JPH05158156A - Film sorting device for slide - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily and precisely sort, rearrange and align a film for a slide by sorting and rearranging it based on information recorded on an information recording part on the film for a slide. CONSTITUTION:The information recording part coated with a magnetic material is provided on the base surface side of the film obtained by evading the perforations of the continuous film and the photographing information is recorded on the information recording part by a prescribed form at a photographing time. Then, the film is mounted on a slide mount for a slide 18 by being cut one frame by one frame after photographing and developing. Besides, a simple and precise rectangular aperture 18b is provided on the mount 18 and the information recording part 20 on which the information can be written is provided at the side part thereof. Then, the information recorded on the recording part 17 is copied on it. The recording part 20 is exposed without being shielded by the mount 18 and the information can be easily read.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a slide film sorting apparatus in which a film is mounted on a slide mount.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when sorting or rearranging slide films based on arbitrary criteria, various conditions written on a slide mount, memos taken at the time of photographing, or copied on a film are taken. I was going to rely on the image. Also, when aligning the upper, lower, horizontal, and front sides of the slide film in a predetermined direction, look at the shape of the slide mount, the direction of the characters written on the slide mount, or the image displayed on the film. Had decided.

[0003]

In the storage and use of the slide film, it is necessary to classify the slide films, arrange them in order, and mount or store them on a slide projector. The conventional method of classification is the notes taken at the time of shooting,
Or, based on that, the conditions are classified by referring to the conditions written on the slide mount. However, the memos recorded at the time of shooting tended to be lost. Even if you have a memo,
It is practically impossible to handwrite a shooting memo accurately and clearly while shooting for a wide variety of items.
In many cases, recording of the name and identification number of the subject, the shooting date and time, etc. was stopped, and the recording of other necessary data was lacking, which was insufficient for reproducing the shooting conditions. Also, when writing on the slide mount, the space is limited and the items to be entered have to be limited to a part.

In this way, the necessary information may be missing from the information written in the slide mount or the memo, and if the photographing condition corresponding to that portion meets the classification criteria, the classification is performed. There was the problem of becoming impossible. In such a case, we will sort by looking at the images on the actual film, relying on the memory at the time of shooting,
There is a problem in that it takes a lot of time and is troublesome, and it is difficult to make an accurate judgment and there is a high possibility of making an error.

Further, when the slide films are arranged in a predetermined order to be loaded in the slide projector, it is necessary to align the top, bottom, length and width, and the front and back in the correct direction. At that time, I had to pay close attention to the image and the shape of the slide mount. Especially with regard to the front and back, it is very difficult if letters and numbers are not imprinted, so open the slide mount once and indicate the number on the outside of the perforation of the film or the manufacturer of the film. Sometimes it was necessary to judge by looking at the letters of the name. Further, there is a problem that it is easy to make mistakes because it may be difficult to determine the upper and lower sides and the vertical and horizontal sides depending on the image taken, and it takes time.

On the other hand, U.S.P. S. P. Japanese Patent No. 3,872,947 discloses a film in which transparent magnetic particles are distributed on an image area of the film, and photographing information can be written and read on the magnetic particles.

In addition, U.S.P. S. P. Read out the film information recorded on the recording medium provided along the film strip, which indicates that the camera and film frame for preventing double exposure disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 4,878,075 have already been exposed. , Means for writing are disclosed. A publicly known magnetic tape is attached to this film, or a transparent magnetic material is covered, and information can be written to prevent double exposure.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 1-279231 discloses a method of recording shooting conditions on a film provided with an information recording medium on the film. An image observed with a microscope using the film provided with this recording medium is photographed with a photographing device for a microscope. This microscope photographing device is provided with a terminal for recording information on the recording medium on the film, and information for each frame at the time of photographing can be transferred to the film side for recording by using the terminal. JP-A-1-279231
Although the film cartridge of the film or the ROM provided on the film is used as a recording medium in the publication, information on microscopic photography can be similarly recorded on other recording media.

However, there is no known example in which the information recorded on the recording medium on these films is used for classification of slide films.

In view of the above problems, the present invention provides a slide film sorting device that sorts, rearranges, and aligns slide films easily and accurately based on information recorded on a recording medium on the film. The purpose is to

[0011]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an information reading means for reading information written on a recording medium provided on a film or a slide mount of a slide film, and a classification and arrangement order of the slide film. For a slide having a classification standard setting means for setting a classification standard for the slide film, and a classification means for classifying and rearranging the slide film based on the information read by the information reading means based on the classification standard set by the classification standard setting means. A film sorter was constructed. And for this purpose, based on the information read by the information reading means, the vertical and horizontal directions of the slide film,
It is desirable to have both an orientation determining means for determining the orientation of the front and back and an orientation aligning means for aligning the orientation of the slide film according to the determination of the orientation determining means.

[0012]

According to the information recorded on the recording medium on the film or the recording medium on the slide mount, the slide film can be classified and rearranged according to a predetermined standard, and the direction can be automatically aligned. This information is information about the photography that was recorded at the time of photography. Therefore, the shooting conditions for a wide variety of predetermined items are accurately and clearly recorded during shooting.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 is a perspective view of one embodiment, FIGS. 2 to 4 are plan views of the embodiment of FIG. 1 seen from above, FIG. 5 is a plan view of a film, and FIGS. FIG. 8 is a plan view of a slide film classified by example, FIG. 8 is a plan view of a slide mount, and FIGS. 10 to 12 are flowcharts.

A keyboard 2 for operation and a display screen 3 are provided on the front inclined portion of the main body 1, and the operating state of the apparatus and information necessary for operation are displayed on the display screen 3. The main body 1 is provided with operation and display mechanisms and elements, and contains various mechanisms including a central controller for controlling the operation of the mechanisms and elements, a drive source, and an electric system. Film for slide 1
The supply magazine 4 and the storage magazines 5 and 6 of 1 are the same as the magazines used for the automatic feeding type slide projector, and the slide film 11 is stored on the shelves in the magazine one by one. ing. A magazine stand (not shown) for supporting the respective supply magazines 4 and storage magazines 5 and 6 has a mechanism for sequentially moving the shelves up and down to a predetermined position, and the slide film 11 is put in and taken out of the shelves located above the magazines. When it is carried out, it moves downward, and conversely, when it is put in and taken out from the shelf located at the bottom, it moves upward.

Further, the rotary table 7 has a disk shape and can be rotated about the center of the circle. A member 8 is fixedly mounted on the rotary table. The member 8 serves as a slide guide for the sliding member 9, and the member 9 is configured to slide in the long side direction thereof. Further, a suction hand 10 is attached to the tip of the member 9 so as to be rotatable around a shaft 10a. The suction hand 10 is capable of vacuum-sucking the slide film 11, and the slide film 11 can be turned upside down by rotating 180 ° in the suctioned state.

On the other hand, the circular rotary table 12 is rotatable about its center and has a mechanism capable of moving up and down along the axis. The rotary table 12 is provided with four magnetic sensors 13a, 13b, 13c and 13d, and the information recording units 17 and 20 of the slide film 11 are provided.
Position detection. The magnetic head 14 is for reading information from the slide film 11, and is fixed to the upper surface of the main body 1. All the mechanisms that operate are automatically operated by the drive system including mechanical, electrical, and software inside the main unit, and the control system.

Next, the structure of the slide film 11 will be described. An information recording unit 17 coated with a magnetic material is provided on the base surface side of the continuous film 15 avoiding the perforations 16, and the photographing information is recorded in a predetermined format in the information recording unit 17 at the time of photographing.
After filming and development, the film 15 is cut into individual frames and mounted on a slide mount 18 for sliding.

A preferred example of the slide mount 18 is, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, two rectangular openings 19a and 19a.
It is made of a paper board having a magnetic blocking property having b, and is folded in two so that the openings 19a and 19b are aligned with each other.
The film 15 is attached so that the angle of view of the film 15 matches the opening. Since the slide mount 18 clearly separates the angle of view when projecting the film 15, the opening 19a on one side of the slide mount 18 having a rectangular opening slightly smaller than the angle of view of the film 15 is provided on the film 1 side.
The portion corresponding to the information recording unit 17 of No. 5 has a notch 18a.
Is provided. As a result, the information recording section 17 of the film 15 provided on the base surface side of the film 15 is exposed without being hidden by the slide mount 18, and the information recorded in the information recording section 17 can be read.

A slide mount 18 according to a modification is shown in FIG.
It has a simple and accurate rectangular opening 18b as shown in FIG. An information recording section 20 on which information can be written is provided at the side portion, and the information recording section 1 of the film 15 is provided here.
Copy the information recorded in 7. The information recording unit 20 is exposed without being hidden by the slide mount 18 and can be easily read.

The operation of the slide film sorting device configured as described above will be described below. 2 shows a state in which the slide film is placed on the suction hand, and FIG. 3 shows a state in which the slide film is placed on the rotary table.
FIG. 4 shows a state in which the slide film passes over the magnetic head.

First, the classification operation of the slide film 11 will be described with reference to FIG. In step 1, the slide film 11 is taken out from the supply magazine 4. That is, the member 9 is slid, and the suction hand 10 fixed to the tip of the member 9 is inserted under the slide film 11 housed in the supply magazine 4, sucked, and slightly lifted. Then, the film 11 for sliding is sucked and placed on the suction hand 10, and the member 9 is slid and taken out from the supply magazine 4. The state at this point is the state shown in FIG. Since the supply magazine 4 moves up and down, the slide film 11 is sequentially taken out by the suction hand 10.

Next, in step 2, the information recording section 2
The position of 0 is determined and the direction of the slide film 11 is set. That is, from the state shown in FIG. 2, the rotary table 7 is rotated to the right by 45 °, and then the member 9 is slid until the slide film 11 suction-mounted on the suction hand 10 reaches the center of the rotary table 12. To move. Then, the rotary table 7 is further raised, and the magnetic sensors 13a, 13b, 1
3c and 13d are brought into contact with the slide film 11.

Four magnetic sensors 13a, 13b, 13
When the magnetic sensors 13a, 13b, 13c, and 13d do not react when c and 13d contact the sliding film 11, it is determined that the sliding film 11 is upside down. In this case, the rotary table 12 is once lowered to a position sufficient to turn over the slide film 11, and the suction hand 10 is rotated 180 ° about the shaft 10a. In this state in which the slide film 11 has been turned upside down, the rotary table 12 is raised again to bring the magnetic sensors 13a, 13b, 13c and 13d into contact with the slide film 11.

Magnetic sensors 13a, 13b, 13c, 13
When any one of d reacts from the beginning, and when it is turned upside down as described above, the information recording unit 20 faces down the magnetic sensor 13
Since it faces the a, 13b, 13c, and 13d sides, it is checked which magnetic sensor responds. If magnetic sensor 1
When any of the magnetic sensors 13b, 13c, 13d other than 3a reacts, the suction of the suction hand 10 is stopped, and the member 9 is slid and retracted toward the rotary table 7. The slide film 11 includes four magnetic sensors 13a, 13b, 1
It is mounted on 3c and 13d. The state where the information recording unit 20 faces the magnetic sensor 13b is the state shown in FIG.

Thereafter, the rotary table 12 is rotated, and the information recording section 20 of the slide film 11 is moved to the magnetic sensor 13a.
So that it faces the position of. In the example shown in FIG. 3, when rotated 90 ° counterclockwise, the position facing the magnetic sensor 13b is changed to the position facing the magnetic sensor 13a. Then, the member 9 is slid, the suction hand 10 is again moved to the position of the slide film 11, and the slide film 11 is placed by suction. Four magnetic sensors 13a, 13
When b, 13c, and 13d are brought into contact with the slide film 11 and the magnetic sensor 13a reacts, the above-described rotation operation is omitted.

Next, in step 3, information reading and classification determination are performed. That is, the suction hand 10 that slides the member 9 and sucks the slide film 11 is mounted on the rotary table 7.
Move in the direction of at an appropriate speed. Initially magnetic sensor 13
Since the information recording unit 20 located at a position facing a is located directly below the path through which the information recording unit 20 moves from the rotary table 12 toward the rotary table 7, the information recording unit 20 is moved during this movement. Information is read by the magnetic head 14. FIG. 4 shows a state in which the information recording portion 20 of the slide film 11 passes over the magnetic head 14. Based on the read information, the classification of the slide film 11 is determined based on the classification standard input from the keyboard 2. For example, a slide film 1 for sample A
The slide film 11 is individually determined based on the criteria that 1 is stored in the storage magazine 5 and the slide film 11 related to the sample B is stored in the storage magazine 6.

Next, in step 4, the vertical and horizontal directions are judged from the read information and the direction is corrected. That is, when it is determined that the film 15 is shot in the vertical position based on the information indicating whether the film 15 is shot in the vertical position or the horizontal position, the four magnetic heads 13 a, 1
The slide film 11 is returned onto the slides 3b, 13c and 13d, and the slide film 11 is rotated by 90 ° in the same manner as described in step 2. Then, the member 9 is slid again, and the suction hand 10 on which the slide film 11 is suction-mounted is moved toward the rotary table 7. If it is determined that the image was captured in the horizontal position, this operation is unnecessary.

Next, in step 5, the slide film 11 is conveyed to the storage magazines 5 and 6. That is, the rotary table 7 is rotated to the right by 45 ° or 135 °, respectively, and the member 9
Is slid to move the suction hand 10 for sucking and mounting the slide film 11 to the storage magazine 5 or the storage magazine 6, and the slide film 11 is inserted. At this time, which of the storage magazine 5 or the storage magazine 6 is to be stored is determined for each slide film 11 in step 3, and accordingly, for example, the slide film 11 for the sample A is stored in the storage magazine 5, Sample B
The slide film 11 relating to the above is stored in the storage magazine 6. When the slide film 11 is inserted into the shelf of the predetermined storage magazine, the suction hand 10 stops the suction, places the slide film 11 on the shelf, and slides the member 9 toward the rotary table 7. Retreat.

In step 6, the operation is sequentially repeated, and the slide film 11 is stored in the rack of each predetermined storage magazine. The classification of all the slide films 11 is completed, and the operation ends.

Next, the operation of rearranging the slide film 11 will be described with reference to FIG. Descriptions of the same or similar operations as those of the above-described classification will be omitted. In step 11, the slide film 11 is taken out from the supply magazine 4. Next, in step 12, the position of the information recording unit 20 is determined and the direction of the slide film 11 is set. Then, in step 13, information is read and recorded in the internal memory. Then, the information of the information recording unit 20 read by the magnetic head 14 is sequentially recorded and accumulated in the memory in the main body 1. Next, at step 14, the orientation is corrected by making a vertical / horizontal determination based on the information recorded and accumulated in the memory in the reading main body 1.

Next, at step 15, the slide film 11 is conveyed to the supply magazine 4. That is, the member 9
Is slid, the suction hand 10 for sucking and mounting the slide film 11 is moved to the supply magazine 4, and the slide film 11 is inserted. When the slide film 11 is inserted into the original shelf, the suction of the suction hand 10 is stopped, and the member 9 is slid toward the rotary table 7 and retracted. In step 16, the operation is sequentially repeated, and the information of all the slide films 11 is read and recorded in the memory in the main body 1.

Next, in step 17, the information recorded in the memory of the main body 1 is rearranged based on the standard input from the keyboard 2. If the input standard is, for example, the photographing date / time standard, the positions of the shelves of the storage magazines 5 and 6 are calculated and determined for each slide film 11. Next, in step 18, the slide film 11 is conveyed from the supply magazine 4 to the storage magazines 5 and 6. In step 19, the operation is sequentially repeated and the slide film 11 is stored in a predetermined shelf of a predetermined storage magazine. The rearrangement of all the slide films 11 is completed, and the operation ends.

Next, the operation of sequentially classifying and rearranging the slide film 11 will be described with reference to FIG. The description of the same or similar points to the above-described classification operation and rearrangement operation will be omitted. In step 21, the slide film 11 is taken out from the supply magazine 4. Next, in step 22, the position of the information recording unit 20 is determined and the direction of the slide film 11 is set. Next, in step 23, the information is read and recorded in the internal memory. Next, at step 24, the orientation is corrected by making a vertical / horizontal determination from the information recorded and accumulated in the memory in the main body 1. Next, at step 25, the slide film 11 is conveyed back to the supply magazine 4. In step 26, the operation is sequentially repeated, and the information of all the slide films 11 is read and recorded in the memory in the main body 1.

Next, at step 27, classification determination and rearrangement calculation are performed. That is, based on the information recorded in the memory in the main body 1, the classification determination of the slide film 11 is performed based on the classification standard input from the keyboard 2, and based on the rearrangement standard input from the keyboard 2. Then, the information rearrangement operation is performed.

Next, at step 28, the slide film 11 is fed from the supply magazine 4 to the storage magazines 5, 6
Transport to.

In step 29, the operation is sequentially repeated, and the slide film 11 is sorted into a predetermined shelf of a predetermined storage magazine and rearranged, and when the storage is completed, the operation ends.

[0037]

According to the present invention, classification and rearrangement are performed based on the information recorded in the information recording section on the slide film, so that the memo at the time of photographing, the memo written on the slide mount or the photographer. It is possible to perform accurate classification work, rearrangement work, or work for aligning the top, bottom, horizontal, and front sides in a short time without depending on the memory or images recorded on the film or without fear of losing memos.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of an embodiment of the present invention viewed from above.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of an embodiment of the present invention viewed from above.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of an embodiment of the present invention viewed from above.

FIG. 5 is a plan view of a film according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a plan view of a slide film according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a plan view of a slide film according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a plan view of a slide mount according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a plan view of a slide film according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart of an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Main body, 2 ... Keyboard, 3 ... Display screen, 4 ... Supply magazine, 5, 6 ... Storage magazine, 7 ... Rotating table, 8 ... Member, 9 ... ..Materials, 1
0 ... suction hand, 10a ... axis, 11 ... slide film, 12 ... rotary table, 13a, 1
3b, 13c, 13d ... Magnetic sensor, 14 ... Magnetic head, 15 ... Film, 16 ... Perforation, 17 ... Information recording section, 18 ... Slide mount, 18a ... Off Missing, 19a, 19b ...
Aperture, 20 ... Information recording section,

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An information reading unit for reading information written on a film or a recording medium provided in the slide mount of the film for slide mounted on the slide mount, and the slide film. Classification standard setting means for setting a classification standard relating to classification and arrangement order, and classification for sorting and rearranging the slide film based on the information read by the information reading means based on the classification standard set by the classification standard setting means. A film sorting apparatus for slides, comprising: 2. A direction determination means for determining the orientation of the slide film vertically, vertically and horizontally, and the front and back sides based on the information read by the information reading means, and the orientation of the slide film according to the determination of the orientation determination means. The film sorter for slides according to claim 1, further comprising an alignment means for aligning.