Photographic printer with index print generation
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorWalter D. Foley
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Abstract
A photographic printer having a print station for generating photographic prints from photographic film frame images and an exposure determination film frame image scanner used in determining print exposure operating conditions at the print station. The printer is provided with an index print signal generator responsive to the output of the exposure determination film scanner to produce a matrix of film frame image signals from which index prints are produced by either the print station or by means of a separate printer.
Claims4
A photographic printer having a print station for generating photographic prints from photographic film frame images and being adapted to produce index print images corresponding to said photographic prints, the printer comprising:
- exposure determination film frame image scanner means independent of the print station for generating scanned film frame image signals to be used in determining print exposure operating conditions at the print station;
- index print signal generating means responsive to said scanned film frame image signals for processing and storing said scanned film frame image signals as a matrix of film frame image signals suitable for use in producing an index print;
- and printer output means responsive to a predetermined series of the stored scanned film frame image frame signals in said matrix for generating an index print therefrom.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.