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US 5,949,524 AGranted
Film segment printing system and method
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsDavid L. Patton, Daniel M. Pagano, Dale F. McIntyre, Edward Weissberger
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AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsDavid L. Patton, Daniel M. Pagano, Dale F. McIntyre, Edward Weissberger
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A system operates to handle and print images from a film slide having a first slide mount and a film segment mounted therein. The system includes a film segment extractor, a scanner, a printer, and a film segment mounter. The extractor extracts the film segment from the first slide mount of the film slide. The scanner scans image data from the film segment. Digital scanning may be performed by a digitizer. The printer prints an image from the scanned image data either optically or digitally. The film segment mounter mounts the film segment into a second slide mount as a second film slide. The second slide mount may be a new slide mount, or may be the original slide mount which is being reused. Magnetically encoded information stored on magnetic material disposed on the first slide mount and/or the film slide is read by respective magnetic readers. The information is then written on magnetic material disposed on the film segment and/or the second slide mount after printing from the film segment.
A system for printing from a film slide, the film slide having a first slide mount and a film segment mounted therein, comprising:
An automated system for printing from a plurality of film slides, each film slide having a first slide mount and a film segment mounted therein, comprising:
A method for automatically printing from a first film slide having a first slide mount and a film segment mounted therein, comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.