Patents Represented by Attorney Raymond L. Owen
  • Patent number: 7436113
    Abstract: An OLED display having at least first, second, and third differently colored pixels includes a first light emitting layer provided over a substrate for the first and second pixels and a second light emitting layer provided over the substrate for the third pixel wherein the first and second light emitting layers produce light having different spectra and the light produced by the first light emitting layer has substantial spectral components corresponding to the light output desired for the first and second pixels, and the light produced by the second light emitting layer has substantial spectral components corresponding to the light output desired for the third pixel, and first and second color filters in operative relationship with the first and second pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Jeffrey P. Spindler
  • Patent number: 7428332
    Abstract: A method is described for applying an image enhancement algorithm to input digital images represented in different input color spaces including identifying the input color space of an input digital image, and applying a color space transformation to the input digital image represented in the input color space to form a corresponding input digital image in a reference color space. The method also includes adjusting one or more algorithm parameters of the image enhancement algorithm in response to the identified input color space, and applying the image enhancement algorithm with the one or more adjusted algorithm parameters to the corresponding input digital image in the reference color space to produce an enhanced digital image in the reference color space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Inventors: Kevin E. Spaulding, Raymond W. Ptucha, Edward B. Gindele, Andrew C. Gallagher
  • Patent number: 7424389
    Abstract: A method of measuring the thickness or the rate of change of thickness of a layer as the layer is being formed on a substrate, includes illuminating the layer through the substrate with low coherence light that transmits through the layer; collecting a portion of the reflected light from each optical interface of the substrate and layer with a low coherence interferometer; and, calculating the thickness or the rate of change of thickness of the layer according to the obtained interferometric data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Michael A. Marcus, Steven C. Switalski
  • Patent number: 7398605
    Abstract: A method for the vaporization of particulate material includes providing one or more containers each containing possibly distinct particulate materials each having at least one component, fluidizing the particulate material in at least one of the containers, and providing a vaporization zone that is thermally isolated from at least one of the containers. The method further includes delivering particulate material received from each container to the vaporization zone, and applying heat to vaporize the delivered particulate materials at the vaporization zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Michael Long, Bruce E. Koppe, Thomas W. Palone
  • Patent number: 7389041
    Abstract: A method for producing a distance map of scene distance values for a digital image captured by a digital camera includes capturing a first digital image of a scene under a first illumination condition, wherein the first digital image includes a plurality of pixels and the scene includes a plurality of scene objects located at different distances from the digital camera, capturing a second digital image of the scene under a second illumination condition that is different from the first illumination condition, and using the first and second digital images to produce a distance map having a plurality of scene distance values, wherein each scene distance value relates to the distance between the digital camera and the corresponding scene object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Edward B. Gindele, Andrew C. Gallagher, Amy D. Enge
  • Patent number: 7382384
    Abstract: An active matrix OLED display has pixels with light emitting areas arranged in rows and columns and includes; a first pixel having a first height in the column direction and disposed in a first column of pixels and in a first row of pixels; a second pixel having a second height in the column direction and disposed in the first column of pixels and in a second row of pixels wherein the second row of pixels is adjacent to the first row of pixels and the first height being different than the second height; and a first select line arranged to drive only the first row of pixels and a second select lines spaced from the first select line arranged to drive only the second row of pixels wherein the emitting areas of the first and second pixels are disposed between the first and second select lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Dustin L. Winters, Steven A. Van Slyke
  • Patent number: 7375011
    Abstract: A method of making an ex-situ doped semiconductor transport layer for use in an electronic device includes: growing a first set of semiconductor nanoparticles having surface organic ligands in a colloidal solution; growing a second set of dopant material nanoparticles having surface organic ligands in a colloidal solution; depositing a mixture of the first set of semiconductor nanoparticles and the second set of dopant material nanoparticles on a surface, wherein there are more semiconductor nanoparticles than dopant material nanoparticles; performing a first anneal of the deposited mixture of nanoparticles so that the organic ligands boil off the surfaces of the first and second set of nanoparticles; performing a second anneal of the deposited mixture so that the semiconductor nanoparticles fuse to form a continuous semiconductor layer and the dopant material atoms diffuse out from the dopant material nanoparticles and into the continuous semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Keith B. Kahen
  • Patent number: 7369276
    Abstract: A method for multi-level halftoning an input digital image to form an output digital image which includes a multi-level error diffusion halftoning process incorporating periodic dither signals whose amplitudes are adjusted as a function of the error-diffusion texture characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Douglas W. Couwenhoven, Kevin E. Spaulding, Gustav J. Braun
  • Patent number: 7368178
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting device includes a substrate, an anode, and a cathode disposed over the substrate, and a luminescent layer disposed between the anode and the cathode wherein the luminescent layer includes a host and at least one dopant. The host of the luminescent layer is selected to include a solid organic material comprising a mixture of at least two components, wherein the first component is an organic compound containing an aminoanthracene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Kevin P. Klubek, Ching W. Tang
  • Patent number: 7364772
    Abstract: A vapor deposition source for use in vacuum chamber for coating an organic layer on a substrate of an OLED device, includes a manifold including side and bottom walls defining a chamber for receiving organic material, and an aperture plate disposed between the side walls, the aperture plate having a plurality of spaced apart apertures for emitting vaporized organic material; the aperture plate including conductive material which in response to an electrical current produces heat; means for heating the organic material to a temperature which causes its vaporization, and heating the side walls of the manifold; and an electrical insulator coupling the aperture plate to the side walls for concentrating heat in the unsupported region of the aperture plate adjacent to the apertures, whereby the distance between the aperture plate and the substrate can be reduced to provide high coating thickness uniformity on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Michael Long, Jeremy M. Grace, Bruce E. Koppe, Dennis R. Freeman, Neil P. Redden, Robert F. Zwaap
  • Patent number: 7365879
    Abstract: A method for determining a set of n-dimensional colorant control signals that map to a point P in an m-dimensional color space where n>m, including determining a forward device model that maps n-dimensional colorant control signals to m-dimensional color space signals; determining a set of n-dimensional colorant control signal simplexes that span a domain of the forward device model; and determining a set of range space simplexes in the m-dimensional color space corresponding to the set of n-dimensional colorant control space signal simplexes by mapping the vertices of the n-dimensional colorant control signal simplexes into the m-dimensional color space using the forward device model. The method also includes specifying a point P in the m-dimensional color space; and determining the set of n-dimensional colorant control signals that map to the point P in the m-dimensional color space, by performing m sequential slicing processes through the set of range space simplexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Gustav J. Braun, John R. D'Errico, Kevin E. Spaulding, Douglas W. Couwenhoven
  • Patent number: 7362472
    Abstract: A method for multi-toning an input digital image having input pixels with two or more color channels to form an output digital image having modified output levels. The method includes producing an error signal for each color channel, combining the error signals to produce a combined error signal, sorting the error signals to produce a set of sorted error signals, and determining modified output levels responsive to the set of sorted error signals and the combined error signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Douglas W. Couwenhoven, Kevin E. Spaulding
  • Patent number: 7356193
    Abstract: A method of improving a digital color image having pixels, the method includes identifying pixels from the digital color image representing one or more sky regions; detecting sky occlusion regions by examining the sky regions; developing a model based on the identified sky pixels, wherein such model is a mathematical function that has inputs of pixel position and outputs of color; and using the model to operate on the digital color image to replace the values of pixels from the sky occlusion regions with values predicted by the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Andrew C. Gallagher
  • Patent number: 7355574
    Abstract: Compensated drive circuit adjusting for changes in the threshold voltage of a drive transistor and for aging of an OLED device, comprising: a data line carrying analog data representative of the brightness level, and a select line; the drive transistor connected to a power supply and to the OLED device such that when the select line is activated and a voltage from the data line is applied to the gate electrode of such transistor and current proportional to the applied voltage will flow through the drain and source electrodes through the OLED device; circuitry for measuring first and second parameters associated with the drive circuitry and responsive to the measured first and second parameters for computing offset voltages to adjust for changes in the threshold voltage of the drive transistors and for aging of the OLED device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Felipe A. Leon, Gary Parrett, Christopher J. White
  • Patent number: 7348071
    Abstract: An organic molecular compound comprising a complex fluorene structure having either: wherein: X1, X2, X3, and X4 are individually the same or different and include a moiety containing at least one CH and one N; R1, R2, R3, and R4 are substituents each being individually hydrogen, or amino, or alkyl, or alkenyl, or alkynyl, or alkoxy of from 1 to 40 carbon atoms; aryl or substituted aryl of from 6 to 60 carbon atoms; or heteroaryl or substituted heteroaryl of from 4 to 60 carbons; or F, Cl, or Br; or a cyano group; or a nitro group; or R3, or R4 or both are groups that form fused aromatic or heteroaromatic rings; or R1 and R2 together form a cyclic ring having 3 to 20 carbon, nitrogen, sulfur or oxygen atoms; or R1 and R2 together form a double bond moiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Shiying Zheng, Kathleen M. Vaeth, Grace A. Bennett
  • Patent number: 7345660
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display device in which display pixels containing organic electroluminescent elements are arranged in a matrix, comprising: a correction value formula storage section for storing a correction value formula or coefficients thereof that prescribes a relationship of pixel positions for display and brightness correction data of those pixels; a correction value output section for receiving the input of data for the positions of respective pixels, and outputs correction values for the respective pixels using the correction value formula or coefficients thereof stored in said correction value formula storage section; and the correction value output section corrects brightness data for each pixel using the correction value from said correction value output section according to the pixel position, to thereby perform display to the respective display pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Seiichi Mizukoshi, Nobuyuki Mori, Kouichi Onomura, Makoto Kohno
  • Patent number: 7336819
    Abstract: A method of detecting sky in a digital color image having pixels is disclosed. The method includes identifying pixels from the digital color image representing an initial sky region; developing a model based on the identified sky pixels, wherein such model is a mathematical function that has inputs of pixel position and outputs of color; and using the model to operate on the digital color image to classify additional pixels not included in the initial sky region as sky.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Andrew C. Gallagher, Jiebo Luo, Wei Hao
  • Patent number: 7332860
    Abstract: A white light-emitting OLED device comprising: an anode and a cathode; at least four light-emitting layers provided between the anode and the cathode, wherein each of the four light-emitting layers produces a different emission spectrum when current passes between the anode and cathode, and such spectra combine to form white light; and wherein the four light-emitting layers include a red light-emitting layer, a yellow light-emitting layer, a blue light-emitting layer, and a green light-emitting layer, arranged such that: i) each of the light-emitting layers is in contact with at least one other light-emitting layer, ii) the blue light-emitting layer is in contact with the green light-emitting layer, and iii) the red light-emitting layer is in contact with only one other light-emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Tukaram K. Hatwar, Jeffrey P. Spindler
  • Patent number: 7327505
    Abstract: A method for collecting and associating affective information for at least one image in an imaging system includes displaying a digital image for viewing by a particular user; automatically collecting affective information for the digital image as the particular user views the image; and associating the affective information with the particular user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Elena A. Fedorovskaya, Serguei Endrikhovski, Tomasz A. Matraszek, Kenneth A. Parulski, Jose M. Mir
  • Patent number: 7322248
    Abstract: A vacuum gauge of the Pirani type for measuring the pressure of vaporized organic or inorganic material used in forming a layer of a device, comprising: an extended filament having a thickness of 5 microns or less and having a temperature coefficient of resistance greater than 0.0035/° C., the filament being subject to the vaporized organic or inorganic material; means for applying a current to the filament so that the temperature of the filament is less than 650° C. so as not to degrade the molecular structure of the organic material; and a structure responsive to a change in resistance or a change in current to determine heat loss from the filament, which is a function of the pressure of the vaporized organic or inorganic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Michael Long