Abstract: Display devices and methods for operating a display device are provided. A display device has a source of an original image and a display. A user input system is adapted to generate a non-directional signal in response to a user input action. A controller is provided and is adapted to detect the non-directional signal and to successively designate a different one of a set of portions of the original image in response to each non-directional signal. The controller is further adapted to cause the display to present a portion evaluation image showing the currently designated portion of the original image and to determine and area of importance in the original image based upon the currently designated portion. At least one of the portions of the set of portions of the original image is non-central with respect to the original image.

Abstract: In a method and camera, a scene is captured as an original electronic image. The original electronic image is stored as an archival image in memory in the camera. A plurality of parameters of the scene are evaluated. The parameters are matched to one or more of a plurality of editorial suggestions to define a suggestion set. One or more editorial suggestion images are generated. Each editorial suggestion image is a copy of the original electronic image modified in accordance with a respective editorial suggestion. The editorial suggestion images are displayed. User input is accepted designating one depictions as a user selection. The user input is recorded for later use in preparation of a final image or the stored archival image is edited in accordance with the selected suggestion.

Abstract: A method is provided for recording metadata elements using a predetermined portion of a photographic filmstrip. The method comprising the steps of recording a primary data field including the entire set of data elements using a first share of the predetermined portion; and recording at least two secondary data fields on a second share of the predetermined portion; wherein at least one of the secondary data fields contains less than all of the metadata elements associated with an image.

Abstract: A magnetic head suspension apparatus for reading and/or recording information during photofinishing of photographic filmstrips comprises an elongated pivotally mounted follower bar having a pair of magnetic heads attached thereto in a predetermined orientation with the information tracks on the filmstrip. A pair of film edge followers are pivotally attached to the ends of the bar respectively. A spring is connected between the bar and a fixed support to bias the bar to urge the edge followers into engagement with the film edges of the filmstrip.

Abstract: Apparatus in a simple low cost camera for encoding the existence of pseudo format image exposures on film having a magnetic layer thereon with prerecorded data in one or more parallel tracks on the film. A user operable means on the camera establishes the existence of a pseudo tele or pseudo pan image frame and actuates one or more permanent magnets into contact with one or more prerecorded data tracks on the magnetic recording layer to cause selective erasure of track segments on the film associated with the pseudo format film image frame as the film is advance to the next frame position. The absence of data in the track segments provides an indication on the film of a desired pseudo format which can be detected by the printer during the photofinishing process to reproduce the appropriate pseudo format print.

Abstract: In a photographic camera, a motorized film transport is operated in a prewind mode to continuously advance successive unexposed frames of a filmstrip from a light-tight cassette to a film take-up, without exposing any of the film frames at the focal plane of an objective lens, and is operated in a rewind mode to position respective unexposed frames for exposure at the focal plane and to return them individually to the cassette following each exposure. Before an exposed frame is returned to the cassette, a double exposure prevention (DEP) encodement is applied to the filmstrip at a predetermined location proximate the exposed frame. If the filmstrip is rewound into the cassette prematurely, i.e. without it being completely exposed, and at a later time the cassette is re-loaded into the camera, the film transport will be operated in the pre-wind mode only until a DEP encodement is sensed.