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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 20, 1996
Stephen Gulick, Jr, Rochester, NY (US);
Frederick Conrad Enrich, Rochester, NY (US);
Roger Roy Morton, Penfield, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of improving uneven illumination in a photographic printer having an original image position and a light source to illuminate the original image position, which light source may illuminate the original image position non-uniformly, the method comprising: first forming a mask by exposing a photographic element to the light source and processing the element to form a negative image of the light source at a filtering position between the light source and the original image position; and positioning the mask at the filtering position. A second aspect of the method uses an electronic processor and gathered illumination data, to generate a mask.