Patent ID: 6505977
Filing Date: 2003-01-14
Classification: G03C,H04N

Abstract:
A digital dye color film processing system for developing and scanning silver halide based film without producing liquid chemical effluents, the system comprising:an applicator station operable to coat a thin film of developer solution on the film wherein the development solution interacts with the exposed silver halide within the film to produce metallic silver grains and at least one dye image; a processing station operable to coat at least one processing solution on the film, wherein the at least one processing solution substantially modifies the metallic silver grains and the silver halide to produce a substantially transparent silver compound; a scanning system operable to scan the film coated with the developer solution and the at least one processing solution using visible light to produce sensor data corresponding to the at least one dye image; and a data processing system operable to receive and process the sensor data to produce a digital image.