Eastman-kodak Company

Robert C Bryant

Michael J O'Brien

David John Nelson

Richard A Colleluori

David Lynn Patton

Thomas M Stephany

Chris W Honsinger

Edward P Furlani

Kevin Edward Spaulding

Loretta E Allen

William H Simpson

Bryan D Bernardi

Timothy A Peter

Peter A Frosig

Drew D Summers

Ronald S Cok

Robert P Bourdelais

Jeffrey Alan Small

Badhri Narayan

Ronald Myron Wexler

J Kelly Lee

Kevin W Williams

John R Debesis

Carl Frederick Leidig

James S Newkirk

William C Archie

Bijan Barzideh

Laurie L Voci

Michael Allan Leetmaa

A method of providing an image on a media having a image-receiving layer and a protective overlayer, comprising the steps of providing an image on the image-receiving and providing machine-readable indicia on said protective overlayer by varying the temperature of a thermal head used to apply the protective overlayer.

Label and method of making

A method and system is disclosed for printing an authenticatable image having an embedded image into a receiver having a discernible physical characteristic, such that the printed image can be used to authenticate the receiver which includes scanning the receiver to produce information related to the discernible physical characteristic of the receiver, and providing a carrier which includes information related to the scanned receiver discernible physical characteristic. The method also includes combining the carrier with an input image to form the authenticatable image having the embedded image, and printing the authenticatable image having the embedded image onto the receiver.

Authentic document and method of making

An image bearing article includes a support; a visible image recorded on the support; invisible information recorded on the support, the invisible information relating to and in registration with elements of the visible image.

Non-image pixel data stored on hard-copy image media

A method for representing an extended color gamut digital image on a hard-copy output medium having a limited color gamut comprising the steps of adjusting the color values of the extended color gamut digital image to fit within the limited color gamut of the output medium to form a limited color gamut digital image, producing a limited color gamut output print from the limited color gamut digital image on the hard-copy output medium, determining a residual image representing a difference between the extended color gamut digital image and the limited color gamut digital image, and encoding the residual image on the output print using a digital encoding means such that the residual image and the limited color gamut output print are adapted to be used to form a reconstructed extended color gamut digital image.

Method for recording a digital image and information pertaining to such image on an oriented polymer medium

A media that is used for making an authenticable original document and a method for making the document. The media has an area on which a custom three dimensional physical indicia identifier can be formed thereon by a user. The area of the media is made of a material such that when the three dimensional physical indicia is digitally scanned a unique digital file is produced.

A method of providing an image on a media having a image-receiving layer and a protective overlayer, comprising the steps of providing an image on said image-receiving and providing machine-readable indicia on said protective overlayer by varying the temperature of a thermal head used to apply said protective overlayer.

Method for representing an extended color gamut digital image on a hard-copy output medium

A data-reading image capture apparatus, camera, and method of use. The capture apparatus has a digital image detector sensitive to a band of visible radiation and a band of invisible electromagnetic radiation. An optical system, in the capture apparatus, focuses the bands of electromagnetic radiation on the image detector. An image separator is disposed in the capture apparatus, in operative relation to the digital image detector and optical system. The image separator is switchable between an image capture state and a data reading state. The image separator is attenuative for the band of invisible radiation and transmissive for the band of visible radiation in the image capture state. The image separator is attenuative for the band of visible radiation and transmissive for the band of invisible radiation in the data reading state.

Data-reading image capture apparatus, camera, and method of use

A data recording element includes a data recording medium and a recording medium support; data recorded on the data recording medium; and c) a unique ID corresponding to the data on the recording medium, recorded on the recording medium support.

Method and apparatus for the authentication of encoded data

Adjustable reader arrangement and method of reading encoded indicia formed on an object. The reader arrangement comprises a base and a detector removably connected to the base for detecting the indicia. The detector has a first portion thereof adapted to be removably connected to the base and also has a second portion thereof pivotably adjustable into alignment with the indicia formed on the object. An emitter is coupled to the detector for emitting a signal indicative of the indicia detected by the detector. The reader arrangement is ergonomically conducive to reading encoded information on the object as an operator brings the object in the vicinity of the reader.

Adjustable reader arrangement and method of reading encoded indicia formed on an object

A test target having N invisible test data encodements ( ) each comprising test data printed over the surface of test print media media in a defined spatial order printed in invisible ink by a printer under test. The invisible ink print quality of the printer is determined by the ability of an invisible encodement reader to decode certain of the N invisible encodements ( ). In a first preferred embodiment, a test print media is prepared by pre-printing or coating a media surface with an invisible ink that is sensitive to the same wavelength of light as the printer ink in a plurality N of areas on the media surface providing step background densities ( ) ranging from no applied ink to maximum printer ink density in a test tablet manner In the test mode, N test data files are printed as N invisible encodements ( ) in the corresponding N areas ( ) thereby creating a test target that is to be read by the reader. It is presumed that the print quality that the printer is capable of achieving is degraded if fewer than a predetermined number of encodements ( ) are readable, and the invisible ink is replaced or replenished. In a second preferred embodiment, the test target comprises N invisible encodements ( ) differing from one another in a step tablet manner printed by the printer ( ) under test. The encodements ( ) are read and decoded to the extent possible using the reader. The particular ones of the encodements ( ) that can be accurately decoded provide a measure of the print quality that the printer is capable of achieving.

Methods and articles for determining invisible ink print quality

A jacket for one or more printed sheets, such as photographic prints, has a holder having at least one pocket. The pocket defines a space for the printed sheet. The holder has a transparent ink receptive layer exterior to the space. The ink receptive layer can have a deposit of invisible ink that is an encodement of information that, preferably, relates to the respective printed sheet. Two or more such jackets can be bound together to provide an album.

Photographic jacket and album

A data reader has a digital image detector an optical system imaging on the digital image detector, and a marker beam source that emits a diverging, centerless visible light projection. A data reading system includes the data reader and media bearing: a visible primary image and a secondary image overlying the visible image. The secondary image is transparent to visible radiation and modulates a band of invisible electromagnetic radiation. The media also bears visible indicia aligned with the secondary image.

Data reader and reader system having visible centerless targeting

A system includes a data reader and media bearing fluorescent indicia. A method includes the steps of: pulsing a light emitting diode at a forward current level above continuous use operating limits to produce pulsed radiation within an absorption spectrum of the fluorescent material and at a flux density sufficient to induce a fluorescent emission from the indicia; illuminating the indicia with the pulsed radiation to produce the fluorescent emission; and imaging the indicia on a radiation image sensor sensitive to radiation within an emission spectrum of the fluorescence.

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Honeoye Falls, NY, United States of America

Robert C Bryant