Eastman-Kodak Company

Joseph P DiVincenzo

Dale Frederick McIntyre

Jay S Schildkraut

Omid A Moghadam

Edward Weissberger

Thomas P Szumla

Louis R Gabello

Carl L Holden

Roger E Button

Richard B Brolly

Leon Robert Zoeller

Quinton Lamar Sowell

Steven Benjamin

Franklyn R Smith

Thomas O Lange

A method for detecting copy restrictive documents is disclosed. At least one photograph (101) is placed on a scanner platen (10) and a low resolution scan is performed (20) to produce a low resolution image. A skew angle and a location of the photograph is determined (30). The photograph is rescanned at a high resolution (40) to produce a high resolution image, the high resolution image is deskewed (45), and the high resolution image is checked (50) for the presence of one or more microdots. Use of the high resolution image is inhibited if microdots are detected (55). In one embodiment, a plurality of photographs are placed on the scanner platen and a portion of each the high resolution images is checked by a software program for the presence of microdots.

Detecting copy restrictive documents

A system for automatically associating user-generated data to images, the system comprises a card reading device which receives and recognizes the user-generated data entered directly from manipulation of the terminal by a user. A camera captures an image and receives the data from the card reader device for associating a captured image and the data for forming a labeled image.

Automated system and method for associating identification data with

An automated film processing system, comprising: a film having at least one recordable section for storing at least one customer selected electronic address; a film finishing system for reading the electronic addresses recorded on said film, developing said film, digitizing the images developed on said film, and for transmitting the digitized images to the customer selected electronic addresses; and at least one customer station, remotely located from said film finishing system, said station electronically connected to said film finishing system for receiving and displaying the digitized images when addressed by said film finishing system. Photographs taken by a photojournalist are automatically communicated to a remotely located news agency by recording a telecommunication address for the remote location on the film. The data can be prerecorded on the film or recorded by the photographer before dispatching the film to a processor. At the processor, the developed film images are scanned and stored as image files. The address data, and any other data recorded by the photographer on the film is stored in a header appended to the image files. When the order is complete, a control computer at the processor automatically links to the remote image server via a telecommunications link based on address data in the file header. When the link is established, the image data is communicated to the remote server where image processing can be performed prior to making hard copy photoprints for publication. Other data recorded on the film can include such instructions as image scan resolution, color/tone scale calibration data, photolab identification and billing information.

System and method for remote image communication and processing using

A continuous process, namely the quality control of web production, is monitored and analyzed for defects with high resolution continuously, notwithstanding that the processing of signals for such continuous monitoring and analysis with high resolution requires handling of data at enormous data rates (e.g., billions of calculations per second). The system uses a computer architecture for continuous processing of the data in real time. In a first level of the architecture, signals arriving from the process (from the scanning of successive lines on the web) are digitized, and reduced to represent data corresponding to certain events, such as defects in the web. In a second level of the architecture, an array of parallel processors operate concurrently and continuously on the reduced data to provide outputs characterizing the events, for example, measurements of the locations and extents of the web defects. In a third level the data from the second level is analyzed to provide outputs representing the analysis of the effects in the process represented by the events. These outputs may be used to control the process or to provide information respecting the source of the defects and otherwise to assure that only high quality material is passed.

System for monitoring and analysis of a continuous process

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Joseph P DiVincenzo