JPH0667301A - Photograph producing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To position the face of a user to be photographed at a proper position in accordance with his face size. CONSTITUTION:A face size measuring part 22 and a part for detecting the position of an object 28 are installed in a photographing room. His face size is decided by the face size measuring part 22 based on the combination of output signals from optical sensors 24a-24c, and the decision result is displayed by lighting lamps 17a-17c, and also, a face size signal is sent to the part for deciding the position of the object 32. The position of his face is detected by the part for deciding the position of the object 32 based on the output signals from the optical sensors 30a-30c, and it is decided by the part 32 whether or not the face of the user to be photographed is positioned at the proper position which corresponds to his face size. In the case that his face is not positioned at the proper position, a buzzer 34 informs the user of that, meanwhile, in the case that his face is properly positioned, that is displayed with a lamp 33. The face of the user to be photographed can be properly positioned in accordance with his face size, so that a photograph for certification is obtained by a photographic magnification which corresponds to his face size.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

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

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, with the introduction plan of a machine-readable passport (MRP), a standard for photographs to be submitted at the time of applying for a passport is being considered. According to this new standard, as shown in FIG. 2, the size of the photograph is 45 mm in length A and 35 mm in width B. The size of the face image on the photo (length from the chin to the top of the 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
It is 5 to 9 mm.

A conventional photographic production apparatus is disclosed in JP-A-1-193.
As described in Japanese Patent No. 824, it is composed of a photography room and a photo production room. The person to be photographed sits on a chair in the photographing room and adjusts the height of the chair so that the eyes of his / her own face reflected in the photographing window substantially coincide with the eye marks on the photographing window.
After adjusting the height of this chair, insert a specified number of coins,
When the start button is operated, the device in the photo production room is activated and the photo is taken automatically. By this photography, for example, a photograph in which a face image of four frames is recorded by the lens clusters arranged in two rows and two columns is produced.

By the way, in the conventional photographic production apparatus, if the face is too small or too large, the size of the face image is entirely out of the standard. Therefore, in order for the face image to satisfy the passport photo standard, the image magnification on the photo may be changed according to the face size. As a result of research on the adjustment of this image magnification, when the focal length f of the lens cluster currently in use is 117 mm and the lens magnification is 0.11 times, as shown in FIG. It turned out to be within the depth of field. If you change the subject position within this depth of field, up to a face size of about 21 cm to 29 cm,
We were able to confirm that we were able to obtain a photo that conformed to the standard and that we could shoot with the subject in focus.

[0005]

In order to change the position of the subject, it is first necessary to know the face size of the subject. Depending on this face size, for example, moving the face back and forth,
Alternatively, move the chair or headrest back and forth. However, in the unlikely event that the face of the person to be photographed is not located at the subject position corresponding to the face size, the face image of the produced photograph will be out of the standard. When applying for a passport for such a nonstandard photo, it is required to retake the photo, which causes great trouble to the photographed person.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, and provides a photograph making apparatus capable of confirming whether or not the face of the photographed person is located at the subject position according to the face size. With the goal.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, in the invention according to claim 1, a plurality of light sources arranged in a horizontal direction on one side in the photographing room and an opposite side across a chair in the photographing room. A plurality of optical sensors arranged in the horizontal direction, and a subject position determination means for determining whether or not the face of the subject is present at the subject position according to the face size based on the signal output from each of the optical sensors. It is provided.

According to the second aspect of the invention, a light projecting section for projecting light toward the face of the person to be photographed in the photographing room and a signal corresponding to the incident position of the light reflected by the face are output. And a subject position determining means for determining whether or not the face of the person to be photographed is present at the subject position according to the face size based on the signal output from the light receiving unit. Further, in the invention according to claim 3, in the invention according to claim 1 or 2, the face size of the subject is detected, and the face size determination means for inputting the face size signal to the subject position determination means, and the face size determination means And a face size display means for displaying the detection result. Furthermore, it is preferable that the determination result of the subject position determination means be notified to the photographed person by some subject position display means at least when it is inappropriate.

[0009]

The face size is manually input in advance, or the face size is automatically determined by the face size determination means. In this state, the subject shifts his or her face to a position corresponding to the face size. Since the optical path of the optical sensor is blocked depending on the position of the face, it is possible to determine whether or not the subject position corresponds to the face size by checking which optical sensor the light is incident on. The subject position display means displays the result of the subject position to notify the person to be photographed. For example, if the face position is correct, turn on the lamp,
If not, sound the buzzer. The position of the face is adjusted by even moving the face back and forth, or by manually moving the chair or headrest.

[0010]

EXAMPLE In FIG. 4, a photographic preparation apparatus 10 is divided into a photographing room 12 and a photographic preparation room 13 with a partition wall 11 in between, and an exterior wall beside an entrance of the photographing room 12 has a grooming appearance. A cosmetic mirror 14 for confirming the above is attached. As shown in detail in FIG. 5, the partition wall 11 is provided with a photographing window 15, a face size display lamp group 17, and the like. The lamp group 17 includes three lamps 17a
~ 17c, these lamps 17a ~ 17c
A character 17d indicating the face size is written below.

Since the photo-making room 13 is a dark room,
The transparent photographing window 15 acts as a mirror, on which the face of the photographed person is projected, and on both sides of the photographing window 15, a line 18 indicating the position of the chin of the photographed person in the photographing window 15 when seated. Is written. A chair 19 is provided in the photographing room 12. The chair 19 is, as shown in FIG.
The height can be adjusted by rotating the buttocks 19a with respect to the support shaft 19b fixed to 2. As a result, the person to be photographed adjusts his / her height when seated and displays his / her chin in the photographing window 15 with the line 18
To match. The line 18 may be written at a position where the eyes are aligned.

A photographing position index 57 is drawn on the side wall 21 of the photographing room 12. The shooting position index 57 is obtained by dividing the adjustment range of the shooting distance into three areas, and a character 57a corresponding to the character 17d representing the size of the face is written in these areas. The person to be photographed sits on the chair 19 so that the face is located in a predetermined area according to the size of the face.

The side walls 20 and 21 of the photographing room 12 are shown in FIG.
As shown in, a face size measuring unit 22 for detecting the position of the top side of the head in a state of being aligned with the chin line 18 is provided.
The face size measuring unit 22 includes a light projecting unit 23 having light projecting elements 23a to 23c arranged vertically (in the vertical direction) in three rows.
And a light receiving section 24 having photosensors 24a to 24c arranged vertically in three rows. Light projecting elements 23a to 23c
In order to eliminate the influence of external light, an infrared light emitting diode that emits infrared light is used. These light projecting elements 2
The infrared light emitted from 3a to 23c is reflected by the lenses 25a to 25a.
After being made into spot light by 25c, optical axes 26a-2
It goes toward the optical sensors 24a to 24c through 6c.

The spot light passing through the optical axes 26a to 26c is blocked by the head, and the face size determination unit 27 determines the face size into three levels as shown in Table 1 from the combination of the output signals of the optical sensors 24a to 24c. Can be determined. The light projecting element 23c and the optical sensor 24c are for confirming the presence of the face, and thus may be omitted.

[0015]

[Table 1]

Here, when the face size is "S", the face size of the subject is less than 19 to 22 cm, and when "M", the face size is less than 22 to 27 cm, "L". If the size of the face is
Corresponds to less than 27-30 cm. The face size determination unit 27 turns on any one of the lamps 17a to 17c according to the determined face size to display the face size to the photographed person and sends a face size signal to the subject position determination unit 32. Figure 1
In the example, since the optical sensors 24b and 24c are turned on, it can be seen that the face size is “M”. In addition,
Instead of the letters 17d of "S", "M", and "L", a dimensional scale indicating the length of the face may be marked.

Below the face size measuring section 22, a subject position detecting section 28 for detecting the position of the face of the photographed person is provided. The subject position detecting section 28 includes a light projecting section 29 having light projecting elements 29a to 29c arranged horizontally (in the horizontal direction) in three rows, and an optical sensor 3 arranged horizontally in three rows.
And a light receiving unit 30 having 0a to 30c. For the light projecting elements 29a to 29c, similarly to the light projecting elements 23a to 23c, infrared light emitting diodes that generate infrared light are used. The infrared light emitted from these light projecting elements 29a to 29c is
After being made into spot light by the lenses 36a to 36c, the light sensors 30a to 30c pass through the optical axes 31a to 31c.
Head to.

Since the spot light passing through the optical axes 31a to 31c is blocked by the face, the subject position determining section 32 detects the subject position based on the signal output from the light receiving section 30. As shown in Table 2, this subject position is determined from the combination of output signals of the optical sensors 30a to 30c.

[0019]

[Table 2]

The controller 35 operates the face size determination unit 22 and the face size determination unit 27 in response to the coin insertion signal. Then, the subject position detection unit 28 and the subject position determination unit 32 are operated by the start signal. The subject position determination unit 32 turns on the lamp 33 when the detected subject position matches the proper position determined by the face size signal, and starts photographing after a lapse of a certain time. When the subject position is not at the proper position, a warning is displayed by the buzzer 34.

The photo-making chamber 13 is provided with a magazine 39 containing a photosensitive material 40 for heat development in a roll form. The roll-shaped photosensitive material 40 includes a pair of drawing rollers 41.
Then, it is pulled out from the magazine 39 by the amount of one shot and cut by the cutter 42. This sheet-shaped photosensitive material 40a
Is conveyed to the photographing exposure unit 43 before photographing. At the time of photographing, the strobe device 44 arranged on the photographing window 15 operates to illuminate the person to be photographed through the diffusion plate 44a. The photographing exposure section 43 is provided with an exposure frame 43a, a shutter device 43b, and a lens cluster 46, and exposes a facial image on the sheet-shaped photosensitive material 40a.

The lens clusters 46 are arranged vertically and horizontally in two rows, and are composed of four photographing small lenses having the same focal length and a lens board 47 for holding the small lenses so that their optical axes L1 to L4 are parallel to each other. Become. The four small lenses image the face image of the subject on the photosensitive material 40a.

The photographic material 40a after the photographic exposure is coated with a small amount of water in the water coating section 48, and then the image receiving material storage section 49.
It is sent to the heat developing section 51 together with the sheet-shaped image receiving material 50 sent from. In the heat developing section 51, the photosensitive material 4
The image on the photosensitive material 40a is transferred to the image receiving material 50 by heating the image receiving material 0a and the image receiving material 50 in close contact with each other.
The photosensitive material 40a and the image receiving material 50 after the thermal development transfer are separated from each other at the separating and taking-out portion 53, and the image receiving material 50 showing a positive image is discharged as a photograph 50a to the taking-out port 54, and the photosensitive material 40a is a waste box. Discarded in 55. In the taken-out photograph 50a, as shown in FIG. 7, face images having the same image magnification are shown in four frames of the same size partitioned in a matrix.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described.
First, grooming is adjusted by the mirror 14 attached to the entrance of the photographic production apparatus 10 and the photograph room 12 is entered. Shooting room 1
In step 2, first, the user sits on the chair 19 and looks at the photographing window 15 to check whether or not the image of the chin coincides with the line 18. If the jaw image is higher than the line 18, the backrest 19a
Turn to adjust the height of the chair 19.

When a coin is inserted into the coin insertion slot 59, a coin insertion signal is sent to the controller 35. The controller 35 operates the face size measuring unit 22 and the face size determining unit 27. As a result, the light projecting unit 23 projects the three spot lights toward the light receiving unit 24. Spot light is incident on each of the optical sensors 24a to 24c of the light receiving unit 24 according to the size of the face. Face size determination unit 27
Determines the face size according to the combination of the output signals of the optical sensors 24a to 24c, sends the face size signal to the subject position determination unit 32, and turns on the lamps 17a to 17c. The person to be photographed reads the character 17d corresponding to the lamp lit while sitting on the chair 19, for example, "M".

The person to be photographed adjusts the position of the face so that the face matches the photographing position index 57 drawn on the lateral side wall 21. After that, when the start button 58 is operated, a start signal is input to the controller 35. When the start signal is input, the controller 35 activates the subject position detection unit 28 and the subject position determination unit 32. This allows
The light projecting unit 29 projects the three spot lights toward the light receiving unit 30. The light sensors 30a to 30 of the light receiving unit 30
Spot light is incident on c according to the position of the face. The subject position determination unit 32 first determines each of the optical sensors 30 a to 30.
The position of the photographed person's face is detected based on the signal output from c. Next, it is determined whether the determined position matches the proper position determined by the face size signal.

If the face is not located at the proper position, the buzzer 34 is driven. This allows the photographed person to know that his or her face is not in the proper position.
The character 17d corresponding to the lamps 17a to 17c on which the face size is displayed is checked again, and the position of the face is readjusted so that the face matches the shooting position index 57 drawn on the lateral side wall 21.

When the face is in the proper position, the lamp 33
Lights up. When the lamp 33 is turned on, photographing is started after a certain time has elapsed. Since the photosensitive material 40a that has been cut from the magazine 39 and cut into a sheet shape is preset in the photographing exposure section 43, when photographing is started, four face images are displayed on the photosensitive material 40a. It This light-sensitive material 40a is used as an image receiving material 5 after the addition of water.
It is overlaid with 0 and developed by heat. This heat-developable image receiving material 50 is sent to the take-out port 54 as a certification photograph 50a. A face image conforming to the standard is shown in each frame of the certification photograph 50a by changing the subject position within the depth of field.

FIG. 8 shows an embodiment in which the position of a face is determined by using a distance measuring device. The infrared light emitted from the infrared light LED 60 is irradiated toward the face of the seated subject while the spread of the light is prevented by the condenser lens 61.
Infrared light reflected by the face is detected by a semiconductor position detector (PSD)
Received by 64. This semiconductor position detector 64
Outputs two channel currents from two output terminals corresponding to the incident light intensity and the incident position of light. Distance measuring circuit 6
5 takes the ratio of the current values of the two channels or the voltage values corresponding to them, so that the position information of the subject can be obtained without depending on the incident light intensity. The determination unit 66 is 3
Based on the face size signal of the stage and the subject distance, it is determined whether the photographer's face is located at the subject distance according to the face size. Then, according to the determination result, the buzzer or the lamp is driven as in the embodiment shown in FIG.

In the above embodiment, the position of the face is adjusted by moving the upper half of the body back and forth while watching the shooting position display 57 on the wall of the shooting room 12, but in the example shown in FIG. 9, the optical axis L1 is used.
The position of the chair 70 is manually adjusted in the direction along L4. The chair 70 includes a height-adjustable buttocks 70a and a screw cylinder 70b, and a horizontal mounting plate 71 is fixed to the lower end of the screw cylinder 70b. A pair of sleeves 72 are fixed to both ends of the mounting plate 71, and these sleeves 72 are slidably fitted to two guide rods 73 arranged in parallel.

A click mechanism (not shown) is provided on the sleeve 72 and the guide rod 73, so that the chair 70 can be installed in three positions.
It can be adjusted in stages. Chair 70 and guide rod 73
When the coin is inserted after being set at the reference position which is substantially in the center, the face size is determined and the lamps 17a to
One of 17c lights up. The person to be photographed adjusts the position of the chair 70 so that his / her face matches the photographing position index 57 drawn on the lateral side wall 21. That is, the face size is "S"
In the case of, the depth of field of the small lens is adjusted so that it is in front of the reference position, when the face size is “M”, it is as it is, and when the face size is “L”, it is behind the reference position. Adjust the position of the chair 70 inside. After that, when the start button 58 is operated, the subject position determination unit 32 determines the position of the face and displays OK or NG.

FIG. 10 shows an example of manually moving the headrest in the optical axis direction according to the face size instead of the chair. Behind the headrest 80, a pair of upper and lower slide rods 81 and 82 are fixed. The slide rod 81 is fitted with a click mechanism 84 fixed to the wall 83, and the headrest 80 can be adjusted in three steps. A slide rod 82 for preventing rotation of the headrest 80 is slidably fitted in a hole of the wall 83.

Also in this example, since the headrest 80 is adjusted to a position according to the face size while watching the photographing position display 57, by touching the headrest 80 with the head,
The position of the face is determined. Here, the headrest 80 may be provided at a height that blocks the light projected from the light projecting unit 29. In this case, the subject position determination unit 32
Determines the position of the face from the combination of output signals of the optical sensors 30a to 30c shown in Table 3, for example.

[0034]

[Table 3]

Further, the headrest 80 needs to be sized so that it cannot be photographed. In addition, if the same color as that of the wall 83 is used, there is no problem even if the headrest 80 is slightly protruding from the head. Further, even in the case of this example, when the face size is determined, the headrest 70 is set at a substantially central reference position.

In each of the embodiments described above, the face size has three levels of "S", "M", and "L", but the number of levels can be appropriately increased or decreased. In accordance with this, the number of steps for determining the subject position is increased or decreased. Further, in the photo production apparatus described in the above embodiment, a photo in which a face image is imprinted in a 2 × 2 matrix arrangement is produced, but a photo in which four face columns are imprinted may be produced.

In the embodiment shown in FIGS. 9 and 10, it is necessary to set the chair 70 and the headrest 80 at the M size position when measuring the face size. Therefore, when measuring the face size, the subject position detection unit 28 is used to determine whether or not the chair 70 or the headrest 80 is set at the M size position, and the face size determination is started at the correct position. It is convenient to display a warning when Although the face size is automatically measured, three face sizes of “S”, “M”, and “L” may be manually input based on the judgment of the person to be photographed.

Further, the SPD6 described in the embodiment of FIG.
Instead of 4, a line sensor may be used to check the incident position of the reflected light. Furthermore, the lamp 33 and the buzzer 3
The photographing position index 57 may be omitted since the proper position can be known in step 4.

[0039]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention, it is possible to check whether or not the face of the photographed person is correctly positioned at the subject position according to the face size.
Prevents being shot in the wrong position, thereby
You can surely get the picture according to the standard.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a main part of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing standard dimensions of a passport.

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

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing the external appearance of a photographic production apparatus.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of a partition wall viewed from a photographing room.

FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of a photographic production apparatus.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing a produced photograph.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional view of an application example in which the position of the chair is manually changed according to the face size.

FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view showing an application example in which the position of the headrest is manually changed.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 Photographic Manufacturing Equipment 17 Lamp Group for Face Size Display 19,70 Chair 22 Face Size Measuring Section 23,29 Light Projecting Section 24,30 Light Receiving Section 27 Face Size Determining Section 28 Subject Position Detecting Section 32 Subject Position Determining Section 33 Subject Position Judgment display lamp 34 Buzzer 46 Lens cluster 50a Photo 80 Headrest

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[Procedure amendment]

[Submission date] November 2, 1992

[Procedure Amendment 1]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0004

[Correction method] Change

[Correction content]

By the way, in the conventional photographic production apparatus, if the face is too small or too large, the size of the face image is entirely out of the standard. Therefore, in order for the face image to satisfy the passport photo standard, the image magnification on the photo may be changed according to the face size. As a result of research on the adjustment of this image magnification, when the focal length f of the lens cluster currently in use is 117 mm and the lens magnification is 0.11 times, as shown in FIG. Burning
It turned out that it was within the point depth. By changing the position of the subject within this depth of focus , we were able to obtain a standard-sized photograph up to a face size of approximately 21 cm to 29 cm, confirming that the image could be taken in focus.

[Procedure Amendment 2]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Name of item to be corrected] 0022

[Correction method] Change

[Correction content]

The lens cluster 46 is arranged vertically and horizontally two rows, and the same four imaging lenses of focal length, the lens board 47. These optical axis L1~L4 holds lenses in parallel Become. Four lenses are imprinted the face image of the photographer to the photosensitive material 40a.

[Procedure 3]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0028

[Correction method] Change

[Correction content]

When the face is in the proper position, the lamp 33
Lights up. When the lamp 33 is turned on, photographing is started after a certain time has elapsed. Since the photosensitive material 40a that has been cut from the magazine 39 and cut into a sheet shape is preset in the photographing exposure section 43, when photographing is started, four face images are displayed on the photosensitive material 40a. It This light-sensitive material 40a is used as an image receiving material 5 after the addition of water.
It is overlaid with 0 and developed by heat. This heat-developable image receiving material 50 is sent to the take-out port 54 as a certification photograph 50a. A face image conforming to the standard is shown in each frame of the certification photograph 50a by changing the subject position within the depth of focus .

[Procedure amendment 4]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0031

[Correction method] Change

[Correction content]

A click mechanism (not shown) is provided on the sleeve 72 and the guide rod 73, so that the chair 70 can be installed in three positions.
It can be adjusted in stages. Chair 70 and guide rod 73
When the coin is inserted after being set at the reference position which is substantially in the center, the face size is determined and the lamps 17a to
One of 17c lights up. The person to be photographed adjusts the position of the chair 70 so that his / her face matches the photographing position index 57 drawn on the lateral side wall 21. That is, the face size is "S"
In the depth of focus of the lens so that it is in front of the reference position in the case of, the face size is “M” as it is, and when the face size is “L”, it is behind the reference position. Adjust the position of 70. After that, start button 5
When the user operates 8, the subject position determination unit 32 determines the position of the face and displays OK or NG.

[Procedure Amendment 5]

[Document name to be corrected] Drawing

[Name of item to be corrected] Figure 3

[Correction method] Change

[Correction content]

[Figure 3]

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Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of light sources arranged horizontally on one side in the photographing room, a plurality of optical sensors arranged horizontally on the opposite side across a chair in the photographing room, and a signal output from each optical sensor. And a subject position determining means for determining whether or not the face of the person to be photographed is present at the subject position according to the face size. 2. A light projecting section for projecting light toward a face of a person to be photographed in a photographing room, a light receiving section for outputting a signal corresponding to an incident position of light reflected by the face, and the light receiving section. And a subject position determining means for determining whether or not the face of the person to be photographed is present at the subject position according to the face size based on the signal output from the photograph making apparatus. 3. A face size determination means for detecting a face size of a subject and inputting a face size signal to the subject position determination means, and a face size display means for displaying a detection result of the face size determination means. Claim 1 or 2 characterized by
The described photographic production apparatus.