Abstract: A film unit has image capture media and a radio-frequency identification transponder affixed to the image capture media. The image capture media can be photographic film.

Abstract: A print having information associated with the print stored in a memory coupled to the print. A print, processed by an image processing apparatus, having an attached memory for storing detailed information about the print and allowing contactless access using an electromagnetic frequency signal. A transceiver, connected to a control logic device, communicates with a transponder that is attached to the print substrate and is integrally coupled to the memory. The transponder is capable of receiving a first electromagnetic field (frequency) from the transceiver and deriving power and address information from the first frequency, then generates a second electromagnetic field (frequency) in response, where the second electromagnetic field is characteristic of the data stored in memory.

Abstract: The invention relates to an imaging support comprising an impermeable bottom layer wherein said bottom layer comprises polyester and a permeable upper layer said upper layer comprising polyester having a dry time of less than 10 seconds.

Abstract: A system for modulating a beam of light in accordance with an input data stream having a data rate greater than 2 MHz, includes a source of light for directing light along a predetermined path; a self-damped diffractive light modulator disposed in the predetermined path and having a plurality of spaced apart self-damped deformable elements being disposed relative to each other and secured at opposite ends and suspended above and movable into a channel containing a gas, and each spaced apart self-damped deformable element having at least one reflective surface. The spaced apart self-damped deformable elements respond to an input data stream and are sufficiently damped to minimize the introduction of data errors into the modulator light beam.

Abstract: An ink jet recording element comprising a support having thereon an image-receiving layer comprising at least about 80% by weight of non-porous polymeric particles in a polymeric binder, the non-porous polymeric particles having a core/shell structure comprising a polymeric core covered with a shell of a water-soluble polymer.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for printing customer image orders, each containing a plurality of images, onto a photosensitive media. A digital record of a customer image order containing a plurality of images in a predefined sequence is obtained. A printing sequence based on a predetermined criteria which is different from the sequence of the images as originally obtained is determined. The images are then printed onto a media in accordance with the new printing sequence.

Abstract: This invention comprises a thermally processable element comprising at least one imaging layer on a support, wherein the imaging element also comprises at least one photographically useful reducing agent ionically bound to an ion exchange matrix. The imaging element preferably is a photothermographic element in which the imaging layer comprises a light sensitive silver halide, an oxidizing agent, preferably an organic silver salt, and a reducing agent. The invention also comprises developing said photothermographic element by heating the element to a temperature above about 50° C. The invention also comprises a methods of forming an image by scanning the developed photothermographic element.

Abstract: A system for compensating for film flutter in a motion picture film projector during projection of a motion picture film comprising multiple film image frames is described, the system comprising sensing the position of film image frames in a film gate of the projector relative to the focal plane of the projection lens assembly of the projector as the film image frames are being projected, and correcting the position of the film in the film gate of the projector or the position of the focal plane of the projection lens assembly to reduce the distance between the film image and the focal plane of the projection lens assembly as the film image frames are being projected, wherein the correction of the position of an individual film image frame in the film gate or that of the position of the focal plane of the projection lens assembly during projection of the individual frame image is based on the actual sensed position of the individual film image frame in the film gate, or on the position of a previously project

Abstract: The present invention relates to photographic elements having a protective overcoat that resists fingerprints, common stains, and spills. The overcoat comprises an epoxy material, an acid polymer, and a water-soluble hydrophilic binder. In one embodiment, a photographic element includes a support, at least one silver halide emulsion layer superposed on the support and a processing-solution-permeable overcoat overlying the silver halide emulsion layer that becomes water-resistant in the final product without requiring lamination or fusing. The present invention is also directed to a method of making a print involving developing the photographic element.

Abstract: An ink jet recording element comprising a support having thereon an image-receiving layer comprising non-porous polymeric particles in a polymeric binder, the non-porous polymeric particles being present in an amount of at least about 8 parts of particles per part of polymeric binder, and the non-porous polymeric particles having a degree of crosslinking of at least about 30 mole %.

Abstract: The invention relates to an article comprising photographic silver halide film substantially surrounded by a container comprising a phase change material, wherein said container will maintain said film at a temperature of below 130° F.(55° C.) when said container is repeatedly cycled over a 24-hour period reaching 180° F.(82° C.) for four hours.

Abstract: A storage system for storing photographic film negatives that makes it easier for a consumer to identify the images on each negative. The storage system is made from sleeving material having several individual sleeves for storing strips of photographic film negatives. An index print is affixed to the sleeving material so that the positive images on the index print are located directly above the sleeve holding the negative on which the positive images are based.

Abstract: A UV or visible-light sensitive photobleachable dye composition substantially free of polymerizable monomer comprising a photobleachable dye and an N-oxyazinium compound, a photographic element containing such a photobleachable composition, and a method for bleaching a photographic element.

Abstract: An apparatus for calibrating a printer of a photofinishing system includes a reference film strip carrying at least one reference image; a reference chart carrying multiple renderings of the reference image representing different printer exposures; and a substrate carrying printer correction factors needed to change a photographic print obtained from the reference image on the reference film strip, to match any desired rendering on the reference chart. A method of producing the above reference chart, and a method of calibrating a printer of a photofinishing system, are also provided.

Abstract: A reverse telephoto zoom lens particularly suitable for use in a compact digital camera preferably has two moving lens groups in which either the first lens group has a lens component having both positive and negative power in respective radial zones of the lens or the second lens group has a lens component closer to the image plane than any other lens component and this lens component has a concave surface facing the image plane, or both. The zoom lens delivers near telecentric performance and exhibits non-reversing motion of either lens group in going between a telephoto position and a wide angle position, and vice-versa.

Abstract: An ink jet printing method, comprising the steps of: A) providing an ink jet printer that is responsive to digital data signals; B) loading the printer with ink-receptive elements comprising a substrate having thereon an image-receiving layer comprising an inorganic filler and coated particles comprising a polymeric hard core-polymeric soft shell latex, the Tg of the polymeric hard core material being greater than about 60° C., the Tg of the polymeric soft shell material being less than about 20° C., and the inorganic filler being present in the image-receiving layer in an amount of from about 50 to about 95% by weight; C) loading the printer with an ink jet ink composition; and D) printing on the ink-receptive element using the ink jet ink in response to the digital data signals.

Abstract: A silver halide light sensitive photographic print element is disclosed comprising a support bearing on one side thereof: a blue color sensitive record comprising at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion yellow-image forming layer, a red color sensitive record comprising at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion cyan-image forming layer, and a green color sensitive record comprising at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion magenta-image forming layer; wherein the overall contrast (OC) of the green record is greater than 1.7, the mid-scale contrast (MSC) of the green record is less than 2.6, and the upper-scale contrast (USC) of the green record is from 2.85 to 3.15, wherein the parameters OC, MSC and USC are as defined herein. Color print film silver halide photographic elements in accordance with the invention enable the production of outstanding projected images having improved flesh tone and shadow detail reproduction, and sufficiently high black densities.

Abstract: The invention involves selecting a path through a multi-dimensional hyper-cube from a base vertex to an opposite corner or vertex of the hyper-cube. The path is selected by ranking the fractional components of the point or value to be interpolated. An N-dimensional interpolation is performed according to this sequence. During an interpolation a base vertex for an input color value is determined. The output value for the base vertex is accumulated. The fractional values of the input color value are sorted and ranked according to magnitude to produce an interpolation sequence. The interpolations are performed for each axis of the N-dimensions by selecting an axis for interpolation based on the order, performing an interpolation corresponding to the selected axis producing an interpolation result, and accumulating the interpolation result.

Abstract: A particulate magnetic recording media wherein the magnetic particles are substantially spherical. The spherical particle shape makes possible a media which is magnetically isotropic, well dispersed and low in noise, and free of magnetically inferior broken particles.

Abstract: This invention relates to a silver halide photothermographic imaging element comprising at least one silver halide emulsion layer, said silver halide element further comprising an amido compound of Formula I wherein INH is a development inhibitor; LINK is a linking or timing group and m is 0, 1 or 2; and R1 and R2 independently are a hydrogen atom or an aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic group, or R1 and R2 together with the nitrogen to which they are attached represent the atoms necessary to form a 5 or 6 membered ring or multiple ring system, or R1 and R2 are independently a —C(═O)(LINK)m-INH group, or are substituted with a —NR3C(═O)-(LINK)m-INH , with R3 being defined the same as R1 or R2, with the proviso that only one of R1 and R2 can be a hydrogen atom. It further relates to methods of image formation utilizing said element.