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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7347617 | Mixing in microfluidic devices Mixing of liquids in a microfluidic device is accomplished by dispensing the liquids into a first chamber to produce combined liquid. The liquids are thereafter discharged through at least one capillary from the first chamber into a second chamber for complete mixin... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7263240 | Method, system, and software for improving signal quality using pyramidal decomposition A method, system, and software are disclosed for improving the quality of a signal. A base signal is recursively decomposed for a desired number of pyramid levels. The decomposed signal from the lowest level is modified to generate a preprocessed signal. The preproc... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7138222 | Silver halide color photographic photosensitive material The present invention provides a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material that includes coupler-containing sensitive emulsion layer units on a support. Each of the photosensitive emulsion layer units are constituted of at least two photosensitive emu... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7125711 | Method and apparatus for splitting of specimens into multiple channels of a microfluidic device A microliter liquid sample, particularly a biological sample, is analyzed in a device employing centrifugal and capillary forces. The sample is moved by capillary forces into one or more metering wells which define the amount of the sample to be analyzed in subseque... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7047712 | Self-propelled mower having enhanced maneuverability A frame of a mower supports wheel assemblies, a propulsion unit, and a mowing deck. Each wheel assembly is associated with a corresponding wheel, a corresponding electrical steering motor, and a corresponding electrical drive motor. A controller controls a direction... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7022441 | Silver-free black-and-white thermographic materials containing a benzoquinone and methods of imaging Silver-free, aqueous-based direct thermographic materials are designed to have image tone with near neutral density. Without the use of organic silver salts containing reducible silver ions, the image is formed using a color developing agent precursor that releases ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020344 | Match blur system and method A method for blurring in signal processing, for example, in digital film processing, is performed with digital artifacts. The digital artifacts are derived, such as by scanning, and include a noisy artifact and a less noisy artifact. The artifacts are subdivided int... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016080 | Method and system for improving scanned image detail Methods are provided for generating a dynamic image mask for improving image detail in a digital image. An electronic representation of an image is scanned. A dynamic image mask is generated from the electronic representation of the image. The dynamic image mask has... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6965692 | Method and apparatus for improving the quality of reconstructed information Image processing apparatus and methods according to the present invention are described in which data for each color channel are separately processed, on a pixel by pixel basis, such that the data associated with the primary color channel is filtered less than the c... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6943920 | Method, system, and software for signal processing using pyramidal decomposition A method, system, and software are disclosed for improving the quality of a signal. A base signal is recursively decomposed and modified for a desired number of pyramid levels. At each level, the decomposed signal from the previous level is modified to improve one o... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6936412 | Method of forming color images A method of forming color images comprises forming an original image and duplicating the formed original image on a color photosensitive material having blue-, green- and red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers on a transmission or reflective support. The formed... | 08/30/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6915021 | Method and system for selective enhancement of image data A method and apparatus for selectively applying image enhancement processing to parts of an image. In one embodiment, spatial processing transformations, such as sharpening for example, are reduced or bypassed for pixels having color code values within a range known... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6913404 | Film processing solution cartridge and method for developing and digitizing film A digital film processing system and film processing solution cartridge are disclosed. The cartridge comprises a housing and a chamber for storing a film processing fluid. The processing solution may be contained within a flexible bladder within the chamber. The car... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6910816 | Digital film processing method A method of developing a latent image on a photographic element (such as imagewise exposed photographic film) by absorbing a dye precursor into the film, applying a developer solution to the film to develop the latent image and form a dye in the film, scanning the f... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6866990 | Silver halide color reversal photographic lightsensitive material A silver halide color reversal photographic lightsensitive material comprising a support and, superimposed thereon, at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one blue-sensitive sil... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6824968 | Silver halide color reversal photographic light-sensitive material A silver halide color reversal photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least one interimage effect imparting layer (a) defined below and at least one interimage effect imparting layer (b) defined below, wherein, when the photographic light-sensitive mate... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6645680 | Silver halide color reversal photographic material A silver halide color reversal photographic material comprising a layer capable of imparting interimage effects, this interimage effects imparting layer comprising a lightsensitive silver halide emulsion comprising silver halide grains satisfying the foll... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6500606 | Photographic processing compositions and methods of using in color reversal image formation A photographic prebleaching or conditioning composition is useful for providing color positive images in color reversal photographic materials. This composition includes at least 0.0001 mol/l of a cyclic mercapto bleach accelerating agent and at least 0.0... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6492100 | Silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material and compound used therein A silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material comprising at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein the emulsion layer contains a magenta coupler represented by formula (M-1) below: ##STR1## wherein R | 12/10/2002 |
| 6461061 | System and method for digital film development using visible light One aspect of the invention is a system for digital dye color film processing. In one embodiment, a developer station applies a processing solution to film to initiate development of metallic silver grains and at least one dye image within the film. A sca... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6451518 | Method and device for processing a color reversal photographic film The invention relates to a method and device for processing an exposed color reversal photographic film. This method enables the water consumption of the washing baths to be limited, the water levels being maintained by a counter-current coming from the b... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6451517 | Silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material and method for forming color image using the same A silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material includes at least one emulsion layer on a support. At least one of the emulsion layers contains a coupler represented by formula (1) below and a coupler represented by formula (2) below at a molar... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6440650 | Silver halide color reversal photosensitive material and color image forming method using the same A silver halide color reversal photosensitive material comprising at least one blue-sensitive emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive emulsion layer, and at least one red-sensitive emulsion layer on a transparent support, and capable of forming a col... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6423482 | Photographic element and package Disclosed is a color photographic element comprising a multilayered blue light sensitive record, a multilayered green light sensitive record, and a multilayered red light sensitive record, the red record comprising two or more layers of differing light se... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6391533 | Silver halide color photosensitive material and color image forming method using the same A silver halide color photosensitive material comprising each at least one blue-, green-, and red-sensitive emulsion layer on a support. The material contains a magenta coupler of formula (MC-1): ##STR1## wherein R1 represents a t-alkyl group, ... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6346368 | Silver halide light sensitive color reversal photographic material A silver halide color reversal photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magen... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6180327 | Photographic conditioning solution containing polyaminocarboxylic acid as sole antimicrobial agent and method of use A conditioning solution or bleach accelerating solution can be used to process color photographic films, especially color reversal films, to minimize magenta dye fade. This solution contains an antimicrobial composition that consists essentially of a poly... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6162595 | Reversal photographic elements comprising an additional layer containing an imaging emulsion and a non-imaging emulsion Photographic elements capable of forming a reversal image are disclosed comprising a support and, coated on said support, at least one image recording emulsion layer comprised of a dispensing medium and radiation sensitive silver halide grains and at leas... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6153364 | Photographic processing methods using compositions containing stain reducing agent Specific aromatic compounds having an extended planar π system are useful as spectral sensitizing dye stain reducing agents in photographic processing compositions and methods for providing color or black-and-white images in various photographic silver h... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6074805 | Photographic reversal composition and method of use Color reversal photographic films are processed using a reversal solution comprising stannous ion and a quaternary ammonium compound as the sole biocide, to reduce formation of biogrowth. The quaternary ammonium compound is present at very low concentrati... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6015658 | Photographic element comprising yellow dye-forming photographic coupler The invention disclosed is a photographic element comprising a silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a dye-forming coupler having Formula 1 wherein: X is hydrogen or a coupling-off group; Y and Z are each independently selected hydrogen or a... | 01/18/2000 |
| 5965322 | Silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material that contains, in photographic constitutional layers on a support, a hydrazine-series reducing agent for color formation, and a phenol-series magenta coupler having an acylamin... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5962203 | Fogging solution for a reversal process A new fogging photographic processing solution for a reversal process comprises a compound (I) and a bi-nucleophilic agent. Compound (I) corresponds to the following formula: ##STR1## wherein A is a group capable of being adsorbed to the silver halid... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5869224 | Processing of reversal materials In reversal processing, washing between the first development and the reversal bath can be avoided without any loss of photographic quality if the reversal bath is operated in countercurrent over at least two stages and hydroquinone sulfonic acid is used ... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5846697 | Concentrated solution and kit for making a photographic color developer A photographic concentrate for preparing a color developer comprises benzyl alcohol, water and organic solvents. This concentrate can be part of a kit for preparing a color developer along with 2 other concentrated solutions. The noted concentrated solution co... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5837432 | Photographic reversal process prebleach concentrate and method of use A conditioning or bleach accelerating solution is prepared by diluting a concentrate up to 25 times. The concentrate contains a formaldehyde bisulfite precursor salt at from 200 to 600 g/l, sulfite ions at 0 to 200 g/l, a bleach accelerating agent at from... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5811225 | Photographic reversal solution and method of use Color reversal photographic films are processed using a reversal solution comprising stannous ion and a quaternary ammonium compound as the sole biocide, to reduce formation of biogrowth.... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5753422 | Silver halide color photographic material A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed, which comprises a support having thereon a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at ... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5736302 | Photographic reversal bath concentrate and method of preparing same A photographic reversal bath concentrate is formulated in such a manner as to avoid precipitates while including new biocides and excluding propionic acid. The concentrate is prepared by adding stannous ion nucleating agent to a solution of an organic pho... | 04/07/1998 |
