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US 2010/0246019 A1Published application
Micro-lens enhanced element
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsHarry Booyens, Murray Figov, Daniel J. Blondal, Paul R. West
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AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsHarry Booyens, Murray Figov, Daniel J. Blondal, Paul R. West
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A micro-lens enhanced element comprises a substrate bearing sequences of printed image elements, each sequence containing image elements front more than one image. A transparent spacer layer is coated over the interlaced image strips. Lenticular lenses are fashioned over each sequence of image elements by deposition of a transparent layer of low surface energy polydimethyl siloxane based material and ablation of the same to create strips of material abhesive to a polymeric lens forming material between consecutive sequences of printed image elements. During deposition of a liquid lens forming material, the liquid withdraws from the liquid abhesive low surface energy strips to form a meniscus, thereby providing lenticular lenses. The transparent low surface energy material comprises a near infrared dye with low absorption in the visible range of the spectrum to render the material both transparent and ablateable by infrared laser.
A micro-lens enhanced element comprising:
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The lenticular element of claim 20, wherein the plurality of lenticular lenses is located on the same side of the first surface as the image strips.
The lenticular element of claim 20, comprising a coated transparent layer between the image strips and the plurality of lenticular lenses.
The lenticular element of claim 20, wherein the convex meniscus is a meniscus of a cured optically transparent fluid.
The lenticular element of claim 20, wherein the convex meniscus is a meniscus of a cured fluid form of a lenticule forming material comprising an oligomer.
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A lenticular element comprising:
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