Abstract: An optical system comprising two plastic elements is suitable for use in very low cost, wideangle cameras having curved image surfaces. This system has low distortion across a curved field angle of 65 degrees or more.

Abstract: A cartonless recyclable package for protectively enclosing a product, such as photographic film, comprises a recyclable plastic container and mating cap with recyclably compatible plastic labels thereon bearing product information. One such label on the cap has readily tearable tab portions extending therefrom and tautly secured to the container, to tear apart when the cap is first removed. A second label, secured to the container and overlapping the tearable tab portions, includes inner and outer sheets separably adhered together. The outer sheet can be peeled back to reveal information on the interfacing surfaces of both sheets, and then re-adhered to the inner sheet. A third label, separably adhered to the first label on the cap, may be peeled away and re-adhered to some other surface for reference after the product has been removed.

Abstract: A multiplex drop ejection construction for a drop-on-demand, ink jet printer. The construction includes a support substrate; a first circuit portion having branches that include a resistive heater element and a diode device formed in spaced relation on the substrate. A dielectric passivation layer overlies the first circuit portion except at the discrete terminal regions of the first circuit portion branches. A second circuit portion comprising a plurality of multiplex electrode lines overlies the passivation layer and includes connection sections extending through the passivation layer into contact with terminal regions of the first circuit. A second passivation layer overlies the second circuit portion, but not the resistive heater elements.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for indicating an improper operating condition of a camera prior to use of the camera utilizes a motion detector which detects handling of the camera by the photographer when the camera is turned off. The motion detector provides an output to activate analyzing circuitry which analyzes an operating condition of the camera such that when an improper operating condition is indicated, an alarm is issued to advise the photographer of the improper operating condition.

Abstract: A photorefractive device is disclosed comprised of a first and second electrodes for establishing a potential gradient between first and second spaced locations and, interposed between the first and second electrodes, intermediate means capable of producing in a readout beam of electromagnetic radiation an image pattern corresponding to that present in a spatially intersecting writing beam of electromagnetic radiation when a potential gradient is applied to the intermediate means by said first and second electrodes. The intermediate means consists of a photorefractive layer capable of internally storing the image pattern of the writing beam created by its interference with an intersecting reference beam of electromagnetic radiation, the photorefractive layer being comprised of a homogeneous organic photoconductor containing organic noncentrosymmetric molecular dipoles capable of imparting to the photorefractive layer a second order polarization susceptibility of greater than 10.sup.-9 esu.

Abstract: An image compression and expansion processor includes a dual port memory configured with image and compressed data processing blocks, a host processor for managing movement of predefined blocks of data between an external frame store memory and the dual port memory, and a digital signal processor for compressing or expanding the data stored in the dual port memory. Because minimum redundancy encoding and decoding is employed to reduce the data stream according to the complexity of the image, data streams of undefined length (relative to the predefined blocks of data) are periodically resident in the compressed processing block. By maintaining bit length definition of the data in the compressed block (relative to the predefined blocks), the host processor is able to move defined lengths of compressed data from the dual port memory while the digital signal processor is concurrently processing the predefined blocks of image data.

Abstract: In a camera for daylight and underwater photography, an exposure control aparatus is adjusted automatically to change an exposure parameter as a function of increased water pressure. Preferably, a pressure sensitive member is mechanically connected to a multi-blade diaphragm to continuously increase the size of a lens opening as the camera is further submerged underwater.

Abstract: In a print head that has a plurality of inline light beams for simultaneously writing a corresponding plurality of lines of an image on a photoreceptor surface, the imaged spot size and center-to-center spacing are independently settable by projecting the light beams onto a diffusion screen which is spaced from the light sources by an amount needed to achieve a desired spot size. The spots on the diffusion screen are then imaged onto the photoreceptor surface by imaging optics with a desired magnification to achieve a desired center-to-center spacing between spots on the photoreceptor surface. For a given magnification value the photoreceptor spot size can be set by the spacing between the light source and the diffusion screen independent of the center-to-center spacing between the spots.

Abstract: A dye-receiving element for thermal dye transfer includes a blended polyethylene/polypropylene mixture extrusion-coated paper support having thereon a polymeric dye image-receiving layer.

Abstract: A dual chamber pump assembly comprises two separate bellows pumps driven from a single motor. The belows pumps can be operated independently, or simultanously, by selectively engaging clutches coupled to the motor and the pumps. A replenishment system for a film processor incorporating such a pump assembly has a plurality of tanks for solutions used in processing film, and each of the pumps is connected to one of the tanks and to a source of replenishment solution for its respective tank. By selectively engaging the clutches for the bellows pumps, the tanks can be replenished independently or simultaneously, as needed.

Abstract: A support assembly, in an electrostatographic reproduction apparatus having multiple development stations respectively containing different color marking particles for selective development of a plurality of latent image-wise charge patterns on a moving dielectric member so that such apparatus is capable of making multi-color reproductions. The support assembly includes a plurality of members adapted to receive the plurality of development stations respectively. The plurality of members are simultaneously movable to a first position where development stations received by the members are remote from the dielectric member to facilitate removal of such development stations from the apparatus, and to a second position where such development stations are in juxtaposition with the dielectric member.

Abstract: Disclosed are colored polyester compositions comprising a polyester having reacted therewith or copolymerized therein at least one residue of an anthraquinone compound having the formula ##STR1## wherein AQ is the residue of a 9,10-anthraquinone radical; R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are the same or different and are unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl; X is a group reactive with at least one of the functional groups of the monomers from which the polyester is prepared; and n is 1 or 2. The described anthraquinone compounds possess improved thermal stability and thus are not decomposed at the high temperatures at which polyesters are prepared. Also disclosed are shaped articles, particularly containers, fabricated from the colored polyester compositions.

Abstract: A drop ejection device for continuous ink jet printing includes a rectangular solid divided by parallel, elongated through-slots between its major surfaces, into a plurality of approximately identical dilatational regions. Each such region has a longitudinal mechanical resonance mode approximately the same as the desired drop ejection frequency. The body has an ink supply manifold adjacent a drop ejection face, which is normal to the longitudinal axis of the through-slots. An orifice plate having a linear orifice array, substantially longer than the through-slots, is attached to the ejection face. A plurality of elongated piezoelectric strips pairs are attached in opposing positions on major surfaces of each dilatational region. Upon actuation, said strips expand and contract to effect synchronous stimulation at the desired drop frequency.

Abstract: A radiation image storage panel includes a layer of transparent stimulable phosphor, a filter layer for strongly absorbing stimulating radiation and transmitting emitted radiation, and a radiation diffusing layer. The filter layer absorbs the beam of stimulating radiation so that an image recorded in the storage panel is not blurred by scattered stimulating radiation during readout, and the diffusing layer increases the escape efficiency of the emitted light from the storage panel.

Abstract: A still video camera produces a still signal for recording on a magnetic disk and a movie signal for displaying in an electronic viewfinder. In recording the still picture . . . after previewing the scene in the viewfinder . . . , a vertical synchronizing signal is recorded in predetermined relation to a reference position on the disk. Instead of phase locking the disk drive to the vertical synchronizing signal, the time base of the camera is "locked" to variations in the location (phase) of the reference position. The camera is thus affected by a relatively instantaneous reset of the time base rather than an inertially-limited adjustment of the drive motor, which tends to "blind" the electronic viewfinder for the duration and renders previewing unacceptable.

Abstract: An improved magnetic brush development apparatus for applying developer material to a latent image on a moving image carrying member wherein mounting of a take-off skive is facilitated. The development apparatus includes a housing having a portion defining a sump adapted to contain a supply of developer material, and a magnetic brush located substantially within the housing in spaced relation to the sump portion for applying developer material to the latent image. A feed mechanism including a metering assembly located within the housing between the sump portion and the magnetic brush transports developer material from the sump to the magnetic brush, and a mechanism located in the sump portion agitates developer material and transports developer material to the feed mechanism.

Abstract: An electrooptic modulator having a electrooptic substrate and a transparent water impermeable layer formed on a surface of such substrate after absorbed water was removed from such substrate surface. This layer prevents adsorbed water from forming on the substrate surface which could cause the appearance of surface charge that would affect the operation of the modulator.

Abstract: A sheet-feeding apparatus comprises sheet-feeding rollers for advancing sheets, one at a time, from a stack of sheet material. The sheet-feeding rollers are supported by a drive shaft which is mounted for movement toward and away from the sheet stack so that the feed rollers may be selectively displaced from the stack, for example, to effect sheet replenishment. A cam surface associated with a slidable stack support cooperates with a cam-follower associated with the roller shaft to effect displacement of the feed rollers from the stack during sliding movement of the stack support. A pair of one-way clutches and a rack and pinion arrangement cooperate to allow the sheet-feed rollers to rotate freely during initial contact with the top sheet in the stack, thereby avoiding premature feeding of such sheet during a stack reloading process.

Abstract: An unported vacuum drum has a system of closely spaced small grooves in the outer surface thereof and holes drilled in the drum provide communication between the grooves on the outer surface and a space on the interior of the drum. The interior drum can be connected to a source of vacuum for applying the vacuum through the holes to the grooves. In order to avoid defects that may occur in a web brought into contact with a drum, the outer surface of the drum is covered with a porous sleeve. The pores in the sleeve enable the vacuum to be applied from the grooves to the outer surface of the sleeve for holding the web onto the sleeve.

Abstract: A pyrazoline having the formula: ##STR1## wherein: R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are selected independently from a group consisting of hydrogen with the proviso that only one of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 can be hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl of from 1-20 carbon atoms and substituted or unsubstituted aryl of 6 to 20 carbons, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 can together comprise the atoms necessary to complete a heterocyclic group of 5 to 6 nuclear carbon and hetero atoms;R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are selected independently from a group consisting of hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl of from 1-20 carbon atoms, substituted or unsubstituted aryl of 6-20 carbon atoms, alkoxy, alkylthio, cycloalkyl or heterocyclyl of 5 to 6 nuclear carbon and hetero atoms, or R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 together are an alkylene group of 4 to 5 carbon atoms.R.sup.