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US 5,937,218 AGranted
Camera capable of recording information relative to printing processing
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKenichiro Amano, Masaaki Ishihara
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a camera capable of recording information indicative of an instruction to inhibit automatic printing on a film and, more particularly, to a camera capable of automatically recording information indicative of an instruction to inhibit such automatic printing, if photography unsuited to the automatic printing is performed for not less than a predetermined number of exposed frames of the film.
Claims34
A camera including:
- a recording part for recording information relative to a printing processing method on a film;
- and
- processing means for determining whether photography suited to automatic printing has been performed and for causing said recording part to record on a film in a single film area specific information indicative of an instruction to inhibit automatic printing of all frames of the film, if said processing means determines that the photography suited to automatic printing has not been performed.
A camera including:
- a recording part for recording information relative to a printing processing method on a film;
- and
- processing means for determining whether photography suited to automatic printing has been performed and for causing said recording part to record on a film in a single film area specific information indicative of an instruction to perform print exposure different from the automatic printing for all frames of the film, if said processing means determines that the photography suited to automatic printing has not been performed.
A camera including:
- a recording part for recording information relative to a printing processing method on a film;
- and
- processing means for determining whether or not each frame of the film is photographed appropriately for auto-printing and for causing said recording part to record specific information on all of the frames to prohibit the auto-printing when the number of the frames determined to be appropriately photographed for the auto-printing is less than a predetermined number even when there is a frame which is determined to be photographed appropriately for auto-printing.
A camera including recording part for recording information relative to a printing processing method on a film, comprising:
- processing means for determining whether photography suited to automatic printing has been performed and having a first mode for causing said recording part to record on a film specific information indicative of an instruction to inhibit automatic printing of all frames of the film, if said processing means determines that photography suited to automatic printing has not been performed, and a second mode for forcedly causing said recording part to record on the film the specific information indicative of the instruction to inhibit automatic printing of all frames of the film;
- and
- selecting means for selecting the first mode or the second mode.
A camera including:
- a recording part for recording information relative to a printing processing method on a film;
- and
- processing means for determining whether photography suited to automatic printing processing has been performed for each of individual frames and for causing said recording part to record on a film specific information indicative of an instruction to inhibit automatic printing of all frames of the film, when said processing means determines the number of frames which are photographed not suitably for automatic printing is more than a predetermined number even if said processing means does not determine that all frames are photographed not suitably for automatic printing, as well as for, if said processing means determines that the photography suited to automatic printing has not been performed for not greater than a predetermined number of frames, causing said recording part to selectively record on the film on a frame-by-frame basis information indicative of an instruction to individually inhibit automatic printing of each of the frames for which photography suited to automatic printing has not been performed, in accordance with a decision result as to each of the individual frames provided by said processing means.
A camera including a recording part for recording information relative to a printing processing method on a film, comprising:
- processing means having a first mode for causing said recording part to record in a single film area on a film specific information indicative of an instruction to inhibit automatic printing of all frames of the film and a second mode for causing said recording part to selectively record on the film on a frame-by-frame basis information indicative of an instruction to individually inhibit automatic printing of each of the frames;
- and
- selecting means for selecting the first or second mode.
A camera including a recording part for recording information relative to a printing processing method on a film, comprising:
- selecting means for choosing whether forcibly to cause said recording part to record specific information indicative of an instruction to inhibit automatic printing of all frames of a film;
- and
- processing means for determining whether photography suited to automatic printing has been performed and for inhibiting, if said processing means determines that the photography suited to automatic printing has not been performed for less than a predetermined number of frames, said recording part from recording the specific information, even if it is chosen by said selecting means that said recording part be forcibly caused to record the specific information.
A camera including a recording part for recording information relative to a printing processing method on a film, comprising:
- selecting means for choosing whether to cause said recording part to record specific information indicative of an instruction to inhibit automatic printing;
- and
- processing means for inhibiting said camera from operating in a predetermined photographing mode, when it is chosen by said selecting means that said information recording means be caused to record the specific information.
A camera including a recording part for recording information relative to a printing processing method on a film, comprising:
- selecting means for choosing whether to cause said recording part to record specific information indicative of an instruction to inhibit automatic printing;
- and
- processing means for inhibiting, if exposed frames include a frame exposed in a specific photographic state, said selecting means from causing said information recording means to record the specific information.
A camera including:
- a recording part for recording information relative to a printing processing method on a film and
- processing means for permitting under a predetermined condition acceptance of an instruction to record in a single film area specific information for inhibiting automatic printing of all frames of the film.
A camera including a recording part for recording information relative to a printing processing method on a film, comprising:
- (a) selecting means for selecting an instruction to record specific information for inhibiting automatic printing of all frames of a film;
- and
- (b) processing means for restraining, after said camera has performed a predetermined operation, said selecting means from selecting the instruction to record the specific information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.