JP2001215629A - Photograph processing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a photograph processing device which is capable printing the images photographed or formed on a desired date of printing simply when a customer assigns, for example, the desired date of photographing, etc., at which the images are desired to be printed. SOLUTION: A controller is provided with an image retrieval function for retrieving the images desired to be printed from an image recording medium in accordance with the information on the date of photographing read by a reader so that the images suitable for the retrieval conditions inputted via a keyboard are retrieved as the retrieval conditions for the date of photographing or forming of the images desired to be printed is inputted to the controller and so that only such images are printed by a print processing device.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a photographic processing apparatus for printing, for example, an image photographed on a film or an image photographed on a recording medium of a digital camera on photographic paper.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a photographic processing apparatus of this type includes, for example, an image reading apparatus for reading an image of each frame of a developed film, an exposure section for printing an image read by the image reading apparatus on photographic paper, and an image reading apparatus. Equipped with a print processing device composed of a development processing unit for developing the photographic paper exposed by the exposure unit, and a control device that controls the drive of the print processing device based on image data from the image reading device are doing.

In the above-described photographic processing apparatus, when performing print processing in the print processing apparatus, an image on the developed film is read by an image reading apparatus, and based on the read image data, an exposure of the print processing apparatus is performed by a control apparatus. The printing unit is operated to print an image on photographic paper, and then the photographic paper is developed in a development processing unit of a print processing apparatus to finish a photograph.

[0004]

As a method of printing only a specific frame image on a film by the above-described photographic processing apparatus, a frame number of the image is designated by a customer, and a specific frame number is designated in accordance with the designated frame number. An operator performs a printing process.

[0005] For this reason, even if a customer wants to print only a frame image only for the day of the athletic meet, for example, from a large number of frame images in the photographed film, he or she looks at the film or index print and wants to print the image. It is necessary to check the frame number every time, it is troublesome, and even if the operator who performs the printing process,
Each frame number of the image specified by the customer must be entered each time, and the workability of the printing process is complicated.

The present invention has been developed in view of the above circumstances, and has as its object the purpose of, for example, an advanced photo system (hereinafter referred to as an AP) which is processed by a photo processing apparatus.
Pay attention to the fact that various information such as the shooting date and time or the creation date and time is magnetically or optically recorded on a film or a recording medium of a digital camera. An object of the present invention is to provide a photographic processing apparatus which can print an image photographed or created on that date and time simply by designating the creation date and time.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the date and time information is recorded from an image recording medium in which date and time information such as the date and time when the image was taken or created is recorded. A reading device that reads, a print processing device that prints an image recorded on an image recording medium on photographic paper, a control device that controls the reading device and the print processing device, and a device that inputs various information to the control device. An image search function for searching an image to be printed from an image recording medium based on date and time information read by a reading device, and a photographing or creation date and time of an image to be printed. With the input of search conditions such as to the control device via the input means, an image matching the search conditions input via the input means is retrieved by the image search device. In search and is to that to be print processing by the image only the print processing apparatus.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a photographic processing apparatus according to the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

The photographic processing apparatus schematically shown in FIG. 1 basically includes a scanner 1 as an image reading apparatus for reading an image of each frame photographed on a developed APS film F, and a method for converting each frame image into an image. Correspondingly, a magnetic reading head 2 as a reading device for reading date and time information such as a shooting date, a shooting time and the like recorded as magnetic data on both sides in the width direction of the APS film F at the time of shooting, and a scanner 1 for reading. A display device 3 for displaying the read image on the monitor screen 30, a print processing device 4 for printing the image read by the scanner 1 on the photographic paper P, and controlling these constituent devices 1, 2, 3, 4 And a keyboard 6 as input means for inputting various information and the like to the control device 5.

The print processing apparatus 4 includes a digital exposure mechanism 41 for printing each image read by the scanner 1 on the photographic paper P, and a development processing for developing the photographic paper P exposed by the exposure mechanism 41. Mechanism 42, and each image read by the scanner 1 is exposed to the photographic paper P by the exposure mechanism 41.
After the printing, the photographic paper P is developed by the development processing mechanism 42 to finish the photograph.

In the figure, reference numeral 11 denotes a negative mask unit.

The control device 5 includes a microcomputer. The microcomputer program includes an image correction function 51 for correcting an image read by the scanner 1 and an image correction function 51 for displaying the image read by the scanner 1 on the display device 3. An image display function 52 to be displayed on the monitor screen 30 and an image search function 53 for searching a film for an image to be subjected to print processing based on date and time information read by the magnetic reading head 2 are constructed.

In the program of the control device 5, a “photographing date and time designation print” mode is established, and the control device 4 is switched to the “photographing date and time designation print” mode by a key operation of the input device 6. Of the read images, only the image captured only on the designated date and time is printed.

More specifically, by operating the keys on the keyboard 6, the control device 5 is switched to the "photographing date / time designation print" mode, and search conditions such as the date / time and time of photographing of an image to be printed are input to the control device 5. At the same time, each frame image of the film F set in the negative mask unit 11 is read by the scanner 1, and date and time information such as a shooting date and a shooting time recorded for each frame image of the film F is read by the magnetic reading head 2. read. Then, based on the date and time information of each frame image read by the magnetic reading head 2, the image search function 53 searches whether or not the frame image corresponds to the date specified via the keyboard 6. If the search condition is satisfied, the frame image is printed on photographic paper by the print processing device 4, while if not, the print process is not performed.

The search conditions such as the photographing date and time by operating the keyboard 6 are specified not only for a specific date and time but also for a certain period, for example, from January 10 to January 20, 2000. , A photo taken before January 3, 2000, or a photo taken after 5:00 pm on January 2, 2000 can be designated. Next, a description will be given of a case in which the photo processing apparatus having the above-described configuration prints only the one designated by the customer, for example, the one photographed on New Year's Day in 2000.

First, the key operation of the keyboard 6 switches the control device 5 to the "photographing date / time designation print" mode.
While inputting the date condition of January 1, 2 into the control device 5,
Developed APS film F is applied to negative mask unit 11
, And the information on the shooting date and time recorded on the film F for each frame image is sequentially read by the magnetic reading head 2.

Then, the image retrieval function 53 of the control device picture 5
By using the information on the shooting date and time of the frame image read by the magnetic read head 2, whether the frame image corresponds to the specified date is searched. The frame image is read by the scanner 1 and printed by the print processing device 4 on photographic paper, while the frame image that does not match the search condition, that is, January 2000
The print processing is not performed on the frame images photographed other than one day, and the above processing is performed for each frame image.

In performing the above-described print processing,
When pre-scanning is performed by pre-scanning each frame image of the film by the scanner 1, only the frame image that matches the search condition is displayed on the monitor screen 30 by the image display function 52, and the image correction function is performed. It is preferable to perform correction such as color density at 51.

Thus, in the photographic processing apparatus of the above-described embodiment, the customer need only specify the desired photographing date and time, for example, to perform the print processing. It is only necessary to input the date and time when the date and time have been entered. With the input of the date and time by the operator, only the frame images taken on that date and time from the film F can be printed, and thus the workability of the print processing as a whole is good. It becomes.

In the above embodiment, the present invention is applied to a photographic processing apparatus for performing a printing process on an APS film. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, an image photographed by a digital camera or created by a computer can be used. The present invention may be applied to a photographic processing device that performs print processing from a recording medium such as a smart media or a floppy disk that captures a printed graphic or the like.

Also, the present invention can be applied to a photographic processing apparatus for performing print processing of 135 film (35 mm film) which is generally used.
That is, a reading device that can read the date imprinted on each frame image by the date imprinting function mounted on the camera is mounted, and based on the photographing date and time read by this reading device, a desired image can be obtained in the same procedure as described above. Only the print processing can be performed.

[0022]

As described above, according to the photographic processing apparatus of the present invention, an image search function for searching an image to be printed from an image recording medium based on the date and time information read by the reading apparatus is provided. Along with inputting search conditions such as shooting or creation date and time of an image to be processed to the control device via the input unit, an image matching the search condition input via the input unit is searched by an image search function, Since only the image is printed by the print processing device, the search condition such as the photographing or creation date and time of the image to be printed is input to the control device by the input means, and the image is recorded on the image recording medium. Based on the date and time information, only the image at the date and time when the image to be printed was shot or created can be printed, Compared to the case of printing process by specifying the frame number of the image to be printed on, workability of the print processing is improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a photographic processing apparatus according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 F film (image recording medium) 2 magnetic reading head (reading device) 4 print processing device 5 control device 53 image search function 6 keyboard (input means)

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A reading device for reading date and time information from an image recording medium on which an image and date and time of photographing or creation of the image are recorded, and an image recorded on the image recording medium is printed on photographic paper. In a photographic processing device comprising a print processing device, a control device for controlling the reading device and the print processing device, and an input unit for inputting various information to the control device, based on date and time information read by the reading device. An image search function for searching for an image to be subjected to print processing from an image recording medium is provided, and a search condition such as shooting or creation date and time of an image to be printed is input to the control device via the input means. The image search function searches for an image that satisfies the search condition input via the MFP, and prints only that image using the print processing apparatus. Photographic processing apparatus, characterized in that had Unishi. 2. The photographic processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image recording medium is a photographic film.