Stuart F Ring

US Patent:

41914651, Mar 4, 1980

Filed:

Jul 3, 1978

Appl. No.:

5/921286

Inventors:

Elmer E. Boase - Rochester NY
Alphonse B. DiFrancesco - Penfield NY
Stuart F. Ring - Rochester NY

Assignee:

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

International Classification:

G03G 1500

US Classification:

355 3SH

Abstract:

Apparatus operable in duplex and simplex modes for making copies having images on one or both sides thereof. In the duplex mode, first and second transferable images are formed on a movable image transfer member by an image forming device, a copy sheet is supplied from a copy sheet supply into transfer relationship with the transfer member and the first image is transferred to a first side of a copy sheet at a first image transfer station. A vacuum drum located adjacent to the transfer member is rotated in a first direction to separate the copy sheet from the transfer member. After the copy sheet has been separated, the drum is rotated in a second opposite direction to invert the copy sheet while the first image is unfixed and to register the second side with the second transferable image on the transfer member at a second image transfer station. In the simplex mode, a first image is formed on the transfer member by the image forming device, a copy sheet is supplied from the supply into contact with the vacuum drum and the drum is rotated in the second direction to assist in registering the first side of the copy sheet with the first image on the transfer member at the second transfer station. Preferably an image fixing device is provided to fix the duplex or simplex images to the copy sheet.

US Patent:

56821972, Oct 28, 1997

Filed:

May 12, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/440271

Inventors:

Omid A. Moghadam - Rochester NY
Stuart F. Ring - Rochester NY
John R. Squilla - Rochester NY

Assignee:

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

International Classification:

H04N 700
H04N 5228

US Classification:

348 36

Abstract:

An electronic camera useful with a peripheral processor comprises an image sensor for producing image data, an output storage section, an electronic control processor for transferring the image data to the storage section, and a mode selector for indicating whether the camera is used for normal format pictures or for panoramic pictures. When the mode selector is set for panoramic pictures, the electronic control processor includes a panoramic mode indicator in a header with the image data. The peripheral processor keys on the mode indicator to process the tagged images into a panoramic picture. By further including alignment indicia in a view finder in the camera to aid the user in aligning adjacent images, the peripheral processor utilizes image addresses corresponding to the indicia locations to process the tagged images.

US Patent:

57060495, Jan 6, 1998

Filed:

Nov 30, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/565433

Inventors:

Omid A. Moghadam - Rochester NY
Stuart F. Ring - Rochester NY
John R. Squilla - Rochester NY

Assignee:

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

International Classification:

H04N 576
H04N 5222

US Classification:

348333

Abstract:

A camera includes an image receiver for capturing an image of an object, an optical section for directing image light from the object to the image receiver, and a viewfinder for viewing the object prior to capture together with a tile pattern for specifying active "hot spot" areas in the viewed image. The tile pattern in the viewfinder is composed of a plurality of individual tile areas that are visible through the viewfinder together with the image of the object. The camera further includes means for designating one or more individual tile areas as active areas of the image, and means for recording a location of the active areas in a memory location accessible to apparatus external to the camera. The camera is part of a system in which the apparatus external to the camera is a computer. A program in the computer is responsive to the recorded locations for enabling one or more specific actions to be assigned to the active areas of the recorded image when the image is accessed by the computer.

US Patent:

57541841, May 19, 1998

Filed:

Jan 6, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/002497

Inventors:

Stuart Frederick Ring - Rochester NY
Edward Joseph Giorgianni - Rochester NY

Assignee:

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

International Classification:

G06T 1100

US Classification:

345431

Abstract:

A color management system that converts or transforms color signals between device dependent color spaces and a device-independent space using reference image viewing conditions for the device-independent space. A device transform converts input color signals of an input image in an input space into device-independent color signals and a visual adaption transform converts the device-independent input color signals into device-independent signals that take into account the input viewing conditions, the reference viewing conditions and adaption characteristics of the human visual system to the standard viewing conditions. This provides intermediate signals which represent device independent corresponding colorimetric values that would be required to visually match the appearance of the input image, as seen in its input viewing conditions under the defined reference viewing conditions of the device independent space. The intermediate signals can then be transformed into output color signals for output, taking into account the reference and output viewing conditions, and the particular color reproduction and gamut capabilities of the output device. The color signals can then be converted into renderable output signals and rendered on the output device.

US Patent:

56970013, Dec 9, 1997

Filed:

Apr 24, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/637317

Inventors:

Stuart F. Ring - Rochester NY
John R. Squilla - Rochester NY
Richard Bettencourt - Webster NY

Assignee:

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

International Classification:

G03B 1336
G03B 1724

US Classification:

396121

Abstract:

A photographic camera includes means for capturing and recording an image, a scanner for generating object data indicating the relative location of objects within the image, and an electronic processing section for combining the object data with the recorded image. In one embodiment the camera is a film camera including an optical section for focusing the image upon a film plane where a film is located, and the electronic processing section includes means for recording the object data upon the film. In another embodiment the camera is an electronic camera including an image sensor for capturing the image and producing image data, and the electronic processing section transfers the image data and the object data to an output storage section. In another aspect of the invention, an electronic image processing system comprises a computer and the electronic camera as described above, wherein the computer interfaces with the output section in the camera and accesses the image data and the object data in order to characterize the objects within the image.