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AssigneeAsahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKoichi Sato
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Abstract
An image sensing operation control device has an electro-developing recording medium to electronically develop an image formed by a photographing lens. The image is scanned from the electro-developing recording medium through a line sensor. Image signals corresponding to the image are temporarily stored in a memory, and are outputted from the memory to an external device. During the scanning operation, the line sensor can be stopped. An image corresponding to the image signals stored in the memory so far prior to the stopping operation is outputted to a video monitor device, so that it can be checked whether a desired image is being obtained by the electro-developing recording medium.
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An image sensing operation control device, comprising:
- an electro-developing recording medium that electronically develops an image formed thereon;
- an image sensor for sensing a part of said developed image;
- means for moving said image sensor in a scanning direction that is substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of said image sensor to perform a scanning operation, so that said developed image is sensed by said image sensor;
- a memory for storing image signals corresponding to said developed image sensed by said image sensor;
- means for stopping said scanning operation of said image sensor prior to a completion of said scanning operation so that a partial scan of said developed image is obtained;
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- means for indicating said stored image signals on a display device.
An image sensing operation control device, comprising:
- an electro-developing recording medium that electronically develops an image formed thereon;
- an image sensor that senses a part of said developed image;
- means for moving said image sensor in a scanning direction substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of said image sensor so that said developed image is sensed;
- a memory for storing image signals corresponding to said developed image sensed by said image sensor;
- means for storing said image signals in said memory;
- means for reading said image signals from said memory;
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- means for controlling operations of said image sensor, said storing means and said reading means, in such a manner that said image sensor, said storing means and said reading means are prohibited from being operated at the same time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.