Abstract: Animation creation is described, for example, to enable children to create, record and play back stories. In an embodiment, one or more children are able to create animation components such as characters and backgrounds using a multi-touch panel display together with an image capture device. For example, a graphical user interface is provided at the multi-touch panel display to enable the animation components to be edited. In an example, children narrate a story while manipulating animation components using the multi-touch display panel and the sound and visual display is recorded. In embodiments image analysis is carried out automatically and used to autonomously modify story components during a narration. In examples, various types of handheld view-finding frames are provided for use with the image capture device. In embodiments saved stories can be restored from memory and retold from any point with different manipulations and narration.

Abstract: Animation creation is described, for example, to enable children to create, record and play back stories. In an embodiment, one or more children are able to create animation components such as characters and backgrounds using a multi-touch panel display together with an image capture device. For example, a graphical user interface is provided at the multi-touch panel display to enable the animation components to be edited. In an example, children narrate a story whilst manipulating animation components using the multi-touch display panel and the sound and visual display is recorded. In embodiments image analysis is carried out automatically and used to autonomously modify story components during a narration. In examples, various types of handheld view-finding frames are provided for use with the image capture device. In embodiments saved stories can be restored from memory and retold from any point with different manipulations and narration.

Abstract: An optoelectronic protective device for providing switching signals when an unauthorized object is present in a passageway or an opening through a wall. A light source illuminates the opening, and a camera forms a picture of at least one of the wall surfaces defining the opening. A camera forms a picture of at least one of the wall surfaces and directs it onto a position resolving light receiver that generates picture signals for evaluation to determine if an unauthorized project is in the opening. The light source, the light receiver, the camera, as well as a control unit, are mounted in a housing that is configured to be secured to at least one of the wall surfaces of the opening so that it extends only negligibly into the opening, and the light source illuminates a spatial angle and the camera has an angular field of view that are sufficiently large so that objects having a predetermined minimum size present in the opening are reliably detected.

Abstract: A camera comprises a camera body, a film Patrone stowage chamber defined in the camera body, a cover member to be freely opened or closed relative to the camera body, an elastic member that is attached to the cover member, and that when the cover member is closed relative to the camera body, is opposed to the film Patrone chamber, and a low-friction member that is attached to the elastic member, and that when the cover member is closed with the film Patrone mounted in the film Patrone stowage chamber, meets at least part of the film Patrone so as to press and slide the film Patrone.

Abstract: A camera comprising a door with an exterior viewing opening for viewing readable information appearing on a photographic article such as a film cartridge in the camera, and an interior light-trapping gasket that surrounds the viewing opening to confine ambient light entering the viewing opening when the door is closed, is characterized in that the viewing opening is extended along the door to hold a label at a particular portion of the viewing opening that does not interfere with ambient light entering the viewing opening to view the information.

Abstract: A one-time use camera comprising a body part which has a wall portion that at least partially defines a cartridge chamber, a film cartridge in the cartridge chamber, and a cover part for the body part, is characterized in that the wall portion has an opening which extends through the wall portion to form a discrete hole in the wall portion which is smaller than the film cartridge to permit only a section of the film cartridge to protrude into the hole to fill the hole, the film cartridge has a section that protrudes into the hole to fill the hole, and the cover part extends over the body part, but not to the hole, whereby the one-time-use camera is made more compact.

Abstract: A film-chamber cover of an advanced photo system (APS) camera is for indicating whether a film cassette is loaded within a film chamber of the APS camera or not. The film-chamber cover includes: a bottom cover furnished with a viewing window, an upper cover furnished with a shaft hole, a moving shaft slidably connected with the shaft hole between the upper and bottom covers, and a swing plate formed with characteristic symbols thereon. The swing plate is pivoted to the bottom cover and is driven by a restoring member such that when the film chamber is not loaded with a film cassette, the swing plate can be restored to a position where a symbol indicating emptiness of the chamber aligns the window of the bottom cover.