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US 6,278,510 B1Granted
System for optical writing to thermal film
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsTimothy W. Stoebe, Richard P. Szajewski, Lyn M. Irving, David H. Levy
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AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsTimothy W. Stoebe, Richard P. Szajewski, Lyn M. Irving, David H. Levy
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The invention relates to an apparatus for thermal development comprising a receiving chamber for a thrust cartridge, drive means to advance thermal film from said thrust cartridge and rewind film into said thrust cartridge, an optical writer to write information onto the thermally developable film, a magnetic reader and writer to read and write magnetic information onto the film, a scanner to scan the thermally developable film, an accumulator to gather said film after it has left the cartridge, a heater located between said chamber and said accumulator to develop said thermal film as it passes between said cartridge and said accumulator, and a lighttight container for said chamber, heater, and accumulator.
An apparatus for thermal development comprising
A method involving thermal film comprising placing a thrust cartridge containing thermal film into a receiving chamber, optically printing information onto said thermal film, driving said thermal film from said chamber past a heater, taking up the developed film after it has passed over the heater in an accumulating means and rewinding said thermal film into said thrust cartridge, wherein said method further comprises comprising image scanning said film to produce an electronic record, digitizing the electronic record, storing and processing the electronic record of the image information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.