David W Dellert, Age 6548 Royale Dr, Fairport, NY 14450

2005008, Apr 14, 2005

Oct 8, 2004

10/961721

Richard Carling - Webster NY, US
David Dellert - Fairport NY, US

G06F017/60

705400000

Automatically determining the cost to complete a printed job on a digital printing press. A Job Control Component in the Digital Front End of the printing press collects and stores the processing information from the job processing components after each has completed its step in the sequence of steps required to complete the printed job. A Job Reporting Component displays the stored processing information and, when the press owner has stored the predetermined cost of each processing step, automatically computes and displays the cost of the job.

5949551, Sep 7, 1999

Apr 25, 1997

8/842957

Keith Alan Miller - West Henrietta NY
David William Dellert - Fairport NY
Carl Joseph Tesavis - Spencerport NY

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

H04N 100

358408

An image handling method and apparatus for executing the method. The method comprises scanning at least a first resolution of a hardcopy image. A second resolution image signal of the same image which second resolution is lower than the first resolution, is communicated from a first location to a receiver at a second location remote from the first location, by a first communication method. The first resolution image signal is communicated from the first location to the receiver at the second location, by a second communication method which is physically independent of the first communication method, or following communication of the second resolution image signal, waiting until a predetermined condition independent of the communication of the second resolution image signal, then communicating the first resolution image signal from the first location to the receiver at the second location by the first communication method.

5267051, Nov 30, 1993

Aug 28, 1992

7/938565

David W. Dellert - Rochester NY
Frank Weiner - Rochester NY

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

H04N 141
G06K 936

358426

A system for processing a bit map of pixel data signals representative of a multi-dimensional array of imagery data (e g. alpha-numeric text) for transmission over a facsimile communication channel are compressed by providing a plurality of data compression units, a respective one of which is capable of compressing data supplied to it at a compression rate that is only a fraction of the data rate. The bit map is subsampled by demultiplexing the bit map into sub-arrays of data. The sub-array data is coupled to respective sets of compression units, which executes parallel, two-dimensional compression of the demultiplexed sub-array data. Even though the data subsamples associated with successive rows of the bit map are non-consecutive, and therefore may contribute to a reduction in compression performance in the horizontal direction, because the data is text, successive data samples within each column of a sub-array are inherently more highly correlated with one another than data values that are encountered within respective rows of the original bit map. As a consequence, the two-dimensional data compression operator executed by each unit suffers no loss in output signal quality.

6283646, Sep 4, 2001

Jan 5, 2000

9/477681

David William Dellert - Fairport NY
Carl Joseph Tesavis - Spencerport NY

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

G03D 1300

396564

An image handling method comprising: (a) processing an exposed photographic film at a processor-scanner station which has both a scanner and a processor at the same location, to produce one or more hardcopy images at the processor-scanner location; (b) reading data on the film which indicates that a set of one or more of the hardcopy images, is to be communicated to a hub station, which hub station is remote from the processor-scanner station; (c) scanning the set at the same processor-scanner location at which the film was processed, to obtain a corresponding image set signal; (d) communicating the image set signal from the scanner to the hub station; and (e) storing the communicated image set signal at the hub station. A system and components useful in the method are also provided.

5140648, Aug 18, 1992

Dec 29, 1990

7/619538

James I. Hackett - Victor NY
David W. Dellert - Rochester NY
Mark R. Knudson - Rochester NY

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

G06K 942
G06K 932

382 47

The apparatus and method of the present invention utilizes three scaling functions for bi-tonal digitized image data such as documents. The digitized document resolution (i. e. from a digitizing scanner) may be different from the resolution of an image output device (i. e. laser printer, CRT display, fax machine, etc. ). The invention takes in the scanned image data and scales the data to compensate for the resolution mismatch of the output device. Although the invention is intended for document archive applications (such as scanning documents on microfilm), the scaling can be performed on any bi-tonal image.

6154755, Nov 28, 2000

Jul 31, 1996

8/688899

David William Dellert - Fairport NY
Stephen L Shaffer - Penfield NY
Maja Aniela Gruszynski - Weston MA
Gregory Richard Bryniarski - Rochester NY
Brian Neil Westrich - Scottsville NY

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

G06F 1730

707526

An index imaging system includes: a scanner for scanning a plurality of photographic images to produce a corresponding plurality of digital images; a computer connected to the scanner for receiving the digital images and generating a corresponding plurality of thumbnail digital images and containing index imaging software for writing an application program for manipulating the digital images; a printer connected to the computer for receiving the thumbnail digital images and producing an index print; and a floppy disc writer connected to the computer for recording the thumbnail digital images and the application program on a floppy disc. Computer program products carrying thumbnail digital images and optionally particular application programs, are also provided.

5926288, Jul 20, 1999

Sep 16, 1996

8/710274

David William Dellert - Fairport NY
Carl Joseph Tesavis - Spencerport NY

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

H04N 104

358487

An image handling system, and a method which can be executed on such a system comprising a plurality of processor-scanner stations remote from one another, interfaced with a hub station that is in turn interfaced with a plurality of terminal. Each processor-scanner station having at the same location: a processor which can process exposed photographic film to produce a hardcopy image set; a scanner system which can scan the hardcopy image set to obtain a corresponding image set signal; and a first communication interface for communicating the image set signal to a remote hub station. The hub station, which can be remote from each of the scanner stations, comprises: a second communication interface to receive image set signals from each of the plurality of scanner systems; a first storage to store the image set signals; a third communication interface for transmitting the image set signals to any of a plurality of terminals remote from the hub and each of the processor-scanner stations. A plurality of terminals that are remote from the hub station and each of the scanner-processor stations, and connected to communicate with the hub station.

6069712, May 30, 2000

Jan 31, 1997

8/792612

David William Dellert - Fairport NY
Carl Joseph Tesavis - Spencerport NY

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

H04N 100
H04N 132

358408

System components provide for a method of: processing an exposed photographic film at a processor-scanner station which has both a scanner and a processor at the same location, to produce one or more hardcopy images at the processor-scanner location; reading data on the film which indicates that a set of one or more of the hardcopy images, is to be communicated to a hub station, which hub station is remote from the processor-scanner station; scanning the set at the same processor-scanner location at which the film was processed, to obtain a corresponding image set signal; communicating the image set signal from the scanner to the hub station; and storing the communicated image set signal at the hub station.