Abstract: A lightmeter-remote is usable in a system with a remotely settable camera and a plurality of remotely settable photolamps. The lightmeter-remote has a body, and a lightmeter, exposure controller, and transmitter disposed in the body. The exposure controller can be selectively actuated to set aperture, exposure time, and gain parameters of the camera and to set output parameters of each of the photolamps. The transmitter operatively and wirelessly connects the camera and photolamps with the exposure controller. The lightmeter-remote can have a plurality of lighting models, each providing user instructions defining a lighting setup and requiring one or more light measurements.

Abstract: In a camera and method, a plurality of image pairs are captured. Each image pair has an archival image of a scene and an initial electronic image of the same scene. The archival image of each pair has a first geometric format. The initial electronic images are stored in memory. A designation of a alternative geometric format different than the first geometric format is recorded in association with selected image pairs. The initial electronic images of the selected image pairs are reformatted to respective alternative geometric formats to provide formatted electronic images. The formatted electronic images are downloaded.

Abstract: In a camera and method, a first electronic image is captured and stored in memory. A second electronic image is then captured. The second electronic image replaces the first electronic image in memory when the camera does not have a film unit loaded and the memory has capacity for storing both images. The second electronic image is stored in memory with the first electronic image when the camera has a film unit loaded and the memory has capacity for storing both images.

Abstract: A camera and method usable for capturing images of scenes illuminated by ambient light. The camera has a body and an electronic imager disposed in the body. The electronic imager captures an ambient light image as a multicolored electronic image. A color detector assesses the ambient light to provide a color value. A white balancing circuit determines a white balance color space vector defining a white balancing of the electronic image from the color value to a white point for a predetermined designated illuminant. A reversal circuit determines a reverse color space vector originating at the color value and extending opposite the white balance color space vector. A color balance adjusting circuit color balances the electronic image at a compensation point located on the reverse color space vector to provide a compensated image. An image display, disposed on the outside of the body, shows the compensated image.

Abstract: In a camera and method, a scene is captured as an archival image, with the camera set in an initial capture configuration. Then, a plurality of parameters of the scene are evaluated. The parameters are matched to one or more of a plurality of suggested capture configurations to define a suggestion set. User input designating one of the suggested capture configurations of the suggestion set is accepted and the camera is set to the corresponding capture configuration.

Abstract: In a camera and method, a white-compensator propagates neutral light at a preset color temperature independent of a displayed electronic image. The camera has a body and an electronic imager disposed in the body. The imager generates an electronic image responsive to an incident light image. A display is disposed on the outside of the body. The display is operatively connected to the imager. The white-compensator neighbors the display.

Abstract: A camera and method provide image cropping. The camera has a body and a capture unit mounted in the body. The capture unit has an imager and storage media operatively connected to the imager. The capture unit selectively captures an electronic image of a scene. A viewfinder optical system is aligned with the capture unit. The viewfinder optical system defines a viewfinder light path. A cropper is disposed in the body. The cropper has a pair of vanes. The vanes are selectively movable, relative to each other, between first and second positions and through a continuous sequence of intermediate positions between the first and second positions. The vanes, in each of the positions, delimits a rectangular cross-sectioned window in the viewfinder light path. A control unit is operatively connected to the capture unit and cropper. The control unit crops the electronic image to match the window.

Abstract: A fuser member useful for heat-fixing an electrographic toner to a substrate. The fuser member has a core and a layer overlying the core. That layer includes a cured fluorocarbon random copolymer having subunits with the general structures: ##STR1## where x is from 30 to 90 mole percent, y is from 10 to 70 mole percent, and z is from 0 to 34 mole percent. The layer incorporates particulate filler. The filler includes aluminum oxide and a material selected from the group consisting of alkali metal oxides, alkali metal hydroxides, and combinations thereof. The filler has a total concentration in the layer of from about 25 to 50 percent of the total volume of the layer. The aluminum oxide has a concentration of from 20 to 40 percent of the total volume of the layer.

Abstract: A sorting apparatus for use with a processor for media sheets. The processor has a top discharge and a service opening adjoining the discharge. The sorting apparatus has a body mounted on the processing apparatus. The body pivots about an axis of rotation, between closed and open positions. In the closed position, the body blocks access to the service opening. In the open position, the body is displaced from the service opening. The body has an upper surface substantially radial to the axis of rotation. A partition member is mounted on the body. The partition member has a unitary array of parallel partitions extending outward from the body. The partitions define bins for the media sheets. The partition member is movable independent of the body, between an operative position, in which the partitions define a zone of obstruction extending outward from the upper surface of the body; and a displaced position, in which the partitions are at least substantially removed from the zone.

Abstract: An x-ray film cassette having a base and a cover adapted to close upon the base. The cover is provided with an identification window. A pressure plate is secured within the cassette. The cover, pressure plate and base form a light-tight space for receiving a sheet of x-ray film. The pressure plate is also provided with an identification window which is in substantial alignment with the identification window of the cover. A light-tight slideable window shutter is provided for covering of the identification window of the cover and/or the pressure plate. The slideable window shutter, when in a first position, provides a light-tight seal against the windows and when in a second position allows information to be provided to an x-ray film contained within the cassette. An indicator assembly is secured to the pressure plate and is at least partially visible through the cover for indicating when film is present within the cassette and for indicating when the window shutter has been opened.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent multicolor image display device is disclosed containing an image display array made up of a plurality of light emitting pixels arranged in intersecting files (rows and columns). Each pixel contains a light transmissive first electrode, an electroluminescent medium overlying the first electrode, and an overlying second electrode. The electrodes connect the pixels in an X-Y addressing pattern. The organic electroluminescent medium emits in the blue region of the spectrum. Each pixel is divided into at least two sub-pixels. The electrodes of one set of parallel files is divided into at least two laterally spaced elements each of which joins and forms a part of one sub-pixel of each pixel in the same file. A fluorescent medium capable of absorbing light emitted by the electroluminescent medium and emitting at a longer wavelength is positioned to receive emitted light from the first electrode means. The fluorescent medium is confined to only one of the sub-pixels of each pixel.

Abstract: The invention provides a fuser roll useful for heat-fixing an electrographic toner to a substrate, wherein the roll comprises a core having thereon a base cushion layer comprising a condensation-crosslinked poly(dimethylsiloxane) elastomer, characterized in that the base cushion layer has chromium oxide particles dispersed therein in a concentration of from 10 to 40 percent of the total volume of the base cushion layer.The base cushion layer of such a fuser roll has been unexpectedly found to exhibit only minimal weight loss, creep, and changes in hardness, over time, when subjected to conditions of elevated temperature and cyclic stress.

Abstract: Photoconductive elements which have high sensitivity to radiation in the near-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum comprise a conductive support, a charge generation material which includes a near-infrared-sensitive organic pigment and, electrically contiguous with the charge generation material, an aggregate photoconductive material. A preferred embodiment is bimodal.

Abstract: A method for preparing a polymer including the step of reacting carbon monoxide and a reactant pair having respective general formulas ##STR1## and or a reactant having the general formula ##STR2## in the presence of catalyst and free iodo or bromo ions. X is a nonortho halide selected from --Br and --I. n is an integer from 0 to 4. R.sup.1 is selected from the group consisting of alkyl, arylalkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, and cycloalkyl. R.sup.2 is selected from the group consisting of ##STR3## and Each R.sup.5 is independently selected from the group consisting of alkyl and aryl, m is an integer from 1-12, and j is an integer between 0 and 300. R.sup.3 is selected from the group consisting of substituted aryl, unsubstituted aryl, substituted heteroaryl, and unsubstituted heteroaryl.

Abstract: A multiply-branched aliphatic-aromatic polyester and a method for producing that polymer. The method comprises condensing a branching reactant represented by the general formula ##STR1## Each j is 1 or 2, each Ar is independently selected from the group consisting of aromatic and heteroaromatic moieties having a total of ring carbons and heteroatoms of from 5 to about 20, each R.sup.1 is a linking group independently selected from alkyl having from 1 to about 6 carbons, fluoroalkyl having from 1 to about 6 carbons, --O--, --S--, --C.tbd.C--, and ##STR2## Z.sup.1 is selected from the group consisting of hydroxyl and --OSi(CH.sub.3).sub.3, and each Z.sup.2 is independently selected from groups having the structural formula ##STR3## wherein each R.sup.2 is independently selected from the group consisting of hydroxy, chloro, bromo, monovalent alkoxide having from 1 to about 6 carbons, and --O--(CH.sub.2).sub.g --OH, wherein g is an integer from 1 to 3, or Z.sup.

Abstract: A method for preparing aromatic polyester comprising reacting carbon monoxide, a diol, and an aromatic trifluoromethane sulfonate reactant having the general formula ##STR1## in the presence of solvent and a catalyst. Ar is selected from the group consisting of aromatic and heteroaromatic moieties having a total of ring carbons and heteroatoms of from 6 to about 30. The catalyst is a compound of a metal selected from the group consisting of platinum, palladium and nickel.

Abstract: An optical article is disclosed comprised of a support including a portion adjacent one major surface which is transparent to the electromagnetic radiation sought to be propagated, an organic layer unit capable of converting a portion of polarized electromagnetic radiation of a selected wavelength to its second harmonic wavelength, means for optically coupling into said organic layer unit polarized electromagnetic radiation of a selected wavelength in its zero order transverse magnetic mode, and means for receiving from the layer unit a portion of the electromagnetic radiation in the form of a first order transverse magnetic mode. The organic layer unit has a thickness which is at least 70 percent of the wavelength of the zero order transverse magnetic mode and differs by less than 100.ANG. from the thickness required for identical propagation constants of the zero and first order transverse magnetic modes.

Abstract: Sulfonium, selenonium, arsonium, ammonium and phosphonium salts, useful as photoinitiators, comprise:a chromophore which absorbs visible radiation, the chromophore (1) having a removable positive hydrogen ion and (2) exhibiting a higher energy occupied molecular orbital than at least one other substituent attached to the S, Se, As, N or P atom of the salt;an insulating group which links the chromophore to the S, Se, As, N or P atom of the salt, the insulating group essentially preventing .pi. resonance between the chromophore and the other substituents in the salt;at least one substituent comprising an electron withdrawing group and exhibiting a lower unoccupied molecular orbital than the chromophore; and,an anion;the salts being capable, upon exposure to visible radiation, of forming a Bronsted acid.

Abstract: A laminate, adapted for manufacturing frames of metal beam leads that are bonded to integrated circuit chips comprising:(a) a flexible metal strip(b) a layer of a first resist adhered to one surface of the metal strip, and(c) a layer of a second resist adhered to the opposite surface of the metal strip, wherein the second resist is a negative-working resist which forms a semi-interpenetrating polymer network-II upon curing and comprises a homogeneous blend.(A) a solvent soluble polyimide-siloxane containing about 0.5-30 weight percent silicon and (B) an ethylenically unsaturated multifunctional monomer. The siloxane units in the polyimide-siloxane have from 10 to about 200 ##STR1## linkages per unit, more preferably from about 15 to about 100 linkages, and most preferably from about 40 to about 100 linkages per siloxane unit. A second embodiment of the invention comprises a metal strip having one side thereof, a composition obtained by curing the above-identified curable composition.

Abstract: Polymers such as phenyltrimethoxysilylterminated polystyrene are prehydrolyzed and then condensed with a metal alkoxide using acid catalyzed sol-gel reactions. The product is an organic/inorganic composite in which a metal polycondensate core is covalently bonded to a plurality of organic arms. The core has more metal atoms than heretofore obtainable. The process of this invention provides a means for introducing an inorganic phase into an organic polymer and maintaining solubility of the resulting composite in organic solvents. The products of this invention have a larger organic phase than products discussed in the literature. They also have residual chemical reactivity.