Eastman-kodak Company

Martin E Oehlbeck

Richard L Druzynski

Stephen J Hassall

James E Roddy

Mitchell J Bogdanowicz

Robert J Zolla

Daniel R May

Nhon N Chu

Rockwell N Yarid

Andrew Charles Gallagher

Nestor M Rodriguez

A printing apparatus () for printing digital images onto a photosensitive medium () employing, for exposure energy, a light source () that uses various arrays of LEDs (). The printing apparatus () may form the print image using sequential modulation, one color at a time, or by applying all colors simultaneously. Arrangements of discrete LEDs () may include high-intensity devices configured with collector cones () arranged as a multicone structure (), with parabolic reflectors (), or collimating lenses (). Large area LEDs () may alternately be used, arranged on an angled mounting surface (), for example.

Light source using large area LEDs

A method for communicating and preserving creative intent within a motion picture production chain, including a production stage, and at least one of a subsequent laboratory or post production stage, including capturing an original image of a scene during the production stage; generating a look representative of a creative intent, wherein the look is a digital representation of a creative alteration of the captured original scene image; and applying the look to the captured original scene image and confirming approval of the look during the production stage. The digital representation of the look is stored as a recipe for generating the creative alteration, and communicated from the production stage to at least one of the subsequent laboratory and post-production stages for applying the look to the captured motion picture footage during subsequent laboratory and post-production stages.

Method and system for preserving the creative intent within a motion picture production chain

In processing a digital image to provide a desired grain appearance, a noise table is formed that represents noise magnitude vs. intensity of the image. A plurality of potential image processing paths are provided. Each path has one or more image transforms. The noise table is modified according to the image transforms in the respective image processing paths to provide a plurality of output noise tables. Noise metrics are generated from each of the output noise tables. The noise metrics each represent the appearance of the image processed by the respective image processing path. An input is then accepted designating one of the paths. The image is processed according to the designated image processing path to provide an output image having desired noise.

Selecting an image processing path to provide desired noise

A method of printing image frames from a digital image file of a motion picture includes providing a two-dimensional LCD modulator having predetermined pixels which selectively can be activated so as to respond to incident light to provide monochromatic visual images; responding to the digital image file to activate the pixels in the LCD modulator to provide visual image planes corresponding to each frame of the motion picture; and moving a photosensitive medium past the LCD modulator to illuminate different portions of such medium from the illuminated LCD modulator to record the image planes on such medium.

Printing image frames corresponding to motion pictures

A method for receiving digital images from a digital image file and recording corresponding visual images onto a motion picture photosensitive medium includes receiving information related to the image aperture format and image type positive or negative of the digital images to be recorded on the motion picture photosensitive medium.

Recording a digital image of a desired aperture format and resolution onto motion picture photosensitive medium

A pin-registered film transport assembly provides an interlacing motion for moving and guiding a photographic film through a film gate. The assembly includes a first carriage mounted for movement parallel to a direction of film travel and a first pin assembly including a first pair of registration pins which are engageable in oppositely disposed perforations of the film, where the first pin assembly is mounted on the first carriage for movement perpendicular to the direction of film travel for engaging and disengaging the film perforations. The assembly also includes a second carriage mounted for movement parallel to the direction of film travel and a second pin assembly including a second pair of registration pins which are engageable in oppositely disposed perforations of the film, where the second pin assembly is mounted on the second carriage for movement perpendicular to the direction of film travel. The carriages and pin assemblies are moved and controlled such that the first pair of registration pins engages the film perforations at a starting position and moves the film in the direction of film travel while the second pair of registration pins is repositioning to the starting position for engagement with another pair of perforations. This action is then repeated to provide improved movement of the film through the film gate, particularly by reducing the time latency during pin retrace motion.

Rectilinear film transport system

A lenticular print (13) having image bundles (19), and method and apparatus for aligning and centering image bundles (19) in the print (13) under lenticules in a lenticular overlay (11). On the print are provided one or more two-dimensional fiducial indicia (17) containing one or more angular or linear alignment elements (18, 29, 45) disposed at about two lenticules widths apart.

Method and apparatus for aligning a lenticular overlay with a lenticular

An image sheet (12) is coated with a radiation curable adhesive (48) at a coating station and then laminated to a lenticular array sheet (20) at a laminating station (50). A lamination of the image and array sheets is then positioned on an aligning station (56) where the lenticules of the array sheet are aligned with the image lines (16) of the image sheet. The adhesive is set at a curing station (60).

Methods for assembling depth image systems

An image sheet (12) is coated with a radiation-curable adhesive (48) at a coating station and then laminated to a lenticular array sheet (20) at a laminating station (50). A lamination of the image and array sheets is then positioned on an aligning station (56) where the lenticules of the array sheet are aligned with the image lines (16) of the image sheet. The adhesive is set at a curing station (60).

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Martin E Oehlbeck