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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7374803 | Band-like matter fastening seal, roll photo film, apparatus and methods for manufacturing a band-like matter unit A band-like matter fastening seal for fixing a wound end of a band-like matter that is wound in a roll form to the body of said band-like matter, includes: a first attaching part adhered to said end of the band-like matter; a second attaching part having an attachin... | 05/20/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7186499 | Print medium with anisotropic bending properties A print medium includes a sheet. A plurality of parallel rib elements extend along the sheet and are configured to provide the sheet with anisotropic bending properties. ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7183041 | Printing plate in the form of a roller and method for obtaining same The invention concerns a printing plate in the form of a roller and a method for obtaining same. Said method consists in producing on a first layer, at least a photopolymer film and in coiling said layers on themselves to form a roller. The invention is applicable i... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7153639 | Silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material comprising a support and, superimposed thereon, a blue-sensitive layer unit, a green-sensitive layer unit and a red-sensitive layer unit, each of these layers comprising at least two silver hali... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7147998 | Thermally developable materials containing anionic polymer overcoat Thermally developable imaging materials have an outermost protective layer that is composed of one or more hydrophilic film-forming components. The predominant film-forming component is a negatively-charged latex polymer that has negatively-charged ionic groups othe... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7105285 | Silver halide color photosensitive material A silver halide color photosensitive material comprises a blue-sensitive layer, a green-sensitive layer, a red-sensitive layer and a non-light-sensitive layer on a support. The silver halide color photosensitive material contains a compound selected from the followi... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7086529 | Packaging material for photographic light-sensitive material and photographic light-sensitive material package using same There is provided a packaging material for a photographic light-sensitive material, the packaging material being formed from a resin composition that contains a compound having an unsaturated double bond or that contains a poly(conjugated diene) component, a metal i... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7083984 | Hybrid phthalocyanine derivatives and their uses Water soluble hybrid phthalocyanine derivatives useful in competitive and noncompetitive assays immunoassays, nucleic acid and assays are disclosed and claimed having (1) at least one donor subunit with a desired excitation peak; and (2) at least one acceptor subuni... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7063940 | Curl resistant media A curl-resistant planar media comprises a plurality of fibers embedded in the media and configured such that the media has a stiffness in a first direction that exceeds the stiffness in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction. ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7056551 | Protective overcoat and process for thermal dye sublimation prints Disclosed is a protective transparent overcoat comprising a protective polymer and a surfactant compound having multiple non-end-group hydrogen bonding groups directly or indirectly bonded to the backbone chain of the surfactant compound. The coating enables simplif... | 06/06/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7005250 | Silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material A silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material comprising a support and, superimposed thereon, at least one blue-sensitive layer, at least one green-sensitive layer, at least one red-sensitive layer and at least one non-lightsensitive layer, wherein at l... | 02/28/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6955871 | Lightsensitive material package A lightsensitive material package contains a silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material and a plastic material member. The photographic lightsensitive material has at least one red-sensitive, at least one green-sensitive and at least one blue-sensitive... | 10/18/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6936411 | Industrial radiographic silver halide material suitable for rapid processing applications A silver halide industrial radiographic material comprising on at least one side of a support a hydrophilic gelatinous non-spectrally sensitized radiation-sensitive emulsion layer, having grains, coated in a total amount in the range from 6 to 20 g, expressed as an ... | 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 |
| 6913875 | Curl resistant print media Print media, when rolled tightly often produces a high degree of curl when removed from a roll form. The stiffer the media, the more likely the tenancy to curl. On the other hand, media that is too thin will be too floppy for conventional handling. Incorporating som... | 07/05/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6905018 | Packaging apparatus for wrapping and folding flexible photoreceptor belts Packaging apparatus is provided for packaging a flexible photoconductive belt loop to prevent light from shocking the flexible photoconductive belt loop during shipping and during loading into an image reproduction machine. The packaging apparatus includes (a) a cut... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6893808 | Silver halide photographic material A silver halide photographic material which is in the form of a roll film packaged in a cartridge, and which exhibits superior print stability and is capable of providing prints with superior image quality when printed onto printing paper is disclosed, comprising on... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6849366 | Systems and methods for film processing quality control A photographic film with a row of sprocket holes formed on each side thereof includes a sensitometric step wedge of different light intensity values exposed along one side of the film, preferably located between the sprocket holes. ... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6783923 | Silver halide color photosensitive material and photographic product A silver halide color photosensitive material comprising at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, on a support. The photosensitive... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6773874 | Digital print media output with reduced residual curl Print media, when rolled tightly often produces a high degree of curl when removed from a roll form. The stiffer the media, the more likely the tenancy to curl. On the other hand, media that is too thin will be too floppy for conventional handling. The media describ... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6749993 | Planographic printing precursor and printing method employing the same Disclosed is a planographic printing plate precursor comprising a support, and provided thereon, an image forming layer, a first outermost layer on the image forming layer side and a second outermost layer on the side of the support opposite the first outermost laye... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6709796 | Camera speed color film with base side micro-lenses Disclosed is a light sensitive photographic element suitable for image capture followed by machine reading to produce a single perspective two-dimensional color image, said element comprising a two-sided support (a) having disposed on one side of said support... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6649312 | Lenticular imaging with incorporated beads Disclosed is light sensitive element comprising a support, at least one light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and a micro-bead layer comprising micro-beads a wherein the quantity of binder in the micro-bead layer is such that the micro-beads are n... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6645704 | Annealing of color photothermographic imaging elements for improved stability The present invention is related to a method of making a color photothermographic element such as a capture film intended to be developed to yield an image by the application of heat, preferably without the addition of processing solutions. In particular,... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6645691 | Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material in the shape of a light-shielded light-sensitive material roll, which has a characteristic curve drawn in orthogonal coordinates of logarithm of light exposure (x-axis) and optical density... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6623896 | Camera speed color film with emulsion side micro-lenses Disclosed is a light sensitive photographic element comprising a support, a convergent micro-lens array, and an interposed light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer unit. Also disclosed is a camera combination and imaging method. Embodiments of the inv... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6558877 | Jet coating method for semiconductor processing A system and method is disclosed for coating a conventional wafer or a spherical shaped semiconductor substrate with liquid material such as photoresist by utilizing a "drop on demand" piezo driven dispense nozzle, a bubble-jet dispense nozzle, or a conti... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6518004 | Polyester support and silver halide photographic material Disclosed are a polyester support excellent in cutting properties in a photofinishing laboratory, which has both transverse direction (TD) and machine direction (MD) breaking strengths of from 5 kg/mm2 to 18 kg/mm2, and both TD and M... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6506547 | Roll Package A roll package comprising a spool, a length of web material wound about the spool, and a length of a protective material wound about the length of web material. The length of a protective material has a moisture vapor transmission rate of less than about ... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6296996 | Transparent magnetic recording medium There is disclosed a transparent magnetic recording medium having, on a support, at least one magnetic recording layer containing magnetic particles, which medium comprises a first set of protuberances having a height of 0.001 μm or more than 0.001 μm, ... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6268109 | Composite photosensitive element A composite photosensitive element, adapted for storage in roll form without the use of a coversheet, and a method for making the same is provided. The photosensitive element has utility for the application of imagable photosensitive layers often used as ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6257777 | Photographic roll film A photographic film roll. The roll includes a length of photosensitive web material wound about a spool and a light-shielding member wound about the length of photosensitive web material. The light-shielding member includes a transverse fold line spaced f... | 07/10/2001 |
