JP2003057739A - Automatic photographing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic photographing device set so that a photographing date is known even though a tag is not prepared specially when printing in test photographing. SOLUTION: This photographing device is constituted by mounting a CCD camera for photographing a user, a printer for printing an image obtained by photographing by the CCD camera on photographic paper, and a controller for controlling the CCD camera and the printer in a box, and is set so that the user is photographed by the CCD camera in the box and the obtained photographic image is printed by the printer. Then, a test photographing information printing function for printing not only the image obtained by the test photographing but also its photographing date on printing paper when printing in the test photographing by the CCD camera is constructed on the program of the controller.

Description

Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to an automatic photographing apparatus for automatically photographing an identification photograph or a composition photograph. 2. Description of the Related Art An automatic photographing apparatus of this type generally installed at a storefront such as a supermarket includes a self-standing box, an illuminator, a CCD camera as photographing means for photographing a user, and A printer as a printing means for printing an image taken by the CCD camera,
It is equipped with a control device for mainly controlling these CCD cameras and printers, captures an image of a user sitting at a predetermined position in the box with a CCD camera, and generates a certification photograph etc. according to adjusted printing conditions. Print processing is automatically performed by a printer. [0003] The above-mentioned automatic photographing apparatus is installed outdoors and is operated unattended 24 hours a day or night. Therefore, regardless of the season or time zone, It is necessary to adjust the printing conditions so that good print quality can be obtained no matter when it is used. Therefore, before the above automatic photographing apparatus is shipped from a manufacturing site, in order to inspect the influence of external light due to a difference in photographing time, for example, test photographing is performed by changing the photographing time, and each photographing time is changed. It is necessary to investigate the state of the print of the test, so conventionally, at the time of the test shooting, various information such as the shooting date and time is separately written on a tag prepared separately, and the tag is attached to the printed photo of the test shooting The method is being taken. However, in the above-described method, it is necessary to prepare a tag in advance, and it is necessary to attach the tag every time a test photographed image is printed. There is a problem that the survey may be inaccurate due to mistakes in the entry or tagging mistakes. The present invention has been developed in view of the above circumstances. It is an object of the present invention to provide an automatic photographing apparatus capable of finding information such as the photographing date and time without separately preparing a tag when printing a test photograph. It is to provide a photographing device. [0007] In order to achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, a box is provided with a photographing means for photographing a user and an image photographed by the photographing means. Equipped with printing means for performing a printing process on a material, and control means for controlling the photographing means and the printing means, photographing a user in the box by the photographing means, and printing the photographed image by the printing means. A photographing apparatus which is provided with a test photographing information print processing function for printing photographing information of a test photographed image on a photosensitive material together with a test photographed image when the test photographing is printed by the photographing means. It is. An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIGS. 1 and 2 schematically show an automatic photographing apparatus which can be installed outdoors. The automatic photographing apparatus 1 is designed to enable a user to take a photograph mainly used for a passport or a license, and is basically provided in a self-standing box 2 formed in a box shape. A CCD camera 3 as photographing means for photographing a user, a color printer 4 as printing means for printing an image photographed by the CCD camera 3, a receipt creation printer 40 for creating a receipt, Control device 5 equipped with image processing software, etc.
In the box 2, the user operates the operation buttons 25 a of the operation unit 25 described later as appropriate to automatically take a desired photograph, and the color printer 4 can perform print processing. . The inside of the box 2 is partitioned by a partition plate 21,
A photographing room S1 is formed on one side of the box 21, and a device storage room S2 is formed on the other side. The partition plate 21 is provided with a window 22 covered with transparent glass, and an upper illuminator 23 and a lower illuminator 24 are provided above and below the window 22, respectively. As shown in FIG. 2, an operation section 25 having a plurality of operation buttons 25a is provided on the upper surface of the housing of the lower illuminator 24. As shown in FIG. 2, the partition plate 21 has
A toll collection device 26 having a coin insertion slot 26a and a bill insertion slot 26b, a takeout port 27 for taking out a finished photograph, and a receipt takeout port 28 are provided. In front of the box 2, a user places a photographing room S
1 is provided with an entrance and exit, and a chair 29 for a user to sit is provided inside the photographing room S1. In addition, the curtain 20 is provided in the entrance / exit portion. The equipment storage room S2 is provided with a color monitor 30 for displaying various information, in addition to the CCD camera 3, the color printer 4, the receipt creation printer 40, and the control device 5, as described above. The control device 5 is composed of a microcomputer, and the color printer 4 is a full digital thermal sublimation type. While the color monitor 30 displays various information on the window 22 through a half mirror,
The camera 3 shoots a user sitting on the chair 29. In the above-described automatic photographing apparatus, in the embodiment shown in the figure, a photographing date / time information calculating function 51 for calculating date / time information at the time of test photographing is provided on a program of a microcomputer constituting the control device 5; A color information calculation function 52 for calculating the color information of the CCD camera 3 at the time of the test shooting, that is, how the color of the image to be shot changes according to the shooting time; Calculation function 51 and color information calculation function 52
Based on the calculation result calculated in the above, the shooting date and time information N1 of the test shooting image M and the CCD camera 3
A test photographing information print processing function 53 for printing the color information N2 at the time of the test photographing on the print paper P is constructed, and as shown in FIG. 4 or FIG. The image M, date and time information N1 and color information N2 at the time of the test shooting are printed on the print paper P via. That is, in the embodiment shown in FIG. 4, the date and time information N1 at the time of test photographing is printed so as to be superimposed on the image M, and in the embodiment shown in FIG. The date and time information N1 and the color information N2 are printed. The "APR 19 2001 4:09:50 PM" printed in FIGS.
Day 4:09:50 PM, and in FIG. 5, "R209
“B184 D30” indicates that the red luminance value is 209, the blue luminance value is 184, and the density value is 30. In the automatic photographing apparatus having the above-described configuration, when the test photographing is performed by the CCD camera 3, the date and time information of the test photographing and the color information of the CCD camera 3 are used to calculate the photographing date and time information. It is calculated by the function 51 and the color information calculation function 52. The photographing date and time and the color information at the time of photographing calculated by the photographing date and time information calculating function 51 and the color information calculating function 52 are transmitted to the color printer via the test photographing information print processing function 53 together with the test photographed image M. 4 prints on the print paper P, and the finished photograph for testing shown in FIG. 4 or FIG. According to the automatic photographing apparatus described above, the photographing date and time information N1 and the color information N2 are automatically printed on the print paper P together with the test photographed image M during the test photographing. The effort of writing information such as the date and time on the tag and attaching the tag to the printed test photo has been eliminated,
Since the information such as the photographing date and time is accurately printed, various photographing information at the time of the test photographing can be easily confirmed only by looking at the printed test photograph. In the above embodiment, CC is used as the photographing means.
Although the D camera 3 is used and the color printer 4 is used as the printing means, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, a monochrome printer may be used as the printing means. In the above embodiment, the printing paper P
The printing date / time information N1 and the color information N2 are printed together with the image M on the surface of the printer. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, a printer for back printing is prepared in addition to the above-described color printer 4. This back-printing printer uses the shooting date / time information N1 and the color information N2.
May be printed on the back side of the print paper P. In the above-described embodiment, the photographing date / time calculating function 51 and the color information calculating function 52 are constructed on the program of the microcomputer constituting the control device 5. The operation status detection function for detecting the operation status of the automatic photographing apparatus 1 may be constructed to print information indicating the operation status of the automatic photographing apparatus detected by the operation status detection function. As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, a photographing apparatus in which a user is photographed by a photographing means in a box and the photographed image is printed by a printing means. A test photographing information print processing function for printing photographing information of the test photographed image on a photosensitive material together with the test photographed image at the time of test photographing by the photographing means. With the image printing process, for example, the shooting information such as the shooting date and time is also directly printed on the photosensitive material. Eliminates the hassle of attaching to photos, and as a result, test prints can be done unattended, and still printed By simply looking at the test photos, it was possible to confirm various shooting information at the time of the test shooting, and it was possible to always carry out accurate investigations.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a front view showing an embodiment of an automatic photographing apparatus according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along line XX in FIG. FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram showing a control system of the automatic photographing apparatus according to the present invention. FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing an example of a photograph printed by the automatic photographing device of the present invention. FIG. 5 is an explanatory view showing another example of a photograph printed by the automatic photographing apparatus of the present invention. [Description of Signs] 1 Automatic photographing device 2 Box 3 CCD camera (photographing means) 4 Color printer (printing means) 5 Controller (controlling means)

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Claims (1)

Claims: 1. A photographing means for photographing a user in a box, a printing means for printing an image photographed by the photographing means on a photosensitive material, and these photographing means and printing means. And control means for controlling the
In a photographing apparatus in which a user is photographed by a photographing means in a box and the photographed image is printed by a printing means, when a test photographing is printed by the photographing means, photographing information of the image together with the test photographed image is stored in a photosensitive material An automatic photographing apparatus, which is provided with a test photographing information print processing function for printing on a personal computer.