Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image capture device and a technique for capturing an image. The technique includes configuring an image capture device in a learning mode for sensing at least one variable in the device's surroundings and defining a normal state of the at least one variable. Further, the technique includes initiating image capture upon detecting a transition of the at least one variable from the normal state to a new condition, wherein the transition exceeds a predetermined threshold level, and redefining the normal state to the new condition.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 30, 2007
Date of Patent:
March 9, 2010
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company
Inventors:
Cheryl J. Kuberka, David C. Barnum, Frances C. Williams, John N. Border, Kenneth A. Johnson
Abstract: A method for remotely selecting and ordering photographic prints, includes the steps of: sending a photographic film bearing a plurality of latent images to a photofinisher; developing the photographic film to produce visible images and scanning the visible images to create a digital image file at the photo finisher; producing an index print having a plurality of images from the photographic film along with an index number associated with each image and an order number; sending the index print to a customer; selecting images for which prints are desired from the index print; ordering photographic prints via telephone from the customer's home to the photofinisher, specifying the order number and the index numbers associated with the images for which prints are desired; and making photographic prints of the selected images at the photofinisher and sending the photographic prints to the customer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 2, 2006
Date of Patent:
June 2, 2009
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company
Inventors:
John Randall Fredlund, David Lynn Patton, Roger R. A. Morton, Steven Bruce Paciocco
Abstract: A fluid container and method for inhibiting the growth of microbes in liquid nutrient in a container, the container having an interior surface having a metal-ion sequestering agent for removing a designated metal ion from the liquid nutrient for inhibiting growth of microbes in the liquid nutrient.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 8, 2006
Date of Patent:
December 18, 2007
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company
Inventors:
David L. Patton, Joseph F. Bringley, Richard W. Wien, John M. Pochan, Yannick J. F. Lerat