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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:
Dec. 04, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael J. Simons, Middlesex, GB;
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 5/20 ; G03C 1/825 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 5/20 ; G03C 1/825 ;
Abstract
A color filter array comprises a water soluble or water dispersible binder, at two or more color classes of water immiscible colored filter elements and a further color class of water immiscible colored filter elements. The mean diameter of the further class of filter elements is less than the mean diameter of the at least two color classes of elements. The color filter array is useful in image capture devices including digital cameras, scanners and photographic film.