Abstract: The invention relates to a method for printing image material (2), which lies on top of a sheet carrier (1), in an inkjet printer. The inkjet printer comprises an inkjet print head (6), which only partially covers the image material (2). The image material (2) is printed during a temporally successive relative movement, occurring in the x and y directions, between the inkjet print head (6) and the sheet carrier (1).

Abstract: An apparatus for optically projecting pixel-based image information onto a light-sensitive material has an image-generating device, an optical projection device, and a device for laterally offsetting the projected image of the image-generating device to produce a plurality of mutually offset partial images in the image plane. The offsetting device has two optical elements arranged in sequence in the light path of the projection. The projected partial images are offset relative to each other by tilting one or both of the optical elements.

Abstract: A device for borderless printing on imaging material by means of an ink jet printer has a support surface against which the imaging material lies while printing ink is applied to it during the printing process. The support surface has cutouts and is hydrophobic and/or oil-repellant, so as to repel printing ink that is sprayed outside the borders of the imaging material.

Abstract: A device and method are disclosed for exposing a digital image onto light-sensitive material. The device includes an image generation device that is controlled by a control device according to image data. In addition, the device has an optical system for reproducing the image onto light-sensitive material that is supported by a stage. A beam splitter, located in the exposure beam path, directs a portion of the light emitted by the image generation device onto a light sensor that has at least one sensor line.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for printing image material (2), which lies on top of a sheet carrier (1), in an inkjet printer. The inkjet printer comprises an inkjet print head (6), which only partially covers the image material (2). The image material (2) is printed during a temporally successive relative movement, occurring in the x and y directions, between the inkjet print head (6) and the sheet carrier (1).

Abstract: An apparatus for optically projecting pixel-based image information onto a light-sensitive material has an image-generating device, an optical projection device, and a device for laterally offsetting the projected image of the image-generating device to produce a plurality of mutually offset partial images in the image plane. The offsetting device has two optical elements arranged in sequence in the light path of the projection. The projected partial images are offset relative to each other by tilting one or both of the optical elements.

Abstract: A method for processing digital photographic image data includes a method for the automatic detection of red-eye defects. Before the image data are subjected to an elaborate process for the detection of red-eye defects, exclusion criteria are analyzed in the course of an exclusion process, whereby the criteria provide the information to definitively rule out the occurrence of red-eye defects. The red-eye detection process is not carried out if such exclusion criteria are fulfilled.

Abstract: In a method for the automatic detection of red-eye defects in photographic image data, image and/or recording data are analyzed independently of one another for several specified indications and/or prerequisites. Thereafter, a value is determined for the presence of the individual indications and/or prerequisites. Thereafter, the determined values are combined for an overall evaluation, and a decision about the presence of potential red-eye defects is made, based upon the overall evaluation. The potential red-eye defects are located, and a decision is made, based upon analysis criteria, as to whether there are, indeed, red-eye defects.

Abstract: A method for the automatic detection of red-eye defects in photographic image data includes the step of determining a value that provides information about the presence of a flash when recording the image data, as a criterion for the presence of such defects.

Abstract: A copying apparatus is adjusted in order to produce high-quality copies of transparent negatives or diapositives having excessive variations in brightness. The adjustment is performed using a reference master. The apparatus is properly adjusted when a copy of the reference master meets specific criteria.

Abstract: An apparatus for processing film has two processing units and transport rollers for conveying film past the units. One of the units may include a scanning device and the other unit may include a copying device. Alternatively, the two units can comprise a prescanning device and a main scanning device, respectively. The apparatus further has a receiving station for film cartridges and at least one separate receiving station for film which is not confined in cartridges. Film can be fed to the transport rollers from either station.

Abstract: Photographic printing apparatus is disclosed with a common guidance and transport device for the films. Several entry points are adapted in size and shape to various films and/or cartridges. Each of these input points has a separate guidance and transport device. A transfer station is provided which transports the films from the guidance and transport devices of the entry points into the common guidance and transport device through the printing apparatus.

Abstract: A length of exposed film has a timing track which extends along one of the longitudinal margins thereof. The timing track includes a begin segment having a first width, an end segment having a different second width and a grating between the segments. The grating consists of alternating light and dark segments having a uniform width different from the widths of the begin and end segments. The two longitudinal margins of the film are scanned by respective sensors as the film advances towards a film processing apparatus. Whenever a segment passes by a sensor, the width of the segment and its position in the timing track are recorded. Since the widths of the begin and end segments differ from the width of the grating segments, the position of the begin or end segment relative to the grating can be established. This information, combined with a knowledge of which sensor detected the timing track, makes it possible to determine the orientation of the film.

Abstract: A photographic copier has an adjustable masking device for masking a master to be reproduced. To determine whether masking is required and, if so, the degree of masking, the density of the master is measured and is then forwarded to a logic circuit which can make the determination. In a first mode of operation, masked and unmasked images of the master are displayed side-by-side on a pair of monitors so that an operator can make adjustments to the mask calculated by the logic circuit. The operator here controls the copying cycle. In a second mode of operation, the copying cycle is automated and the logic circuit decides whether masking is required by calculating a degree of masking and comparing the degree of masking with a relatively low reference value set by the operator. The master is copied without a mask when the calculated degree of masking is less than the reference value. If a copy made by masking is unsatisfactory, the operator can adjust or deactivate the logic circuit and make a new copy.

Abstract: The tongue at the free end of a safety belt in a motor vehicle is releasably connected to the buckle by a coupling member which can be disengaged from the tongue by a reciprocable release member. The latter can be depressed by hand to thereby pivot (either entirely or in part) prior to completing a translatory movement which results in disengagement of the coupling member from the tongue. If the buckle is abruptly accelerated during an accident, the release member tends to carry out the translatory movement without a preceding pivotal movement whereby a stationary blocking element intercepts a blocking element on the release member and holds the latter against movement to a position in which the coupling member is caused or permitted to release the tongue. Alternatively, the release member is mounted for translatory movement to thereby disengage the coupling member from the tongue.