Data For Control Of Subsequent Processing Of Film Patents (Class 396/311)
  • Patent number: 5583591
    Abstract: A photographic camera system includes a photographic camera that can successively expose a photographic film in different frame sizes and an automatic printer for automatically printing the processed photographic film exposed with those different frame sizes. The camera varies the width of an exposure opening in the camera body in the film-feed direction and the film is fed a length corresponding to the width of the exposure opening. The photographic camera magnetically or optically records an exposure opening position signal indicative of the size of the exposure opening on the photographic film, and the automatic printer automatically prints the photographic film using the magnetically or optically recorded exposure opening position signal detected from the photographic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiko Saito, Akira Nakanishi, Shunzi Obayashi, Kyoji Genda, Hideki Toshikage
  • Patent number: 5579067
    Abstract: A camera records information relating to each photographic frame of a film onto an information recording area provided on the film while the film is being fed. Regulating circuitry is provided to regulate the recordation so that no information is recorded for a frame under consideration when it is confirmed that the information relating to the frame under consideration is the same as information relating to a previous frame. In all other cases information relating to a frame under consideration is recorded for the frame under consideration. This greatly decreases the amount of information recorded when the same information continues for multiple frames and prevents wasteful expenditure of a battery power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Tsutomu Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 5574520
    Abstract: A camera of the kind having a function of recording information designating an arbitrary number of prints in a magnetic recording track provided for each of frame portions of a film is arranged to inhibit the information designating the arbitrary number of prints from being recorded in the magnetic recording track of any frame for which a picture has been taken under an abnormal shooting condition, such as a camera shake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaaki Ishihara