Abstract: For the colour measurement of samples printed on a substrate including a brightener, a raw spectral reflection factor of the sample is measured in a first measurement by illumination of the sample with light without UV portion. In a second measurement, a fluorescence spectrum of the sample is measured by illumination of the sample with only UV light. The measured fluorescence spectrum is recalculated as a corrected fluorescence spectrum by weighting with spectrally dependent correction factors and, finally, the measured raw spectral reflection factor and the corrected fluorescence spectrum are added to form a corrected spectral reflection factor from which the values characterizing the colour of the sample are then calculated. The spectral correction factors are determined during the device manufacture for a certain set of light types and stored in the device.

Abstract: An electronic projector (beamer) is equipped with a profiling device (100) internally or externally connected thereto through standard interfaces. The profiling device includes all functionalities required for the color management (color measurement, calibration, profile generation, etc.) and corresponds with the projector (200) by way of a simple text based protocol. The latter can be implemented relatively easily by way of software in the projector, so that no changes to the fundamental concept of the projector are required. The profiling device can therefore on the one hand be easily integrated at the factory into existing projectors and on the other hand used as external complement to available projectors. The profiling device can however also be an independent device for the profiling of other electronic display devices (for example monitors) as well as for other, for example metrological tasks.

Abstract: A spectrophotometer for integration purposes includes a measurement head with an illumination arrangement (10) including at least one light source (11) for the illumination of a measurement object located in a measurement plane (M) under an angle of incidence of at least 45°, with a pick-up arrangement for capturing the measurement light remitted by the measurement object under an angle of reflection of the essentially 0° relative to the perpendicular of the measurement plane, a spectrometer arrangement (30) with an entry slot (31) for the spectral splitting of the measurement light received through the entry slot and captured and with a photoelectric receiver arrangement (32) exposed to the spectrally split measurement light for conversion of the individual spectral portions of the measurement light into corresponding electrical signals.

Abstract: An illumination arrangement intended for use in a spectrophotometer is constructed as a linear array of light emitting diodes (11), whereby many individual light emitting diode chips are tightly packed along a small, narrowly defined straight or circular line and at least partially cast into a resin, in which at least regionally a converter material is included for the conversion of the light emitted by the light emitting diodes into other wavelength ranges. The light emitting diodes (11) have different spectral characteristics. UV light emitting regions and non-UV light emitting regions as well as regions covered with colour filters and/or polarization filters are provided. The illumination arrangement can include white emitting regions and narrow band emitting regions constructed especially for colour density measurement, whereby the narrow band regions can also be realized as narrow band converters. Ortho-silicate illuminants (BOSE) are preferably used as converter materials.

Abstract: A colour measurement device includes a colour measurement channel (20,30) and a control (C), which forms colour measurement values from the measurement signals of the colour measurement channel and from stored white calibration data. It further includes correction means in order to calculate or correct the colour measurement values depending on different distances (a) and/or angles (?) to the measurement object. Because of the special measurement value correction, the colour measurement device is especially suited for contactless measurement applications with variable distances and angle orientations relative to the measurement object.

Abstract: A spectral photometer intended for integration purposes includes a measurement head equipped with illumination arrangement (10) including at least one light source (11) for the illumination at an angle of incidence of 45° of a measured object and located in a measurement plane (M), a pickup arrangement (20) for capturing the measurement light remitted by the measured object at an angle of reflection of essentially 0° relative to the perpendicular to the measurement plane, a spectrometer arrangement (30) including an entry aperture (31) for the spectral splitting of the measurement light captured and fed through the entry aperture, and a photoelectric receiver arrangement (32) exposed to the split measurement light for conversion of the individual spectral components of the measurement light into corresponding electrical signals.

Abstract: An electronic projector (beamer) is equipped with a profiling device (100) internally or externally connected thereto through standard interfaces. The profiling device includes all functionalities required for the color management (color measurement, calibration, profile generation, etc.) and corresponds with the projector (200) by way of a simple text based protocol. The latter can be implemented relatively easily by way of software in the projector, so that no changes to the fundamental concept of the projector are required. The profiling device can therefore on the one hand be easily integrated at the factory into existing projectors and on the other hand used as external complement to available projectors. The profiling device can however also be an independent device for the profiling of other electronic display devices (for example monitors) as well as for other, for example metrological tasks.

Abstract: The invention relates to apparatus for the manufacture of a photographic print on a copier material, whereby an exposure arrangement is provided with a projection optic for the manufacture of the photographic print, which includes a mirror matrix with individually movable mirrors, whereby the exposure arrangement includes a broadband light source, for example a halogen light source, whereby a filter arrangement for filtering or letting pass certain spectral portions or certain amounts of light is positioned in the light path between the light source and the mirror matrix.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for producing a photographic picture on a copy material, whereby an exposure arrangement with a projection optics is provided for the production of the photographic picture which includes a mirror matrix with individually movable mirrors, whereby the exposure arrangement includes a wide-band light source, for example a halogen light source, whereby a filter arrangement is positioned in the light beam between the light source and the mirror matrix in order to filter out or let pass specific spectral regions or specific amounts of light.

Abstract: A digital photograph printer comprising a transport mechanism, a modulated light source (1206), and an exposure controller (1302). The transport mechanism for advancing a photosensitive medium (1202) through an exposure region (1200) such that said photosensitive medium advances one row of pixel locations each row period. The modulated light source (1206) is operable to selectively provide a beam of light to an array of individually modulated regions (1300, 1306, 1310) in an exposure region (1200). As the photosensitive medium (1202) moves through the exposure region (1200) the individually modulated regions in the exposure region (1200) have the opportunity to expose each pixel locations in the exposure region (1200) once each row period. The exposure controller (1302) operable to control the modulated light source (1206) based on image data provided to modulated light source.

Abstract: For the production of a photographic print of an original present in electronic format, optical representations (D) are produced from sequentially changing strip-shaped portions of the original by way of an electro optical, pixel wise operating converter device (3) and these optical representations (D) are projected onto a strip-shaped exposure region (E) on the copy material (P), whereby the strip-shaped exposure region (E) and the copy material (P) are moved relative to one another and at an essentially constant speed in a direction transverse to the longitudinal extent of the strip-shaped exposure regions (E), so that successively the image information of the whole original is exposed onto the total available surface of the copy material (P).

Abstract: A printing apparatus is disclosed which includes an original positioning device (3) for transporting an original (F) to and positioning it in a printing position, a printing material positioning device (2a) for transporting the photographic printing material (P) to and positioning it in an exposure position, a lighting device (4) for exposing the original, located in the printing position, to print light, an adjustable lens (5) for projecting the original, located in the printing position, onto the printing material located in the exposure position with an variable enlargement, a lens focusing device (6) for varying the enlargement of the lens (5), and a control device (10) for the original positioning device (3), the printing material positioning device (2a) and the lens focusing device (6).

Abstract: A device for point-form photoelectric scanning of a transparent object to be measured is disclosed and is provided with a transport arrangement for transporting an object to be measured. An illuminating arrangement exposes the object to measuring light in a line-shaped measuring line extending across the object transverse to the transport direction. A collector arrangement collects measuring light passed through the object in the area of the measuring line. A photoelectric converter arrangement, optically connected with the collector arrangement, converts measuring light passed through the object into corresponding electrical signals. The collector arrangement includes a multiplicity of light conductors, an optical multiplexer with multiple inputs corresponding in number to the multiplicity of the light conductors, and an output.

Abstract: An improved method and apparatus to record picture information on recording material in the form of single sheets. The picture information to be recorded for each sheet is present in electronically stored pixel form and is recorded pixel by pixel onto the recording material. The sheets of the recording material are transported through a paper stage of a printer in at least two adjacent tracks, and the stored picture information belonging to the respective sheets located in the recording station is recorded onto the sheets located in the adjacent tracks. Because the sheets are transported in a plurality of tracks through the recording station, a higher throughput can be attained even if smaller sheet sizes are being processed.

Abstract: During the processing of an order in a photographic printer, a developed copy film strip can be scanned negative by negative and point-by-point in a scanning station of the printer. From the scan signals, density values for exposure time determination in three partial colors and details on the image field number of the scanned negative can be obtained, and these data are stored in a memory, coordinating the determined three partial exposure times with the corresponding image number. All negatives of the copy film strip are exposed successively on photographic paper on an enlarged scale, using the determined exposure times. In a further step, a number of successive negatives of the film strip are exposed on full-scale or reduced scale in matrix form onto a single sheet of said photographic paper.

Abstract: The photographic copying apparatus comprises a first exposure arrangement for exposure of photographic negative and positive copy masters and a second exposure arrangement for exposure of screen copy masters onto photographic copy material. The second exposure arrangement includes a cathode ray tube with control system. The cathode ray tube is arranged at approximately a right angle with respect to the exposure light path of the first exposure arrangement. The second exposure arrangement further comprises a color filter assembly, an objective and a mirror for directing the screen copy master emitted by the cathode ray tube to the photographic copy material. The color filter assembly, the objective and the mirror are combined as a structural unit to constitute an imaging optical system, which can be positioned into the exposure light path instead of an reproduction objective of the first exposure arrangement.

Abstract: An exposure station for a photocopier includes an illumination device positioned above a transport plane for a copy original, with a lamp as the source of the copy light, and a focusing hood positioned in the light path of the lamp between the lamp and the copy original. A projection lens system is positioned between the transport plane of the copy original and a transport plane for the copy material for reproducing the copy original on the copy material. By adjusting the projection lens system, for example, by selecting different lenses, it is possible to set different enlargement sizes. The luminance conditions of the copy light falling on the copy original can be adjusted to the enlargement size that has been set.

Abstract: In a guide apparatus for a copy master, guide elements are provided which define a transport plane of the copy master and which comprise lateral walls located essentially perpendicular to the plane of transport of the master and approximately parallel to the direction of copy master transport. The lateral walls guide the lateral edges of the copy master. A detector is further provided to detect the information applied near lateral edges of the copy master. The lateral walls of the guide apparatus are laterally adjustable in case of variations of the width of the copy master in the plane of transport.

Abstract: Process for the production of photographic copies from photographic copy masters in a photographic copy apparatus, wherein initially in a measuring station of the photographic copy master an exposed photographic master material, on which photographic copy masters are exposed, is analyzed master by master. In the process, the measuring data necessary for the exposure of each master is determined, together with the size and the position of the center of each copy master on the film. A number is assigned unambiguously to each master, the number being determined by scanning an expanded DX code provided in periodic intervals in a border area of the master material by a single bar code detector used in the measuring station to read the expanded DX code. The number is determined by reading the expanded DX code. The numbers assigned to the copy masters, together with the associated measured data, are passed on to a computer and control unit.

Abstract: A light receiver converts light to be measured into an electrical signal, which during a measuring interval is integrated into a measuring signal. In a first time segment a first mean value signal is formed, corresponding to the mean value of the measuring signal over the first time segment. In a second time segment of equal duration, a second mean value signal is formed within the same measuring interval, corresponding to the mean value of the measuring signal over the second time segment. Finally a difference signal is formed corresponding to the difference of the two mean value signals and constituting a measure of the light received. The difference signal is passed on for further signal processing.