Patents by Inventor Robert Gordon Hills

Robert Gordon Hills 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).

  • Text interface for still photographic camera with data recording capability
    Patent number: 5666186
    Abstract: A camera system includes a user friendly interface to enable a camera user to enter text data to be printed on a photographic film in a simple and convenient manner. The user interface is also used to display text messages to the user indicating certain camera conditions. More specifically, a camera is provided that includes a display unit, a display control interface for manually selecting text data to be displayed on the display unit and a control unit for controlling the operation of the display unit to display the text data selected by the manual user interface. The display unit preferably includes a text data display section and fixed icon display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Daniel Timothy Meyerhoefer, James Vergil Leavy, J. David Cocca, Michael Timothy Malley, Gerald Julius Kosarko, Robert Gordon Hills