Eastman-kodak Company

Exelis Inc.

David A Smith

Kenneth Alan Parulski

Raymond J Bouvy

Timothy John Tredwell

Bradley C DeCook

John J Acello

Patrick J Argento

Kevin S Reitter

Roger A Brooks

Mark A Pietraszewski

James F Heiberger

A motion command is constructed based on an optimized acceleration pulse designed to control the spectral content of the commanded acceleration. By way of judicious design of the pulse shape, the majority of the energy in the command is contained in a narrow baseband and rolls off rapidly in frequencies outside that band. Additionally, the command can be constructed to suppress selected frequency content in one or more attenuation bands outside the baseband. The resulting motion command permits rapid motion control, while avoiding the excitation of unwanted resonant response in the system while remaining tolerant of system uncertainty.

Frequency-selective command profile motion control

An electronic camera is provided as a module that attaches to the signal bus of a PC-compatible computer. The camera includes a minimum of components, particularly an image sensor and an A/D converter, and a PC-compatible interface connector for mating with a bus extension connector on the computer. By directly presenting digitized data from the camera to the signal bus of the computer through the bus connector, the camera can be kept relatively simple and the computer can be relied upon to perform image processing, storage, and display.

Electronic camera incorporating a computer-compatible bus interface

An electronic camera operates with a small, portable computer having a card interface of the type used for communicating with a removable memory card. The camera includes an image sensor for converting an image into an electrical signal, an A/D converter for converting the electrical signal into a digital signal, and a signal processor for interfacing the digital signal to the card interface, ordinarily a slot receptacle, on the computer. By defining the interface to include a mechanical extender that physically interconnects the camera to the card slot on the computer, the camera and computer are linked in a high speed interface as a convenient, hand-held unit.

Electronic camera with memory card interface to a computer

A memory card that is detachably connectable to a host data processing system includes a plurality of flash EPROM memory devices for storing data input from the host system in addressable data locations in the memory devices. The card also includes a control circuit having further memory for storing an interleave factor input from the host system for specifying the order in which data is consecutively distributed among the memory devices. By selectively steering certain low order address bits to a chip select decoder, data is serially distributed into identical address locations in each memory device. By having the interleave factor variable, data may be distributed among a selected set of memory devices, thereby allowing the host system to relate the data transfer rate to the particular application.

Memory card with programmable interleaving

A laminating apparatus is provided to laminate a material such as paper stock. Once the paper stock is laminated an image is transferred to the laminated paper stock. The image transferred to the laminated paper stock appears as if the image had been printed on said paper stock.

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

David A Smith