Patents by Inventor John B. Rieger
John B. Rieger 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).
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Patent number: 8588548Abstract: A method for displaying a group of digital images using a background corresponding to an image region selected from one of the digital images, comprising: receiving a designation of the group of digital images to be displayed; using a processor to automatically analyze the group of digital images to select an image region from one of the digital images that is appropriate to use as a background for a composite image, wherein the selected image region includes a plurality of image pixels; forming a background from the selected image region; forming the composite image including the background and at least one digital image from the group of digital images; and displaying the composite image.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2010Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc.Inventors: Marc Krolczyk, John B. Rieger, John V. Nelson
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Publication number: 20120027294Abstract: A method for displaying a group of digital images using a background corresponding to an image region selected from one of the digital images, comprising: receiving a designation of the group of digital images to be displayed; using a processor to automatically analyze the group of digital images to select an image region from one of the digital images that is appropriate to use as a background for a composite image, wherein the selected image region includes a plurality of image pixels; forming a background from the selected image region; forming the composite image including the background and at least one digital image from the group of digital images; and displaying the composite image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2010Publication date: February 2, 2012Inventors: Marc Krolczyk, John B. Rieger, John V. Nelson
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Patent number: 6848205Abstract: The invention relates to an imaging element comprising at least one imaging layer wherein said imaging layer comprises photosensitive silver halide layer comprising dye forming couplers, a transparent polymer pragmatic sheet below said at least one imaging layer, an adhesive layer below said pragmatic sheet, and a black carrier sheet below said adhesive layerType: GrantFiled: November 26, 2002Date of Patent: February 1, 2005Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: John B. Rieger, David C. Wideman, Robert P. Bourdelais
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Patent number: 6653061Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic label comprising a pragmatic polymer sheet, at least one layer comprising at least one image forming layer comprising photosensitive silver halide grains and dye forming coupler above said pragmatic polymer sheet, wherein said at least one image forming layer has an exposure time to obtain a usable Dmax of 1.5 of less than 0.01 seconds, wherein said at least one image forming layer is substantially free of image dye stabilizers, and wherein said polymer sheet has an L* of greater than 95.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2001Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: John B. Rieger, Robert P. Bourdelais
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Publication number: 20030211269Abstract: The invention relates to an imaging element comprising at least one imaging layer wherein said imaging layer comprises photosensitive silver halide layer comprising dye forming couplers, a transparent polymer pragmatic sheet below said at least one imaging layer, an adhesive layer below said pragmatic sheet, and a black carrier sheet below said adhesive layerType: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2002Publication date: November 13, 2003Inventors: John B. Rieger, David C. Wideman, Robert P. Bourdelais
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Publication number: 20030170574Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic label comprising a pragmatic polymer sheet, at least one layer comprising at least one image forming layer comprising photosensitive silver halide grains and dye forming coupler above said pragmatic polymer sheet, wherein said at least one image forming layer has an exposure time to obtain a usable Dmax of 1.5 of less than 0.01 seconds, wherein said at least one image forming layer is substantially free of image dye stabilizers, and wherein said polymer sheet has an L* of greater than 95.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2001Publication date: September 11, 2003Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: John B. Rieger, Robert P. Bourdelais
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Patent number: 6566024Abstract: The invention relates a photographic label comprising a pragmatic polymer sheet, at least one layer comprising an image comprising dyes formed from couplers above said pragmatic polymer sheet, and a lower strippable paper carrier, a pressure sensitive adhesive layer between said lower strippable carrier and said pragmatic polymer sheet, and an environmental protection layer overlaying at least one photosensitive layer wherein said carrier has exposed edges where it has a greater surface area than the pragmatic sheet and said image further comprises fiducial marks.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2001Date of Patent: May 20, 2003Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Robert P. Bourdelais, Mridula Nair, William T. Rochford, John B. Rieger
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Patent number: 6531258Abstract: The invention relates to an imaging element comprising at least one imaging layer wherein said imaging layer comprises photosensitive silver halide layer comprising dye forming couplers, a transparent polymer pragmatic sheet below said at least one imaging layer, an adhesive layer below said pragmatic sheet, and a black carrier sheet below said adhesive layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2001Date of Patent: March 11, 2003Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: John B. Rieger, David C. Wideman, Robert P. Bourdelais
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Patent number: 5958661Abstract: The invention relates to a color photographic element comprising a red light sensitive layer comprising a cyan dye forming coupler, a green light sensitive layer comprising a magenta dye forming coupler, a blue light sensitive layer comprising a yellow dye forming coupler, wherein said magenta dye forming coupler comprises ##STR1## wherein R.sub.a and R.sub.b independently represent H or a substituent; X is hydrogen or a coupling-off group; and Z.sub.a, Z.sub.b, and Z.sub.c are independently a substituted methine group, .dbd.N--, .dbd.C--, or --NH--, provided that one of either the Z.sub.a --Z.sub.b bond or the Z.sub.b --Z.sub.c bond is a double bond and the other is a single bond, and when the Z.sub.b --Z.sub.c bond is a carbon--carbon double bond, it may form part of an aromatic ring, and at least one of Z.sub.a, Z.sub.b, and Z.sub.c represents a methine group connected to the group R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1997Date of Patent: September 28, 1999Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: John B. Rieger, Alphonse D. Camp, Michael R. Roberts, Thomas A. Chuhta
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Patent number: 5948601Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic element comprising an emulsion layer comprising a cyan dye forming coupler, an emulsion layer comprising a magenta dye forming coupler, an emulsion layer comprising a yellow dye forming coupler wherein said magenta coupler comprises ##STR1## wherein R.sub.a and R.sub.b independently represent H or a substituent; X is hydrogen or a coupling-off group; and Z.sub.a, Z.sub.b, and Z.sub.c are independently a substituted methine group, .dbd.N--, .dbd.C--, or --NH--, provided that one of either the Z.sub.a --Z.sub.b bond or the Z.sub.b --Z.sub.c bond is a double bond and the other is a single bond, and when the Z.sub.4 --Z.sub.c bond is a carbon-carbon double bond, it may form part of an aromatic ring, and at least one of Z.sub.a, Z.sub.b, and Z.sub.c represents a methine group connected to the group R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 1997Date of Patent: September 7, 1999Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: John B. Rieger
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Patent number: 5618657Abstract: A photographic element comprises a polyester support bearing a light-sensitive silver halide photographic emulsion layer, the support having adjacent thereto a polymer-containing subbing layer, the subbing layer having adjacent thereto a layer comprising a hydrophilic binder containing dispersed droplets of a high boiling organic liquid, the liquid being selected form the group consisting of oleyl alcohol and esters of organic or inorganic acids which have a value for the logarithm of their octanol/water partition coefficient (Log P) of from 2.6 to 6.7.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1995Date of Patent: April 8, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: John B. Rieger, Paul L. Zengerle, John W. Boettcher
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Patent number: 5468604Abstract: A stabilized photographic dispersion is prepared by adding a hydrophobic, photographically inert compound which has a logP.sub.(calc) greater than about 9 and does not solidify or gel the dispersed phase to a photographic dispersion comprising an aqueous medium and a dispersed liquid organic phase comprising a photographically useful compound which is (i) soluble in organic solvents, (ii) substantially insoluble in water, and (iii) subject to particle growth of at least 10% of its initial particle size when maintained in said dispersion in the absence of the added photographically inert compound.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 1992Date of Patent: November 21, 1995Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Paul L. Zengerle, David D. Miller, Thomas H. Whitesides, John B. Rieger, Vincent J. Flow, III, Walter H. Isaac
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Patent number: 5457014Abstract: Melt crystallization of a photographic composition containing dispersed particles of a filter dye and dispersed particles of oxidized developer scavenger, in particular a hydrazide or a disulfonamidophenol oxidized developer scavenger, is inhibited by dispersing the oxidized developer scavenger in the composition in the form of particles comprising the oxidized developer scavenger dispersed or dissolved in an organic solvent selected such that the following relationship is satisfied:6.65+10.0 A-1.53 B+0.11 B.sup.2 -0.99 AB.ltoreq.4.0wherein A is the weight ratio of organic solvent to oxidized developer scavenger; and B is the log P of the organic solvent.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1994Date of Patent: October 10, 1995Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Paul L. Zengerle, Glenn M. Brown, John B. Rieger
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Patent number: 5360702Abstract: Melt crystallization of a photographic composition containing dispersed particles of a filter dye and dispersed particles of oxidized developer scavenger, in particular a hydrazide or a disulfonamidophenol oxidized developer scavenger, is inhibited by dispersing the oxidized developer scavenger in the composition in the form of particles comprising the oxidized developer scavenger dispersed or dissolved in an organic solvent selected such that the following relationship is satisfied:6.65+10.0 A-1.53 B+0.11 B.sup.2 -0.99 AB<4.0wherein A is the weight ratio of organic solvent to oxidized developer scavenger; and B is the log P of the organic solvent.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 1993Date of Patent: November 1, 1994Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Paul L. Zengerle, Glenn M. Brown, John B. Rieger