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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. 07, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 28, 1997
Anthony W Schrock, Rochester, NY (US);
Dolores A Mallette, Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
An annotation system for a camera comprising at least one storage area capable of storing annotations, an input/output interface operatively connected to both the camera and the storage area, a sorting algorithm that is run by a microprocessor for reordering previously used annotations according to a predetermined set of parameters such as the number of times the annotation has been used or the frequency of use of an annotation; and a recall function run by the microprocessor for selecting parameters used by the sorting algorithm. A time recording mechanism is provided via a real time clock to denote annotation time, and a counting mechanism to count the times a particular annotation was used are provided to yield parameters for the sorting algorithm by which previous annotations can be reordered. A user selectable recall mode switch activates a menu on the display to enable user selection of the recall sorting method.