Eastman-kodak Company

Kevin Arnold Townsend

Majid Rabbani

Omid A Moghadam

Stephen L Shaffer

A secure photographic system includes: a photographic film bearing an image and indicia representing a desired digital image security feature relating to the image; a scanner for scanning the image on the film to generate a digital image; means for detecting the indicia on the film to generate a security feature control signal; and digital image processing means responsive to the security feature control signal and the digital image for applying the desired digital image security feature to the digital image.

Secure photographic systems

A secure method for granting customer access to images and image related services at an image fulfillment center, includes the steps of: scanning a customer film image to generating high and low resolution digital versions of the image; appending a unique ID and associated security key to the high resolution version of the image and storing the appended image at the fulfillment center; encrypting the ID with a shared encryption key and appending the encrypted ID and the security key to the low resolution version of the image and sending the appended low resolution image to the customer; using the security key to encrypt a request for services relating to the high resolution version of the image and sending the encrypted ID with the encrypted request to the fulfillment center; decrypting the ID using the shared encryption key at the fulfillment center and using the decrypted ID to retrieve the appended high resolution version of the image; and retrieving the key from the appended high resolution version of the image and employing the key to decrypt the request for services.

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Brockport, NY, United States of America

Kevin Arnold Townsend