Abstract:
An apparatus for recording an image having a size larger than a television image of one frame including a thermal head having a length which is equal to the longitudinal length of the television image of one frame. An image signal to be recorded is supplied to the thermal head, while a heat sensitive record paper unwound from a paper roll is fed through the thermal head at a constant speed. In this manner an elongated image having a width equal to the longitudinal length of the television image of one frame and a length longer than the lateral length of the television image of one frame is recorded on the heat sensitive record paper. The length of the recorded image is limited only by length of the heat sensitive record paper. In a preferred embodiment, the length of the thermal head is made equal to three times the longitudinal length of the television image of one frame and the image signal to be recorded is stored in a memory. Pixel signals of corresponding scanning lines of three television images of one frame arranged side by side are simultaneously read out and the read out pixel signals are supplied to heater elements of the thermal head.
Abstract:
A photographic system for accurately reproducing encoded information onto a recording medium is disclosed. The system includes an image/light source, a feedback sensor, a lens assembly, a controller, a recording medium assembly and a reading sensor, whereby encoded information is decomposed into sections, adjusted, and transmitted such that the sections are correctly aligned and smoothly joined into a final reproduced image. According to the present invention, encoded information can also be digitized and read.
Abstract:
A printing system includes a liquid crystal shutter matrix panel, a light source for illuminating the liquid crystal shutter matrix panel from its back, and a photosensitive medium disposed in confronting relation to the illuminating means with the liquid crystal shutter matrix panel interposed therebetween. A positioning unit positions the liquid crystal shutter matrix panel and the photosensitive medium longitudinally and transversely with respect to each other. An image data generator generates image data from a desired image. The shutter of the liquid crystal shutter matrix panel is driven by a liquid crystal driver on the basis of the image data generated by the image data generator. An image formed by the liquid crystal shutter matrix panel is focused onto the photosensitive medium by a focusing optical system, thereby reproducing the image on the photosensitive medium.
Abstract:
A video image printer is coupled to a video signal source such as a video camera, an electronic still camera, a video tape recorder, a television receiver, or the like, for producing a hard copy bearing a recorded image which is displayed by on a monitor display. The video image printer includes a liquid crystal light valve with a liquid crystal orientation thereof variable depending on an applied video signal, color filters mounted on one end of the liquid crystal light valve, and a light source optically coupled to the one end of the liquid crystal light valve. A photographic film is disposed on the side of an opposite end of the liquid crystal light valve, the film carrying a self-processing solution. The film is selectively exposed to an image that is formed by light from the light source through the color filter means and the liquid crystal light valve controlled by the applied video signal. The video image printer also includes a pair of squeezing rollers for spreading the processing solution over the film which has been exposed.
Abstract:
An image input apparatus includes an image sensor having a two-diminsional photosensitive surface for converting each of two-dimensional image segments into which an image is divided, in a predetermined sequence, to provide digital information regarding each of the image segments.
Abstract:
An image input processor having a detector which detects whether or not the rate of the width of a character or characters are cut off from the read character information with respect to the readable width being over a predetermined value. Also, the image input processor has a printer which prints the cut-off character or characters when the detected rate is over the predetermined value, and prohibits printing of the cut-off character or characters when the detected rate is less than the predetermined value. Whereby necessary information and unnecessary information can be distinguished from each other based on the degree of the read image information that is cut off.
Abstract:
A picture image recording apparatus in which a picture image information input device such as a scanning type television camera, a device for binary coding the picture image information, a memory device for storing the binary-coded picture image information, a monitor device such as a CRT display for displaying the binary-coded picture image information, and a hard copy device such as an electrophotographic copy machine for producing a hard copy of the binary-coded picture image information are combined so that a picture image on a relatively large plane can be recorded economically with high resolution. The large plane to be recorded is divided into a plurality of frames, and the picture information for the frames is stored in memory and made to align so that they can be combined together in a high resolution hard copy output.
Abstract:
An image input device is disclosed including an image source which generates an image light and a light sensor facing the image source. The image light is divided into a number of components by an image dividing device. The light sensor contains a number of photoelectric converting elements, the number of photoelectric converting elements being smaller than the number of components constituting the image light. The image dividing device is placed between the light sensor and the image source to divide the image light into components in a predetermined timed order. The photoelectric converting elements are thereby irradiated in the predetermined timed order and the electrical signals generated by these photoelectric elements are read out in this same predetermined timed order and stored in a memory.
Abstract:
A scanning system according to the present invention includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of pieces of image information generated by continuously scanning a medium to be scanned, a path calculation unit that calculates a path of scanning the medium based on the plurality of pieces of image information acquired by the image acquisition unit, a processing method determination unit that determines a processing method of the plurality of pieces of image information in accordance with a path calculated by the path calculation unit, and a processing unit that processes the plurality of pieces of image information by a processing method determined by the processing method determination unit and converts the plurality of pieces of image information into information in a form corresponding to the processing method.
Abstract:
A scanning system 9 according to the present invention includes an image acquisition unit 91 that acquires a plurality of pieces of image information generated by continuously scanning a medium to be scanned, a path calculation unit 92 that calculates a path of scanning the medium based on the plurality of pieces of image information acquired by the image acquisition unit 91, a processing method determination unit 93 that determines a processing method of the plurality of pieces of image information in accordance with a path calculated by the path calculation unit 92, and a processing unit 94 that processes the plurality of pieces of image information by a processing method determined by the processing method determination unit 93 and converts the plurality of pieces of image information into information in a form corresponding to the processing method.