Eastman-kodak Company

Walter C Bubie

Hyejung Hwang

William A Orfitelli

David S Jones

Paul Tomblin

Curtis R Cates

Michael E McCrackan

John C Boutet

Girish V Prabhu

Jeffrey J Yaskow

Darryl D DeWolff

Douglas Val Ziegler

Laurent Ricard

Michael E Haefner

Amy L Shea

Cathryn Q Lodine

Patrick A Cosentino

Thomas E Murphy

William R O'Such

Richard Brindley

Joseph P Rinaudo

Michael E Mccrackan

A method is described for scheduling a playlist from digital content supplied to a server in a multi-screen digital cinema theater. The playlist includes digital content stored in the server and that is subsequently projected in the digital cinema theater. The method includes: (a) generating and displaying a table of playlists currently available for scheduling; (b) generating and displaying a schedule table showing a schedule view for each screen as an elongated timeline bar representing a time dimension. The method further includes: (c) selecting a playlist from the table of playlists and specifying a scheduled start time and a selected screen; and (d) updating the schedule table by inserting the selected playlist as an elongated element into the elongated timeline bar for the selected screen, whereby the updated schedule table is used to schedule the selected playlist for the selected screen.

Scheduling between digital projection and film projection corresponding to a predetermined condition

A method is described for scheduling a playlist from digital content supplied to a server in a multi-screen digital cinema theater, where the playlist includes components of the content stored in the server and represents a digital entity that is subsequently projected in the digital cinema theater. The method includes the steps of: (a) generating and displaying a table of playlists currently available for scheduling, each playlist displayed along with its run time; (b) generating and displaying a schedule table showing a schedule view for each screen as an elongated timeline bar representing a time dimension, wherein the elongated timeline bars for a plurality of the screens are arranged one adjacent the other relative to a displayed time axis to provide an overall perspective of the schedules for the screens of the theater; (c) selecting a playlist from the table of playlists and specifying a scheduled start time and a selected screen; and (d) updating the schedule table by inserting the selected playlist as an elongated element into the elongated timeline bar for the selected screen, wherein the element starts at the scheduled start time and has a time dimension corresponding to the run time of the selected playlist, whereby the updated schedule table is used to schedule the selected playlist for the selected screen.

Streamlined methods and systems for scheduling and handling digital cinema content in a multi-theatre environment

A method for selecting and arranging digital images to be printed from a group of thumbnail images is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of displaying the group of thumbnail images; selecting, from the group of thumbnail images, the number of images to be printed per page and the images which are to be printed on each page; automatically arranging the selected images for each page to be printed; and printing the arranged images.

Selecting, arranging, and printing digital images from thumbnail images

A graphical system interfaces user selections with an image capture device by means of a series of display screens produced by a processor and presented to the user on a display device. After initiating a setup process for establishing an image capture, a graphical interface is generated including a plurality of display screens that establish an intuitive setup procedure for an inexperienced user. More specifically, the interface is based on a progressive disclosure of the screens, in particular by representing one or more screens with user accessible icons, such as file tabs on file folders, which are expandable into additional screens according to user intervention. Thereupon, user interaction with, e.g., a selected tab of a selected file folder produces two or more additional folders related to the selected tab.

User interface for an image capture device

'Smart fix' icon for a display screen

Picture postcard icon for a display screen

'Trim' icon for a display screen

`Album utilities` icon for a display screen

'New album' icon for a display screen

'Print utilities' icon for a display screen

Camera utilities icon for a display screen

'Trash delete all' icon for a display screen

'Select all' icon for a display screen

An apparatus for storing and automatically delivering mechanism cassettes and/or pallets containing cassettes to a reader. A storage and delivery is provided which defining a plurality of cassette retaining sites. A body encases the storage and delivery mechanism and has a portal adjoining the cassette loading sites for allowing casettes to be placed on or removed from the storage and delivery mechanism. Indicia is provided on panels adjacent the portal for identifying the cassette retaining sites and a guide bar is placed in front of the cassette read site. The panels are mounted to the apparatus by elastomeric mounts so as to minimize or prevent transmission of shock vibrations.

Cassette autoloader

A process for producing human-computer interface prototypes includes describing the interface prototype in a high-level graphics language having commands to describe asynchronous events, and to link asynchronous events to graphic objects. A graphic display portion of the interface prototype is managed such that the behavior of graphic objects follows the objects as they are repositioned in a display.

Process for producing human-computer interface prototypes

Growing community of inventors

Rochester, NY, United States of America

Walter C Bubie