Method and apparatus for producing photographic index prints
    1.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for producing photographic index prints 失效
    用于制作摄影指纹照片的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US5745252A

    公开(公告)日:1998-04-28

    申请号:US931063

    申请日:1997-09-15

    CPC classification number: G03B27/462 G03B27/735 G03B2227/005

    Abstract: A method of printing regular photographic prints on a strip of paper along with index prints--that is, prints with images that are smaller than those in the regular prints--from series of negatives on rolls of film. The smaller images are projected next to and one after another along the strip to produce an index print as wide as the strip. The regular prints and the index prints are printed at different points along the strip. The results of area-by-area measurements of the negatives obtained while the regular prints are being printed are exploited to control light quantities while the index prints are being printed. The distance the strip of paper advances from one printing point to the other is regulated to ensure that paper is advanced to the index print printing point once the last negative in a series has been projected onto the strip until the trailing edge of the last print arrives at the margin of the exposure area in the index print printing point. Further printing procedures are discontinued at the regular print printing point until the trailing end of a length of paper that is reserved for the index print associated with that series of negatives, and that must accordingly not be exposed to light, has crossed the edge of the exposure opening near the index print printing point.

    Abstract translation: 将一张照片打印在一张纸上以及索引印刷品的印刷方法,即使用比常规印刷品中的图像少的图像,从卷片上的一系列底片印刷。 较小的图像沿着条带相邻并且一个接一个地投影,以产生与条带一样宽的索引。 常规印刷品和索引印刷品沿着条带的不同点印刷。 在打印常规打印时获得的负片的逐区域测量的结果被用于在打印索引片时控制光量。 调整纸条从一个打印点前进到另一个打印点的距离,以确保一旦一个系列中的最后一个负数投影到条上,直到最后一个打印的后边缘到达时,纸张将前进到索引打印打印点 在索引打印点的曝光区域的边缘。 在常规打印打印点处,继续进行打印程序,直到与该系列底片相关联的,并且相应地不被曝光的索引打印纸保留的一段纸张的尾端已经越过了 曝光开放附近的索引打印点。

    Method of and apparatus for positioning photographic originals in a
copying station
    2.
    发明授权
    Method of and apparatus for positioning photographic originals in a copying station 失效
    在复印台中定位照相原稿的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US4947205A

    公开(公告)日:1990-08-07

    申请号:US415065

    申请日:1989-09-29

    CPC classification number: G03B27/6285

    Abstract: A filmstrip containing a series of images is conveyed along a path which passes by a copying station and a scanning station. The filmstrip is advanced in steps using transporting rolls and a narrow segment of the filmstrip is scanned at the scanning station after every step. A first set of measurements obtained upon scanning of the filmstrip is used to calculate the amounts of light and the exposure times required to properly reproduce the images. A second set of measurements is used to detect characteristic regions of the filmstrip having abrupt changes in density. The positions of the characteristic regions along the filmstrip are established by a counter which counts the steps undergone by the filmstrip and the measurement or measurements corresponding to each characteristic region are stored together with the respective position. The positions of the characteristic regions and the second set of measurements are used to calculate the positions of the images along the filmstrip. After the filmstrip has been completely scanned, the filmstrip is conveyed along the path once more. During the second trip along the path, the filmstrip is scanned again while the distance traveled by the filmstrip is measured by the counter. Upon detection of a characteristic region, the position of such region along the filmstrip as measured by the counter during the second trip is compared with the stored position obtained during the first trip. If the positions are different, the counter is changed to match the stored position. This compensates for slip between the filmstrip and the transporting rolls thereby allowing the images to be accurately positioned in the copying station for reproduction as the filmstrip travels along the path for the second time.

    Abstract translation: 包含一系列图像的胶卷沿着通过复印台和扫描台的路径传送。 胶卷使用传送辊步骤前进,并且在每一步之后在扫描台上扫描胶卷的窄段。 使用在扫描胶片时获得的第一组测量来计算适当再现图像所需的光量和曝光时间。 使用第二组测量来检测具有突然的密度变化的胶片的特征区域。 沿着胶片的特征区域的位置由计数器确定,该计数器对由胶片进行的步骤进行计数,并且与每个特征区域对应的测量或测量与各自的位置一起存储。 使用特征区域和第二组测量的位置来计算沿着幻灯片的图像的位置。 在胶片完全被扫描之后,胶片沿路径再传送一次。 在沿路径的第二次行程中,再次扫描胶片,同时通过计数器测量胶卷的距离。 在检测到特征区域时,将在第二次跳闸期间由计数器测量的沿着胶片的这种区域的位置与在第一次行程期间获得的存储位置进行比较。 如果位置不同,则更改计数器以匹配存储的位置。 这补偿了胶片和传送辊之间的滑移,从而允许图像准确地定位在复印台中以便再现,因为胶片沿着路径第二次行进。

    Processing method and apparatus for exposed and developed film with
position sensing
    3.
    发明授权
    Processing method and apparatus for exposed and developed film with position sensing 失效
    具有位置感测的曝光和显影胶片的处理方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US4906854A

    公开(公告)日:1990-03-06

    申请号:US264314

    申请日:1988-10-28

    CPC classification number: G03B27/6285 G03C11/00

    Abstract: An exposed and developed filmstrip has a longitudinally extending row of image areas and a row of perforations along each longitudinal margin. The image areas and perforations have no fixed positional relationship. The filmstrip is conveyed lengthwise from a scanning station to an operating station. A procedure involving the filmstrip is performed at the operating station when an image area is present at such station. To establish the arrival of an image area at the operating station, the filmstrip is photoelectrically scanned at the scanning station to locate the leading edge of the image area. The leading edge is conveyed from a preselected location, which may or may not be the scanning station, to the oeprating station along a path of fixed length. The length of the path is expressed in terms of the spacing between neighboring perforations of a row and the arrival of the leading edge at the operating station is established by counting perforations as the filmstrip travels. Fractions of the perforation spacing, which may arise if the leading edge is located between two perforations or if the path length is not an integral multiple of the perforation spacing, are measured by counting the steps performed by a stepping motor which drives the filmstrip or by counting the revolutions of rollers which engage the filmstrip.

    Abstract translation: 曝光和显影的胶片具有纵向延伸的一排图像区域和沿着每个纵向边缘的一排穿孔。 图像区域和穿孔没有固定的位置关系。 胶卷从扫描站纵向传送到操作台。 当在该站处存在图像区域时,在操作台执行涉及胶卷的过程。 为了在操作台上建立图像区域的到来,在扫描站上光电扫描胶片以定位图像区域的前缘。 前沿从预定位置传送,该位置可能是扫描站也可能不是扫描站,沿着固定长度的路径传送到检测站。 路径的长度以行的相邻穿孔之间的间距表示,并且通过在胶片行进时计数穿孔来确定在操作台处的前缘的到达。 如果前缘位于两个穿孔之间或如果路径长度不是穿孔间距的整数倍,则可能会产生穿孔间距的分数,通过计数驱动胶卷的步进电机执行的步骤或通过 计算与胶片接合的辊的转数。

    Method and apparatus for reproducing the images of film frames
    4.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for reproducing the images of film frames 失效
    用于再现胶片帧的图像的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US4627719A

    公开(公告)日:1986-12-09

    申请号:US778613

    申请日:1985-09-20

    CPC classification number: G03B27/735 G03B27/462

    Abstract: Successive frames of an exposed and developed customer film are monitored during transport of the film in a first direction, and the information which is gathered during monitoring of discrete frames as well as of the entire film is stored in the memory of a microprocessor. The direction of travel of the film is then reversed and successive or selected frames of the film are copied during intervals between successive stepwise advances of the film in the second direction. Copying light which is used for the making of reproductions of images of the film frames is also used for illumination of film frames during monitoring. A mirror is provided to reflect light to the monitoring unit during travel of the film in the first direction, and such mirror is retracted preparatory to copying which starts with the last monitored frame and proceeds toward the first monitored frame of the film. The film is converted into a growing roll during monitoring of its frames.

    Abstract translation: 在第一方向的胶片传送过程中,监视曝光和显影的客户胶片的连续帧,并且在离散帧以及整个胶片的监视期间收集的信息被存储在微处理器的存储器中。 然后将膜的行进方向反转,并且胶片的连续或选定的帧在第二方向上的胶片的连续逐步前进之间的间隔期间被复制。 用于制作胶片框架图像复制品的复制光也用于监视期间胶片框架的照明。 提供反射镜以在胶片沿第一方向移动期间将光反射到监视单元,并且这种镜子缩回准备复印,从最后被监视的帧开始,并朝着胶片的第一监视帧进行。 在监视其框架期间,将胶片转换成生长卷。

    Color printing method and apparatus
    5.
    发明授权
    Color printing method and apparatus 失效
    彩色打印方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US4873546A

    公开(公告)日:1989-10-10

    申请号:US264399

    申请日:1988-10-28

    Abstract: Light containing blue, green and red radiation is passed through a colored original which is to be printed on color copy material. The transmitted light is spread out into a color spectrum which extends across a first wavelength range generally corresponding to the blue portion of the spectrum, a second wavelength range generally corresponding to the green portion of the spectrum and a third wavelength range generally corresponding to the red portion of the spectrum. The intensity of the transmitted light is measured throughout the spectrum and average of the resulting raw intensities are taken oer each of a series of wavelength intervals which are much shorter than the first, second and third ranges. The copy material has a gamma value for each wavelength interval and such gamma value represents the spectral sensitivity of the copy material in the corresponding interval. The average intensity for each wavelength interval is multiplied by the respective gamma value to yield a corrected intensity. The corrected intensities for each wavelength range are summed to generate first, second and third sums corresponding to the first, second and third ranges and respectively representing the blue, green and red densities of the original. The first, second and third sums are used to calculate the respective amounts of blue, green and red light required to print the original with a neutral gray density.

    Abstract translation: 含有蓝色,绿色和红色辐射的光通过将被打印在彩色复印材料上的彩色原稿。 透射的光被扩散到彩色光谱中,该色谱线延伸跨越通常对应于光谱的蓝色部分的第一波长范围,通常对应于光谱的绿色部分的第二波长范围和通常对应于红色的第三波长范围 部分光谱。 在整个光谱中测量透射光的强度,并且所得到的原始强度的平均值采用比第一,第二和第三范围短得多的一系列波长间隔中的每一个。 复制材料对于每个波长间隔具有伽马值,并且这样的伽马值表示复制材料在相应间隔中的光谱灵敏度。 每个波长间隔的平均强度乘以相应的伽马值以产生校正强度。 将每个波长范围的校正强度相加以产生对应于第一,第二和第三范围的第一,第二和第三和,并分别表示原始的蓝色,绿色和红色密度。 第一,第二和第三和用于计算以中性灰度密度打印原稿所需的蓝色,绿色和红色光的各自的量。

    Copying method and arrangement for colored originals
    6.
    发明授权
    Copying method and arrangement for colored originals 失效
    彩色原件的复印方法和布置

    公开(公告)号:US4589766A

    公开(公告)日:1986-05-20

    申请号:US778156

    申请日:1985-09-16

    CPC classification number: G03B27/735

    Abstract: A strip of exposed and developed color film is transported through a transparency measuring system. The transparency of each frame of the film strip in the three primary colors is measured at a multiplicity of regions. The transparency values are converted to density values which are processed to generate a set of data characteristic of the film strip and indicative of the color compositions of the scanned regions. The characteristic set of data and the density values for the individual regions are used to determine whether or not a respective region contains a color dominant. For each frame, the amounts of copying light in the primary colors are established from the density values of those regions which are free of color dominants and have a neutral gray color composition. The amount of copying light in each of the three primary colors is calculated so that the regions of the original having a neutral gray color composition are copied neutral gray. In order to ensure that the copying material registers the copying light in the same manner as the measuring system registers the transparency measuring light, the measuring light is filtered so as to match the spectral sensitivity of the measuring system in each primary color to the spectral sensitivity of the copying material in the same color.

    Abstract translation: 曝光和显影的彩色胶片条通过透明度测量系统传输。 在多个区域测量三原色的胶片条的每一帧的透明度。 透明度值被转换成密度值,其被处理以产生胶片条的特征数据集并指示扫描区域的颜色组成。 用于各个区域的特征数据集和密度值用于确定相应区域是否包含颜色显着性。 对于每个帧,原色的复印光的量由不含色彩的区域的密度值建立并具有中性灰色组成。 计算出三原色中的每一种的复印光量,使得具有中性灰色组合的原稿的区域被复制为中性灰色。 为了确保复印材料以与测量系统登记透明度测量光相同的方式登记复印光,测量光被过滤以将每个原色中的测量系统的光谱灵敏度与光谱灵敏度相匹配 的复印材料是相同的颜色。

    Method of and apparatus for copying photographic originals
    7.
    发明授权
    Method of and apparatus for copying photographic originals 失效
    复印照相原稿的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US4565442A

    公开(公告)日:1986-01-21

    申请号:US666366

    申请日:1984-10-30

    CPC classification number: G03B27/735 G03B27/462

    Abstract: A series of exposed and developed film strips having various lengths are spliced end-to-end for copying. The resulting band passes through a density measuring station in which the densities of the negatives are measured in the three primary colors and next through a magazine of variable capacity in which a portion of the band accumulates before entering a negative copying station including an exposure control device which regulates the exposures of the negatives on the measured basis of the density values. To insure that values derived from a selected strip are transferred to the exposure control unit when the strip enters the copying station, the splice immediately downstream of the selected strip is arrested in the density measuring station. The band continues to be drawn through the copying station so that the portion which has accumulated in the magazine is fully withdrawn. The portion of the band between the arrested splice and a splice sensor in the copying station has a known length. The arrested junction is now released and a length measuring device begins to measure the length of the portion travelling through the copying station. If the sensor detects a splice when the measured length equals the known length, this splice is the previously arrested splice.

    Abstract translation: 一系列具有不同长度的曝光和显影的胶片条被端对端拼接以进行复印。 所得到的带通过密度测量站,其中底片的密度以三原色测量,接下来通过可变容量的盒,其中一部分带进入包括曝光控制装置的负复印台之前累积 其根据密度值的测量基准来调节底片的曝光。 为了确保当条带进入复印站时,从所选择的条带获得的值被传送到曝光控制单元,则在密度测量站中紧接所选条带下游的接合。 乐队继续通过复印台画画,使得积累在杂志中的部分完全撤回。 在复制台中,被锁定的拼接和拼接传感器之间的带的部分具有已知的长度。 被拘捕的交汇处现在已经被释放,长度测量装置开始测量穿过复印站的部分的长度。 如果传感器在测量长度等于已知长度时检测到接头,则该接头是先前已被锁定的接头。

    Method of and arrangement for copying a colored original
    8.
    发明授权
    Method of and arrangement for copying a colored original 失效
    复制彩色原稿的方法和布置

    公开(公告)号:US4492458A

    公开(公告)日:1985-01-08

    申请号:US421500

    申请日:1982-09-22

    CPC classification number: G03B27/735

    Abstract: A method of copying a colored original involves measuring the transparency of localized regions of the original in each of the three primary colors. Three localized transparency ratios for each region are formed from the transparency values for the different colors. Three corresponding average transparency ratios for the original as a whole are computed from the localized transparency ratios. Each average transparency ratio is compared with a statistical average of similar ratios obtained from a large number of average originals. If an average transparency ratio of the original to be copied deviates from the corresponding statistical average by more than a predetermined amount, the number of each of the localized transparency ratios lying inside and outside of a predetermined range about the corresponding average transparency ratio of the original is counted. When the number outside of a predetermined range exceeds the number inside, a color dominant is assumed to be present in the original. Otherwise, a color tinge is assumed to be present. The original is copied using a correction factor which depends upon whether a color dominant or a color tinge is present. An alternative method summing the differences between the localized transparency ratios and the respective average transparency ratios of the original is also presented.

    Abstract translation: 复制彩色原稿的方法包括测量原始图像在三种原色中的每一种中的局部区域的透明度。 从不同颜色的透明度值形成每个区域的三个局部透明度比。 根据局部透明度比率计算原始整体的三个相应的平均透明度比。 将每个平均透明度比率与从大量平均原件获得的类似比率的统计平均值进行比较。 如果要复制的原件的平均透明度比偏离相应的统计平均值超过预定量,则每个局部透明度比例在相对于原始图像的对应的平均透明度比的预定范围内和之外的数量 算了 当超过预定范围的数量超过内部数量时,假定原色中存在着色显性。 否则,假定存在颜色色调。 使用校正因子来复制原件,该校正因子取决于是否存在着色或颜色色调。 还提出了一种将局部透明度比率和原始平均透明度比的差异相加的替代方法。

    Method and apparatus for automatically recognizing photographic
originals unsuitable for copying
    9.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for automatically recognizing photographic originals unsuitable for copying 失效
    自动识别不适合复印的照相原稿的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US4239384A

    公开(公告)日:1980-12-16

    申请号:US966314

    申请日:1978-11-29

    Applicant: Helmut Treiber

    Inventor: Helmut Treiber

    CPC classification number: G03B27/72

    Abstract: A negative whose printability is to be automatically ascertained is subdivided into a central zone, a foreground zone, and a background zone. Whole-zone density signals are produced for the foreground and background zones, and the central zone is scanned to generate a maximum-density signal indicating the density of the maximum-density point within the central zone. The negative is rejected for being underexposed when both of two conditions are met: first, the larger of the foreground and background whole-zone density signals fails to exceed a first limit value; and second, the difference between the central-zone maximum-density signal, on the one hand, and the smaller of the foregound and background whole-zone density signals, on the other hand, fails to exceed a second limit value. The negative is rejected as overexposed when the average of the foreground and background whole-zone density signals fails to exceed a third limit value, irrespective of the density of the central zone. The negative is rejected as containing a meaningless motif, e.g., an adhesive sticker applied to the negative, when the central-zone maximum-density signal exceeds a fourth limit value, the density corresponding to the fourth limit value being higher than the density corresponding to the third limit value.

    Abstract translation: 可自动确定其印刷性的负面细分为中央区域,前景区域和背景区域。 为前景和背景区域产生全区密度信号,并扫描中央区域以产生指示中心区域内最大密度点密度的最大密度信号。 当满足两个条件时,负值被拒绝为曝光不足:首先,前景和背景全区密度信号中较大者不能超过第一极限值; 另一方面,一方面,中心区最大密度信号与前缘和背景全区密度信号之间的差异不能超过第二极限值。 当前景和背景全区域密度信号的平均值不能超过第三极限值时,与中心区域的密度无关,则负值被拒绝为过度曝光。 当中心区最大密度信号超过第四极限值时,负值被拒绝为包含无意义的图案,例如施加到负片的粘合剂贴纸,对应于第四极限值的密度高于对应于 第三限值。

    Method and apparatus for evaluating developed photographic films prior
to copying
    10.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for evaluating developed photographic films prior to copying 失效
    在复印前评估显影摄影胶片的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US4152068A

    公开(公告)日:1979-05-01

    申请号:US740033

    申请日:1976-11-08

    CPC classification number: G03B27/73

    Abstract: Successive frames of a web of photographic color film are subjected to objective examination during transport through an automatic evaluating circuit which may constitute a discrete prereader or a prereader which is integrated into a copying machine upstream of the copying station. The prereader furnishes signals which represent color and/or density correction data for reproduction of those film frames which can be properly copied only with a setting of exposure controls which deviates from the average setting for copying of the majority of film frames. The objective examination of all film frames is followed by a subjective examination which is performed by an attendant who inspects at least some of those film frames whose examination by the prereader resulted in the generation of correction signals. The attendant inspects the film frames at the copying station or at a second station which is located immediately downstream of a discrete prereader, and the attendant simultaneously observes the corresponding correction signals which are furnished by the evaluating circuit and are displayed close to the copying station or in register with film frames at the second station. The attendant can approve, modify or cancel the correction signals, and can also initiate the generation of additional signals, e.g., to identify those film frames which are unfit for copying.

    Abstract translation: 摄影彩色胶卷的连续框架在运输过程中通过自动评估电路进行客观检查,该自动评估电路可构成复合机上游的复合机组合在一起的离散预读器或预读器。 预读器提供表示彩色和/或浓度校正数据的信号,用于再现这些胶片帧,这些胶片帧只能在偏离大多数胶片帧的复印的平均设置的曝光控制设置下才能正确复制。 对所有电影框架的客观检查之后进行主观检查,该检查由检查至少一些那些胶片帧的服务员进行,其中由预读者进行检查导致产生校正信号。 服务员检查位于离散预读器紧邻下游的复印站或第二站处的胶片帧,并且服务员同时观察由评估电路提供的相应校正信号,并显示在复印站附近或 在第二站登记电影帧。 服务员可以批准,修改或取消校正信号,并且还可以启动附加信号的产生,例如,以识别那些不适于复制的胶片帧。

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