GB1599404A - Technique for recording micropicture-information on a diffractive subtractive filter embossing master - Google Patents
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A group of individual, relatively large-format coloured or black and white matrix photographic images (100) which are to be recorded on a pressing matrix (110) as finely arrayed microimages (approx. 10 mu m point spacing) of a specific format, e.g. on a microfilm, are firstly reduced to an intermediate format record (104) with a continuous tone range, e.g. on a 70 mm film. A second finely arranged (approx. 40 mu m point spacing), high-contrast record (106) is prepared from this first record and is finally brought to the desired format (108) by a further reduction. <IMAGE>
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(54) TECHNIQUE FOR RECORDING MICROPICTURE
INFORMATION ON A DIFFRACTIVE SUBTRACTIVE
FILTER EMBOSSING MASTER
(71) We, RCA CORPORATION, a
Corporation organized under the laws of the
State of Delaware, United States of
America, of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, City and
State of New York, 10020, United States of
America, do hereby declare the invention, for which we pray that a patent may be granted to us, and the method by which it is to be performed, to be particularly described in and by the following statement:- The present invention relates to the fabrication of an embossed diffractive subtractive filter of a plurality of separate micropictures, and, more particularly, to the derivation of a transparency useful in recording such micropicture information on a diffractive subtractive filter embossing master. The micropicture information may appear on the master in microfiche format, microfilm format, or any other desired format.
Reference is made to U.S. patent No.
3,957,354, issued May 18, 1976 to Knop, which discloses a diffractive subtractive color filtering technique. Reference is further made to U.S. patent No. 4,062,628, issued December 13, 1977, to Gale, which discloses a black-and-white diffractive subtractive light filter. As disclosed in these patents, a diffractive-subtractive structure relief pattern embossed in the surface of a transmissive thermoplastic film may be used to filter incident white light to product zero diffraction order light which exhibits a predetermined color hue (e.g., a subtractive primary color) or, alternatively, a neutral
lack. More specifically, a color hue is best derived from a rectangular diffraction grating, in which the particular color manifested by the zero diffraction order light is primarily a function of the grating depth, while a neutral black filter is best derived from two crossed sinusoidal diffraction gratings of different specified depths.
A black-and-white diffractive subtractive filter of picture information which exhibits a gray scale, may be achieved by means of screening to vary the relative portions of black-manifesting area (presence of diffraction-grating) and white-manifesting area (absence of diffraction-grating) within each resolvable picture element of the black-and-white filter. In this case, the size of any white-manifesting or blackmanifesting area, while sufficiently small to be unresolvable in read-out, is still large relative to the diffraction-grating linespacing. The saturation exhibited by a color-picture manifesting filter can be controlled in a similar manner by means of screening. Further, in the case of a color picture, it is normally necessary to properly register three filters, each corresponding to a different subtractive primary color (cyan, magenta or yellow) component of the picture information. Thus, while only a single embossing master is required for fabrication of a black-and-white diffractive subtractive filter, normally three separate embossing masters are required to provide a full color diffractive subtractive filter.
Reference is also made to our Belgium patent No. 853,282 directed to the fabrication of a diffractive subtractive filter embossing master, which may be made from any one of four different recording blanks, corresponding respectively to black, and each separate one of the three diffractive primary colors. The recording blank comprises a metal foil having an appropriate diffraction-grating relief structure (sinusoidal in the case of black and rectangular wave of proper depth in the case of each of the primary colors) on one surface of the foil. Further, the recording blank includes a layer of photoresist covering this foil surface. Picture information is recorded on the blank by selectively exposing the photoresist with the picture information. Usually this is accomplished by contact printing a transparency containing the picture information onto the photoresist. The fabrication of the master is completed by selectively removing the photoresist from the white-manifesting areas of the picture information, using a suitable photoresist developer, obliterating the diffraction grating from only these white-manifesting areas, and then removing the remainder of the photoresist using a suitable solvent.
Of particular interest is the case where the picture information contained on the transparency comprises a group of screened micropictures arranged in a preselected format, such as a microfiche. Each of the micropictures on the transparency usually is derived from a separate large picture, which may be a color picture, a black-and-white picture or a picture having both color portions and black-and-white portions. The present invention is directed to a procedure for deriving such a screened-micropicture transparency for use in the fabrication of a diffractive subtractive filter embossing master.
The present invention relates primarily to picture information which is fully or partially either in color or continuoustone (gray-scale) black-and-white which requires screening. Although high contrast, line black-and-white picture information (text, lined drawings, etc.), which does not require screening, can also be handled by using the techniques of the present invention, it would normally be simpler and cheaper to use a more direct procedure to handle such high contrast, line black-andwhite material.
In general, the invention concerns the fabrication of a finely-screened diffractive subtractive filter embossing master of micropicture information in a given format from a plurality of separate relatively largesize pictures which already may be screened.
According to the invention, this is achieved by a method comprising the steps of:
first, recording on the same first medium all of said plurality of initially large-size pictures in a certain format in continuous tone at a first reduction to a size intermediate said large size and the final size of a micropicture, this first reduction step being such as to reduce any screening initially present in a large size picture to unresolvability at said intermediate size,
transferring in said certain format to a high-contrast medium at said intermediate size a screened image of each continuoustone picture on said first medium, each of said screened images being transferred with a given screening period, and
second, recording in said given format on a second medium at a second reduction to said final micropicture size each of said screened images.
In the accompanying drawings;
Figure 1 is a flow sheet that illustrates the procedures of the present invention;
Figure 2 is a schematic diagram of apparatus for producing black-and-white screened color separation of Figure 1, and
Figure 3 is a schematic diagram of apparatus for producing the microfiche transparency of Fig. 1.
As shown in Fig. 1, the three diffractive subtractive filter embossing masters 1 low 110m, and 110y, (corresponding to the respective color components cyan, magenta and yellow) are derived, in microfiche format, from a group of separate, large format color pictures. Color pictures 100 may be originals such as photographic transparencies or, as is frequently the case, previously published printed pages, such as magazine or book pictures which are screened (half-tone) "four-color" (three primary colors plus black) color prints.
Further. a color print may also include solid black material, such as printed text, superimposed directly thereon. Typically.
such a color print has the size of a printed page (e.g., 21x30 cm) and is screened at 150 lines/inch (about 170 m screening period).
In general, a microfiche format involves a reduction in size of each color picture of approximately 20 times. More specifically, a first microfiche format comprises 60 images, each reduced by a factor of 18. A second microfiche format comprises more than 60 images(such as 98), but reduces the size of the image by 24 times.
As discussed above, embossing master blanks for color filters comprise a rectangular-wave diffraction grating in a surface of a metal substrate, which surface is covered by a layer of photoresist. The respective gratings of the blanks of masters 110c, 110m, and 110y each have a different certain depth which determines the subtractive primary color hue (cyan, magenta or yellow) manifested thereby.
Both the depth and line spacing of the gratings utilized by masters l-l0c, 110m and 1 lOy are typically 1--2um. It is desirable for picture-information saturation of microfiche images to be provided by very fine screen dots, preferably having a centerto-center spacing of about 10 ,um.
Completely saturated color is manifested by the presence of the diffraction grating throughout the entire dot unit area. The degree of saturation of color-picture information within any dot unit area is manifested by the proportion of an entire dot unit area that is covered by nonobliterated diffraction grating. In order to provide a good gray scale, the proportion of the entire dot unit area covered by nonobliterated diffraction grating should be variable from 100 percent down to a value of about 5 percent.
Because the embossing masters 110c, 110m and 110y employ a fine screening pattern, a problem exists of generating unwanted Moire patterns when the original color pictures 100 already contain screened material. (The printed original screening is never sufficiently sharp to enable color separation and reduction of the individual screening dot patterns). It is therefore necessary to remove any screening pattern already present in color pictures 100 before the new fine screening pattern required by embossing masters 110c, 110m and 1 lOy is introduced. Further, this must be accomplished without leading to any significant loss in resolution of the color picture information. In order to accomplish this, the overall reduction in picture image size is achieved in successive first and second steps. In the first step, the colorpicture size is reduced to a selected intermediate size. In the subsequent second step this intermediate size is further reduced to the microfiche image size.
It is desirable to select a standard film size, such as 35 mm or 70 mm for the intermediate size format. While 35 mm film has the advantages over 70 mm film of decreasing the film quantity to be handled and the wider availability of processing equipment, it has the disadvantages of more severe registration, screening and film resolution requirements. For this reason, in the preferred embodiment described herein, it is assumed that the intermediate size format is 70 mm film.
Specifically, each of the color pictures
100, in turn, is reduced by suitable imaging means and photographed on a strip of color film 102, such as Kodak Internegative film.
When each of color pictures 100 has a size of 21x30 cm and color film 102 is 70 mm film, the first reduction is about 5 times to give an image size of film 102 of about 40x56 mm. However, any already screened color picture 100 is typically screened at 150 lines/inch (about 170 ,um period). This initial screening pattern is reduced to a screening pattern image at color film 102 having a period of only about 35 m. The emulsion of color film 102 (like most present-day color emulsions) cannot clearly resolve a 35 pm period pattern, so that the reduced original screening pattern is lost and Moire problems are avoided. However, for coarser screening patterns or for higher resolution color film, the screening pattern image at color film 102 can be eliminated by either stopping down the imaging lens aperture or slight defocusing. In any case, the resolving power of the combination of the first reduction imaging and that of the emulsion of color film 102 should lie between the reduced screening pattern size (35 ,um) and the finest picture or text feature to be maintained. A first reduction of about 5:1 meets this constraint (i.e., is large enough to eliminate any screening pattern that is present without, at the same time, leading to any significant loss in resolution of picture detail). Alternatively, either color positive or color negative film can be used as color film 102. However, the choice, as between these two, influences somewhat the procedure used to generate color separations in the next step, described below.
The use of color film strip 102, ensures that all the color pictures are handled together as a single strip of film, rather than a group of independent pictures. This considerably reduces handling and facilitates processing on conventional, existing machines. Further, the presence of standard perforation holes in the film ensures that registration is readily preserved in all subsequent film contact printing steps (in the sense that the position of each image is accurately held with respect to its neighbor). Tests with commercial machines, which contact print, frame-for-frame, using a transport mechanism which accurately positions the original and copy film on precision pins, have shown a registration precision to be better than 10 ,am.
(Alternatively, more complex registration schemes, using, for example, optical markings can be used).
As indicated in Fig. 1, the next step is to contact print color film 102 on each of three respective black-and-white color separation films 104c (cyan), 104m (magenta), and 104y (yellow). Each of film strips 104c, 104m and 104y is continuous-tone (low gamma), panchromatic black-and-white film. Film strip 104c is contact printed from color film 102 employing white light that has been passed through a red filter to generate the cyan color separation. In a similar manner, film strip 104m is contact printed employing white light that has been passed through a green filter to generate the magenta color separation, and film strip 1U4y is contact printed with white light that has been passed through a blue filter to generate the yellow color separation. The ideal (theoretical) filter for producing perfect color separations have regions of negative transmittance and are not realizable in practice. Additionally, the nonideal spectral transmittance both of the color film dyes and the diffractive subtractive filter gratings must be taken into account. Such problems are well known in the printing industry and are largely solved by special color masking techniques which may be used here. A number of commercially available color negative films have built-in masking in the emulsion makeup and processing. Positive color films requlre an additional low-contrast, low resolution masking film (also made by contact exposure through the color film) which is placed in contact with the rear side of the color film during the exposure of the separation; this has been demonstrated to give good results at 70 mm format and does not lead to any significant loss in resolution.
Each of the three color separation strips 104c, 104m and 104y contains a sequence of images of number equal to that of the final microfiche. Image alignment with respect to the film sprocket holes is ensured by using a precision transport or jig to hold the color and black-and-white film during exposure.
Maximum precision and convenience is probably obtained using a frame-by-frame exposure (commercial equipment exists for this operation), although this is not essential.
It is now necessary to convert black-andwhite color separations 104c, 104m, and 104y, by contact printing, into back-and-white, high contrast, screened color separations 106c, 106m and 106y, respectively. In order that the final 10 ym screen pattern be obtained after a second reduction of about 4 times (providing an overall reduction of about 20 times between color pictures 100 and embossing masters 110c, 110m and 110y) it is necessary to provide about a 40 Xum screening pattern in the intermediatesize format of film strips 106c, 106m and 106y.
As discussed above, typical printing uses a screen with about 150 lines/per inch (170 pom). While finer contact screens, having about 300 lines per inch, are available, even this finer commercially available contact screen has a period of about 85 m, which is more than twice the required (about 40 um) screening period. Further, registration requirements favor a technique in which any one of the respective continuous-tone color separations 104c, 104m and 104y, rather than a screen, is in direct contact with the high contrast (high gamma) recording film used to produce screen color separations 106c, 106m and 106y, respectively.
These problems have been overcome by using a typical commercial contact screen of 150 lines/inch in a non-conventional manner, as is shown in Fig. 2. Specifically,
any one of the continuous tone image color
separation strips 104 (104c, 104m and 104y)
is placed in direct contact with high
contrast black-and-white (b/w) film 106. A
remotely situated typical 150 line/inch
commercial contact screen 200 is
illuminated by a diffuse illuminating light
source 202. This diffused source of light 202
may be obtained from a row of fluorescent
tubes behind a diffuser. The screened light pattern 204 emerging from screen 200 is imaged by lens 206 with slightly more than a 4x reduction onto a plane which is coincident with that of the continuous-tone image on strip 104 then being printed. Lens 206 is a high quality lens (e.g., Nikkon 150 mm F/5.6 lens). The high contrast b/w film 106 must have a sufficiently high resolving power to define screening dots of an area down to about 5 percent of the unit screening area (i.e., about 9 4m linear dimension with a 40,um period unit screen).
Kodalith (R.T.M.) Ortho film type 3, developed in Kodalith (R.T.M.) Super RT developer (products made by Eastman
Kodak Company) have been shown to satisfy this requirement. (For ultimate resolution coupled with high contrast, a recording medium, such as a photoresist coated chrome film on plastic, could be used. In this case, the photoresist is exposed and developed and the chrome etched to give the high contrast pattern). Halftone screen refinements, such as a magenta screen and/or elliptical dot screens, can also be applied here. The technique shown in
Fig. 2, which is essentially a contact printing of a continuous-tone image, using a halftone screen illumination, has been shown to give good gray scale. The contact printing feature ensures the image registration with respect to the film perforations is maintained. Existing contact printing equipment can be easily modified to this operation by changing the illumination system to incorporate the screen and imaging lens.
It should be noted that areas of text and line drawing in pictures 100 are also subjected to screening in the technique described here. This is necessary to avoid the considerable extra cost and time involved in separating the text before screening the continuous tone picture areas and reinserting it after screening, as is conventional in the printing trade. It has been shown that excellent text reconstruction is obtained provided the letters have a height of at least 2-3 screening periods. A typical 21x30 cm printed page has a minimum letter height of about 1 mm. At 5x reduction the letters are then about 200 ym high, so that a 40 ym screening period easily satisfies this requirement.
Other techniques for screening continuous tone images can also be used here. For example, the generation of a contact screen with 600 lines/inch (approximately 40 ym) or even a 2500 line/inch (approximately 10 ym) is basically possible with refinements in the screen recording techniques and materials.
However, the technique described above uses only existing screens and recording materials.
It is possible to combine the derivation of the continuous tone image strips 104c, 104m and 104y with the generation of the screened separation 106c, 106m and 106y, using a gray contact image screen imaged onto the color film in contact with a panchromatic lithographic film using red, green and blue illumination. Such techniques are known in the art and can be applied here, although the arrangement shown in Fig. I is to be preferred.
Returning to Fig. 1, the next step is a second reduction of about 4x, together with the transformation from 70 mm film strip
format to microfiche transparency format.
Specifically, the high contrast, screened
color separation 106c, 106m and 106y are each imaged at 4x reduction onto a high
resolution recording medium such as Diazo film (e.g. G-41 P4C Diazo Contact
Duplicating film sold by Scott Graphics
Inc., or other commercial Diazo films for
microfilm application). The images are
positioned on the Diazo film in the final
microfiche array. Accurate positioning is
required to hold the image to image
registration. Apparatus for achieving this is
shown in Fig. 3. A precision film transport
with pins 300 and 302 locating the film
perforations 304 successively positions each
film frame above imaging lens 306. The
Diazo film sheet (typically about 10x15 cm
in size) is positioned using a precision XY
movement 308, such that the 4x reduced
image falls at exactly the correct location
and is stepped to a new position for each
image exposure. This way all images on
each of film strips 106c, 106m, and 106y,
respectively, are transferred to a
corresponding array on microfiche
transparency 108c, 108m and 108y, respectively, with accurate image-to-image
positioning. A required positioning
accuracy of about 20 m of the 70 mm film
strips 106c, 106m and 106y and a 5 Mm required positioning accuracy for the Diazo
film for an overall reduction of as much as
24x microimage is obtainable.
Each of Diazo microfiche transparencies 108c, 108m and 108y is contact printed onto corresponding embossing master blanks using blue or ultraviolet illumination.
Development and electroplating of the blank (in the manner described in the aforesaid Belgium patent No. 853,282) produces the required embossing masters bloc, 110m and 110y.
Alternatively, the use of microfiche transparency l08c, 108m and 108y can be eliminated by having the screened color separation strips 106c, 106m and 106y reduced directly onto the master blank 110c, 110m and 110y, using mercury lamp (ultraviolet) illumination.
The use of positive or negative color film 102 will result in opposite image polarity on the final embossing masters 110. The polarity (positive or negative) will depend on the media and processing used in steps 104, 106 and 108 and on the type of master blank. If this polarity is the wrong one, it can be inverted by an additional contact printing step, preferably by contact printing black-and-white screened separations 106 onto high contrast black-and-white, reversal processed film.
In addition to image-to-image registration, all images must be accurately positioned on each of the three microfiche masters 110c, 110m, and 110y with respect to some alignment feature, so that the cyan, magenta and yellow plastic replicas can be readily aligned. This feature may be, for example, an optical marking, punched holes, or a set of grooves or ridges on the master blank. A tongue-and-grooved structure (about 200 ,um wide and 80 m deep) present in the master blank, and thus on the master, and embossed into the replicas, has been found to give excellent alignment (registration to a few micrometers).
Excellent picture and text reproduction has been obtained by superposition of the cyan, magenta and yellow replicas. It has been found that a fourth, black replica does not significantly improve picture quality and is therefore, not included in the preferred arrangement shown in Fig. 1. (In principle, a fourth black replica can be added to the 3 color replicas, in a manner analogous to that employed in convention "four color" printing).
With minor modifications, the technique shown in Fig. 1 may be employed for deriving a diffractive subtractive filter embossing master from a group of separate continuous-tone, black-and-white pictures, rather than a group of color pictures 100. In this case, no color separation is required and only a single embossing master blank having a sinusoidal diffractive structure is employed (rather than three separate blanks having rectangular diffractive structures).
Further, a continuous-tone, low gamma, black-and-white film (similar to that employed for the color separations 104c, 104m and 104y in Fig. I) is substituted for color film 102. Since black-and-white film has a much higher resolution capability than color film, the approach described above for removing any screening already present in the original pictures cannot be used in the case of black-and-white half-tone originals.
Instead, to avoid the Moire problem, in the case of black-and-white, screen 200 is rotated so that the screen lines of the screen 200 are oblique with respect to any screen lines already present in the continuous one image. This prevents observable Moire effects in the resultant screened image in the high contrast blackand-white film, corresponding to film 106.
If desired, a microfilm strip may be substituted for the microfiche transparencies shown in Fig. 1.
Alternatively, a large film sheet, (about 30x50 cm) employing the microfiche format may be substituted for the 70 mm color film 102, since commercial contact printing and processing equipment can handle this sheet size.
In principle, the contact printing steps could be replaced by 1:1 projection imaging steps, although in practice contact printing is simpler and more reliable.
Also, as indicated above, a 35 mm intermediate format, rather than a 70 mm format, may be employed although this has the disadvantage of increasing the registration, screening and film resolution requirements. Further, in this case, the first reduction would be about 10 and the second reduction would be about 2.
WHAT WE CLAIM IS:
1. A method for use in fabricating a finely-screened diffractive subtractive filter embossing master of micropicture information in a given format from a plurality of separate relatively large-size pictures which already may be screened, said method comprising the steps of:
first, recording on the same first medium all of said plurality of initially large-size pictures in a certain format in continuous tone at a first reduction to a size intermediate said large size and the final size of a micropicture, this first reduction step being such as to reduce any screening initially present in a large size picture to unresolvability at said intermediate size,
transferring in said certain format to a high-contrast medium at said intermediate size a screened image of each continuoustone picture on said first medium, each of said screened images being transferred with a given screening period, and
second, recording in said given format on a second medium at a second reduction to said final micropicture size each of said screened images.
2. The method defined in Claim 1, wherein said first reduction is in the order of 5.
3. The method defined in Claim 2, wherein said second reduction is in the order of 4.
4. The method defined in Claim 3, wherein said screened images are transferred with a given screening period of substantially 40 micrometers, whereby each final micropicture exhibits a screening period of substantially 10 micrometers.
5. The method defined in Claim 1, wherein said first reduction is in the order of 10.
6. The method defined in Claim 5, wherein said second reduction is in the order of 2.
7. The method defined in Claim 1, wherein said large-size pictures are color pictures and wherein said step of first recording comprises the steps of:
first recording in said certain format at said first reduction on color film, and
then contact printing said color film on panchromatic black-and-white film with light of a subtractive primary color thereby to make a color-separation recording in said certain format at said intermediate size of each picture in said continuous tone.
8. The method defined in Claim 1, wherein said step of transferring comprises the step of:
contact printing said continuous tone first medium directly on said high-contrast second medium with a screened-pattern of projected illuminating light having said given screening period.
9. A method substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to Figure 1 or
Figure 2 or Figures 1, 2 and 3 together of the accompanying drawings.
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1. A method for use in fabricating a finely-screened diffractive subtractive filter embossing master of micropicture information in a given format from a plurality of separate relatively large-size pictures which already may be screened, said method comprising the steps of:
first, recording on the same first medium all of said plurality of initially large-size pictures in a certain format in continuous tone at a first reduction to a size intermediate said large size and the final size of a micropicture, this first reduction step being such as to reduce any screening initially present in a large size picture to unresolvability at said intermediate size,
transferring in said certain format to a high-contrast medium at said intermediate size a screened image of each continuoustone picture on said first medium, each of said screened images being transferred with a given screening period, and
second, recording in said given format on a second medium at a second reduction to said final micropicture size each of said screened images.
2. The method defined in Claim 1, wherein said first reduction is in the order of 5.
3. The method defined in Claim 2, wherein said second reduction is in the order of 4.
4. The method defined in Claim 3, wherein said screened images are transferred with a given screening period of substantially 40 micrometers, whereby each final micropicture exhibits a screening period of substantially 10 micrometers.
5. The method defined in Claim 1, wherein said first reduction is in the order of 10.
6. The method defined in Claim 5, wherein said second reduction is in the order of 2.
7. The method defined in Claim 1, wherein said large-size pictures are color pictures and wherein said step of first recording comprises the steps of:
first recording in said certain format at said first reduction on color film, and
then contact printing said color film on panchromatic black-and-white film with light of a subtractive primary color thereby to make a color-separation recording in said certain format at said intermediate size of each picture in said continuous tone.
8. The method defined in Claim 1, wherein said step of transferring comprises the step of:
contact printing said continuous tone first medium directly on said high-contrast second medium with a screened-pattern of projected illuminating light having said given screening period.
9. A method substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to Figure 1 or
Figure 2 or Figures 1, 2 and 3 together of the accompanying drawings.
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