Eastman-Kodak Company

Kodak Alaris Inc.

John V Nelson

Mary Christine Brick

Thomas R Welter

David A Dickinson

Keath T Chen

Stephen P Singer

Marc J Krolczyk

Margaret Jones Helber

John W Harder

Paul L Zengerle

Kevin Michael Gobeyn

Thomas Joseph Murray

Arlyce T Bowne

John B Rieger

Brian W Keelan

Keith A Jacoby

Diane P Libby

Robert Niklewicz

Terry L Bistrovich

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.

Method for forming a composite image

A method of processing audio signals recorded during display of image data from a media file on a display device to produce semantic understanding data and associating such data with the original media file, includes: separating a desired audio signal from the aggregate mixture of audio signals; analyzing the separated signal for purposes of gaining semantic understanding; and associating the semantic information obtained from the audio signals recorded during image display with the original media file.

Recording audio metadata for stored images

A photographic coating composition comprising an aqueous medium containing a hydrophilic colloid and having dispersed therein solid particles of a yellow filter dye also contains a oxidized developer scavenger of formula III ##STR1## wherein x.sup.1 =hydrogen or a process cleavable group;

Photographic coating compositions and photographic elements made

A photographic element contains a four-equivalent pyrazolone magenta coupler and a yellow filter dye represented by Formula I. ##STR1## wherein: A is an acidic nucleus selected from the group consisting of benzoylacetonitrile, 2-phenyl-1,1,3-tricyanopropene, 5-pyrazolone, isooxazolone, barbituric acid, thiobarbituric acid, rhodanine, hydantoin, thiohydantoin, oxazolidindione, pyrazolidindione, indandione, pyrazolopyridone, 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinolin-2,4-dione, 3-oxo-2,3-dihydrobenzo�d!thiophene-1,1-dioxide and 3-dicynaomethine-2,3-dihydroxybenzo�d!thiophene-1,1-dioxide;

Combination of yellow filter dye and 4-equivalent pyrazolone magenta

An improved photographic element comprises a support bearing at least one silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a hydrazide compound that functions as a scavenger for oxidized developing agent. The hydrazide compound includes an electron-withdrawing and aqueous-solubilizing group on an aromatic ring linked to the carbonyl of the hydrazide group and a ballasting group on an aromatic ring linked to a nitrogen atom of the hydrazide group. Preferably, the hydrazide compound is incorporated in a photographic element which comprises a four-equivalent 5-pyrazolone magenta-dye-forming coupler.

Photographic elements containing scavengers for oxidized developing agent

A photographic element comprising a support having located thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, the emulsion layer containing a development accelerator and a release compound that provides a non-imagewise distribution of a development inhibitor moiety. The release compound is characterized in that it comprises a blocking group from which the development inhibitor moiety is released.

Photographic elements containing development accelerators and release

A photographic element comprising a support having located thereon a first layer which does not contain colloidal silver and a second layer, the first layer containing a release compound that comprises a development inhibitor moiety and a blocking group from which the development inhibitor moiety is non-imagewise released, and the second layer containing a development accelerator.

A photographic film is disclosed particularly adapted for underwater photography. The film is comprised of a film support, a blue recording layer unit capable of forming a yellow dye image, a green recording layer unit capable of forming a magenta dye image, and a red recording layer unit capable of forming a cyan dye image. At an exposure temperature of 5500.degree. K. and an optical density of 0.8 above minimum density the red recording layer unit exhibits a speed that is (T/10) log E greater than that of the green recording layer unit, where E is exposure in lux-seconds and T is the light transmission distance in meters through water required to match the speed of the red recording layer unit to the speed of the green recording layer unit, T being in the range of from 1.5 to 15 meters.

Color reversal photographic elements adapted for underwater photography

Photographic elements are described having

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John V Nelson