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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7046274 | Digital camera and method of recycling digital camera A method for recycling a digital camera which includes: a communication section which outputs image data to an external device; and a protecting cover which covers the communication section and which is removed at times when the image data is output, wherein after t... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6394669 | Post-print treatment processor for a photofinishing apparatus A photofinishing apparatus is designed such that full bleed durable prints are produced with a high productivity and low waste generation process. The photofinishing apparatus in this case includes a printer and a finisher or post-print treatment processo... | 05/28/2002 |
| 5887212 | Development processing apparatus and development processing method A development processing apparatus including a pair of rollers for laminating a silver halide photosensitive material on which an image has been exposed and a processing sheet containing chemicals for forming an image on the silver halide photosensitive m... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5583601 | Photographic film sandwiches Film or digital color composite images comprised of sandwiching film or capturing digitally and assembling with computergraphics software: 1) a color positive image, and 2) a color negative image possessing substantially the same subject captured in the p... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5486891 | Ecological system for delivering film units, a container for holding film units and an apparatus for packaging trash for recycling A system for developing photographic film which is ecologically friendly includes a tray holding a pair of film cassettes. One cassette includes negative film sheets which is inserted into a camera where the negative sheets are exposed. The exposed sheets... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5440366 | Multi-pad film processing A photographic film image carrying element is housed in a cartridge having a strip wound around a spool in the cartridge, where the strip includes a leader protruding from the cartridge, the image carrying element, a leader barrier for physically and chem... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5227826 | Layer transfer process for image production and apparatus to preform the process Layer transfer process for image production wherein predetermined areas of the surface of an image carrier (21) are prepared to accept a color layer, the image carrier (21) and a color carrier (22) of layer transfer material are brought into mutual contac... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5122433 | Image recording method An image recording method, where the image is transferred by superposing an exposed light-sensitive material and an image receiving material on the surface of a drum. Before superposing, in circumferential direction with respect to the axial direction of ... | 06/16/1992 |
| 4998130 | Method of loading media sheet A method of loading a media sheet, in which after a rolled media sheet coated with photo-setting microcapsules has been mounted on a supply portion, a front end portion of the media sheet is taken up by a take-up shaft from the supply portion through a pa... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4992816 | Image recording apparatus and method Disclosed are an apparatus for and a method of recording an image in which a heat-developable light-sensitive material and an image-receiving material are superposed on each other and the superposed two materials are inserted between an outer periphery of... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4974015 | Image recording medium producing apparatus There is disclosed an image medium producing apparatus in a color image recording system which transfers an image on an exposed microcapsule sheet to a developer sheet as an image recording medium having a developer material applied onto a support member.... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4920026 | Image formation method and apparatus using light and pressure sensitive sheets A light-accepting sheet with a transparent colorless base sheet coated with microcapsules encapsulating a colorless dye and a photopolymerizing agent which hardens upon exposure to light and an image transfer sheet coated with a developing agent having a ... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4914463 | Development of imaging sheets employing photosensitive microcapsules In an apparatus for developing a picture on a sheet of developing paper from an exposed sheet of photo-sensitive material by pressing together the sheets of developing paper and photo-sensitive material, and in which such sheets in contact with each other... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4896183 | Image formation apparatus with supplemental light source An image forming apparatus such as a copier of the type using a light and pressure sensitive material to form a visible image by exposing photosensitive microcapsules to image forming light to thereby form an invisible pattern of selectively hardened micr... | 01/23/1990 |
| 4878084 | Method and device for feeding sheet in image recording apparatus An image recording sheet, such as a developer sheet, is fed so as to overlap a light-exposed sheet, such as a photosensitive pressure-sensitive sheet which carries an image recorded thereon. The image is transferred from the exposed sheet to the image rec... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4821057 | Process for image transfer and equipment therefor Disclosed is a process for image transfer from an image donating sheet to an image receiving sheet by treating these sheets in equipment or apparatus provided with a parting member, a processing tank and a pair of squeegee rolls which comprises introducin... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4721209 | Film carrier case for the exposure and the treatment of a radiographic film A film carrier light-proof case, whose envelope comprises a first portion enclosing a radiographic film, a second portion enclosing at least one small bag which contains chemical products in a liquid state for the development and fixing treatments of the ... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4675269 | Free particle abrasion development of imaging sheets employing photosensitive microcapsules Imaging sheets having a coating containing chromogenic material and a photosensitive composition, with at least the photosensitive composition encapsulated in rupturable microcapsules as an internal phase, are processed by free particle abrasion to ruptur... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4630915 | Multipart cassette for two component film system A cassette for a photographic film system adapted for processing after exposure by face-to-face contact of the negative with a positive processing film, the cassette having multi-part first and second chambers for containing the respective roll film eleme... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4572634 | Method of and system for identifying subjects There is disclosed an improved and economical identification system wherein photographic apparatus at a plurality of field locations provide positive prints of individuals being identified and wherein the prints and appropriate alphanumeric information ar... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4523825 | Film processing apparatus and system A film processing apparatus is provided for use with cassette holding a processing sheet roll yieldably carrying, on one surface thereof, a substantially uniformly distributed supply of film processing liquid which is adapted to be applied to a surface of... | 06/18/1985 |
| 4511231 | Processing tank for making photographic contact prints A contact processor with a vertical tank having an upper aperture through which two sheets are passed to be immersed in a solution in the tank, and then withdrawn in contact with one another to transfer an image. Sheet guides deflect the sheets toward and... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4498752 | Arrangement for spacing and conveying overlapping photosensitive articles An arrangement for conveying superimposed photographic sheets into a processing bath includes a pair of cooperating rollers each of which has a central section of reduced diameter. A guide sheet having the shape of an isosceles triangle is arranged downst... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4361392 | Image-transfer method and apparatus In a diffusion-transfer processor for use with successive pairs of donors and receivers, back-side wetting of the receivers is prevented by (a) passing the meniscus of activator, which collects at the entry nip of the lamination rollers, through a gap bet... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4334757 | Diffusion transfer sheet registration A generally planar T-shaped separator replaces the conventional separator in a diffusion transfer processor. The bar of the T-shape projects forwardly in spaced parallel relation with respect to the forward side of a diffusion transfer processor with the ... | 06/15/1982 |
| 4266866 | Diffusion transfer camera processor The disclosure is directed to an extremely compact camera-processor which is configured to sharply reverse the direction of the exposed light sensitive sheet as it leaves the exposure plane. The light sensitive sheet is thereafter driven downwardly into a... | 05/12/1981 |
| 4223991 | Image-transfer processor An image transfer processor includes a processing tray for supporting a donor sheet in treating solution and for aligning the sheet transversly on a feed path. A surface overlying the processing tray supports and aligns a receiver sheet in transverse regi... | 09/23/1980 |
| 4200382 | Photographic processing roller and a novel method which utilizes a pulsed laser for manufacturing the roller An improved cylindrical processing roller is provided for use in a motor driven photographic processing apparatus of the type which spreads a fluid processing composition in a thin, substantially uniform layer between selected layers of integral type self... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4036647 | Package for making photopolymerized plates An improved package for photopolymerized recording materials is disclosed. The package consists essentially of a cover plate, a substrate spaced apart from said cover plate, at least one of the said cover plate or said substrate having a coating on an int... | 07/19/1977 |
