Abstract: The cartridge accommodates a shooting film therein, and includes at least an electrically connectable contact on an outer surface layer thereof, and said recording medium has a recording area for storing digital data of an index image based on images recorded on said shooting film. Therefore, by recording the digital data of images recorded on the shooting film in the recording medium of the cartridge a customer can read the image data and process the image data.

Abstract: The cartridge accommodates a shooting film therein, and includes at least an electrically connectable contact on an outer surface layer thereof, and said recording medium has a recording area for storing digital data of an index image based on images recorded on said shooting film. Therefore, by recording the digital data of images recorded on the shooting film in the recording medium of the cartridge a customer can read the image data and process the image data.

Abstract: A lens-fitted photo film unit contains a cartridge shell into which an IC memory is incorporated, and a roll of photo filmstrip having a magnetic recording layer. Unit ID data and date-of-manufacture data are written in the IC memory in the factory. A data recording circuit is provided on a flash circuit board. The data recording circuit is connected to the IC memory through a printed circuit board mounted to a cartridge chamber of the film unit. A finder mask and a photo sensor for detecting the position of the finder mask are mounted in the film unit. The photo sensor is connected to the data recording circuit, to write photographic data corresponding to the output of the photo sensor in the IC memory at each exposure. Before printing, the data written in the IC memory is read to be recorded on the magnetic recording layer of the photo filmstrip by use of an external recording device which is connectable to the IC memory through an interface terminal which is exposed to an exterior of the film unit.

Abstract: A photographic processing system. On a photographic film used for photographing images, an ID for specifying the photographic film is recorded in advance by codes which are mechanically and visually readable. On an accommodating case for accommodating the photographic film therein, the ID for specifying the photographic film is recorded in advance by the codes which are mechanically and visually readable. A reader reads at least one of the ID recorded on the photographic film, the ID recorded on the accommodating case, an ID recorded on a photographic printing paper onto which the images recorded on the photographic film are printed, an ID recorded on a DP bag used for handling photographic materials between a DPE shop and a lab, and an ID recorded on an index sheet on which the images recorded on the photographic film are recorded.

Abstract: A lens-fitted photo film unit contains a cartridge shell into which an IC memory is incorporated, and a roll of photo filmstrip having a magnetic recording layer. Unit ID data and date-of-manufacture data are written in the IC memory in the factory. A data recording circuit is provided on a flash circuit board. The data recording circuit is connected to the IC memory through a printed circuit board mounted to a cartridge chamber of the film unit. A finder mask and a photo sensor for detecting the position of the finder mask are mounted in the film unit. The photo sensor is connected to the data recording circuit, to write photographic data corresponding to the output of the photo sensor in the IC memory at each exposure. Before printing, the data written in the IC memory is read to be recorded on the magnetic recording layer of the photo filmstrip by use of an external recording device which is connectable to the IC memory through an interface terminal which is exposed to an exterior of the film unit.

Abstract: A print processing method used in a photographic printer which can print images on a negative film which have different aspect ratios. The print processing method comprises the steps of judging the aspect ratio of each of the images printed on photographic paper, and printing cumulative numbers of prints of each aspect ratio onto the photographic paper of a final printing. The number of prints per aspect ratio can be easily known, and the cost of the prints can be calculated more efficiently.

Abstract: An apparatus for conveying a photographic film is structured such that, when it is determined that an image frame does not exist, information indicating the image frame does not exist is recorded by a recording head onto a magnetic recording layer which corresponds to an image frame recording area. Accordingly, before the image frame is positioned at the subsequent processes for operation, by reading the information on the magnetic recording layer, it can be detected that the image frame does not exist in an image frame area. Further, it is not necessary to position the image frame area in which the image frame does not exist and only the image frame area in which an image frame exists are positioned for printing.

Abstract: A print processing method used in a photographic printer which can print images on a negative film which have different aspect ratios. The print processing method includes the steps of judging the aspect ratio of each of the images printed on photographic paper, and printing cumulative numbers of prints of each aspect ratio onto the photographic paper of a final printing. The number of prints per aspect ratio can be easily known, and the cost of the prints can be calculated more efficiently.

Abstract: A print processing method used in a photographic printer which can print images on a negative film which have different aspect ratios. The print processing method comprises the steps of judging the aspect ratio of each of the images printed on photographic paper, and printing cumulative numbers of prints of each aspect ratio onto the photographic paper of a final printing. The number of prints per aspect ratio can be easily known, and the cost of the prints can be calculated more efficiently.

Abstract: A photographic film curling correcting method and apparatus for correcting curling of a photographic film generated when the photographic film is stored for a long time in a cartridge in a state in which the photographic film is taken up around a spool shaft in a form of a roll, comprising the steps of: curvilinearly conveying the photographic film, which is withdrawn from the cartridge, so that the curling of the photographic film generated by taking up of the photographic film around the shaft becomes an opposite direction; and relaxing the curling by heating the photographic film while the photographic film is being curvilinearly conveyed, and taking up the photographic film, whose curling has been relaxed, into the cartridge again while cooling the photographic film. The curling of the photographic film can be corrected before developing processing when the photographic film is initially printed and before printing processing when the photographic film is printed a second time or times thereafter.

Abstract: A print processing method used in a photographic printer which can print images on a negative film which have different aspect ratios. The print processing method comprises the steps of judging the aspect ratio of each of the images printed on photographic paper, and printing cumulative numbers of prints of each aspect ratio onto the photographic paper of a final printing. The number of prints per aspect ratio can be easily known, and the cost of the prints can be calculated more efficiently.

Abstract: A print processing method used in a photographic printer which can print images on a negative film which have different aspect ratios. The print processing method comprises the steps of judging the aspect ratio of each of the images printed on photographic paper, and printing cumulative numbers of prints of each aspect ratio onto the photographic paper of a final printing. The number of prints per aspect ratio can be easily known, and the cost of the prints can be calculated more efficiently.

Abstract: A process for collating photographic film with prints made therefrom. During a reception process of a photofinishing order, data indicative of a customer's ID number recorded on an envelope is recorded in a magnetic recording layer of a photographic film. During a printing process, the customer's ID number is read out from the magnetic recording layer, and is recorded on the rear of a corresponding photographic print. The customer's ID number on the photographic film read out from the magnetic recording layer is displayed on a display device, or is recorded in the form of manually readable symbols onto the photographic film or a cassette. In collating, the three customer's ID numbers are compared with one another, so as to judge the correspondence between the envelope and the photographic film and a set of photographic prints. If they correctly correspond to one another, the photographic film and the photographic print set are packed in the envelope.

Abstract: Data relating to a customer's order for photofinishing are written on a mark sheet. The mark sheet is optically read in a photo-lab, thereby to record the customer's order data in a transparent magnetic recording layer of the photographic film to be processed. The photographic film is sorted with reference to the data read from the mark sheet and, thereafter, is processed according to the customer's order based on the data read therefrom by an appropriate processing apparatus.

Abstract: A copying machine for forming images using either ordinary color photosensitive materials or thermodeveloping photosensitive materials. The copying machine reproduces color images of high quality using a simple and small-scale device without the need for several exposure stages or complicated development processing. The copying machine comprises an image reading device which obtains a trichromatic separated signal by reading an original by photoelectric scanning, an image processing device which effects the desired image processing on the trichromatic separated signal which has been read, an exposure device which trichromatically exposes thermodevelopment and color-sensitive materials by means of the output signal from the image processing device, and a thermodevelopment and transfer device which thermally develops the exposed color-sensitive material and thermally transfers an image to image-receiving materials.

Abstract: Copying apparatus includes an image reading device which scans the original document photoelectrically and provides read-out tri-color separation signals, an image processing device in which the aforementioned read-out tri-color separation signals are subjected to a prescribed image processing, an exposing device which subjects a thermally developable color photosensitive material to a tri-color exposure in accordance with the output signals from the image treatment device, and a thermal development and transfer device in which the exposed color photosensitive material is thermally developed and transferred onto image receiving material layer.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus of the type in which a latent image formed on a heat-developable photosensitive material through exposure is developed and the developed image is then transferred to an image-receiving material so as to be recorded on said image-receiving material. The exposure is effected on the heat-developable photosensitive material wound on the outer peripheral surface of an exposure drum, and the development and the transfer of the image are conducted with the image-receiving material wound around the heat-developable photosensitive material on the exposure drum, whereby the size of the apparatus as a whole is remarkably reduced.

Abstract: A heat developing and transferring apparatus for conducting a heat development of a latent image formed on an exposed heat-developable photosensitive material and for conducting transfer of the developed image from said heat-developable photosensitive material to an image receiving material in the presence of an image forming solvent. The image receiving material and the heat-developable photosensitive material are superposed on a rotary drum in the mentioned order. An image formed on the heat-developable photosensitive material is transferred to the image receiving material by the heat generated by a heater. Then, the heat-developable photosensitive material is separated from the rotary drum and the image receiving material remaining on the rotary drum is dried before it is separated.

Abstract: An image recording method wherein an image recorded on a thermal developing photosensitive material is transferred to an image-receiving material in the presence of an image forming solvent so as to be formed on the image-receiving material. A water absorbent applicator member which retains the image forming solvent is allowed to come in and out of contact with the surface of either the thermal developing photosensitive material or the image-receiving material, which are moving. Also disclosed is an apparatus suitably employed to carry out the above-described image recording method. The apparatus has driving means for activating the water absorbent applicator member retaining the image forming solvent to move between an application position at which the applicator member applies the image forming solvent to the surface of either the thermal developing photosensitive material or the image-receiving material, which are moving, and a retraction position which is spaced apart from the application position.

Abstract: In a photographic apparatus for printing an original image on a photosensitive material, focusing is conducted at two different points, and the positions of an easel and a lens at the time of the second focusing are calculated according to the lens formula from the travel amounts of the easel and lens between the first and second focusing positions as well as the focal length of the lens. When the focal length of the lens is unknown, focusing is performed at three points, and the positions of the easel and lens at the time of the third focusing are determined with the lens formula. Pulse motors used to move the easel and lens are controlled by a microcomputer, which adds the number of pulses for forward rotation of the pulse motor and subtracts that for backward rotation. The microcomputer counts and stores the number of pulses indicative of the present positions of the easel and lens.