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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7236736 | Image recording apparatus A printer-processor is provided with a paper feed path that is constituted of a plural number of pairs of conveyer rollers, and a feedback path that branches off the paper feed path to feed a sheet of recording paper back to an upstream position of the paper feed pa... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7232504 | Apparatus and method for distilling waste liquids A distilling apparatus and method use a two step distillation and purification process for processing a waste liquid, such as an impure sulfuric acid solution, to form a highly concentrated sulfuric acid solution. First, the waste liquid is stored in a concentrating... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7171974 | Production method of silver halide photographic emulsion and production apparatus thereof At least one of a nucleus forming process, a nucleus growing process, a chemical sensitizing process, and a spectral sensitizing process for producing a silver halide photographic emulsion is performed by using a microreactor. A minute region of the microreactor is ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7173269 | Apparatus for processing photosensitive material and area measurement method A plurality of microswitches are arranged in a photosensitive material receiving section in a row, in a direction perpendicular to the travel direction of a printing plate. The printing plate is carried while being centered with respect to a center of a transport pa... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7164508 | Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus having an illuminating device for illuminating a film original, an image reading device for reading an image on the film original illuminated by the illuminating device and outputting image signals. The image reading apparatus further incl... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7110019 | Image reading apparatus A head of a spliced film is transported to downstream side along a path by feed roller pairs, nip roller pairs and transport roller pairs; while the head of the spliced film is detected by a sensor located before a transport merging portion, the nip roller pairs are... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7013806 | Method and apparatus for applying a film of developer fluid onto a lithographic printing plate in a developing station The invention relates to the development of lithographic printing plates and comprises the application of a thin film of developer solution to each plate in a controlled manner using a jetting printhead. Sensors and control means activate and deactivate the jetting ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6916125 | Method for film inspection and development A method of preparing a roll of film for development. The method involves inspecting the film for defects and imperfections as the film is unwound from a magazine. A method of preparing a roll of film for development and developing the film is also disclosed. The de... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6908237 | X-ray processor automatic film feed An automatic x-ray film feed uses a timer and relay system to automatically develop a multiplicity of film slides one-by-one in an x-ray processor without requiring a user to manually advance the slides after each slides in developed. The timer activates a motor thr... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6869756 | Heat developing method and heat developing apparatus A heat developing method having the steps of: initially making the overall surface of a heat developing photosensitive material or a photosensitive and thermosensitive recording material (hereinafter called a “heat developing recording material”) to a predetermi... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6833235 | Method for processing a black-and-white negative recording film material for motion picture soundtrack A processing method has been provided for an exposed silver halide black-and-white negative working sound recording film element, said processing method comprising the steps of processing said sound recording film element in a processing apparatus providing processi... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6817789 | Photosensitive material processing apparatus and photosensitive material A photosensitive material processing apparatus includes a printer section for recording an image on photographic paper by exposure. There is a processor section for photographic development of the photographic paper. A drier section dries the photographic paper. A t... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6793417 | System and method for digital film development using visible light One embodiment is a system for the development of a film includes an infrared light source and a visible light source. The system also includes at least one sensor operable to collect a first set of optical data from light associated the infrared light source and a ... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6783902 | Apparatus and method for thermal film development and scanning The invention relates to an apparatus for thermal development having a receiver for receiving an imagewise exposed thermal film, an accumulator for gathering the film, a drive for advancing the film from the receiver to the accumulator, a heater located between the ... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6761491 | Photographic processor and supply cartridge with an information exchange arrangement The present invention relates to a method and use of information exchange between processing solution supply cartridges that are placed on a small processing machine and a controller that is used to operate the machine. In a feature of the present invention, the con... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6741326 | Methods, apparatus, and systems for detecting partial-shading encodement filtering In a photography method, a determination is made that a set of captured images includes one or more encoded captured images having a partial shading encodement. The encodement has a predetermined edge pattern and is disposed within a predetermined subarea of an imag... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6715941 | Device for the wet chemical processing of photographic material A processor for photographic material includes a multitude of treatment tanks through which the photographic material to be treated is sequentially moved and in which photographic treatment solutions are found during operation, especially developing, bleaching, fixi... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6672778 | Photosensitive material processing apparatus and photosensitive material processing method using the same At least two (groups of) sensors forming an insertion detection sensor are offset from each other in the conveyance direction of a photosensitive material. An insertion speed, which is different for each manual insertion event, is obtained based on the ti... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6629785 | Method and apparatus for processing silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material A method for processing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed, comprising processing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material A for photographing containing a high silver bromide emulsion having a silv... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6558051 | Film scanning device provided in automatic developing apparatus An automatic processing apparatus is provided which includes a processing station for photographic-processing a film; a scanner for scanning the film during the photographic-processing by the processing station; an image data memory device for storing ima... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6447179 | Conveying roller for photosensitive material and method of producing the same Continuous photo film includes a support of resin film having a back surface. A photosensitive layer of photographic emulsion is disposed on a surface of the support opposite to the back surface. A conveying roller conveys the continuous photo film. The c... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6193423 | Device for monitoring a sheet material and method for monitoring a sheet material by using the device A device for monitoring a sheet material which device is used for a conveying apparatus for conveying sheet materials along a prescribed conveying path, said device comprising: a photoelectric conversion element which has a linear detecting area and outpu... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6164845 | Processing photographic material Processing of photographic material is carried out by sensing the quantity of material passing through a processor and supplying replenishment solution in accordance therewith. The level of solution in the processing tanks is also sensed during processing... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6122452 | Photographic camera system A photographic camera system includes a photographic camera that can successively expose a photographic film in different frame sizes and an automatic printer for automatically printing the processed photographic film exposed with those different frame si... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6056451 | Photographic film processing apparatus A photographic film processing apparatus for processing long developed film (10b) formed by joining photographic films with a splicing material (13). The apparatus includes a first transport device (40a) for transporting the long developed film. A region ... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6053642 | Photosensitive-material processing-solution replenishing apparatus If processing agents and dilution water are supplied to replenishing tanks, the level of the resulting solutions may become higher than an upper limit level. This results in a different quantity processed of photosensitive material among the different rep... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6014199 | Classifying film frames by size A film containing first sections with narrower panoramic frames and second sections with wider normal frames is scanned to obtain density values. To distinguish the panoramic frames from the normal frames, the density values along two longitudinally exten... | 01/11/2000 |
| 6008879 | Photograph processor Presence or absence of paper is detected by individual sensors and data content stored in a backup RAM is checked out at the time when an external power source begins to supply electric power, and paper feeding operation is automatically performed by a CP... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5930547 | Process and apparatus for developing radiation-sensitive, exposed printing forms An apparatus for developing radiation-sensitive, exposed printing forms into printing plates is disclosed. The apparatus has a developer pan in which a developer bath 2 is situated. The individual printing form runs through the developing station of this ... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5886774 | Photographic processing system and method of collating order for use with the processing system A photographic processing system is disclosed. The system includes a bar-code reader for reading processing information of a photographic film, a sorter station for sorting the film in accordance with the processing information read from the film, a photo... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5802414 | Developing apparatus A developing apparatus includes a developing tank (2) for developing photosensitive material, an auxiliary tank (3) communicated with the developing tank, a replenishing container (70) communicated with the auxiliary tank and holding therein processing li... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5780189 | Apparatus and method for controlling the chemical activity of processing solution in a photographic processing apparatus In photographic processing apparatus, the processing solutions need to be replenished as they are used up. It is known to effect replenishment of chemicals in a paper processor by determining the amount of exposure given to the paper in the printing stage... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5708903 | Processing apparatus for light-sensitive materials An apparatus for processing a light-sensitive material includes a supply controlling section for controlling an amount of solid processing agents to be supplied per a unit time period in accordance with an amount of the light-sensitive material to be proc... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5578429 | Method of processing photographic silver halide materials A method of imagewise exposing and processing a photographic silver halide color material in a machine containing a number of non-replenished processing tanks or processing tanks that are supplied from a non-replenished source, the method comprising incre... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5578431 | Method of processing photographic silver halide materials without replenishment A method of processing an imagewise exposed photographic silver halide color material in a machine containing a number of processing tanks or processing tanks which are supplied from a non-replenished source, the method comprising increasing the temperatu... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5574529 | Method of inspecting a negative film in a photographic processing apparatus A method of inspecting a negative film in a photographic processing apparatus includes the steps of using a detector to detect location data (i.e., preforations) arranged at equal intervals on the negative film, electrically comparing the detected locatio... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5570154 | Automatic developing apparatus, using solid processing agent dissolved in water, for developing a photosensitive material An automatic developing apparatus for developing a photosensitive material includes a processing section, a throughput detector, a processing agent supplier, a water supplier, a calculator, a timer and a controller. The processing section accommodates a p... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5552851 | Automatic processing machine for silver halide photographic light-sensitive materials In an apparatus for processing a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material, there is provided a solid agent replenishing device to store a package in which a solid agent is packed in a moistureproofing manner. The replenishing device releases th... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5541698 | Apparatus for processing photographic material and a method of regenerating a process liquid therein Apparatus and method for processing photographic material in which the material is passed through at least one processing vessel filled with processing liquid from a supply receptacle of processing liquid. Each vessel is filled by means of a liquid delive... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5477300 | Method for processing photographic light-sensitive material A photographic light-sensitive material processing method in which not only a low-replenishment process, a speedy process and a compensation process in addition to a standard process can be carried out, but replenishment can be performed appropriately for... | 12/19/1995 |
