Eastman-kodak Company

Omnivision Technologies, Inc.

Other

Wilson Greatbatch Technologies, Inc.

J Kelly Lee

Svetlana Reznik

Dale Frederick McIntyre

Edward P Furlani

Marek W Kowarz

Thomas M Stephany

William Mey

John N Border

Matthias Hermann Regelsberger

David R Dowe

Herbert J Erhardt

Tom M Seamans

Robert Mark Boysel

Robert Michael Guidash

Frederick J Jeffers

Frederick T Brady

Werner N Fassler

Badhri Narayan

Michael J O'Brien

Robert C Bryant

James E Pickering

John R Debesis

Dana W Wolcott

William R Markis

Jean F Depatie

Haribhajan S Kocher

Allan M Waugh

Jon M Kriegel

Robert H Cuffney

Richard A Littlefield

Gerald J Angeli

Frederic H Metildi

David A Castor

Robert Andosca

P W Moran

Frederick John Jeffers

James Joseph Parker, Jr

Warren W Kurz

R David Burns

A microshutter array has a frame having a light transmissive portion. Linear microshutter elements extend across the light transmissive portion and in parallel to each other. Each microshutter element has a flat blade extended in a length direction and first and second torsion arms extending outwards from each side of the blade in the length direction, the blade extending across the light transmissive portion. A control circuit provides a separately-controlled and independent voltage that is applied to each of the linear microshutter elements. A controller sets the respective voltages applied to each of the linear microshutter elements.

Programmable micro-electromechanical microshutter array

A microshutter array has a frame having a light transmissive portion. Linear microshutter elements extend across the light transmissive portion and in parallel to each other. Each microshutter element has a flat blade extended in a length direction and first and second torsion arms extending outwards from each side of the blade in the length direction, the blade extending across the light transmissive portion. There is at least one electrode associated with each linear microshutter element and extended in the length direction parallel to the microshutter element.

Micro-electromechanical microshutter array

An implantable diaphragm pump for use in medical applications comprising a housing having a pump cap, a valve plate, a diaphragm, and a base plate, wherein the pump cap and the valve plate are separated by the diaphragm, and the valve plate and lower surface of the diaphragm serve to form a pump chamber. A permanent magnet is attached to the pump cap within the diaphragm chamber wherein the lower surface of the permanent magnet is adjacent to the upper surface of the diaphragm. The diaphragm having a coil and a corrugated outer periphery, wherein when electrical current flows in a first direction through the coil, the diaphragm engages the lower surface of the permanent magnet, and when electrical current flows in a direction opposite the first direction, said diaphragm engages the upper surface of the valve plate.

Diaphragm pump for medical applications

A magnetically biased electromagnetic shuttering device for controlling the shutter blades of a camera. The device includes a yoke having a core and a coil, the coil being capable of receiving current which produces a first magnetic field existing inside and outside the core. A movable magnet is coupled to the shutter blades, has a second magnetic field and is positioned adjacent to the core so that the second magnetic field interacts with the first magnetic field. A magnet, separate from the yoke, produces a third magnetic field and is positioned adjacent to the movable magnet in order to influence the motion of the movable magnet and to provide controllable detents for the movable magnet.

Magnetically biased electromagnetic shuttering device for controlling

Audio and image data are recorded on a receiver by capturing audio information and converting it to digital signals; capturing an electronic image which corresponds to the captured audio information; recording the audio information on the receiver by applying a nonvisible ink to the receiver; and recording the electronic image by applying visible ink to the receiver.

Recording audio and electronic images

A non-photographic strip includes a base layer similar in properties and characteristics to a base layer of a known photographic filmstrip and a magnetic recording layer over the base layer. A cartridge is sized and shaped to be received in a cartridge receiving chamber of a photographic camera. The cartridge contains the non-photographic strip which is sized and shaped to be moved within the camera from the cartridge. Preferably, the magnetic recording layer is opaque. The magnetic recording layer is used to transfer information to and/or from the camera.

Non-photographic strip having a base layer similar to a photographic

A device for controlling a stepper motor that drives a plurality of shutter blades. The movement and position of the movement of the rotor of the stepper motor is monitored to determine when the next step of the stepper motor should be stepped so that the rotation of the rotor will be known to cause the shutter blades to form the correct aperture size. The device may also be used to drive an automatic focusing mechanism and/or zoom.

Device for controlling a stepper motor that drives one or more camera

An electrographic printing apparatus for forming a toner image on a recording medium, includes: a) a magnetic brush having a rotatable magnetic core and a stationary outer cylindrical shell; b) an addressable array of transfer electrodes on the outer shell, the array including a plurality of parallel strips of high magnetic permeability, electrically conductive material arranged circumferentially around the shell and disposed under an electrically insulating layer, the insulating layer defining printing gaps over the strips; c) a receiver electrode arranged in spaced relation to the array of transfer electrodes to define a recording region through which a receiver can be moved; d) a developer supply for supplying developer powder having an electrically conductive, magnetic carrier and a first colored toner to the magnetic brush, and e) an electronic circuit adapted to selectively apply voltage pulses to the transfer electrodes to cause the toner to transfer from the developer powder to the receiver in an image-wise pattern. A method, includes the steps of: providing a developer including a toner; forming a plurality of parallel circumferential ridges of developer, the ridges having a length substantially greater than their width; providing a corresponding plurality of printing gaps in the central portions of the ridges of developer, the printing gaps having a length substantially less than the length of the ridges; and selectively transferring toner at the printing gaps from the ridges to a receiver in an image wise manner.

Electrographic printing method and apparatus

A method and apparatus for recording on magnetic media which comprises a magnetic wheel made from a magnetic material, that is essentially an isotropic material such as NdFeB (neodymium iron boron) material having an energy product on the order of 7.1 MGOe. The magnetic wheel is operatively connected to a drive motor by juxtapositioning a magnetization write head having a gap that produces the desired flux pattern in response to the electrical input to a coil within the head, encoded magnetic information is placed on the wheel. The magnetized wheel can than be used to record encoded data upon preselected media, such as metered paper for a thermal printer.

Magnetic writing of repetitive information on magnetic wheel and

A method is provided for a customer to provide a message, design or other visible information to be printed upon prints during processing of photographic film supplied by the customer. The process involves scanning an annotated surface containing the visible information, creating a reproducible file containing the visible information and printing the visible information from the file onto a photographic print during the photofinishing processing. The customer information may be directly written or otherwise connected with a photofinishing envelope in which the film is forwarded to the photofinisher. The envelopes or messages may be scanned and the envelopes saved for return to the customer with the finished prints and negatives. If the envelopes are scanned at the time of removing the film, the reproducible file may be electronically stored and retrieved during printing of the photographic prints on which the information is to be printed. Various alternative steps in the process are disclosed.

Method of customer photoprint annotation

A cartridge (10) of web material includes a hollow cartridge body (14) having an exit slit (26); a strip or sheet (12) of web material enclosed in the cartridge body to be withdrawn from or inserted into the cartridge body via the exit slit; at least one magnetic member (38, 40; 130; 172-178; 240; 290,292) carried on the strip or sheet; and a magnetically actuated visual indicator (36) mounted on the cartridge body adjacent the exit slit to be actuated by the magnetic member when the strip or sheet is withdrawn from or inserted into the cartridge body.

Photographic medium cartridge with magnetically activated status

A filmstrip which has a substantially transparent magnetic layer is loaded into a camera. Successive sections of the filmstrip are moved inside the camera to locate corresponding sections of the magnetic layer adjacent an inside face of a magnetic-film-write-on portion of the camera. A hand held stylus is manually moved on an outside face of the magnetic-film-write-on portion, opposite the inside face, to record hand-generated information magnetically on the magnetic layer.

Method and camera for writing hand-generated information on a filmstrip

A password protected camera system, comprising a camera incorporating, means for receiving user entered passwords for controlling access to the camera's features and to the film cartridge is disclosed. The camera incorporates circuitry for writing and reading password data to and from the camera film to control access to the film when it is in the camera and when it is removed from the camera. Different levels of access are provided either by multiple passwords, one for each level, or by single passwords, where multilevel access is granted with one password while another password may limit access to just one level.

Camera and cartridge with password protection

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

J Kelly Lee