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Method for producing prints from digital image files scanned from film

US6389159B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 12, 2001
Grant dateMay 14, 2002
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Expiry dateJan 12, 2021

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N2201/3277
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method of providing colored adjusted digital files which can be used to make prints by a printing system, including a computer and a local printer, controlled by enabling software stored on the removable storage medium, the original images being provided on colored film, including the steps of scanning the colored film to produce a plurality of digital files representing colored digital images; adjusting the digital files to produce color adjusted digital files, such adjustments including tone scale correction; providing enabling software including at least one software application program for operating the computer that enables the color adjusted digital files to be printed on the local printer, and transferring the color adjusted digital files and the enabling software to the removable storage medium.

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