Abstract: A camera includes an image receiver for capturing an image of an object, an optical section for directing image light from the object to the image receiver, and a viewfinder for viewing the object prior to capture together with a tile pattern for specifying active "hot spot" areas in the viewed image. The tile pattern in the viewfinder is composed of a plurality of individual tile areas that are visible through the viewfinder together with the image of the object. The camera further includes means for designating one or more individual tile areas as active areas of the image, and means for recording a location of the active areas in a memory location accessible to apparatus external to the camera. The camera is part of a system in which the apparatus external to the camera is a computer. A program in the computer is responsive to the recorded locations for enabling one or more specific actions to be assigned to the active areas of the recorded image when the image is accessed by the computer.

Abstract: A photographic camera includes means for capturing and recording an image, a scanner for generating object data indicating the relative location of objects within the image, and an electronic processing section for combining the object data with the recorded image. In one embodiment the camera is a film camera including an optical section for focusing the image upon a film plane where a film is located, and the electronic processing section includes means for recording the object data upon the film. In another embodiment the camera is an electronic camera including an image sensor for capturing the image and producing image data, and the electronic processing section transfers the image data and the object data to an output storage section.

Abstract: An electronic camera useful with a peripheral processor comprises an image sensor for producing image data, an output storage section, an electronic control processor for transferring the image data to the storage section, and a mode selector for indicating whether the camera is used for normal format pictures or for panoramic pictures. When the mode selector is set for panoramic pictures, the electronic control processor includes a panoramic mode indicator in a header with the image data. The peripheral processor keys on the mode indicator to process the tagged images into a panoramic picture. By further including alignment indicia in a view finder in the camera to aid the user in aligning adjacent images, the peripheral processor utilizes image addresses corresponding to the indicia locations to process the tagged images.

Abstract: Apparatus operable in duplex and simplex modes for making copies having images on one or both sides thereof. In the duplex mode, first and second transferable images are formed on a movable image transfer member by an image forming device, a copy sheet is supplied from a copy sheet supply into transfer relationship with the transfer member and the first image is transferred to a first side of a copy sheet at a first image transfer station. A vacuum drum located adjacent to the transfer member is rotated in a first direction to separate the copy sheet from the transfer member. After the copy sheet has been separated, the drum is rotated in a second opposite direction to invert the copy sheet while the first image is unfixed and to register the second side with the second transferable image on the transfer member at a second image transfer station.