Patents by Inventor Barbara A. Ledyard

Barbara A. Ledyard has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Digital imaging system with digital zoom warning
    Patent number: 7573514
    Abstract: Digital imaging system and method in which user operation of a digital zoom selection switch to increase digital zoom of a portion of an evaluation image is interrupted for at least an interval of time as a warning to the user that the digital zoom selection has reached a digital zoom ratio that corresponds to a predetermined minimum image resolution quality level in an image of a given size to be rendered from the portion of the evaluation image. The user can then resume increasing digital zoom selection only by opening and re-closing the zoom selection switch. A graphical indicator is used to show changes in zoom settings and the appearance of the indicator is changed when one or more predetermined digital zoom settings are reached to reinforce the visual warning to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Stephen J. Pasquarette, Arlene T. Jourdan, Barbara A. Ledyard
  • Digital imaging system with digital zoom warning
    Publication number: 20060170793
    Abstract: Digital imaging system and method in which user operation of a digital zoom selection switch to increase digital zoom of a portion of an evaluation image is interrupted for at least an interval of time as a warning to the user that the digital zoom selection has reached a digital zoom ratio that corresponds to a predetermined minimum image resolution quality level in an image of a given size to be rendered from the portion of the evaluation image. The user can then resume increasing digital zoom selection only by opening and re-closing the zoom selection switch. A graphical indicator is used to show changes in zoom settings and the appearance of the indicator is changed when one or more predetermined digital zoom settings are reached to reinforce the visual warning to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2005
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Inventors: Stephen Pasquarette, Arlene Jourdan, Barbara Ledyard