Abstract: A method and apparatus for transferring a strip-form photosensitive paper material comprising mounting a feed roller on an upstream side of an exposure table and a transferring roller on a downstream side of the exposure table and intermittently transferring photosensitive paper material onto the exposure table only in predetermined feed size, characterized by measuring, in advance, a feed size of the photosensitive paper material based on a number of revolutions of the feed roller and a feed size of the photosensitive paper, based on number of revolutions of the transferring roller, and compensating for the number of revolutions given to both rollers in order to prevent an error generated between the photosensitive paper feed sizes and an exposure table having upstream feed rollers and downstream transfer rollers and control means for measuring and feed the photosensitive paper material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the photomechanical production of structured surfaces on a pattern support as an image for an electronically stored original, in particular for exposing offset print plates. The invention further relates to a device for carrying out the process. The original is broken down electronically into partial images which are displayed successively on a liquid crystal screen and reproduced on the pattern support such that the images recombine to form a total image of the original on the design support. The information in a partial image is checked and the partial image is reproduced on the pattern support according to this check.

Abstract: A marking device of an electro-developing type video camera having a color separation optical system to color separate an object to be photographed into a plurality of color components, and an electro-developing recording medium having a plurality of optical image recording areas that electrically develop optical images corresponding to the color components. The marking device has a marking mechanism that forms a positioning mark indicating a relative position of each of the optical images developed in the plurality of optical image recording areas. The positioning mark is formed outside the optical image recording areas.

Abstract: A control device for reducing a marking time in a marking device. This control device performs control operations whereby an image 20 of an area that circumscribes the entire "ABCDE" pattern of an original image is retrieved, the circumscribed area image 20 is divided into a plurality of image segments 19 of a predetermined size, and each of the plurality of image segments 21 is sequentially displayed on a mask.

Abstract: Imaging apparatus is provided which includes a generally cylindrical support defining a substrate support surface, a head operative to record information onto a substrate on the substrate support surfaces, and apparatus for precise rotational positioning and displacement of the cylindrical drum with respect to the imaging head. The apparatus includes at least one linear motor arranged to drive the cylindrical support in rotational motion, and control apparatus for providing electrical inputs to the linear motor to achieve precise rotational positioning of the substrate support surface.

Abstract: A position adjusting device is provided in an electro-developing type camera using an electro-developing recording medium by which an image is electronically developed. The electro-developing recording medium has first, second, and third recording areas in which green, red, and blue images are recorded, respectively. The electro-developing recording medium is supported by a recording medium supporting member through a piezoelectric transducer. The recording medium supporting member and the electro-developing recording medium are moved upward and downward by rotating a drive screw, so that one of the first, second, and third recording areas is positioned in the optical path of the photographing optical system. The position of the electro-developing recording medium is adjusted in a horizontal direction by extending and contracting the piezoelectric transducer.

Abstract: An image recording device mounted on an electro-developing type camera using an electro-developing recording medium in which an object image obtained through a photographing optical system is electronically developed. The electro-developing recording medium has a first recording area in which the image is recorded, and a second recording area in which information other than the image is recorded. First and second electrodes are provided in the first and second recording areas, respectively, so that an electric voltage can be independently applied to the first and second recording areas. By exposing the first recording area while applying the voltage thereto, the image is recorded in the first recording area. By heating the second recording area without applying the voltage thereto, the information is recorded in the second recording area.

Abstract: When a recording mode of a printer is changed to a resolution expansion mode when an internal temperature of a recording head falls or by an external indication, the number of divided blocks is changed so that the overlap of on time zones of block sub-division signals is prevented in order to assure that heaters of the recording head are energized for a sufficient time period. Thus, the heater energization time period for each block is extended without extending the total recording time.

Abstract: A motion picture film having digital audio data recorded in at least one sound track thereof. Such digital audio data includes a plurality of bytes of data each having 8 bits of data. Each respective bit of each byte of audio data is recorded in a sound track of the film in the film running direction and each byte is arranged side-by-side in a direction normal to the film running direction to form a compression processing block. C1 parity data is added to each such compression processing block and C2 parity data is added after a predetermined interval of plural compression processing blocks. Error correction may be performed by utilizing the C1 and C2 parity data for each compression processing block and at the predetermined interval of plural compression blocks.

Abstract: A film containing first sections with narrower panoramic frames and second sections with wider normal frames is scanned to obtain density values. To distinguish the panoramic frames from the normal frames, the density values along two longitudinally extending strips near the edges of the film are checked for each film section. Each strip has a length equal to that of the respective frame, and the strips border the narrower panoramic frames but are located within the wider normal frames. The density distribution in each strip is compared with density distributions previously derived from the borders of panoramic frames.

Abstract: An image signal recording operation control device is provided in a still video camera. The control device has a photographing optical system by which an image is formed on an electro-developing recording medium, by which the image is electronically developed. The control device also has a scanner optical system by which the image developed by the electro-developing recording medium is formed on a sensor imaging plane. A line sensor is provided for scanning on the sensor imaging plane to read out the image. When the electro-developing recording medium is not mounted in the still video camera, i.e., when an aerial image formed by the photographing optical system is read by the line sensor, the scanner optical system is displaced by a predetermined amount along the optical axis, in comparison with a state in which the electro-developing recording medium is mounted, so that the scanner optical system can form an in-focus image on the sensor imaging plane.

Abstract: A density measuring unit is provided for measuring a density of a printing substance such as ink or toner fixed on a paper sheet and producing a value of the printing substance's density. Further, a determining unit is provided for determining whether or not the value of said printing substance's density obtained from the density measuring unit is lower than a predetermined value. The density of the printing substance measured by the density measuring unit is either a density of the printing substance representing a predetermined mark which has been printed in addition to printing out received image information or a density of said printing substance representing said received image information. A blockage removal unit is provided for performing a blockage removal operation for removing any blockage which prevents a printing unit from normally printing out the received image information.

Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus is provided with at least one first electrode at least in either a recording head or ink retaining member, dielectric adjacent to the first electrode or laying between the first electrodes, a second electrode electrically connected to the first electrode through the dielectric and ink, power supply to apply and release voltage to and from the first electrode, potential difference detector for detecting the potential of the second electrode, and equivalent circuit to determine the ink remains at least in either one of the recording head and ink retaining member in accordance with the potential of the second electrode detected by potential difference detector. In this way, it is possible to provide an ink jet recording apparatus having equivalent circuit for detecting ink shortage, and expect a highly precise detection thereof, and also, to provide information processing systems having such recording apparatus for its output device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an exposure apparatus for printing a predetermined pattern on a mask onto a substrate whose surface is coated with a photosensitive material such as resist. The exposure apparatus according to the present invention comprises a special alignment system which effectively suppresses interference of alignment light, offset drift, and the like which may occur due to the resist, thereby realizing highly accurate alignment.

Abstract: An apparatus for exposing photosensitive materials includes a plurality of light sources for generating beams having different wavelengths, a polygon mirror for scanning and exposing the beams toward a color photosensitive material, and one or more f .theta. lenses disposed on an optical path between the photosensitive material and the polygon mirror. The polygon mirror and the f .theta. lenses are arranged, with respect to the beam from a light source having an intermediate wavelength among the light sources, such that reflection points corresponding to both ends of beam scanning on reflection surfaces of the polygon mirror pass through an identical point on an optical axis of the f .theta. lenses, and light beams at the both ends of beam scanning have line symmetry with respect to the optical axis of the f .theta. lenses.

Abstract: A projection optical system of the present invention comprises a shaping optical system which is disposed in an optical path between a first surface and a second surface on which an image of the first surface is formed and has a refractive power in only one of two directions which are perpendicular to an optical axis of the projection optical system and orthogonal to each other. This shaping optical system comprises a first lens group which has a refractive power in only one of the two directions which are orthogonal to each other and a second lens group which has a refractive power only in the direction in which the first lens group has the refractive power.

Abstract: An electronic still video camera has an electro-developing recording medium. As soon as an optical image is formed on the medium, the image is recorded and developed as a visible image therein. The developed image is electronically read as image data by a line sensor, and the read image data may be stored in an IC memory card, a floppy disk, a hard disk or the like. Optionally, the read image data may be transferred from the camera to an external device such as a computer, a TV monitor or the like. The developed image can be thermally erased from the medium by using an electric heater. One of these operations is executed by a depression of a single switch in accordance with a mode-selection switch.

Abstract: A usage control device is mounted in an electro-developing type camera with an electro-developing recording medium, by which an image is electronically developed. The electro-developing recording medium has an image recording area and a data recording area. The image is electronically developed and recorded in the image recording area. Data which indicates the number of times that a recording operation of the electro-developing recording medium has taken place, is magnetically recorded in the data recording area. The data recording area is composed of a magnetic recording medium, such as a magnetic tape.

Abstract: A white balance adjusting device includes a rotational color filter and a shutter which are provided between a photographing optical system and an electro-developing recording medium having first, second, and third recording areas. Red, green, and blue images are recorded in the first, second, and third recording areas through the rotational color filter. A photometry sensor is provided behind the electro-developing recording medium to sense the intensity of light passing through the first, second, and third recording areas. When the sensed light reaches a proper photometry value, the application of a voltage to the electro-developing recording medium is stopped, and the shutter is closed.

Abstract: An electro-developing type camera using an electro-developing recording medium on which an image is developed while an electric voltage is applied thereto. The image is read out from the electro-developing medium by a scanning mechanism. A color separation filter is disposed in front of the recording medium, so that R, G and B images are recorded on first, second and third recording areas, respectively. The color separation filter and the recording medium are disks rotatably provided. A photographing optical system is disposed at a first position at which the optical axis thereof is positioned above the rotational axes. The scanning mechanism is disposed at a second position at which the scanning mechanism is positioned under the rotational axes of the electro-developing recording medium and the color separation filter.