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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 1994
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gary L Robison, Rochester, NY (US);
Fernando G Silva, Rochester, NY (US);
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
354106 ; 355 40 ; 360 48 ; 360 721 ;
Abstract
Overhead and data loss are reduced when transferring data via magnetic recording in a magnetic layer of an elongate photographic filmstrip, by providing a trappable data sentinel at the beginning of a data field. The data sentinel comprises a pair of reserved characters which establish a data character boundary for data in the field and also identify the nature of this data. The data sentinel is trapped by an identity comparator and also read by a host computer or processor. Data fields employing the data sentinel format can be embedded within a start sentinel/end sentinel track architecture.