Abstract: A simplified television remote control device with limited control features for on/off, channel selection, and volume. Volume and channel control are provided as relatively large luminescent knobs which can be turned clockwise or counterclockwise. The housing is tapered so that its pointing direction can be determined by feel. The device self-learns the limited control features from an old remote control device for the television by placing the old device nose-to-nose with the simplified device and pressing a specific sequence of controls on the old device. A photo diode senses the infrared command signals from the old device and associates those commands with the control features of the simplified device.

Abstract: This device for automatically pasting sheets of paper or cardboard having a low substance including a storage spool for a backing covered in a film of transfer adhesive, a motor means intended to ensure unwinding of the backing from storage spool and transport of the backing towards a pasting area, an adhesive applicator roll which can move between two positions, an operational position in which the adhesive applicator roll comes into contact with a pressure roll and between which the sheet to be pasted can move and a non-operational position in which the adhesive applicator roll is no longer in contact with the pressure roll or the sheet of paper or cardboard.

Abstract: A device for producing a bound album having individual leaves including a unit for folding the leaves in order to configure them to a desired format, a unit for scoring the leaves so as to facilitate folding them and keeping the leaves in their folded form, a pasting unit designed to paste at least some of the leaves two by two after folding, and a delivery board for receiving the scored leaves and for compiling the leaves in order to produce an album, the delivery board being capable of translational movement parallel to a direction in which the leaves are transported inside the device and between several positions in synchronism with operation of the folding unit.

Abstract: A method for visually restoring a digital image that is displayed on a transparent LCD screen includes associating an array of microlenses with the LCD screen at the input face thereof, upstream from a black mask. Each of cells of the LCD is associated with a microlens of the array. A telecentric projection lens increases the sharpness and uniformity of the image during the visual restoration thereof. The angle of divergence of an incident beam of exposure or illuminating light is verified. The LCD screen or each pixel of the image displayed on the LCD screen is laterally offset at least once on the projection surface by means of a body. One or several exposures are taken of each of said offset projections.

Abstract: A method of detecting defects, such as stains, scratches and dust, on a film in order, for example, to correct said defects while the film is being digitized, comprises advancing the film through an optical assembly comprising: on one side of the film, at least two sources of light having different wavelengths which illuminate the film in a narrow area thereof, and, on the other side of said film, a lens which projects the two images of the area illuminated by the beams from the two sources onto two linear photosensitive elements which are adapted, respectively, to the wavelengths of the two sources. Moreover, said method includes comparing the digital data delivered by the two detection elements, the result of said comparison being used to perform the aforementioned detection and correction.

Abstract: A lamp type device associated with a reflector illuminates a receiving surface of a light guide/former. An emitting surface of the light guide/former arranged proximate to a film, has substantially the dimensions of the film zone to be illuminated. The light guide/former is a single-piece part comprising two opposite planar surfaces, whereon one is receiving and the other emitting. The invention is useful for a device providing an intense and homogeneous light beam for film scanning analysis.

Abstract: A method of accelerating the speed of scanning an image that does not occupy an entire CCD strip of cells comprises: centering the image on the strip such that the non-used area of said strip is distributed on either side of the effective area, reducing, e.g., by masking, the light intensity in the non-used areas of the strip, such that, with each cycle, the charge stored by the storage capacitors is less than half of the available capacity; and, with each cycle, reading a number of cells that is equal to that of the sum of the cells in the effective area and those from one of the two lateral areas. The method is suitable for use in scanning film images that can take various formats.

Abstract: A device for guiding a film in an apparatus comprises guiding and driving means engaged on the two lateral edges of the film. The guiding and driving means is further designed to force the film to follow a curved trajectory in the imaging zone of the apparatus. The means guiding and driving the film include two coaxial rollers whereon the film is urged to span through its two edges, and two parallel driving belts urged respectively to be supported on said edges on the side opposite the rollers, along an arc with predetermined sustaining angle. The invention is useful for guiding film in an optoelectronic apparatus such as a scanning analysis device.

Abstract: A device for winding and/or unwinding a film at a constant speed includes a reel comprising two coaxial annular support areas, having the same diameter, which are separated by a concavity and which are spaced out from one another by a distance that is slightly smaller than the width of the film. The two support areas pivot freely. Guide means guide the film laterally in order to wind the film on the reel such that the lateral edges thereof rest on the two support areas of the reel respectively. Two parallel drive belts are supported respectively on said edges, along the length of an arc of circle with a predetermined angle at the center. The invention applied to a film in an optoelectronic apparatus, such as a scanning and analysis device.

Abstract: A method for visually restoring a digital image that is displayed on a transparent LCD screen includes associating an array of microlenses with the LCD screen at the input face thereof, upstream from a black mask. Each of cells of the LCD is associated with a microlens of the array. A telecentric projection lens increases the sharpness and uniformity of the image during the visual restoration thereof. The angle of divergence of an incident beam of exposure or illuminating light is verified. The LCD screen or each pixel of the image displayed on the LCD screen is laterally offset at least once on the projection surface by means of a body. One or several exposures are taken of each of said offset projections.

Abstract: An automatic self-service installation for printing photographs stored in digital form includes a digital medium reader for reading and retrieving digital data from stored image(s) which a user wishes to restore on a paper print. A central processing unit manages the installation and permits interaction with a user. An interacting device, actuatable by the user allows user selection of image(s) within the digital medium for printing, and production of the image(s) on paper medium. An exposure system for the selected image(s) is associated with a facility for storing and moving a photosensitive paper. A chemical treatment unit includes developing baths and a facility for automatic transfer of developed photosensitive paper into the baths. The installation also includes a facility for drying paper print(s) obtained after printing and a receptacle for storing and permitting removal of the produced print(s).

Abstract: An automatic self-service installation for printing photographs stored in digital form includes a digital medium reader for reading and retrieving digital data from stored image(s) which a user wishes to restore on a paper print. A central processing unit manages the installation and permits interaction with a user. An interacting device, actuatable by the user allows user selection of image(s) within the digital medium for printing, and production of the image(s) on paper medium. An exposure system for the selected image(s) is associated with a facility for storing and moving a photosensitive paper. A chemical treatment unit includes developing baths and a facility for automatic transfer of developed photosensitive paper into the baths. The installation also includes a facility for drying paper print(s) obtained after printing and a receptacle for storing and permitting removal of the produced print(s).

Abstract: A photo installation having an acquisition element intended to receive the optical image of a subject desired to be photographed. The acquisition element is connected to a central processing unit for storing the optical information thus received. The installation is provided with a screen connected to the acquisition element that allows simultaneous viewing by the subject of the image received by the acquisition element. A printing device is provided to take a photograph or a sequence of photographs upon command of the subject. A half-silvered mirror is mounted on the optical axis of the acquisition element and directed along the bisector of the angle defined by the respective optical axes of the acquisition element and the screen so as to generate a virtual image of the screen on the optical path of the acquisition element.

Abstract: An automatic installation for the composition and continuous printing of small texts, including a console having a screen and a control keyboard, and a microcomputer for processing instructions transmitted by the keyboard and for transmitting them partly to the screen and partly to a printer for printing the text composed onto a medium. The microcomputer additionally manages the whole of the installation and the interaction between the latter and the user. The printer is a printer of the graphics type. The composition proper of the text to be printed is managed by a program adapted to this end and loaded into the memory of the microcomputer. The whole of the text to be printed is previously composed by the user with the aid of a program stored in the microcomputer before being printed.

Abstract: A device for extracting film from a cartridge having a gripper composed of two interacting elements and imparted with translational movement in the plane of the film cartridge. The two interacting elements of the gripper include a first stationary elements consisting of a disk section and a second rotating element capable of being imparted with rotational movement. The second rotating element also consists of a disk section of complementary shape to the first element. A cradle is provided to receive and hold the film cartridge in a stationary position. A mandrel positioned in one end of the cradle is provided to rotate the film spindle contained in the cartridge so that the end of the negative film can be grasped by the gripper and extracted from the cartridge.

Abstract: A lifting device for lifting and releasing a compact disk. The lifting device including a pair of fins extended by a plunger and retracted by an O-ring contacting the fins at their outer edge.

Abstract: A device for separating a beam of white light (14,56 ) into a plurality of elementary beams of particular color, integrated in a chromatic analyzer for the printing of color photographs, comprisingan optical sensor (15-17)a plurality of photosensitive sensors (24-26), each sensor making it possible:to collect the light (28,30,31) reflected by an optical system (21-23),then to convert the light signal so received into an electrical signal,and finally to amplify it (35-37);a unit (38,39) for processing the amplified electrical signals,wherein the optical system consists of a plurality of dichroic filters (21-23) of complementary color which are parallel and which are inclined relative to the optical axis (B) of the emerging beam (18), each filter making it possible to reflect the quantity of light corresponding to the color of this filter and to transmit the light in the other colors.The invention is used on installations for the printing of photographic proofs.