JP2963582B2 - Photo production equipment - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus for producing a photograph used for certifying a passport or a license, and more particularly to a photograph producing apparatus for producing a photograph having a standard size of a face image. is there.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, with the introduction plan of a machine-readable passport (MRP), the standard of a photograph to be submitted when applying for a passport has been studied. In this new standard, as shown in FIG. 2, the size of a photograph is 45 mm in length A and 35 mm in width B. The size of the face image on the photo (length from chin to top of head) C is 25 ~
29mm, length D from the left edge of the photo to the center of the face image is 16 ~
19mm, the length E from the top of the photo to the top of the head of the face image is
5 to 9 mm.

A conventional photo production apparatus is disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No.
As described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 824, it is composed of a photographing room and a photo production room. The subject is seated on a chair in the shooting room, and adjusts the height of the chair so that the eyes of his / her face in the shooting window substantially match the eye marks on the shooting window.
After adjusting the height of this chair, insert the specified number of coins,
When the start button is operated, the device in the photo production room is activated, and the photograph is automatically taken. By this photographing, for example, a photograph in which four face images are recorded by lens clusters arranged in two rows and two columns is produced.

[0004]

Since the conventional photograph making apparatus is not designed in consideration of the standard of the face image shown in FIG. 2, when the subject's face is too small or conversely, it is too large. In addition, the face image of the produced photograph becomes a nonstandard size. If the user applies for a passport without knowing that the photograph is a non-standard photograph, the photographer will be required to retake the photograph.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and has as its object to provide a photograph producing apparatus capable of immediately knowing whether or not a face image is within a predetermined standard. .

[0006]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, a face image is photographed.
The photographing means and the face image of the photograph taken by the photographing means
The face of the subject in a standard range smaller than the true print range
Whether the image is taken at a certain size regardless of the size of
Determination means for determining whether or not the data is correct. And of the photo
Reading means for reading a face image, and the reading means
By comparing the scanned image with the reference image, the face image
Is covered by a smaller specification range than the photo's print range.
Regardless of the size of the photographer ’s face,
Determination means for determining whether or not
The judgment means is constituted by the display means for displaying the judgment result.
Things.

[0007]

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A photo production apparatus 10 shown in FIGS. 1 and 4 has an interior divided into a photography room 12 and a photography production room 13 with a partition wall 11 therebetween. Is
A makeup mirror 14 for confirming grooming is attached. The mirror 14 has an index 16 at the center of the mirror surface 14a for the subject to determine the size of his / her face. The index 16 is a reference horizontal line 1 for aligning one's chin on the mirror surface 14a.
6a and the four horizontal lines 16b to 1 provided above them.
6e. Four horizontal lines 16b-16e
In the three vertical areas separated by, in order from the bottom,
Character 1 of "S", "M", "L" indicating face size range
7 is noted.

The photographing room 12 has a height-adjustable chair 20.
And a shooting position index 22 described on the side wall 21 thereof. The shooting position index 22 divides the adjustment range of the shooting distance into three regions, and characters 24 corresponding to the characters 17 representing the size of the face are displayed in these regions. The subject is seated on the chair 20 so that the face is located in a predetermined area according to the size of the face.

The focal length f of the currently used lens cluster
When the lens magnification is 117 mm and the lens magnification is 0.11 times, as shown in FIG. 3, the depth from the reference position to the front about 10 cm and the rear about 15 cm is within the focal depth. If the subject distance is changed in three steps within this depth of focus, the standard shown in FIG. 2 can be satisfied and the image can be shot in focus up to a face size of about 21 cm to 29 cm.

Since the photo production room 13 is a dark room,
The photographing window 25 provided on the partition wall 11 functions as a mirror, on which the face of the subject is projected.
Lines 27 (refer to FIG. 1) indicating the position of the chin of the subject to be photographed in the photographing window 25 when sitting are shown on both sides of the photographing window 25. The height of the chair 20 can be adjusted by rotating the seat plate 20a. Thereby, the subject performs height adjustment when seated, and adjusts his / her chin in the photographing window 25 to the line 27. The jaw line 27
Alternatively, a mark for aligning the eye position may be provided.

The photo production chamber 13 is provided with a magazine 29 in which a photosensitive material 30 for thermal development is accommodated in a roll form. The roll-shaped photosensitive material 30 includes a pair of draw-out rollers 31.
Is pulled out of the magazine 29 for one photographing and cut by the cutter 32. This sheet-shaped photosensitive material 30a
Is set in the photographing exposure unit 33 before photographing. At the time of photographing, a strobe device 34 arranged above the photographing window 25 operates to illuminate the subject through the diffusion plate 34a. The photographing exposure section 33 is provided with an exposure frame 33a, a shutter device 33b, and a lens cluster 36, and exposes a human image on the sheet-shaped photosensitive material 30a. Lens cluster 3
6 is a lens board 37 for holding the four lenses arranged in two vertical and horizontal rows, the lenses so that these optical axes L1~L4 are parallel.

After the exposure of the photosensitive material 30a, a small amount of water is applied to the photosensitive material 30a by a water application unit 38, and then the image receiving material storage unit 39
Is sent to the thermal developing section 41 together with the sheet-like image receiving material 40 sent from the printer. In the heat developing section 41, the photosensitive material 3
The image of the photosensitive material 30a is transferred to the image receiving material 40 by heating the image receiving material 40a in close contact with the image receiving material 40a.
The photosensitive material 30a and the image receiving material 40 after the thermal development transfer are peeled from each other at a peeling-out unit 43, and the image receiving material 40 on which a positive image appears is supplied to a shooter 44 as a photograph 40a. Discarded in As shown in FIG. 6, this photograph 40a has four face images
It is shown in a × 2 matrix arrangement.

Photograph 4 discharged through the shooter 44
0a is dropped into a transparent box 50. The inside and outside of the box 50 are almost the same size as the photo 40a, and the photo 50a is stored with its image surface standing forward. Then, as shown in FIG.
The photograph 40a is taken out from the opening 51 provided on the upper surface of the camera.

The front surface of the box 50 forms a gauge 53 on which four horizontal decision lines 53a to 53e and two vertical decision lines 53e and 53f are drawn.
Judgment lines 53a to 53e are used to judge the position of the chin and the position of the top of the head of the face image of the photograph.
e and 53f are criteria for determining the center of each face image. With such a gauge 53, it is determined whether or not the face image of the photograph 40a is finished to standard.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described.
First, the position of the face is adjusted using the mirror 14 attached to the entrance of the photo production apparatus 10 so that the image of the chin coincides with the reference horizontal line 16a. In this state, a range in which the image of the top of the head is located, for example, any one of the characters 17 of “S”, “M”, and “L” is read.

The subject sits on the chair 20 and adjusts the position of the face so that the face matches the index 21 drawn on the side wall 21. In this state, it is checked whether the image of the chin matches the line 27 by looking at the imaging window 25. If the image of the chin is line 27
If higher, the chair 20 is turned to adjust its height.

The photographer operates the start button 48 after inserting a coin into the coin insertion slot 47. The photo production device 10 is activated by inserting a coin, and captures a face image of the subject on the sheet photosensitive material 30a after a certain period of time has elapsed after obtaining a signal from the start button 48. The photosensitive material 30a is superposed on the image receiving material 40 and thermally developed after the addition of water. The thermally developed image receiving material 40 is sent to a shooter 44 as a photograph 40a for certification.

Photograph 40 sent from the shooter 44
a is dropped into the box 50. When the subject directly looks at the photograph 40a dropped through the box 53, as shown in FIG. 7, the face 53 is seen to be in a state where the gauge 53 overlaps the face image. You can know whether. That is,
When the face image substantially matches each of the determination lines 53a to 53d, and the center of the face image, for example, the nose, matches the determination lines 53e and 53f, the image is captured in the standard size. ing.

If the subject decides on the size of the face by looking at the mirror 14 or adjusts the position of the subject when taking a picture while sitting on the chair 20, the face image of the photograph 40a is displayed as shown in FIG. May not be as specified.
In the case of such a photograph, by directly looking at the photograph 40a through the box 53, it is possible to immediately know that the photograph 40a does not satisfy the standard. In this case, shooting is performed again.

In the above embodiment, the gauge 53 is provided in a part of the box 50. In the embodiments shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, the gauge 53 is provided on the partition wall 11 of the photographing room 12 via a cord 61 which can be extended and contracted. 60 is attached. This gauge 6
0 is the judgment line 53a on the front or back side of the transparent plate 60a.
~ 53f are depicted . The photographed person was the photograph 4
0a is taken out of the box 50, and the transparent plate 60a is placed on the image surface of the photograph 40a. Then, the judgment line 53e or
Is a transparent plate 60 with 53f aligned with the nose line of the face image.
The determination is performed by directly looking at each face image through a.

In the above embodiment, the judgment lines 53e and 53f for judging a face image are described on the gauge 53, but these judgment lines 53e and 53f may be omitted.
Further, instead of the determination lines 53a to 53f, the outline of the face may be drawn. In addition, the determination line 53 has three horizontal determinations.
A line and one vertical determination line may be described. In this case
Is determined for each screen.

In the embodiment shown in FIGS. 10 and 11, the face image of the photograph 40a is automatically determined. Below the box 50 in the shooting room 12, there is a photograph 40a.
A mounting table 70 for mounting the camera horizontally with its image surface facing upward is fixed to the partition wall 11. This mounting table 70
Are provided with guide projections 71 and 72 on both ends, so that the left-right deviation of the photograph 40a is regulated. Above the mounting table 70, a line sensor 7 that reads a part of one face image of the four images of the photograph 40a is provided.
4 are provided.

As shown in FIG. 13, the line sensor 74 reads the range represented by the two-dot chain line from the chin to the top of the head of a single face image, as shown in FIG.
The image read by the line sensor 74 is sent to the determiner 76 as shown in FIG. The determiner 76 obtains the size of the face from the read image, compares the size with the reference size range stored in the memory 77 in advance, and determines whether the face image has a standard size. If the result of this determination is a pass, the determiner 76 sends a pass signal to the driver 78. As a result, the driver 78 has
9 is controlled to emit light, and a pass is displayed. Note that, in addition to the pass display LED 79, for example, an LED that emits red light may be provided to directly indicate rejection.

Further, in the photo production apparatus described in the above embodiment, a photo in which face images are arranged in a 2 × 2 matrix is determined. May be determined.

[0026]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention, a judging means for judging whether or not a face image of a photograph produced by a photograph producing apparatus is photographed in a standard size is provided. Therefore, it is possible to know whether or not the photograph conforms to the standard immediately after shooting.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an example of a photo production apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing standard dimensions of a face image on a photograph.

FIG. 3 is a graph showing a correlation between the size of the face of the subject and the size of the face image.

FIG. 4 is a vertical cross-sectional view schematically showing a photo production apparatus.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing a box with a gauge.

FIG. 6 is a plan view showing a produced photograph.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing a photograph in a box.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory view showing an example in which a gauge is attached via a telescopic cord.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing a state in which a photograph is viewed through a gauge.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing an example in which an apparatus for automatically determining the size of a face image is provided in a shooting room.

FIG. 11 is a sectional view of a main part of an apparatus for automatically determining the size of a face image.

FIG. 12 is a block diagram schematically illustrating an apparatus for automatically determining the size of a face image.

FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram showing an image range read by a line sensor.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Photo-production apparatus 14 Mirror 20 Chair 40a Photograph 50 Box 53 gauge 53a-53f Judgment line 60 gauge 74 Line sensor 79 LED

────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Toshiaki Aono 210 Nakanakanuma, Minamiashigara-shi, Kanagawa Prefecture Inside Fujisha Shin Film Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Nobuyuki Iwasaki 2-26-30 Nishiazabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. (56) References JP-A-3-45534 (JP, U) JP-A-62-103036 (JP, U) JP-T2-501512 (JP, A) (58) Fields surveyed (Int. Cl. ^6, DB name) G03B 15/00 G03B 17/53

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A photographing means for photographing a face image into a photograph, and a face image of the photograph photographed by the photographing means is fixed to a standard range smaller than a print range of the photograph regardless of the size of the face of the subject. Determining means for determining whether or not the image is photographed in a size, wherein the determining means compares the image read by the reading means with a reference image, and a reading means for reading a face image of the photograph; Determining means for determining whether or not the face image is captured at a fixed size regardless of the size of the face of the subject in a standard range smaller than the print range of the photograph, and a determination result of the determining means And a display means for displaying the image.