highest frame number associated with the detected film order length. The... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5870639 | Optical data recording circuit for a photographic camera Data bits representing different aspect ratio formats of film image frames are optically recorded on photographic film by means of light emitting devices energized from the flash charge storage capacitor. The light emitting devices are driven by a constan... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5848196 | Image processing to compensate for asymmetric resolution `X` shaped filters can be used as a basis for the enhancement of images derived by electronic scanning. However, whilst such filters offer the advantage that the horizontal and vertical edges of the image will be boosted in preference to the edges at 45°... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5845017 | Digital image processing method for degraining of film images using distance weighted averaging of target pixel code values A method of digital image processing for degraining (smoothing) of images based on selected averaging of pixels in a neighborhood of pixels surrounding a target pixel to be recalculated. Improvement in the application of the selected average method to ima... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5828409 | Film scanner mount assembly for a solid state sensor Mounting of a solid state imaging sensor in a film scanner support body with an axis of the sensor in precision alignment with a scan axis of the scanner. The sensor is precision mounted on a support frame forming part of a sensor package with the sensor ... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5825008 | Apparatus and method for setting radial bar code disc sensor gain in a phtographic camera A photographic film camera adapted to receive a film cassette having a rotatable radial bar code data disk mounted at one end thereof is provided with a variable gain opto-sensor circuit responsive to the radial bar code for generating a sensor output sig... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5814948 | Flash circuit for low cost cameras A flash circuit for a low cost camera in which a voltage dependent resistor is employed as a flash capacitor charge voltage sensing device to perform a control effect in the flash circuit, such as turning on a flash ready indicator light or activating a o... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5807459 | Apparatus and method for separating spliced strips of photographic film A semi automatic film de-splicer that non-destructively separates film strips from splice tapes attached to the film strips with thermal adhesive. A reciprocating heat shoe is operated in two de-splicing cycles to press and heat the splice tape adhesive s... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5808725 | Illumination control system for a film scanner In a telecine film scanner having an aperture area setting servo loop to establish output light intensity in response to commanded light intensity settings followed by operation of a lamp current intensity servo loop during film scanning at the establishe... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5797056 | Film cartridge canister with sound device storage A photographic film cartridge canister provided with an integrally formed, separate compartment for storage of a sound device, such as an IC sound card, used to record sound in association with still images captured on the photographic film stored in the ... | 08/18/1998 |
