Eastman-kodak Company

Steven D MacLean

Xin Wen

William H Simpson

Dale Frederick McIntyre

Kenneth Alan Parulski

Roger A Morton

Nestor M Rodriguez

A method and apparatus for calibrating a sensor for highlights and for processing highlights is described. In an embodiment, a method includes identifying highlight regions in an image of a scene. The method further includes calculating flare intensity values for the image using the locations of the highlight regions. The method also includes subtracting the flare intensity values from the image.

Method and apparatus for calibrating a sensor for highlights and for processing highlights

A transparent image producing display or receiver which uses a suspension fluid for producing pixels of an image includes at least one image-forming layer having a structure which defines a plurality of pixels, with the structure receiving a suspension fluid having field-driven particles, which move in response to an externally applied field, where, in a first condition, the field-driven particles produce a first level of transmitted incident light and, in an second condition, produce a second level of transmitted incident light.

Forming images by field-driven responsive light-absorbing particles

An insertable cartridge for insertion into a receiving structure having electronic addressing circuitry for forming a visual image of a stored image is disclosed. The cartridge includes a housing for receiving a plurality of receivers, each receiver including field-driven particles in a matrix that can change reflective density in response to an applied electric field which intersect at positions corresponding to pixels and the housing defining alignment features for insertion into the receiving structure which receives and positions an inserted cartridge. The housing further includes electronic interconnecting circuitry for connection between the addressing circuitry and a receiver after a cartridge has been inserted in the receiving structure for permitting the application of voltages at the pixel positions across the field-driven particles at particular locations in the receiver corresponding to pixels in the stored image to produce an image in the receiver in the cartridge.

Forming images on receivers having field-driven particles

An electronic camera includes optics for focusing an image of a subject at an image plane, an area image sensor disposed at the image plane for receiving the image subject and producing a digital image having a plurality of pixels that represent the subject, and a storage structure coupled to the area image sensor for storing the digitized image of the subject. A non-emissive display for displaying an image corresponding to the stored image, includes field-driven solid phase particles disposed in a matrix that can change reflective density in the display in response to an applied electric field, and an electronic addressing arrangement including electrodes for applying voltages across the field-driven particles at particular locations corresponding to pixels in response to the stored image to produce a displayed image of the subject.

Camera with non-emissive electronic display having field-driven solid phase particles

A display includes a substrate, a matrix formed over the substrate, and thermomeltable material disposed in the matrix, having a transition temperature range above room temperature wherein the viscosity of the thermomeltable material decreases substantially from below to above the transition temperature range. The display also includes field-driven particles, immersed in the thermomeltable material, so that the field-driven particles change reflective densities in response to an applied electric field when the material is above the transition temperature range and is stable at temperatures below its transition temperature range, and heater(s) disposed in the display associated with the matrix for controlling the temperature of at least a portion of the matrix to control the response of the field-driven particles in the matrix.

Color image device with integral heaters

Apparatus for forming an image, comprising a storage for storing a digitized image and a receiver. The receiver includes a matrix, a thermomeltable material disposed in the matrix having a transition temperature range which is above room temperature wherein the viscosity of the thermomeltable material decreases substantially from below to above the transition temperature range, and field-driven particles immersed in the thermomeltable material, so that the particles change optical densities in response to an applied electric field when the thermomeltable material is above the transition temperature range and is stable at temperatures below the transition temperature range. An array of electrodes selectively applies electric fields at an image forming position on the receiver. The apparatus heats the receiver to control the temperature of the receiver to control the response of the field-driven particles in the receiver. Electronic control circuitry coupled to the heater controls the temperature of the receiver when an electric field is applied and coupled to the electrode array for selectively applying voltages to the electrode array so that electric fields are applied at the image forming position at particular locations on the receiver corresponding to pixels in response to the stored image whereby the electrodes produces an image in the receiver corresponding to the stored image.

Color image formation in receivers having field-driven particles

An electronic imaging device employs black pattern correction for dark current in a charge transfer image sensor. The sensor is composed of image pixels having a characteristic black pattern of dark current in which the amplitude of the dark current for each pixel is dependent upon exposure time. A reference dark frame exposure is captured from the image sensor in the absence of light and dark frame pixel values are obtained. An exposure section regulates the exposure time of image light upon the image sensor and provides a corresponding plurality of image frame exposures; the image sensor thus generates a corresponding plurality of image frames each comprised of image frame pixel values. A processor then generates a correction factor from the dark frame pixel values and applies the correction factor to the image frame pixel values for the plurality of image frames to obtain corrected image frame pixel values that are modified for the black pattern. As a result, performance efficiency is increased by using a single reference dark frame exposure in the correction of many image frame exposures.

Black pattern correction for charge transfer sensor

A electronic printing apparatus includes memory for storing a digitized image. A receiver is transported to an image forming position, the receiver including field-driven particles in a matrix that can change reflective density in response to an applied electric field. The apparatus further includes an array of electrodes for selectively applying electric fields at the image forming position across the receiver; a heater for heating the receiver to increase the temperature of the matrix so as to increase the mobility of the field-driven particles in the matrix; and electronic control circuitry coupled to the array for selectively applying voltages to the array so that fields are applied at the image forming position to the heated field-driven particles at particular locations on the receiver corresponding to pixels in response to the stored image whereby the electrode produces an image in the receiver corresponding to the stored image in the receiver.

Heat assisted image formation in receivers having field-driven particles

An electronic printing apparatus is disclosed for forming images on a receiver which stores a digital image. The apparatus uses a receiver that includes field-driven particles in a matrix that change optical density in response to an applied electric field, a substrate, and a conductive portion disposed between the matrix and the substrate. The apparatus further includes an array of electrodes cooperating with the conductive portion for selectively applying electric fields across the matrix at the image forming position so that the field-driven particles change optical density, and electronic control circuitry electrically coupled to the array and the conductive portion for selectively applying voltages to the array so that fields are applied at the image forming position to field-driven particles at particular locations on the receiver corresponding to pixels in the stored image whereby the electrodes produce an image in the receiver corresponding to the stored image.

Forming images on receivers having field-driven particles and conducting

An electronic printing apparatus responsive to a digital image for providing continuous tone optical density pixels forming an output image on a receiver includes a receiver including field-driven particles in a matrix that can change optical density in response to an applied electric field, the field-driven particles being responsive to fields of different amplitude and duration to change the optical density of the pixels formed in the receiver; an array of electrodes associated with the receiver for selectively applying electric fields according to the digital image forming pixels across the receiver; and electronic control circuitry coupled to the array and responsive to the digital images for computing appropriate voltage waveforms having amplitudes and durations selected so that, when the voltage array forms are applied to the array, fields are produced by the array and applied to the receiver to provide continuous tone pixels having optical densities corresponding to pixels in the digital image.

Printing continuous tone images on receivers having field-driven

A method and apparatus for improving the output response of electronic imaging systems is provided in which horizontal clocking signals used to transfer charge from a horizontal shift register to an output amplifier are synchronized with a clamp clock signal and a sample clock signal. The clocking signals are generated so that the horizontal clocking signals are in the same state when the clamp clock signal and the sample clock signal are generated to eliminate cross talk caused by the horizontal clocking signals.

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Webster, NY, United States of America

Steven D MacLean