Jeffrey A Small

US Patent:

6487317, Nov 26, 2002

Filed:

Jan 16, 1996

Appl. No.:

08/587195

Inventors:

Jeffrey Alan Small - Rochester NY

Assignee:

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

International Classification:

G06K 946

US Classification:

382240, 382300

Abstract:

Image reconstruction is provided by sending low frequency image information via a first transmission channel and high frequency edge information via a second channel. This provides the needed high frequency information which exists in the vicinity of edges, but not the high frequency information which exists in other areas of the image. A process for the compression and transmission of original images containing both low frequency information and high frequency includes the steps of compressing the low frequency information, transmitting the compressed low frequency information, multitoning the low frequency information to form a multitoned reconstruction, multitoning the original image to form a multitoned original, calculating a residual signal as the difference between the multitoned original and the multitoned reconstruction, and transmitting the residual signal.

US Patent:

6700613, Mar 2, 2004

Filed:

Jun 16, 1998

Appl. No.:

09/097975

Inventors:

Robert C. Bryant - Honeoye Falls NY
David J. Nelson - Rochester NY
Jeffrey A. Small - Rochester NY

Assignee:

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

International Classification:

H04N 5225

US Classification:

348342, 348360, 348164, 283 88

Abstract:

A data-reading image capture apparatus, camera, and method of use. The capture apparatus has a digital image detector sensitive to a band of visible radiation and a band of invisible electromagnetic radiation. An optical system, in the capture apparatus, focuses the bands of electromagnetic radiation on the image detector. An image separator is disposed in the capture apparatus, in operative relation to the digital image detector and optical system. The image separator is switchable between an image capture state and a data reading state. The image separator is attenuative for the band of invisible radiation and transmissive for the band of visible radiation in the image capture state. The image separator is attenuative for the band of visible radiation and transmissive for the band of invisible radiation in the data reading state.

US Patent:

6738523, May 18, 2004

Filed:

Sep 14, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/662273

Inventors:

Jeffrey A. Small - Rochester NY
Mark D. Brown - Rochester NY

Assignee:

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

International Classification:

G06K 946

US Classification:

382240, 382234, 382233, 382248, 37524019, 37524011, 3483981

Abstract:

It is, therefore, an object of the present invention to provide a structure and method of processing signals, which includes transforming a signal into subbands by applying a forward discrete wavelet transform (FDWT) to the signal, partitioning the subbands into overlapping subband subsets, inverse transforming the overlapping subband subsets into signal subsets by applying at least one inverse discrete wavelet transform (IDWT) to the overlapping subband subsets, and combining the signal subsets to reproduce the signal. The IDWT is applied to all of the subband subsets in parallel.

US Patent:

6940541, Sep 6, 2005

Filed:

Apr 4, 1997

Appl. No.:

08/833106

Inventors:

Jeffrey Alan Small - Rochester NY, US

Assignee:

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

International Classification:

H04N005/225

US Classification:

3482072

Abstract:

A system wherein already-existing computing and memory resources in an electronic camera are used to process an image for printing. Rather than duplicating, in printers, computing and memory resources that are already in digital cameras, significant computing and memory resources need exist only in the camera. A digital camera can support many different printers, each with its own set of parameters such as for example print size, pixel size, colorimetry, sensitometry, and artifacts compensation. Printer parameters are uploaded from the printer to the camera to provide a basis for image processing specific to the associated printer; whereby compensation may be done for variations in the printer characteristics which may occur as a result of printer manufacturing variations, and further so that compensation may be done for different media types which may be installed in the printer.

US Patent:

7081901, Jul 25, 2006

Filed:

Mar 31, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/404607

Inventors:

Christopher A. Ludden - Pittsford NY, US
Jeffrey A. Small - Rochester NY, US

Assignee:

National Semiconductor Corporation - Santa Clara CA

International Classification:

H04N 1/405
G06K 9/40
B41J 2/315
H04N 1/409
H04N 1/40

US Classification:

345596, 345545, 345547, 345612, 358 314, 358 313, 358 319

Abstract:

A display system provides stochastic dithering to image data for storage in a frame buffer for display. Dithering is used to reduce the size of the frame buffer and to reduce the complexity of the drive circuitry that is used to display an image. The bit depth of the frame buffer is reduced by spatially dithering image data before it is written into the frame buffer. Stochastic dither patterns (which are uncorrelated) are used to minimize adverse effects of the dither patterns within the displayed image.

US Patent:

7212229, May 1, 2007

Filed:

Mar 6, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/800158

Inventors:

Kenneth A. Parulski - Rochester NY, US
Jeffrey A. Small - Rochester NY, US
Douglas W. Couwenhoven - Fairport NY, US
Jason C. VanBlargan - Rochester NY, US
Raymond E. Wess - Holley NY, US

Assignee:

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

International Classification:

H04N 5/225
H04N 1/60
B41J 3/00

US Classification:

3482072, 358 19, 347 2

Abstract:

A system wherein already-existing computing and memory resources in an electronic camera are used to process an image for printing. Rather than duplicating, in printers, computing and memory resources that are already in digital cameras, significant computing and memory resources need exist only in the camera. A digital camera can support many different printers, each with its own set of parameters such as for example print size, pixel size, colorimetry, sensitometry, and artifacts compensation. Printer parameters are uploaded from the printer to the camera to provide a basis for image processing specific to the associated printer; whereby compensation may be done for variations in the printer characteristics which may occur as a result of printer manufacturing variations, and further so that compensation may be done for different media types which may be installed in the printer.

US Patent:

7564481, Jul 21, 2009

Filed:

May 2, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/119717

Inventors:

Jeffrey Alan Small - Rochester NY, US

Assignee:

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

International Classification:

H04N 5/225

US Classification:

3482072

Abstract:

A system wherein already-existing computing and memory resources in an electronic camera are used to process an image for printing. Rather than duplicating, in printers, computing and memory resources that are already in digital cameras, significant computing and memory resources need exist only in the camera. A digital camera can support many different printers, each with its own set of parameters such as for example print size, pixel size, colorimetry, sensitometry, and artifacts compensation. Printer parameters are uploaded from the printer to the camera to provide a basis for image processing specific to the associated printer; whereby compensation may be done for variations in the printer characteristics which may occur as a result of printer manufacturing variations, and further so that compensation may be done for different media types which may be installed in the printer.

US Patent:

7755662, Jul 13, 2010

Filed:

Mar 1, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/680682

Inventors:

Kenneth A. Parulski - Rochester NY, US
Jeffrey A. Small - Rochester NY, US
Douglas W. Couwenhoven - Fairport NY, US
Jason C. VanBlargan - Rochester NY, US
Raymond E. Wess - Holley NY, US

Assignee:

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

International Classification:

H04N 5/225
H04N 1/60
B41J 3/00

US Classification:

3482072, 358 19, 347 2

Abstract:

A digital imaging system is provided that includes a digital camera and a color printer. The digital camera comprises: a housing; an image sensor adapted to capture analog image data; an analog-to-digital converter adapted to convert the analog image data; an image processor adapted to perform first processing and compression of the digital image data to create a first-processed digital image file; a digital memory in the camera housing having a plurality of the first-processed digital image files stored in the digital memory; and a color printer interface to which a digital image file, which is selected from the digital memory, is applied. The color printer comprises: a color-marking apparatus, and a digital camera interface, wherein the image processor in the digital camera is adapted to perform second processing on the selected digital image file before the selected digital image file is applied.