Patents by Inventor Jeffrey R. Pink

Jeffrey R. Pink 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).

  • Method for producing prints from digital image files scanned from film
    Patent number: 6389159
    Abstract: A method of providing colored adjusted digital files which can be used to make prints by a printing system, including a computer and a local printer, controlled by enabling software stored on the removable storage medium, the original images being provided on colored film, including the steps of scanning the colored film to produce a plurality of digital files representing colored digital images; adjusting the digital files to produce color adjusted digital files, such adjustments including tone scale correction; providing enabling software including at least one software application program for operating the computer that enables the color adjusted digital files to be printed on the local printer, and transferring the color adjusted digital files and the enabling software to the removable storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Paul B. Gilman, Jack C. Chang, Kenneth A. Parulski, Jeffrey R. Pink
  • Method for producing prints from digital image files scanned from film
    Publication number: 20010006560
    Abstract: A method of providing colored adjusted digital files which can be used to make prints by a printing system, including a computer and a local printer, controlled by enabling software stored on the removable storage medium, the original images being provided on colored film, including the steps of scanning the colored film to produce a plurality of digital files representing colored digital images; adjusting the digital files to produce color adjusted digital files, such adjustments including tone scale correction; providing enabling software including at least one software application program for operating the computer that enables the color adjusted digital files to be printed on the local printer, and transferring the color adjusted digital files and the enabling software to the removable storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2001
    Publication date: July 5, 2001
    Inventors: Paul B. Gilman, Jack C. Chang, Kenneth A. Parulski, Jeffrey R. Pink
  • Digital colored corrected prints produced from colored film
    Patent number: 6208770
    Abstract: A method of making digital colored prints by a particular printer operated by enabling software, the original images being provided on a colored film original includes scanning the colored film original to produce a digital image file of a digital image; adjusting the code values of the digital file to produce a color adjusted digital file, such adjustments including density and color balance correction adjustments; transferring both the color adjusted digital file and printing enabling software to a digital memory; and coupling the printer to the digital memory and causing the printer in response to the printing enabling software to operate on the color adjusted digital file to produce a transformed digital file and a print produced using such transformed digital file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Paul B. Gilman, Jack C. Chang, Kenneth A. Parulski, Jeffrey R. Pink