Abstract: The motion picture image print apparatus extracts a plurality of frames from recorded motion picture data for printing, the apparatus enabling the range of loaded images to be determined from images reproduced on a screen, not from the results of measurement of time, thus allowing a desired print to be more easily obtained. An operator reads motion picture image data recorded on a recording medium. The operator then sets a layout of a print output and the number of image frames in the print output to display a list of motion picture image files on a list screen, thereby selecting motion picture image file to be printed. The operator then depresses a motion picture control button to reproduce the selected motion picture image file in the check area. While viewing the reproduced images, the operator sets at least either a print starting image or a print ending image by depressing a “From” button or a “To” button, respectively.

Abstract: The print terminal apparatus can print an image exchanged via an electronic mail without preparing any printer personally. In printing an image attached to the electronic mail that a user received in the past, identification information of the user such as a portable telephone number (mail address) of the user is firstly input on a monitor with a touch panel for a print terminal apparatus installed in a shop front. The print terminal apparatus retrieves the image attached to the electronic mail addressed to the user from a mail server via a communication line interface into a storage on the basis of this identification information of the user, and displays a list of images on the monitor with the touch panel. If the image to be printed is selected on this monitor, and a charged amount of cash is thrown into a coin machine, a selected image is printed by a print engine.

Abstract: When an electronic album is created, different images having identical file names are prevented from being recorded on a large-capacity floppy disk. Image files have been recorded on a memory card and on a large-capacity floppy disk in the order of file numbers. When an image file that has been recorded on the first memory card is recorded on the large-capacity floppy disk, the final file number on the large-capacity floppy disk is read out. The file number of the image file that has been read out of the first memory card is changed to a file number that succeeds the file number recorded on the large-capacity floppy disk last. The image file whose file number has been changed is recorded on the large-capacity floppy disk and an electronic album is generated for each type of image.

Abstract: A delivery-medium producing apparatus includes: a receiving unit for receiving a plurality of images from a plurality of users; an image keeping apparatus for keeping the images received and recorded therein by the receiving unit; and a delivery-medium recording unit for recording the images onto recording media in such a manner that each recording medium stores one or more images that were received from only one of the users.

Abstract: A Web server is accessed using a cellular telephone. When desired digital content desired to be printed is found, the user designates a location at which this digital content is to be printed. The digital content is transmitted from the Web server to a printing terminal that has been installed at the designated location, and the printing terminal prints the digital content. The user goes to the designated location and picks up the printout. Even if the user is on the road, therefore, desired digital content that has been stored in the Web server can be printed out and received.

Abstract: The image storing apparatus stores an image uploaded from a customer via a network on a large-capacity medium by associating it with customer information indicating the customer, image attribute information or image selection information so as to manage the image of the customer. And if capacity, quantity, a recording period or a current date of the images of a certain customer exceeds a predetermined threshold, one image or a plurality of images of the customer are moved to another medium so as to secure storage capacity of the above described large-capacity medium.

Abstract: Inputting a profile of a user; detecting a current position of the user; previously recording service information on shops or the like in a recording device associated with the current position of the user and the profile of the user; and retrieving and selecting the service information on the shops or the like recorded in the recording device according to the inputted profile and the detected current position of the user to notify the user permit providing appropriate service information required by the user to the user by a push type information notification system.

Abstract: A digital camera with an automatic image transmission function which includes a transmission section for transmitting photo images and a transmission control unit connected to the transmission section. The transmission control unit judges whether a predetermined transmission allowance condition is satisfied and allows the transmission of photo images only when the predetermined transmission allowance condition is satisfied. As one example, the predetermined transmission allowance condition includes a condition when photography is completed.

Abstract: A game player is allowed to punch a punching ball and the shape of a captured image is transformed in conformity with the punching force applied to the ball. An image is captured by a camera or memory card reader. The player punches the punching ball, causing the shape of the captured image to be transformed. The larger the acceleration of the punching ball when it is punched, the greater the transformation in the shape of the captured image. The transformed image is displayed on a display unit and may be printed if desired. The player can experience a game more realistic than one in which the shape of a computer-graphics image is transformed.

Abstract: A standard resistor having a known resistance value is connected to one transistor in a drive IC. The drive IC has a plurality of transistors each controlling the on/off of a heating element. The saturation voltage of each transistor is generally the same. One of a plurality of transistors is turned on, and a discharge time required for a capacitor to discharge via a standard resistor or via each heating element and lower its voltage to a predetermined voltage is measured. The resistance value of each heating element is determined from a ratio of a discharge time via each heating element to a discharge time via the standard resistor and the resistance value of the standard resistor. A difference between the standard resistance value and a resistance value of each heating element generates a bias heat energy error during bias heating and an image heat energy error during image heating. In accordance with these heat energy errors, bias data for generating a heat energy immediately before coloring is corrected.

Abstract: A thermal head has a heating element array with a plurality of heating elements disposed in line and a head driver. The head driver drives the heating elements at the same time in accordance with each set of heating data of 8 bits to record dots of one line on a recording sheet. In printing dots by using heating data of 9 bits, a heating data divider circuit divides the 9-bit heating data into two series of 8-bit converted heating data. By using these two series of the 8-bit converted heating data, two heating sequences are continuously executed. Each heating element is heated by the two heating sequences as many times as that corresponding to the heating data.

Abstract: Developed photographic film is mounted in a scanner block, and then a film image is picked up. The picked-up film image is memorized in an image memory via a scanner I/F. At the same time, information relating a print format being recorded as magnetic information in the film is read by a magnetic regenerating part. A CPU instructs a print control block to feed a sheet of print paper corresponding to the print format of each frame from the information relating a print format, and selects a paper tray containing the desired print paper among a plurality of paper trays so as to make a printing part feed the print paper. The printing part makes a print of the frame image being memorized in the image memory.

Abstract: Film images of all frames are captured in a first scanning in a low resolution for displaying as an index image, and the captured image data is stored in an image memory. Then, the index image is displayed on a display according to the image data. When the user designates a frame for printing and enters the print information of the frame by use of the index image displayed on the display, a second scanning of the frame is performed conforming to the print information. That is, the frame image is captured in a high resolution for printing, and the captured image data is stored in the image memory. Then, the frame image is printed on a printer according to the print information. While the printer is printing the frame image, the images of frames on the film are displayed frame by frame on the display in accordance with the image data for the index image stored in the image memory.

Abstract: A video printer is automatically set in a field mode even when a frame mode is manually selected if an input video signal is nonstandardized. To determine whether the input video signal is standardized or not, the number of equalizing pulses generated during each vertical synchronizing period, that is, the number of cutting pulses, are checked. Also, the polarity of a field index signal is checked as to whether the polarity is inverted during each vertical synchronizing period. If the number of cutting pulses is below a predetermined value, and/or if the polarity of the field index signal is maintained unchanged, the video signal is determined nonstandardized.

Abstract: An image memory device is so adapted as to make it possible to use an image pick-up device having any characteristic and a display unit having any characteristic. The image memory device includes an input look-up table and an output look-up table. Data for performing a reverse gamma-correction is set in the input look-up table in advance in dependence upon the image pick-up device used. By virtue of the reverse gamma-correction, the image data is provided with linear characteristics. The reverse gamma-corrected data is stored in the memory. Data for performing a gamma correction is set in the output look-up table in advance in dependence upon the display unit used.

Abstract: The invention has for its object to provide a video printer which enables multi-prints of improved image quality to be obtained, and which is built up of a frame memory 18 having a capacity of 1,024 pixels (H).times.512 pixels (V), a thermal head 28 of 1,024 elements, and a control unit 40 designed to repeat a printing process by the number of print lines, wherein, upon multi-printing indicated, the first four images A.sub.1, B.sub.1, C.sub.1 and D.sub.1 are reduced to 1/2 in size for writing in a frame memory 18, then the image data in Y from 0 to 511 are written at X=0 in the 0 to 511 addresses on a line memory 22, then the image data in Y from 0 to 511 are written at X=512 in the 512 to 1,023 addresses on the line memory 22, and finally the thus written 1,024 image data are transferred every print line to the thermal head 28 via a gradation control unit 24, whereby the four images are printed on a recording paper.

Abstract: A CPU executes an operation of writing image data of one line into a line memory group, and a read controller executes an operation of reading image data of one line from the line memory group. If an up-down counter outputs a write request signal, CPU fetches a 2-bit count of a write counter. In accordance with the count, CPU outputs a write line memory address for designating an address of a line memory, and writes image data of one line read from a frame memory into the designated line memory. Immediately after CPU starts writing the image data, a write start signal is supplied to the write counter and up-down counter to increment the count value thereof. The up-down counter generates a write request signal if the count is smaller than the number N of line memories. A read counter counts a one line print end signal to designate a line memory from which image data is read.

Abstract: The time required for transmission of image data from an electronic camera to a host computer is shortened. Image data representing the image of a subject imaged in the electronic camera is stored in an image memory. When a preview-image command is applied to the electronic camera from the host computer, the image data that has been stored in the image memory is reduced to 1/8 by eliminating pixels in a thinning-out circuit. The reduced-image data is transmitted to the host computer, where the data is displayed on a display unit as a preview image. A desired area and magnification (resolution) are designated on the preview image and then a get command is applied, whereupon main image data in the designated area and having the designated magnification is transmitted from the electronic camera to the host computer.

Abstract: A high definition camera for photographing still pictures using a high resolution charge coupled solid-state imaging device. The imaging device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in rows and columns, wherein each column is divided into repeating sequences of four photoelectric elements, each element corresponding to a pixel and one of four fields. A plurality of vertical charge transfer paths are formed between each column of the photoelectric elements and a horizontal charge transfer path is connected to a terminal portion of each of the vertical charge transfer paths. The horizontal charge transfer path includes first and second horizontal registers. Pixel signals generated at photoelectric elements corresponding to one of four fields are transferred to transfer elements in a field shift period corresponding to the one field.

Abstract: A high definition camera for photographing still pictures using a high resolution charge-coupled solid-state imaging device. The charge-coupled solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in rows and columns in matrix form, each element corresponding to a pixel and the rows being divided into four fields, a plurality of vertical charge transfer paths formed between each column of the photoelectric conversion elements and a horizontal charge transfer path connected to a terminal portion of each of the vertical charge transfer paths. Pixel signals generated at photoelectric conversion elements corresponding to one of four fields are transferred to transfer elements in a field shift period corresponding to the one field.