Method of making an index print
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsJoseph Anthony Manico, David Lynn Patton, Thomas Richard Roule, John Randall Fredlund, Anthony Ronald Berardi
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Abstract
A holder and a method of making an index print using the holder. The method comprising the steps of: 1) providing a holder having at least one sleeve for holding a film, said film having at least one developed image therein; 2) scanning the holder so as to obtain a digital record representative of the images present on said negative film; and 3) printing the digital record so as to form an index print wherein said at least one image is placed in a predetermined pattern.
Claims22
A method of printing an index print from at least one filmstrip disposed in a transparent holder having a plurality of sleeves, each of said plurality of sleeves capable of receiving a filmstrip, comprising the steps of:
- providing said holder having a plurality of sleeves for holding a like plurality of filmstrips each having at least one film image area;
- inserting at least one filmstrip having at least one film image area into at least one sleeve of said holder;
- placing said holder on a platen of a digital scanner and scanning said holder including the film image areas present on said at least one filmstrip so as to obtain a digital record comprising image data corresponding to the film image area or areas and non-image data between the film image area or areas;
- identifying the image data within said digital record corresponding to film image area or areas on said at least one filmstrip;
- preparing a digital image record for printing by removing said non-image data from said digital record and arranging said image data for printing a print image or print images on said index print in a predetermined format;
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- printing an index print having a print image or print images thereon in said predetermined format from said digital image record.
A method of making an index print comprising a plurality of individual print images from a like plurality of film image areas of film arranged in a film holder and scanned by a digital scanner to derive a digital record thereof comprising the steps of:
- providing said film holder for holding film having a plurality of film image areas in a corresponding plurality of locations of said film holder, said film holder made of a first material that allows digital scanning of said film image areas and having datum thereon associated spatially with respect to said plurality of locations, said datum formed of a second material that is distinguishable from said first material when scanned into said digital record for identifying said plurality of locations within said digital record;
- positioning at least one film image area in a location of said holder;
- positioning said holder on a platen of a digital scanner with said datum oriented in a predetermined orientation with said platen;
- digitally scanning said film holder to develop said digital record comprising image data corresponding to each scanned film image area and non-image data corresponding to the remaining space of said holder including non-image data corresponding to scanned datum;
- formatting said digital record as a digital image record by employing said non-image data corresponding to each scanned datum as a reference for locating said image data;
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- reproducing an index print from said digital image record containing at least one print image of said at least one film image area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.