Eastman-kodak Company

Mark A Bobb

Daniel C Maslanka

Keith Aaron Hadley

Henry G Wirth

Michael A Valleriano

Christopher I Marshall

William H Simpson

Jacob J Hastreiter

Mark Steven Janosky

A method for correlating tracking data associated with an activity occurring in a three-dimensional space with images captured within the space comprises the steps of: (a) locating a camera with respect to the three-dimensional space, wherein the camera at a given location has a determinable orientation and field of view that encompasses at least a portion of the space; (b) capturing a plurality of images with the camera and storing data corresponding to the images, including a capture time for each image; (c) capturing tracking data from identification tags attached to the people and/or objects within the space and storing the tracking data, including a tag capture time for each time that a tag is remotely accessed; (d) correlating each image and the tracking data by interrelating tracking data having a tag capture time in substantial correspondence with the capture time of each image, thereby generating track data corresponding to each image; (e) utilizing the track data to determine positions of the people and/or objects within the three dimensional space at the capture time of each image; and (f) utilizing the location and orientation of the camera to determine the portion of the space captured in each image and thereby reduce the track data to a track data subset corresponding to people and/or objects positioned within the portion of space captured in each image.

Correlating captured images and timed 3D event data

A method for correlating asynchronously captured event data associated with a timed activity and images associated with the events comprises the steps of: (a) capturing a plurality of images and storing the images and data corresponding to the images, including a time of image capture for each image, in an image database; (b) gathering data from one or more events associated with the timed activity and storing event data, including a time of occurrence of each event, in an event database; and (c) correlating the images and the event data in the databases by generating a time-based window that interrelates event data in the event database having a time of occurrence within the window with images in the image database having a time of capture within the window.

Correlating captured images and timed event data

A thermal dye printer media element for use in a thermal printer includes sequential color patches which form multiple color groups located along a length of the element. Metering marks are provided repetitively along the length of the element for measurement of distances along the element. The spacing between successive pairs of the metering marks may be uniform, change in a linear fashion, or change in a nonlinear fashion. The metering marks may be optically or magnetically detectable. The first and second metering mark sequences may be essentially the same. Alternatively, the first and second metering mark sub-sequences may be different. The start of a metering mark sequence may be aligned with an edge of a color patch, or may be offset from an edge of a color patch. A third sequence of metering marks may be provided for a third color patch, wherein said third metering mark sequence is different from said first sequence.

Single track of metering marks on thermal printer media

A tray for holding a stack of sheets of imaging media to be fed to an imaging apparatus in a feed direction includes a base having a generally planar surface for receiving a stack of imaging media sheets. A plurality of sides extend generally perpendicular from the surface of the base on one side of the base to partially surround the received stack of sheets on the one side of the base. At least one of the sides terminates short of the end of the received stack of sheets in the feed direction such as to provide the received stack of sheets with an exposed lateral edge to be contacted by an alignment mechanism of the imaging apparatus. The plurality of sides include two parallel sides on opposed sides of the received stack of sheets, at least one of the sides being one of the two parallel sides. A third side is normal to the two parallel sides, and is connected to the two parallel sides. A fourth side is normal to the two parallel sides and is separated from the third side and the two parallel sides.

Imaging apparatus with sheet media tray having partial sides

Imaging apparatus includes a sheet supply tray having a width alignment rail and a registration member against which the side of a received stack of sheets abuts when the stack is fully received in the imaging apparatus. The tray is urged toward the registration member as the sheet supply tray is being received in the imaging apparatus, and is held against the resilient force until the sheet supply tray is substantially fully received in the imaging apparatus to keep the received stack of sheets from contact with the registration member. The registration member can pass through a recess in the supply tray's side wall to directly abut against the opposed side of a received stack of sheets when the stack is fully received in the imaging apparatus.

Sheet media supply tray orients sheets to registration posts in imaging

An interactive dye thermal transfer printing apparatus and process uses a dye donor layer and a dye receiver layer, passing the dye donor layer and the opposed receiver layer between a thermal print head and a platen heated to raise the temperature of the dye receiver layer to its glass transition temperature. The thermal print head is image-wise energized to diffuse dye from the dye donor layer to the dye receiver layer. At the same time, thermal energy is transferred from the platen to the dye receiver layer to provide energy to react the dye with the receiver layer.

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Mark A Bobb