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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2005
Stephen J. Pasquarette, Honeoye Falls, NY (US);
Arlene T. Jourdan, Rochester, NY (US);
Barbara A. Ledyard, Rochester, NY (US);
Stephen J. Pasquarette, Honeoye Falls, NY (US);
Arlene T. Jourdan, Rochester, NY (US);
Barbara A. Ledyard, Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
Digital imaging system and method in which user operation of a digital zoom selection switch to increase digital zoom of a portion of an evaluation image is interrupted for at least an interval of time as a warning to the user that the digital zoom selection has reached a digital zoom ratio that corresponds to a predetermined minimum image resolution quality level in an image of a given size to be rendered from the portion of the evaluation image. The user can then resume increasing digital zoom selection only by opening and re-closing the zoom selection switch. A graphical indicator is used to show changes in zoom settings and the appearance of the indicator is changed when one or more predetermined digital zoom settings are reached to reinforce the visual warning to the user.