Film image input system for outputting an image signal to a video monitor

A film image input system, comprising:

• a supply reel and a take-up reel for feeding a long and narrow developed still photo film;
• a reel driver for driving said supply and take-up reels;
• an image pickup for picking up an image on said film to be fed between said supply and take-up reels, converting said image into an electric signal, and outputting said electric signal to a display;
• a first reel brake for braking said supply reel;
• a second reel brake for braking said take-up reel;
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• a controller for controlling said first and second reel brake to brake said supply and take-up reels whenever said film is being loaded between said supply and take-up reels.

A film image input system, comprising:

• a supply reel and a take-up reel for feeding a long and narrow developed still photo film;
• a reel driver for driver said supply and take-up reels;
• an image pickup for picking up an image on said film to be fed between said supply and take-up reels, converting said image into an electric signal, and outputting said electric signal to a video monitor;
• a first reel brake for braking said supply reel;
• a second reel brake for braking said take-up reel;
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• a controller for controlling said first and second reel brake to brake said supply and take-up reels whenever said film is being loaded between said supply and take-up reels;
• wherein said first reel brake applies a soft brake and a full brake to said supply reel, and said second reel brake applies a soft brake and a full brake to said take-up reel, and wherein said controller controls said first and second reel brakes in such a manner that they apply the soft brake to said supply and take-up reels when said film is fed and that they apply the full brake to said supply and take-up reels while said film is being loaded between said supply and take-up reels.

A film transporting device, comprising:

• a supply reel;
• a take-up reel;
• a cartridge holder for storing a film cartridge having a spool with a long and narrow still photo film wound therearound, said cartridge holder including a supporter for holding said film cartridge in such a manner that said film cartridge is floated a given amount in the axial direction of said spool, said cartridge holder, when opened, allowing said film cartridge to be inserted thereinto or taken out therefrom in the axial direction of said spool and, when closed, allowing said spool of said film cartridge to be positioned on said supply reel;
• a reel driver for driving said supply and take-up reel;
• a rotatable spool hold member being free to advance or retreat with respect to said supply reel;
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• a driver for advancing and retreating said spool hold member with respect to said supply reel, said driver driving said spool hold member to push said film cartridge in said cartridge holder toward said supply reel, thereby loading the lower end portion of said spool into the head portion of said supply reel and loading said spool hold member into the upper end portion of said spool.

A film image input system, comprising:

• a supply reel;
• a take-up reel;
• a cartridge holder for storing a film cartridge having two spools with a long and narrow, developed still photo film wound therearound, said cartridge holder including a supporter for holding said film cartridge in such a manner that it is floated a given amount in the axial direction of said spools, said cartridge holder, when opened, allowing said film cartridge to be inserted thereinto or taken out therefrom in the axial direction of said spools and, when closed, allowing said two spools of said film cartridge to be positioned respectively on said supply and take-up reels;
• a first driver for driving said supply and take-up reels;
• an image pickup for picking up an image on said film to be fed between said supply and take-up reels, converting said image into an image signal, and outputting said image signal to a display;
• two rotatable spool hold members being free to advance and retreat with respect to said supply and take-up reels;
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• a second driver for advancing and retreating said two spool hold members with respect to said supply and take-up reels, said second driver driving said two spool hold members to push said film cartridge within said cartridge holder toward said supply and take-up reels, thereby loading the lower end portions of said two spools respectively onto the head portions of said supply and take-up reels and loading said two spool hold members into the upper end portions of said two spools.

A film image input system, comprising:

• a frame detector for detecting a frame by detecting a notch or a hole formed in each frame of a long and narrow, developed still photo film;
• a film feeder for feeding said film until said frame detector detects a next frame and, after said frame feeding, for scanning the frames in a film feeding direction by feeding said film in a given scan range narrower than the width of 1 frame;
• an image pickup for picking up an image on said film, converting said image into an image signal, and outputting said image signal to a display;
• a scan position detector for detecting a scan position after the frame feeding with a frame detect position as a reference position;
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• a controller for enabling the next frame to be detected by said frame detector after a scan position detected by said scan position detector if the frame feeding exceeds at least said scan range.

A film image input system, comprising:

• a frame detector for detecting a frame by detecting a notch or a hole formed in each frame of a long and narrow, developed still photo film;
• a film feeder for feeding said film until said frame detector detects a next frame and, after said frame feeding, for scanning the frames in a film feeding direction by feeding said film in a given scan range;
• an image pickup for picking up an image on said film, converting said image into an image signal, and outputting said image signal to a display;
• a scan position detector for detecting a scan position after the frame feeding with a frame detect position as a reference position;
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• a controller, when said film is moved to a position located forwardly of a frame detect position and the frame is fed in a reverse direction, and when said film is moved to a position located reversely of the frame detect position and the frame is again fed in a forward direction, for enabling the frame detection by said frame detector to restart frame detection after the detect position of said scan position detector coincides with said reference position.

A film image input system, comprising:

• a frame detector for detecting a frame by detecting a notch or a hole formed in each frame of a long and narrow, developed still photo film;
• a film feeder for feeding the frames by feeding said film until said frame detector detects a next frame and, after said frame feeding, for scanning the frames in a film feeding direction by feeding said film in a given scan range;
• an image pickup for picking up an image on said film, converting said image into an image signal, and outputting said image signal to a display;
• a determiner for determining whether said film is moved to a position located forwardly of a frame detect position or to a position located reversely of the frame detect position by scanning;
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• a controller for disabling the first frame detect by said frame detector when said film is moved to a position located forwardly of the frame detect position and the frame is fed in a reverse direction, and when said film is moved to a position located reversely of the frame detect position and the frame is fed in a forward direction.

A film image input system, comprising:

• a forwardly and reversely rotatable reel motor having a rotational speed dependent on an input voltage;
• a supply reel;
• a take-up reel;
• a first oscillating gear mechanism, rotatable according to the direction of rotation of said reel motor, for transmitting the motor rotary drive force to said supply reel or take-up reel;
• a second oscillating gear mechanism, rotatable according to the direction of rotation of said reel motor, for transmitting the motor rotary drive force to said supply or take-up reel at a different ratio of reduction from that of said first oscillating gear mechanism;
• a restricter for restricting the rotation range of one of said first and second oscillating gear mechanisms and enabling only the other oscillating gear mechanism to transmit the rotary drive force;
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• an image pickup for picking up an image on a long and narrow, developed still photo film to be fed between said supply and take-up reels, converting said image into an image signal, and outputting said image signal to a display.

A film transporting device, comprising:

• a forwardly and reversely rotatable reel motor having a rotational speed dependent on an input voltage;
• a supply reel loaded with a spool within a film cartridge, with a long and narrow still photo film wound around said spool;
• a take-up reel for taking up said film sent out from said film cartridge;
• an oscillating gear mechanism, rotatable according to the direction of rotation of said reel motor, for transmitting the motor rotary drive force to said supply or take-up reel;
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• a fixer for fixing said oscillating gear mechanism unoscillatable in such a manner that the motor rotary drive force can be transmitted through said oscillating gear mechanism to said supply reel and for enabling said supply reel to be driven in a direction to send out said film from said film cartridge.

A film image input system, comprising:

• a film feeder for feeding a long and narrow developed still photo film;
• an image pickup for picking up an image on said film, converting said image into an image signal, and outputting said image signal;
• an image memory for storing an image signal of a predetermined image which is different from said film image;
• a detector for detecting whether said image signal of said film image is permitted to be output from said image pickup;
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• an image signal switcher for outputting, to a display, an image signal of the film image picked up by said image pickup when said detector detects that said image signal of said film image is permitted to be output, and outputting, to said display, said image signal stored in said image memory when said detector detects that said image signal of said film image is not permitted to be output.

A film image input system, comprising:

• a film feeder for feeding a long and narrow developed still photo film;
• an image pickup for picking up an image on said film, converting said image into an image signal, and outputting said image signal;
• a negative/positive determiner for automatically determining whether said film is negative or positive;
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• an image signal processor for performing a negative image processing or a positive image processing on said image signal in accordance with the determination by said negative/positive determiner, and for outputting said image processed image signal to a display;
• wherein said film is previously stored in a film cartridge which can be formed in different shapes according to whether said film is negative or positive, and said negative/positive determiner detects the difference between the shapes of said film cartridge to thereby determine whether said film stored in said film cartridge is negative or positive.

A film image input system, comprising:

• a reel motor rotatable at a speed which can be changed according to voltages input to said reel motor;
• a supply reel and a take-up reel to be driven by said reel motor;
• an image pickup for picking up an image on a long and narrow, developed still photo film to be fed between said supply and take-up reels, converting said image into an image signal, and outputting said image signal to a display;
• a detector for detecting the film winding diameter of said take-up reel or data corresponding to said film winding diameter;
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• a controller for determining a motor drive voltage for transporting said film at a constant speed between said supply reel and said take-up reel in accordance with the output of said detector and outputting said motor drive voltage to said reel motor.

A film image input system, comprising:

• a film feeder for feeding a long and narrow, developed still photo film having standard patterns for correcting faded R, G, B colors printed on portions of the film other than the image portion;
• a reader for reading said standard patterns printed on said film for correcting the faded colors;
• a fading determiner for determining the degrees of fading of the respective R, G, B colors of said film in accordance with said fading correcting standard patterns read by said reader;
• a lookup table having a plurality of predetermined tables for correcting the faded R, G, B colors, said tables respectively corresponding to the degrees of fading of the R, G, B colors, said lookup table for outputting the faded R, G, B colors correcting tables corresponding to the results determined by said fading determiner;
• an image pickup for picking up images on said film and converting said images into R, G, B image signals;
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• an image signal processor for correcting the R, G, B image signals output from said image pickup in accordance with the faded R, G, B correcting tables read out from said lookup table and for outputting said corrected image signals to a display.

A film image input system, comprising:

• a film feeder for feeding a long and narrow developed still photo film;
• an image pickup for picking up an image on said film, converting said image into an image signal, and outputting said image signal;
• a frame detector for detecting a frame using notches or holes formed in each of the frames of said film to indicate the position of each of the frames;
• an operator for fast-feed-searching for a desired frame of said film;
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• a controller for controlling said film feeder to feed said film fast when said fast-feed-searching is performed by said operator, and for temporarily stopping said film for a given period of time when said detector detects a frame during said fast-feed-searching.

A film image input system, comprising:

• a film feeder for feeding a long and narrow developed still photo film;
• an image pickup for picking up an image on said film, converting said image into an image signal, and outputting said image signal;
• a negative/positive determiner for determining whether said film is negative or positive;
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• an image signal processor for performing a negative image processing or a positive image processing on said image signal in accordance with the determination by said negative/positive determiner, and for outputting said image processed image signal to a display;
• wherein said film is housed in a film cartridge having information indicating whether the housed film is negative or positive, and said negative/positive determiner detects the film information of said film cartridge so as to determine whether said film housed in said film cartridge is negative or positive.

A film transporting device, comprising:

• a reel motor rotatable at a speed which can be changed according to voltages input therein;
• a supply reel and a take-up reel to be driven by said reel motor;
• a detector for detecting the film winding diameter of said take-up reel or data corresponding to said film winding diameter;
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• a controller for finding a motor drive diameter so as to keep a film feeding speed at a constant speed between said supply reel and said take-up reel, and outputting said motor drive voltage to said reel motor.

A film feeding unit using a film cartridge including a film cartridge main body for housing a continuous photo film therein, said photo film being provided with one of a hole and a notch respectively formed in each frame of said photo film for indicating a position of each frame, and a single spool rotatably provided in said film cartridge main body and having one end of said photo film affixed thereto in the longitudinal direction thereof, a full length of said photo film being wound around said single spool, said film feeding unit comprising:

• film feeder including a film supply part for housing said film cartridge thereon and supplying said photo film from the housed film cartridge, said film supply part having a spool drive member operatively connecting with said single spool of said film cartridge and a first driver for rotating said spool drive member in a direction to feed said photo film from said cartridge main body and in a direction to rewind said photo film into said cartridge main body, and a film take-up part for taking up said photo film, said film take-up part having a take-up reel for taking up said photo film and a second driver for rotating said take-up reel in a direction to take up said photo film said film feeder feeding said photo film between said film supply part and said film take-up part;
• frame detector for detecting a frame on a said photo film fed between said film supply part and said film take-up part using one of said hole and said notch respectively formed in each frame of said photo film;
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• controller for controlling said film feeder in accordance with frame detection performed by said frame detector.

A film feeding unit using a film cartridge including a film cartridge main body for housing a continuous photo film therein, said photo film being provided with one of a hole and a notch respectively formed in each frame of said photo film for indicating a position of each frame, and a single spool rotatable provided in said film cartridge main body and having one end of said photo film affixed thereto in the longitudinal direction thereof, said photo film being wound around said single spool, said film feeding unit comprising:

• film feeder including a film supply part for housing said film cartridge thereon and supplying said photo film from the housed film cartridge and a film take-up part for taking up said photo film, said film feeder feeding said photo film between said film supply part and said film take-up part;
• frame detector for detecting a frame on a said photo film fed between said film supply part and said film take-up part using one of said hole and said notch respectively formed in each frame of said photo film;
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• controller for controlling said film feeder in accordance with frame detection performed by said frame detector;
• wherein said frame detector increases or decreases a count value by one each time one of said hole and said notch is detected, and detects a frame number according to the counted value;
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• further comprising a display for displaying the frame number detected by said frame detector.

A film feeding unit using a film cartridge including a film cartridge main body for housing a continuous photo film therein, said photo film being provided with one of a hole and a notch respectively formed in each frame of said photo film for indicating a position of each frame, and a single spool rotatably provided in said film cartridge main body and having one end of said photo film affixed thereto in the longitudinal direction thereof, said photo film being wound around said single spool, said film feeding unit comprising:

• film feeder including a film supply part for housing said film cartridge thereon and supplying said photo film from the housed film cartridge and a film take-up part for taking up said photo film, said film feeder feeding said photo film between said film supply part and said film take-up part;
• frame detector for detecting a frame on a said photo film fed between said film supply part and said film take-up part using one of said hole and said notch respectively formed in each frame of said photo film;
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• controller for controlling said film feeder in accordance with frame detection performed by said frame detector;
• wherein said frame detector increases or decreases a count value by one each time one of said hole and said notch is detected, and detects a frame number according to the counted value;
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• wherein said controller stops said film feeder when the frame number detected by said frame detector is a predetermined number.

A film feeding unit using a film cartridge including a film cartridge main body for housing a continuous photo film therein, said photo film being provided with one of a hole and a notch respectively formed in each frame of said photo film for indicating a position of each frame, and a single spool rotatably provided in said film cartridge main body and having one end of said photo film affixed thereto in the longitudinal direction thereof, said photo film being wound around said single spool, said film feeding unit comprising:

• film feeder including a film supply part for housing said film cartridge thereon and supplying said photo film from the housed film cartridge and a film take-up part for taking up said photo film, said film feeder feeding said photo film between said film supply part and said film take-up part;
• frame detector for detecting a frame on a said photo film fed between said film supply part and said film take-up part using one of said hole and said notch respectively formed in each frame of said photo film;
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• controller for controlling said film feeder in accordance with frame detection performed by said frame detector;
• wherein said photo film housed in said film cartridge is coated with a magnetic recording layer;
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• wherein said film feeding unit further comprises magnetic recorder for writing magnetic information onto said magnetic recording layer when said frame detector detects a frame on said photo film.

A film feeding unit using a film cartridge including a film cartridge main body for housing a continuous photo film therein, said photo film being provided with one of a hole and a notch respectively formed in each frame of said photo film for indicating a position of each frame, and a single spool rotatable provided in said film cartridge main body and having one end of said photo film affixed thereto in the longitudinal direction thereof, said photo film being wound around said single spool, said film feeding unit comprising:

• film feeder including a film supply part for housing said film cartridge thereon and supplying said photo film from the housed film cartridge and a film take-up part for taking up said photo film, said film feeder feeding said photo film between said film supply part and said film take-up part;
• frame detector for detecting a frame on a said photo film fed between said film supply part and said film take-up part using one of said hole and said notch respectively formed in each frame of said photo film;
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• controller for controlling said film feeder in accordance with frame detection performed by said frame detector;
• wherein said photo film housed in said film cartridge is coated with a magnetic recording layer;
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• wherein said film feeding unit further comprises magnetic reader for reading magnetic information recorded on said magnetic recording layer when said frame detector detects a frame on said photo film.

A film feeding unit using a film cartridge including a film cartridge main body for housing a continuous photo film therein, said photo film being provided with one of a hole and a notch respectively formed in each frame for indicating a position of each frame and one of a hole and a notch for indicating a rear end of the last frame of said photo film, and a single spool rotatably provided in said film cartridge main body and having one end of said photo film affixed thereto in the longitudinal direction thereof, said photo film being wound around said single spool, said film feeding unit comprising:

• film feeder including a film supply part for housing said film cartridge therein and supplying said photo film from the housed film cartridge and a film take-up part for taking up said photo film, said film feeder feeding said photo film between said film supply part and said film take-up part;
• frame detector for detecting a frame and the rear end of the last frame of said photo film fed between said film supply part and said film take-up part using one of said hole and said notch for indicating the rear end of the last frame of said photo film;
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• controller for controlling said film feeder in accordance with frame detection performed by said frame detector, and prohibiting said film take-up part from taking up said photo film when the rear end of the last frame is detected.

An information recording unit using a film cartridge including a film cartridge main body for housing a continuous photo film therein and a single spool rotatably provided in said film cartridge main body, said single spool having one end of said photo film affixed thereto in the longitudinal direction thereof, said photo film being wound around said single spool, said film cartridge including one of a magnetic recording layer coated on said photo film and an IC memory installed in said cartridge main body, and said information recording unit comprising:

• a film feeder including a film supply part for housing said film cartridge therein and supplying said photo film from the housed film cartridge and a film take-up part for taking up said photo film, said film feeder feeding said photo film between said film supply part and said film take-up part;
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• a recorder for recording information into one of said magnetic recording layer on said photo film and said IC memory;
• wherein said information used for reproducing the frame image recorded on said photo film on the display includes at least one of the following:
• trimming information indicating an area required for reproducing one frame, rotation information indicating a direction of the frame image, zoom information, and scan information.

An information recording unit using a film cartridge including a film cartridge main body for housing a continuous photo film therein and a single spool rotatably provided in said film cartridge main body, said single spool having one end of said photo film affixed thereto in the longitudinal direction thereof, said photo film being wound around said single spool, said film cartridge including one of a magnetic recording layer coated on said photo film and an IC memory installed in said cartridge main body, and said information recording unit comprising:

• a film feeder including a film supply part for housing said film cartridge therein and supplying said photo film from the housed film cartridge and a film take-up part for taking up said photo film, said film feeder feeding said photo film between said film supply part and said film take-up part;
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• a recorder for recording information into one of said magnetic recording layer on said photo film and said IC memory;
• wherein said information used for printing the frame image recorded on said photo film includes at least one of the following:
• information indicating a number of prints, trimming information indicating an area required for printing one frame, and zoom information.

An information recording unit using a film cartridge including a film cartridge main body for housing a continuous photo film therein and a single spool rotatable provided in said film cartridge main body, said single spool having one end of said photo film affixed thereto in the longitudinal direction thereof, said photo film being wound around said single spool, said film cartridge including one of a magnetic recording layer coated on said photo film and an IC memory installed in said cartridge main body, and said information recording unit comprising:

• a film feeder including a film supply part for housing said film cartridge therein and supplying said photo film from the housed film cartridge and a film take-up part for taking up said photo film, said film feeder feeding said photo film between said film supply part and said film take-up part;
• a recorder for recording information into one of said magnetic recording layer on said photo film and said IC memory;
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• an internal memory for storing said information, and wherein said recorder records information stored once in said internal memory onto said magnetic recording layer on said photo film while said film feeder is feeding said photo film.

An information recording unit using a film cartridge including a film cartridge main body for housing a developed continuous photo film therein and a single spool rotatably provided in said film cartridge main body, said single spool having one end of said photo film affixed thereto in the longitudinal direction thereof, said photo film being wound around said single spool, said film cartridge including one of a magnetic recording layer coated on said photo film and an IC memory installed in said cartridge main body, and said information recording unit comprising:

• a film feeder including a film supply part for housing said film cartridge therein and supplying said photo film from the housed film cartridge and a film take-up part for taking up said photo film, said film feeder feeding said photo film between said film supply part and said film take-up part;
• an image pickup for picking up a frame image from said photo film to display the picked up frame image on a display;
• an information input for inputting information relating to the frame image displayed on said display;
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• a recorder for recording the information input by said information input into one of said magnetic recording layer on said photo film and said IC memory.

A magnetic information recording and reading unit using a film cartridge including a film cartridge main body for housing a continuous photo film therein and a single spool rotatably provided in said film cartridge main body, said single spool having one end of said photo film affixed thereto in the longitudinal direction thereof, said photo film being wound around said single spool and coated with a magnetic recording layer, said magnetic information recording and reading unit comprising:

• a film feeder including a film supply part for housing said film cartridge therein and supplying said photo film from the housed film cartridge and a film take-up part for taking up said photo film, said film feeder feeding said photo film between said film supply part and said film take-up part;
• a magnetic reader including a first magnetic head abutting against said magnetic recording layer on said photo film, said first magnetic head located at a position upstream from an image pickup area for picking up an image from said photo film and located between said film supply part and said film take-up part, said magnetic reader reading out information relating to a frame on said photo film in said image pickup area from said magnetic recording layer at said frame via said first magnetic head when said photo film is fed on a frame-by-frame basis;
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• a magnetic recorder including a second magnetic head abutting against said magnetic recording layer on said photo film, said second magnetic head located at a position downstream from said image pickup area, said magnetic recorder recording information relating to the frame on said photo film in said image pickup area onto said magnetic recording layer at one of the top edge and the bottom edge of said frame via said second magnetic head when said photo film is fed on a frame-by-frame basis.

An information reading unit using a film cartridge including a film cartridge main body for housing a continuous photo film therein and a single spool rotatably provided in said film cartridge main body, said single spool having one end of said photo film affixed thereto in the longitudinal direction thereof, said photo film being wound around said single spool, said film cartridge including one of a magnetic recording layer coated on said photo film and an IC memory installed in said cartridge main body, and said information reading unit comprising:

• a film feeder including a film supply part for housing said film cartridge therein and supplying said photo film from the housed film cartridge and a film take-up part for taking up said photo film, said film feeder feeding said photo film between said film supply part and said film take-up part;
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• a reader for reading information recorded in one of said magnetic recording layer on said photo film and said IC memory, said information being information for reproducing on a display a frame image recorded on said photo film;
• wherein said information used for reproducing, on the display, the frame image recorded on said photo film includes at least one of the following:
• trimming information indicating an area required for reproducing one frame, rotation information indicating a direction of a frame image, zoom information, and scan information.

An information reading unit using a film cartridge including a film cartridge main body for housing a continuous photo film therein and a single spool rotatably provided in said film cartridge main body, said single spool having one end of said photo film affixed thereto in the longitudinal direction thereof, said photo film being wound around said single spool, said film cartridge including one of a magnetic recording layer coated on said photo film and an IC memory installed in said cartridge main body, and said information reading unit comprising:

• a film feeder including a film supply part for housing said film cartridge therein and supplying said photo film from the housed film cartridge and a film take-up part for taking up said photo film, said film feeder feeding said photo film between said film supply part and said film take-up part;
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• a reader for reading information recorded in one of said magnetic recording layer on said photo film and said IC memory, said information being information for reproducing on a display a frame image recorded on said photo film;
• wherein said information used for printing the frame image recorded on said photo film includes at least one of the following:
• information indicating a number of prints, trimming information indicating an area required for printing one frame, and zoom information.

An information reading unit using a film cartridge including a film cartridge main body for housing a continuous photo film therein and a single spool rotatably provided in said film cartridge main body, said single spool having one end of said photo film affixed thereto in the longitudinal direction thereof, said photo film being wound around said single spool, said film cartridge including one of a magnetic recording layer coated on said photo film and an IC memory installed in said cartridge main body, and said information reading unit comprising:

• a film feeder including a film supply part for housing said film cartridge therein and supplying said photo film from the housed film cartridge and a film take-up part for taking up said photo film, said film feeder feeding said photo film between said film supply part and said film take-up part;
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• a reader for reading information recorded in one of said magnetic recording layer on said photo film and said IC memory;
• an internal memory for storing said information;
• wherein said reader stores, in said internal memory, the information read from said magnetic recording layer on said photo film while said photo film is fed backwards, and reads the stored information backwards from said internal memory while said photo film is fed backwards by said film feeder.

An information reading unit using a film cartridge including a film cartridge main body for housing a continuous photo film therein and a single spool rotatably provided in said film cartridge main body, said single spool having one end of said photo film affixed thereto in the longitudinal direction thereof, said photo film being wound around said single spool, said film cartridge including one of a magnetic recording layer coated on said photo film and an IC memory installed in said cartridge main body, and said information reading unit comprising:

• a film feeder including a film supply part for housing said film cartridge therein and supplying said photo film from the housed film cartridge and a film take-up part for taking up said photo film, said film feeder feeding said photo film between said film supply part and said film take-up part;
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• a reader for reading information recorded in one of said magnetic recording layer on said photo film and said IC memory;
• wherein said photo film housed in said film cartridge is developed film;
• wherein said information reading unit further comprises an image pickup for picking up a frame image on said photo film to display the picked up frame image on a display;
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• wherein said reader outputs a sound signal corresponding to said sound information, when said reader reads said sound information and the frame image corresponding to said sound information is displayed on said display.

An information reading unit using a film cartridge including a film cartridge main body for housing a continuous photo film therein and a single spool rotatably provided in said film cartridge main body, said single spool having one end of said photo film affixed thereto in the longitudinal direction thereof, said photo film being wound around said single spool, said film cartridge including one of a magnetic recording layer coated on said photo film and an IC memory installed in said cartridge main body, and said information reading unit comprising:

• a film feeder including a film supply part for housing said film cartridge therein and supplying said photo film from the housed film cartridge and a film take-up part for taking up said photo film said film feeder feeding said photo film between said film supply part and said film take-up part;
• a reader for reading information recorded in one of said magnetic recording layer on said photo film and said IC memory;
• an image pickup for picking up a frame image from said photo film to display the picked up frame image on a display;
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• a controller for controlling said film feeder to sequentially feed said photo film on a frame-by-frame basis after pre-winding said photo film in said film cartridge when said reader reads said pre-wind information;
• wherein said photo film housed in said film cartridge is developed film and said photograghing information includes pre-wind information indicating that photographing is being started after said photo film is pre-wound.

A film image reproducing unit using a film cartridge including a film cartridge main body for housing a developed continuous photo film therein and a single spool rotatably provided in said film cartridge main body, said single spool having one end of said photo film affixed thereto in the longitudinal direction thereof, said photo film being wound around said single spool, said film cartridge including one of a magnetic recording layer coated on said photo film and an IC memory installed in said cartridge main body, and said film image reproducing unit comprising:

• a film feeder including a film supply part for housing said film cartridge therein and supplying said photo film from the housed film cartridge and a take-up part for taking up said photo film, said film feeder feeding said photo film between said film supply part and said film take-up part;
• a reader for reading information recorded in one of said magnetic recording layer on said photo film and said IC memory;
• an image pickup for picking up a frame image from said photo film to display the picked up frame image on a display;
• and
• a controller for controlling the picked up frame image to be displayed on said display in accordance with the information read by said reader.

A film image output unit using a film cartridge including a film cartridge main body for housing a developed continuous photo film therein and a single spool rotatably provided in said film cartridge main body, said single spool having one end of said photo film affixed thereto in the longitudinal direction thereof, said photo film being wound around said single spool, said film image output unit comprising:

• a film feeder including a film supply part for housing said film cartridge therein and supplying said photo film from the housed film cartridge and a film take-up part for taking up said photo film, said film feeder feeding said photo film between said film supply part and said film take-up part;
• an image pickup for picking up a frame image from said photo film fed by said film feeder to output an image signal representing the picked up frame image;
• an image memory;
• and
• a controller for storing, in said image memory, at least one of an image signal representing one frame output from said image pick up and an image signal representing a multiple image composed of multiple frames output from said image pick up, and reading out the image signal stored in said image memory.