Abstract: There is disclosed a method of making autostereographic images of an object, comprising the steps of inputting to a computer a predetermined number of planar images of the object, each of the planar images being a view of the object, from one of the predetermined number of different viewpoints; interleaving the predetermined number of planar images in the computer; and printing the interleaved images with a high-resolution output imaging device on a spacer, a selected edge of each interleaved image being aligned with a predetermined direction on the spacer.

Abstract: A postage meter having a plurality of value wheels extending through a window in a housing, and die protector bars between the value wheels, the die protector bars having a first position at which they extend a further distance from the housing than the value wheels, and a second, retracted, position. The die protector bars extend in the housing between a pivot block and a cam block. A die shield is slidably movable between a first position aligned with the window, and a second, retracted, position. The cam block and dead bolt are positively moved in common via cam surfaces, by a rotatable yoke. A latch lever may engage the dead bolt to latch the postage meter to a mailing machine.

Abstract: The invention relates to reed Melodeons and the improvement thereof by having a multiply pitch option which can be selectively chosen for play with the more modern day music.

Abstract: An electrical drive motor system for a camera having a read head for reading magnetically encoded data from a filmstrip during a reel-to-reel transport of the film, includes a mechanism for storing energy in a mechanical motor spring. The energy stored in the spring is used to temporarily continue or complete the advance of the film with the electric motor shut off, to allow the read head to operate without electromagnetic interference from the electric motor.

Abstract: A method of printing a translucent coating onto the film backing portion of front or rear projection screens to provide an economical and efficient process of obtaining sharper definition and maximized gain, both of which can be varied in form and substitutent content depending on the amount of ambient light present in the environment in which these screens will be used. Additionally, front and rear projection screens are disclosed which have enhanced optical contrast provided by unique patterns printed onto a film backing.

Abstract: In construction of a tremolo unit for an electric guitar, a bridge is coupled to a swingable bridge base in an arrangement movable in the string direction and provided with a string hole formed there through, a presser piece is received in the string hole for movement in the string direction, and a lock bolt screwed into the bridge forces the presser piece to press a string to the wall of the string hole with a string bead being locked against the lower end of the string hole. A dual fixing mechanism based on string pressing and bead locking well alleviates damage on the string construction caused by pressure application. The bridge and the presser piece are both made of iron-type metal for improvement in tone color of musical tones generated by the electric guitar.

Abstract: A camera for producing a picture in which an individual whose picture is taken is seen jointly with a figurative character in such a way as to establish an apparent relationship therebetween. The camera is loaded with a dual track film having a picture track and a parallel guide track. The picture track is formed by a series of light-sensitive picture frames each being partially pre-exposed to create a latent image thereon of a character at a predetermined position within the frame. The guide track has a series of transparency viewfinder frames each having a printed image thereon corresponding to the latent image on the adjacent picture frame. The camera includes an exposure section provided with a lens and a shutter, the picture track being advanceable through this section. And it also includes a viewfinder section through which is advanceable the guide track.

Abstract: A camera includes a measuring circuit for outputting data about an object to be photographed. A fuzzy computer receives an output from the measuring circuit as an input value, obtains a fitting degree of the input value with respect to a then-part membership function from an if-part membership function and the then-part membership function, both of which correspond to a plurality of rules representing a degree of influence of the input value on an optimal exposure value, obtains a center of gravity value from a plurality of fitting degrees corresponding to the rules, and obtains a determination value as an inference result. A photographic condition is determined by both the determination value from the fuzzy computer and an output from the measuring circuit.

Abstract: A viewfinder in a camera includes visual composition means manually operable to change from a horizontal frame view of a subject to be photographed to a vertical frame view of the subject without having to change the horizontal orientation of the camera to a vertical one. If a vertical format of the subject is selected for picture-taking, the camera is changed to a vertical orientation and the visual composition means is manually released to return automatically to the horizontal frame view of the subject. Since the camera has been changed to a vertical orientation, the horizontal frame view will appear as a vertical one.

Abstract: A method in which pattern elements with predetermined wall profiles and/or lateral shapes, differing from the shapes of the respective pattern elements in an irradiation mask which is used, are formed in a photoresist layer. The method comprises a modification of a conventional photolithographic process, where a substrate supporting the photoresist layer is shifted laterally relative to the mask or the mask image in a continuous mode or in steps during exposure. Also disclosed is an apparatus which shifts a substrate relative to a mask in the x- and/or the y-direction or shifts the path of the beam relative to the substrate, controlling the shifting in a predetermined manner. The method--especially in connection with the apparatus--allows formation of reproducible photoresist patterns with a great variety of differently formed wall profiles and/or lateral shapes. Using the method, photoresist patterns can be flexibly adapted to many applications.

Abstract: In a flute mouthpiece the core has an upper section which points towards the interior of the mouthpiece, which is pivotably journalled and which can be adjusted in the vertical direction by an adjustment bar which is led out of the flute mouthpiece. In this flute mouthpiece the size of the core gap can be varied by the adjustable section so that a fine adjustment of the tone of the flute can be effected.

Abstract: The copy master is illuminated in scanning sections located along scanning lines and measuring light coming from the scanning sections of a scanning line is spectrally decomposed and subsequently passed onto a photoreceiver line coordinated with the scanning line involved. Along this photoreceiver line photoreceiver groups sequentially follow each other, each group being assigned to the spectrum of a scanning section of the scanning line involved.

Abstract: An apparatus for processing a light-sensitive material that has a roller that is partly submerged in a processing solution and that picks up said processing solution to supply said processing solution onto the light-sensitive material being transported above said processing solution. The roller is rotated at a peripheral speed at least 1.5 times the absolute value of the transport speed of said light-sensitive material.

Abstract: An automatic film changing system for a camera-back which uses a film cassette, including a film magazine for storing a plurality of new cassettes of fresh film and presenting a fresh film cassette to replace a spent film cassette in the camera-back; a detector for detecting when the film cassette in the camera-back is spent; an accessing device, responsive to the detector, for enabling access to the film cassette in the camera-back when the cassette is spent; a cassette reloader, responsive to the detector, for ejecting a spent cassette from the camera-back and for loading a fresh cassette in the camera back from the film magazine; and a bifurcated dispensing path for normally directing finished photographs in one direction and periodically, selectively directing a spent cassette ejected from the camera-back in a second direction.

Abstract: A key actuating device of an automatic playing keyboard instrument has a plurality of key actuator units each of which is provided for each of keys arranged above a key bed of a keyboard instrument, preferably between a balance rail and a front rail, and includes a coil or coils provided above the upper surface of the key bed for producing a magnetic field corresponding to a current supplied from outside and passing therethrough in a direction substantially normal to a rocking direction of the key, a plunger fixedly provided on the lower surface of the key, and a yoke or yokes provided fixedly on the coil or coils and opposing the plunger. A relative area of portions of the yoke and the plunger opposing each other or an interval between these portions is variable in the rocking direction of the key and the plunger is not in contact with the coil or or the yoke at any position of the plunger in the rocking movement of the key.

Abstract: In an electronic flash unit, a voltage applying device is provided to apply a predetermined voltage to the gate of an insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT), connected in series with a flash tube, for controlling the light-emission operation of the flash tube. The voltage applying device produces the predetermined voltage in response to the start of the operation of a DC high voltage power source. Thus, the voltage applying device applies a driving voltage to the gate of the IGBT without responding to a light-emission command signal. The IGBT enters a conduction standby state in response to the start of the operation of the DC high voltage power source, and is placed in a fully `on` state when a trigger circuit is operated by the light-emission command signal. The driving voltage can be applied to the gate in a very simple arrangement which does not require to respond to the trigger signal.

Abstract: A foldable camera having a reflex mirror for redirecting image bearing light rays from the camera's lens to a film unit located in a cassette. An upper and lower housing interconnected by a flexible bellows are pivotally connected to one another for movement between a folded inoperative position and an erected operable position. When the upper housing is erected, the reflex mirror is simultaneously pivoted about an axis which is neither perpendicular to or parallel with the optical axis of the lens so as to dispose the mirror in an erected position permitting the camera to assume a low profile in the fully erected operable position.

Abstract: A photographic camera includes a camera body and a cover/handle coupled together for limited sliding movement of the cover/handle along the camera body to project increasingly from one end of the camera body to uncover the camera body and, when projected from the one end the extent it can be projected, for limited pivotal movement of the cover/handle about the one end to permit the cover/handle to be manually grasped erect to hold the camera body steady in a horizontal orientation for picture-taking. According to the invention, the cover/handle is fixed releasably to the camera body when the cover/handle is slid to project from the one end of the camera body only a portion of the extent it can be projected. This permits the cover/handle to be manually grasped erect to hold the camera body steady in a vertical orientation for picture-taking.

Abstract: An image transferring method for transferring a developer agent layer having a visible image from a developing medium comprising a substrate and the developer agent layer on the substrate to a heat sealing sheet comprising a sheet substrate and a thermoplastic resin layer on the sheet substrate, is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of superposing the developing medium over the heat sealing sheet while the developer agent layer is contacted with the thermoplastic resin layer, supplying the superposed developing medium and the heat sealing sheet with heat and pressure to attach the developer agent layer to the heat sealing sheet through the thermoplastic resin layer, and exfoliating the substrate from the developing medium attached to the heat sealing sheet while fixing the sheet substrate of the heat sealing sheet to a flat or curved surface.

Abstract: An automatic image stabilization device which is arranged to detect image movement information from a sensed image signal produced from an image sensor and to reduce the image movement comprises a movement detecting circuit which obtains movement vector information for each of a plurality of parts of an image plane, and a weight setting circuit arranged to attach weight to each movement vector information and to vary the weighting degree according to photographing conditions. A camera using this device is arranged to correct the shaking of the camera on the basis of the result of a computing operation performed on a camera shake detected from the signal produced from the image sensor together with a camera shake physically detected by means of an accelerometer.