US5995197A
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Film information obtaining apparatus
Assignee: Fujifilm Holdings Corp
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Filing: 1997-10-27
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Granted: 1999-11-30
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Expires: 2017-10-27
Abstract
Abstract An apparatus for obtaining information from a film includes a CCD line sensor for dividing a photographic film into a multiplicity of portions to meter portions in a predetermined range, including the image recording range on the photographic film, to sequentially output photometric data; an optical film for reducing a light beam made incident on the CCD line sensor from a region in the predetermined range and outside the image recording range on the photographic film; photometric condition adjusting component for adjusting the photometric condition of the CCD line sensor such that it corresponds to the quantity of a light beam made incident on the CCD line sensor from the image recording range; sampling circuits for extracting, from photometric data output from the CCD line sensor, photometric data of a portion on the photographic film in which a predetermined optical characteristic corresponding to information, which must be detected or obtained from the photographic film, exists by a film edge detecting sampling circuit, film movement detecting sampling circuit, a DX code detecting sampling circuit, a frame position detecting sampling circuit, a frame size detecting sampling circuit and an exposure controlling image data sampling circuit and memories arranged to store photometric data extracted by the sampling circuits and connected to each sampling circuit.
Inventors
- 👤 Tatsuo Yoshino
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 13:22
CPC Classifications
G; G03; G03B; G03B27/00; G03B27/32; G03B27/52; G03B27/62; G03B27/6271; G03B27/6285; G03B27/72; G03B27/73; G03B27/735; G03B2206/00; G03B2206/004
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 22
Claim 1
Independent Claim
217 words
An apparatus for obtaining information of a film, comprising: single photometric means for dividing photographic film into a multiplicity of portions to meter the photographic film, and sequentially outputting photometric data of the multiplicity of portions in a predetermined range on the photographic film including an image recording range; extracting means for extracting, from photometric data outputted from said photometric means, photometric data of portions on the photographic film, in which a predetermined optical characteristic corresponding to information, which must be detected or obtained from the photographic film, exists; and storage means for storing photometric data extracted by said extracting means wherein said photometric means includes a CCD line sensor having a red CCD cell array having a filter permitting a red light component to pass through and disposed on the incidental side, a green CCD cell array having a filter permitted a green light component to pass through and disposed on the incidental side and a blue CCD cell array having a filter permitting a blue light component to pass through and disposed on the incidental side in such a manner that said CCD cell arrays are disposed in parallel with one another in the direction of the width of the film and said CCD cell arrays are separated from one another for a predetermined distance.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
217 words
An apparatus for obtaining information of a film, comprising: single photometric means for dividing photographic film into a multiplicity of portions to meter the photographic film, and sequentially outputting photometric data of the multiplicity of portions in a predetermined range on the photographic film including an image recording range; extracting means for extracting, from photometric data outputted from said photometric means, photometric data of portions on the photographic film, in which a predetermined optical characteristic corresponding to information, which must be detected or obtained from the photographic film, exists; and storage means for storing photometric data extracted by said extracting means wherein said photometric means includes a CCD line sensor having a red CCD cell array having a filter permitting a red light component to pass through and disposed on the incidental side, a green CCD cell array having a filter permitted a green light component to pass through and disposed on the incidental side and a blue CCD cell array having a filter permitting a blue light component to pass through and disposed on the incidental side in such a manner that said CCD cell arrays are disposed in parallel with one another in the direction of the width of the film and said CCD cell arrays are separated from one another for a predetermined distance.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
59 words
An apparatus for obtaining information of a film according to claim 1, wherein said extracting means is a plurality of sampling circuits connected to a data bus to which photometric data corresponding to any one of plural types of information items obtained by said photometric means is transferred, and arranged to arbitrarily extract photometric data from said data bus.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
62 words
An apparatus for obtaining information of a film according to claim 2, wherein said storage means is composed of a plurality of memories connected to said plural sampling circuits and arranged to store plural types of information to be related to each of the plural types of information when the plural types of information are detected or obtained from the photographic film.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
71 words
An apparatus for obtaining information of a film according to claim 3, wherein said extracting means is able to change the portion on the photographic film from which photometric data outputted from said photometric means is extracted, and said extracting means changes the portion on the photographic film from which photometric data is extracted in accordance with the type of information which must be detected or obtained from the photographic film.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
50 words
An apparatus for obtaining information of a film according to claim 3, further comprising processing means for processing photometric data to be stored in said storage means, such that said photometric data is converted to a data format of information which corresponds to data which must be detected or obtained.
Claim 7
Independent Claim
204 words
An apparatus for obtaining information of a film, comprising: single photometric means for dividing photographic film into a multiplicity of portions to meter the photographic film, and sequentially outputting photometric data of the multiplicity of portions in a predetermined range on the photographic film including an image recording range; extracting means for extracting, from photometric data outputted from said photometric means, photometric data of portions on the photographic film, in which a predetermined optical characteristic corresponding to information, which must be detected or obtained from the photograhic film, exists; storage means for storing photometric data extracted by said extracting means wherein information, which must be detected or obtained, is any one of the type and state of the photographic film, the size and the recorded position of an image recorded on the photographic film and the quantity of the characteristic of the image, and said apparatus further comprises processing means for detecting the type and state of the photographic film, the size and the recorded position of the image recorded on the photographic film and the quantity of the characteristic of the image indicting the density, the hue or the like of the image in accordance with photometric data stored in said storage means.
Claim 8
Independent Claim
204 words
An apparatus for obtaining information of a film, comprising: single photometric means for dividing photographic film into a multiplicity of portions to meter the photographic film, and sequentially outputting photometric data of the multiplicity of portions in a predetermined range on the photographic film including an image recording range; extracting means for extracting, from photometric data outputted from said photometric means, photometric data of portions on the photographic film, in which a predetermined optical characteristic corresponding to information, which must be detected or obtained from the photograhic film, exists; storage means for storing photometric data extracted by said extracting means wherein information, which must be detected or obtained, is any one of the type and state of the photographic film, the size and the recorded position of an image recorded on the photographic film and the quantity of the characteristic of the image, and said apparatus further comprises processing means for detecting the type and state of the photographic film, the size and the recorded position of the image recorded on the photographic film and the quantity of the characteristic of the image indicting the density, the hue or the like of the image in accordance with photometric data stored in said storage means.
Claim 9
Independent Claim
184 words
An apparatus for obtaining information of a film, comprising: single photometric means for dividing photographic film into a multiplicity of portions to meter the photographic film, and sequentially outputting photometric data of the multiplicity of portions in a predetermined range on the photographic film including an image recording range; extracting means for extracting, from photometric data outputted from said photometric means, photometric data of portions on the photographic film, in which a predetermined optical characteristic corresponding to information, which must be detected or obtained from the photographic film, exists; storage means for storing photometric data extracted by said extracting means wherein one of information items, which must be detected or obtained, is image data which can be obtained by metering an image recorded on the photographic film, and said apparatus further comprises; and first processing means for subjecting photometric data corresponding to information except for the image data stored in said storage means to a first predetermined process, and second processing means for subjecting photometric data corresponding to information except for the image data stored in said storage means to a second predetermined process.
Claim 10
Independent Claim
184 words
An apparatus for obtaining information of a film, comprising: single photometric means for dividing photographic film into a multiplicity of portions to meter the photographic film, and sequentially outputting photometric data of the multiplicity of portions in a predetermined range on the photographic film including an image recording range; extracting means for extracting, from photometric data outputted from said photometric means, photometric data of portions on the photographic film, in which a predetermined optical characteristic corresponding to information, which must be detected or obtained from the photographic film, exists; storage means for storing photometric data extracted by said extracting means wherein one of information items, which must be detected or obtained, is image data which can be obtained by metering an image recorded on the photographic film, and said apparatus further comprises; and first processing means for subjecting photometric data corresponding to information except for the image data stored in said storage means to a first predetermined process, and second processing means for subjecting photometric data corresponding to information except for the image data stored in said storage means to a second predetermined process.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
85 words
An apparatus for obtaining information of a film according to claim 7, wherein said storage means is composed of a first storage portion connected to a first bus and arranged to store photometric data corresponding to the image data and a second storage portion connected to a second bus and arranged to store photometric data corresponding to information except for the image data, wherein said first processing means is connected to said first bus and said second processing means is connected to said second bus.
Claim 12
Independent Claim
157 words
An apparatus for obtaining information of a film, comprising: single photometric means for dividing photographic film into a multiplicity of portions to meter the photographic film, and sequentially outputting photometric data of the multiplicity of portions in a predetermined range on the photographic film including an image recording range; extracting means for extracting, from photometric data outputted from said photometric means, photometric data of portions on the photographic film, in which a predetermined optical characteristic corresponding to information, which must be detected or obtained from the photographic film, exists; storage means for storing photometric data extracted by said extracting means light reducing means for reducing a light beam made incident on said photometric means for a region outside said image recording range; and photometric condition adjusting means for adjusting the photometric condition adapted to said photometric means to the condition corresponding to the quantity of light made incident on said photometric means from said image recording range.
Claim 13
Independent Claim
157 words
An apparatus for obtaining information of a film, comprising: single photometric means for dividing photographic film into a multiplicity of portions to meter the photographic film, and sequentially outputting photometric data of the multiplicity of portions in a predetermined range on the photographic film including an image recording range; extracting means for extracting, from photometric data outputted from said photometric means, photometric data of portions on the photographic film, in which a predetermined optical characteristic corresponding to information, which must be detected or obtained from the photographic film, exists; storage means for storing photometric data extracted by said extracting means light reducing means for reducing a light beam made incident on said photometric means for a region outside said image recording range; and photometric condition adjusting means for adjusting the photometric condition adapted to said photometric means to the condition corresponding to the quantity of light made incident on said photometric means from said image recording range.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
89 words
An apparatus for obtaining information of a film according to claim 9, wherein said photometric condition adjusting means adjusts the photometric condition in such a manner that a level of a signal outputted from said photometric means corresponding to a light beam from a density through portion is not saturated, yet the level is made to be substantially a highest level when the density through portion, the density of which substantially coincides with the density of the film base of the photographic film, exists in said image recording range.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
76 words
An apparatus for obtaining information of a film according to claim 9, wherein said photometric condition adjusting means detects a lowest density portion in the image recording range on the photographic film and adjusts the photometric condition in such a manner that the level of a signal outputted from the photometric means corresponding to a light beam from the lowest density portion is not saturated, yet the level is made to be substantially a highest level.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
37 words
An apparatus for obtaining information of a film according to claim 9, wherein said light reducing means is an optical film having a spectral characteristic approximating the spectral characteristic of a film base of the photographic film.
Claim 17
Independent Claim
182 words
An apparatus for obtaining information of a film comprising: irradiation means for irradiating a predetermined range larger than an image recording range on a photographic film with a light beam; single photometric means on which a light beam is made incident from said predetermined range on the photographic film, which divides said predetermined range into a multiplicity of portions to meter the multiplicity of the portions and which sequentially outputs photometric data of the portions; light reducing means for reducing a light beam made incident on said photometric means from a region in said predetermined range yet outside said image recording range on the photographic film; photometric condition adjusting means for adjusting a photometric condition of said photometric means to a condition corresponding to the quantity of the light beam made incident on said photometric means from the image recording range; and detecting means for detecting a predetermined information item existing outside the image recording range on the photographic film in accordance with a result of the photometric operation of a region in said predetermined range yet outside the image recording range.
Claim 18
Independent Claim
182 words
An apparatus for obtaining information of a film comprising: irradiation means for irradiating a predetermined range larger than an image recording range on a photographic film with a light beam; single photometric means on which a light beam is made incident from said predetermined range on the photographic film, which divides said predetermined range into a multiplicity of portions to meter the multiplicity of the portions and which sequentially outputs photometric data of the portions; light reducing means for reducing a light beam made incident on said photometric means from a region in said predetermined range yet outside said image recording range on the photographic film; photometric condition adjusting means for adjusting a photometric condition of said photometric means to a condition corresponding to the quantity of the light beam made incident on said photometric means from the image recording range; and detecting means for detecting a predetermined information item existing outside the image recording range on the photographic film in accordance with a result of the photometric operation of a region in said predetermined range yet outside the image recording range.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
89 words
An apparatus for obtaining information of a film according to claim 13, wherein said photometric condition adjusting means adjusts the photometric condition in such a manner that the level of a signal outputted from said photometric means corresponding to a light beam from a density through portion is not saturated, yet the level is made to be substantially a highest level when the density through portion, the density of which substantially coincides with the density of the film base of the photographic film, exists in said image recording range.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
76 words
An apparatus for obtaining information of a film according to claim 13, wherein said photometric condition adjusting means detects a lowest density portion in the image recording range on the photographic film and adjusts the photometric condition in such a manner that the level of a signal outputted from the photometric means corresponding to a light beam from the lowest density portion is not saturated, yet the level is made to be substantially a highest level.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
37 words
An apparatus for obtaining information of a film according to claim 13, wherein said light reducing means is an optical film having a spectral characteristic approximating the spectral characteristic of the film base of the photographic film.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
40 words
An apparatus for obtaining information of a film according to claim 13, wherein said light reducing means is an optical film arranged in such a manner that transmittance of blue light Tb≦transmittance of green light Tg≦transmittance of red light Tr.
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