Film image reading apparatus with length/width discrimination signal
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsAkira Hiramatsu, Kenji Yoshinaga, Kazunori Kanekura, Yukio Sato, Ritsushi Tanabe, Hideaki Shimizu
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A film image reading apparatus has a conveying section for sequentially conveying a plurality of film originals to a reading position, a reading section for reading an image of a film original conveyed to the reading position by the conveying section, a detecting section for detecting a direction of the image of the film original conveyed to the reading position, and a controlling section for controlling outputting of an image signal from the reading section in accordance with the direction of the image detected by the detecting section.
Claims16
A film image reading apparatus, comprising:
- a plurality of set portions for mounting film mounts in which a frame of a film is mounted;
- conveying means for sequentially conveying the film mount from a respective set portion to a reading portion and for returning the film mount from the reading position to the respective set portion;
- reading means for reading one by one an image of the film mounted on the film mount conveyed one by one by said conveying means to the reading position;
- detecting means for detecting a presence or absence of the film mount in each of said plurality of set portions;
- recording means for recording an image on a recording medium on a basis of an image signal representing the image of the film from said reading means;
- and
- controlling means for controlling a recording operation of said recording means in accordance with the presence or absence of the film detected by said detecting means.
A film image reading apparatus, comprising:
- setting means for setting a film mount in a reading position, the film mount having a rectangular aperture in which a frame of a film is mounted;
- reading means for reading an image of the film mounted in the film mount set in the reading position;
- detecting means for detecting a direction of the rectangular aperture of the film mount set in a reading position;
- recording means for recording an image on a recording medium on a basis of an image signal representing the image of the film from said reading means;
- and
- controlling means for controlling the recording operation of said recording means in accordance with the direction of the rectangular aperture detected by said detecting means.
A film image reading apparatus, comprising:
- a plurality of set portions for setting film mounts in which a frame of a film is mounted;
- conveying means for sequentially conveying a film mount from a respective set portion to a reading position and for returning the film mount from the reading position to the respective set portion;
- reading means for reading one by one an image of the film mounted on the film mount conveyed one by one by said conveying means to the reading position;
- detecting means for sequentially detecting a direction of the film mounted on the film mount conveyed one by one by said conveying means to the reading position;
- recording means for recording an image on a recording medium on a basis of an image signal representing the image of the film from said reading means;
- and
- controlling means for controlling a recording operation of said recording means in accordance with the direction of the film detected by said detecting means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.