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US 5,978,609 AGranted
Electronic still video camera having electro-developing recording medium
AssigneeAsahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHarumi Aoki
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Abstract
An electronic still video camera has an electro-developing recording medium and a printer. An optical image is focussed and formed on the electro-developing medium by a photographing lens, and is directly recorded and developed thereon as as a visible image. The recorded image is photoelectrically read by a CCD image line sensor as a series of pixel data, and the series of pixel data is processed to thereby produce a printing data therefrom. A printing is successively made on a paper on the basis of the processed printing data.
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An electronic camera having an electro-developing recording medium, said camera comprising:
- a photographing unit that forms an optical image on said electro-developing recording medium to record said optical image in said recording medium;
- a line image sensor that optically and electronically senses said recorded optical image;
- a drive unit that intermittently moves said line image sensor with respect to said recorded optical image such that sensing of said recorded optical image by said line image sensor is carried out in a scanning manner to output a series of image data from said line image sensor at scanning step intervals;
- an image processor that successively processes said series of image data outputted from said line image sensor, to produce a series of image reproduction data;
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- a printer that successively reproduces an image on a basis of said series of image reproduction data produced by said image processor, said printer comprising a writing device that writes said image on an image-carrying sheet, a feeding device that feeds said image-carrying sheet, and a synchronizing device that synchronizes a feeding of said image-carrying sheet with said scanning step intervals of said line image sensor,
- wherein the outputting of said series of image data by said line image sensor, the processing of said series of image data by said image-processor and the reproduction of said image by said printer are sequentially repeated until said recorded optical image is completely sensed by said line image sensor.
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An electronic camera having an electro-developing recording medium, said camera comprising:
- a photographing unit that forms an optical image on said electro-developing recording medium to record said optical image in said recording medium;
- a line image sensor that optically and electronically senses said recorded optical image;
- a drive unit that intermittently moves said line image sensor with respect to said recorded optical image such that sensing of said recorded optical image by said line image sensor is carried out in a scanning manner to output a series of image data from said line image sensor at scanning step intervals;
- an image processor that successively processes said series of image data outputted from said line image sensor, to produce a series of image reproduction data;
- a video-processor that processes said series of image data outputted from said line image sensor, to produce a video signal;
- a printer that successively reproduces an image on a basis of said series of image reproduction data produced by said image processor, and
- a disabling unit that disables said printer during outputting of said video signal from said video-processor,
- wherein the outputting of said series of image data by said line image sensor, the processing of said series of image data by said image processor and the reproduction of said image by said printer being sequentially repeated until said recorded optical image is completely sensed by said line image sensor.
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An electronic camera having an electro-developing recording medium, said camera comprising:
- a photographing unit that forms an optical image on said electro-developing recording medium to record said optical image in said recording medium;
- a line image sensor that optically and electronically senses said recorded optical image;
- a drive unit that intermittently moves said line image sensor with respect to said recorded optical image such that sensing of said recorded optical image by said line image sensor is carried out in a scanning manner to output a series of image data from said line image sensor at scanning step intervals;
- a scanning step varying device that selectively varies said scanning step interval of said line image sensor;
- an image processor that successively processes said series of image data outputted from said line image sensor, in accordance with a variation of said scanning step interval obtained by said scanning step varying device, to produce a series of image reproduction data;
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- a printer that successively reproduces an image on a basis of said series of image reproduction data produced by said image processor, said printer comprising a writing device that writes said image on an image-carrying sheet, a feeding device that feeds said image-carrying sheet in accordance with the variation of said scanning step interval obtained by said scanning step varying device, and a synchronizing device that synchronizes a feeding of said image-carrying sheet with said scanning step intervals of said line image sensor,
- wherein the outputting of said series of image data by said line image sensor, the processing of said series of image data by said image processor and the reproduction of said image by said printer are sequentially repeated until said recorded optical image is completely sensed by said line image sensor.
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An electronic camera having an electro-developing recording medium, said camera comprising:
- a photographing unit that forms an optical image on said electro-developing recording medium to record said optical image in said recording medium;
- an image sensor that successively senses said recorded optical image in a scanning manner to output a series of image data at scanning step intervals;
- an image-processor that successively processes said series of image data outputted from said image sensor, to produce a series of image-reproduction data;
- an image-reproducing unit that reproduces an image on a basis of said image-reproduction data outputted from said image-processor;
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- an operation-mode selector that selects one of an auto-printing mode and a manual-printing mode, said auto-printing mode including a formation of said optical image by said photographing unit, the sensing of said recorded optical image by said image sensor from said electro-developing recording medium after said formation of said optical image by said photographing unit, so that said series of image reproduction data is stored in a memory medium, and the reproduction of said image by said image-reproducing unit, and said manual-printing mode including the sensing of said recorded optical image by said image sensor from said electro-developing recording medium, and the reproduction of said image by said image-reproducing unit.
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An electronic camera having an electro-developing recording medium, said camera comprising:
- a photographing unit that forms an optical image on said electro-developing recording medium to record said optical image in said electro-developing recording medium;
- an image sensor that successively senses said recorded optical image in a scanning manner to output a series of image data at scanning step intervals;
- an image-processor that successively processes said series of image data outputted from said image sensor, to produce a series of image-reproduction;
- an image-reproducing unit that reproduces an image on a basis of said image-reproduction data outputted from said image-processor;
- an operation-mode selector that selects one of a first operation mode and a second operation mode, said first operation mode including formation of said optical image by said photographing unit, said second operation mode excluding formation of said optical image by said photographing unit;
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- an image-reproduction mode selector that determines whether said image is reproduced by said image-reproducing unit,
- wherein said image is reproduced by said image-reproducing unit in both said first operation mode and said second operation mode, and said image is not reproduced by said image-reproducing unit when said image-reproduction mode selector determines a disablement-condition.
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An electronic camera having an electro-developing recording medium, said electro-developing recording medium comprising:
- a photographing unit that forms an optical image carrying color information on said electro-developing recording medium to record said optical image in said electro-developing recording medium;
- an image sensor that successively senses said recorded optical image in a scanning manner to output a series of image data carrying said color information at scanning step intervals;
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- an image-processor that successively processes said series of image data outputted from said image sensor, to produce a series of image-reproduction data carrying different color information different than the color information of the optical image, said different color information being reconstituted on a basis of said color information, wherein said color information carried by said recorded optical image comprises red, green, and blue, and said different color information comprises cyan, yellow, magenta, and black.
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An electronic camera having an electro-developing recording medium, said electro-developing recording medium comprising:
- a photographing unit that forms an optical image carrying color information on said electro-developing recording medium to record said optical image in said electro-developing recording medium;
- an image sensor that successively senses said recorded optical image in a scanning manner to output a series of image data carrying said color information at scanning step intervals;
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- an image-processor that successively processes at least two series of image data outputted from said image sensor, to produce a series of image-reproduction data carrying color information different than the color information of the optical image, the different color information being reconstituted on a basis of said color information, wherein said color information carried by the recorded image comprises red, green, and blue, and said different color information comprises cyan, yellow, magenta, and black.
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