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• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
  • H04N1/00—Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
  • H04N1/387—Composing, repositioning or otherwise geometrically modifying originals
  • H04N1/3871—Composing, repositioning or otherwise geometrically modifying originals the composed originals being of different kinds, e.g. low- and high-resolution originals

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• the present invention relates to an installation for color capture of images, such as slides, video images, objects, telephoto, and of texts intended for the integration of text and color image for the graphic arts industry, located upstream of the machines arranged for the production of supports intended for use by said graphic industry for reproduction in polychromy.
• the installation according to the present invention is characterized in that it comprises means for capturing color images and / or slides and / or video images and / or objects and / or telephoto and text, from at least one smart workstation, commonly called a personal computer, and a management interface comprising software designed to manage and direct interactively, on the one hand, the elements entered to and through the interfaces of said machine or machines and, on the other hand, the various interfaces allowing the access to said machines.
• the management software is the same. However, modules specific to the downstream machine and its interfaces must also be introduced in the management software.
• This installation according to an embodiment of the invention is intended to be arranged upstream of a raster image processor, for example an IP 100 machine (registered trademark) of the German firm Dr HELL or else for the production of a tape magnetic on which the various signals are recorded, allowing subsequently a machine of the aforementioned IP 100 type to perform the same work as if it were connected directly to the installation according to the invention.
• a raster image processor for example an IP 100 machine (registered trademark) of the German firm Dr HELL or else for the production of a tape magnetic on which the various signals are recorded
• the installation is intended to be arranged upstream of a color processing system of the ChromaCom type (registered trademark) also from the firm Dr HELL or for recording signals suitable on a magnetic strip which can then control the aforementioned machine in the same way as if the installation is directly connected to the ChromaCom machine.
• ChromaCom registered trademark
• the installation makes it possible to output a color proof on a color photocopying device such as the CLC (registered trademark) of the company CANON allowing, before removing the supports intended for printing in full color for example on an IP 100 or ChromaCom machine to have a color proof corresponding to the image that will be obtained on the final paper supports (newspaper, periodical ).
• a color photocopying device such as the CLC (registered trademark) of the company CANON
• This test makes it possible to prejudge the quality of the image and to see if it is necessary to make certain adjustments before the various films (4 if it is a four-color process), are produced by a chromacrom or IP 100 installation or any similar installation.
• FIGS. 1 to 6 we have represented a diagram of an installation according to the invention controlling a raster image processor and in particular an IP 100 (registered trademark) through different interfaces and different situations which will be described in detail by the FIGS. 1a to 6a correspond to the same situation except that the control signals are recorded on a magnetic tape in order subsequently to control or defer an image processor of the IP 100 type (registered trademark).
• IP 100 registered trademark
• FIG. 7 shows an arrangement allowing the sending of a command to a raster image processor such as the IP 100 (registered trademark).
• Figures 8 to 12 show a diagram of an installation according to the invention for controlling a color processing system of the ChromaCom (registered trademark) type through different interfaces and for different works, while Figures 8a to 12a represent similar installations allowing the control signals to be recorded on magnetic tape to subsequently order a delayed installation of the ChromaCom type (registered trademark).
• ChromaCom registered trademark
• Figures 13 to 16 show a diagram of an installation for controlling a photocopier CLC type color (registered trademark of CANON) for the output of a test through the different interfaces and for different jobs.
• a photocopier CLC type color registered trademark of CANON
• FIG. 17 represents a diagram of an installation allowing the conversion of the PICT language into language
• figure 18 is a synthesis of all figures l to 17.
• the first device designated by 1 is a camera making it possible to capture the image of a three-dimensional object such as for example a video camera and to transmit it to the station working 4, which can be any other personal computer (PC-AT), the applicant has successfully tested with a MACINTOSH IIx device, the second is a slide scanner designated by 2, and the third is a photo scanner or images located on a flexible flat support designated by 3, all of these devices being able to capture color images.
• These images are sent to the workstation 4 to be viewed and to allow us to see whether the image must be retouched before further processing or whether as it is captured can be used.
• IP 100 JOB FILE IP 100 JOB FILE
• GP IB GENERAL PURPOSE INTEFACE BUS
• Figure 2 we have a similar configuration except that this time it is a text which is entered at workstation 4 and which after passing through the DISIC interface is transformed into written text in DISIC and goes through the same JOB and GPIB interfaces in Figure 1 to exit on a PIT (raster image processor) machine of the IP 100 type.
• PIT raster image processor
• FIG. 2a a path similar to that of FIG. 2 is obtained except that the information is recorded through an interface M on a magnetic tape recorder MB to be used offline and to control a PIT machine and to obtain the same result as 'live on figure 2.
• FIG. 3 a similar installation for processing an image through a TIFF IMAGE FILE FORMAT interface for processing, mainly, a black and white image with before going through the usual interfaces DISIC, JOB and GPIB creation of an interface similar to IPLL which will be called RC (RUNLENGTH-CODE) also intended to be released on a PIT machine.
• RC RUNLENGTH-CODE
• FIG. 3a we have, as in FIGS. 1a and 2a, the recording of the signals similar to those of FIG. 3 on a magnetic tape through an adequate interface M.
• the installation shows processing of the images in gray, an interface called TIFF 4 which has been developed by the applicant starting from the known TIFF interface allows the separation of the colors and subsequently through the interfaces as before. DISIC, JOB, and GPIB obtaining the desired support through a PIT machine.
• FIG. 4a we have an arrangement similar to that of FIG. 4, but for the production of a magnetic tape.
• FIG. 5 an installation similar to that of FIG. 4 is shown, except that the first interface located downstream from the installation according to the invention is an interface known worldwide as TIFF.
• FIG. 5a we have, for a configuration similar to FIG. 51, recording on a magnetic tape.
• FIG. 6 a similar installation allows, through the TIFF interface, to process a color image via the usual DISIC, JOB, and GPIB interfaces, to enter a PIT machine, but this time, an additional interface is required. than we're going to call CMYK allowing color separation.
• FIG. 6a we have a configuration similar to that of FIG. 6 for recording the signals on a magnetic tape.
• FIG. 8 we have treated, in a manner analogous to the preceding figures, the information and images captured by the installation according to the invention in order to exit the supports through a color processing system and more precisely a system of the ChromaCom type (registered trademark ).
• the image captured in black and white passes through a TIFF type interface before passing through the CR interface analogous to the IPLL interface which follows and then through a CC interface (from CHROMACOM) followed a GPIB interface for controlling the machine located upstream which will be called STC (Color Processing System) which in the present case is as we said previously a ChromaCom machine from Dr HELL.
• STC Color Processing System
• Figure 8a we have the same configuration as Figure 8 except that the GP interface IB is replaced by an interface M making it possible to store the signals on a magnetic tape to control a machine of the STC type offline.
• Figure 9a we have the same configuration as Figure 9, except that the information is not sent directly to an STC machine, but through an interface M in an MB recorder for recording on a magnetic tape as in other cases.
• FIG. 11a the information processed through the IPLL interface is recorded on a magnetic tape as before.
• FIG. 12 through the TIFF interface, a gray image is processed to be sent through the CC and GPIB interfaces to an STC machine.
• FIG. 12a the same information instead of being sent directly to the STC machine is stored on a magnetic tape.
• the machine located downstream from the installation according to the invention is a color photocopier and in particular the CLC from CANON.
• This installation makes it possible to obtain, before the films are released on an STC or PIT type installation, a test allowing any retouching or layout to be carried out before releasing the films for printing.
• the information entered in black and white is processed through a TIFF interface through the CLC interface specific to the CLC machine from CANON and a GPIB interface making it possible to obtain the desired image.
• a gray image is processed through the TIFF 4 interface which is analogous to the well-known TIFF interface, except that the latter is used especially for gray.
• FIG. 18 we have represented a synthesis of FIGS. 1 to 17 showing the possibilities of using the installation according to the present invention.

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