JPH0782188B2 - Data imprinting device and data recording device - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a data imprinting device for a camera and a data recording device.

B. Conventional technology The shooting data 54 such as date, shutter speed, aperture, etc.
As shown in the figure, various data imprinting devices have been proposed for imprinting in a margin between screens 52 and 52 on film 51.

C. Problems to be Solved by the Invention In this way, when the shooting data is imprinted in the margin between the screens, the direction of the characters or symbols of the shooting data is imprinted on the screen in a fixed direction, and the direction Defines the correspondence with the screen.

However, when looking only at the middle part of the film 51,
There is a problem that it is not possible to easily identify which of the photographing data 54 on both sides of the screen 52 corresponds to the screen.

Such a problem also occurs when a plurality of images on a recording medium such as an electronic still camera are printed side by side on one sheet of photographic paper at predetermined intervals, and the above-mentioned shooting data is recorded in a margin between screens. Occurs.

The object of the present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and it is possible to easily identify which screen corresponds to which screen the shooting data recorded in the margin between screens corresponds to. It is to provide a plugging device and a data recording device.

D. Means for Solving the Problems The invention of claim 1 is applied to a data imprinting device of a camera that imprints photographed data on a blank portion between screens of a film. According to this apparatus, based on the attitude detecting means for detecting the attitude of the camera and the attitude information of the camera detected by the attitude detecting means, the direction of the photographed data to be imprinted is directed to the film winding direction in the margin portion. The problem described above is provided by having the data orientation determining means for determining whether the film is to be rewound in the film rewinding direction and the data imprinting means for imprinting the photographing data to be imprinted and the identification mark indicating the screen corresponding to the photographing data to be imprinted. Points are resolved.

Further, the invention of claim 2 is applied to a data recording device for recording photographing data in a margin between screens. According to this apparatus, the above-mentioned problem is solved by providing the recording means for recording the photographing data to be recorded and the identification mark indicating the screen corresponding to the photographing data to be recorded.

E. Action In the present invention, since the identification mark is imprinted or recorded together with the photographing data, it is easy to know which screen the photographing data corresponds to by the identification mark. Further, according to the invention of claim 1, since the direction of the photographing data is directed to the film winding direction or the film rewinding direction according to the attitude of the camera, the top and bottom of the screen and the top and bottom such as characters and numbers which are the photographing data coincide with each other. , It is possible to prevent reading mistakes of shooting data.

F. Embodiment One embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 2 shows an example of a camera in which the present invention is used, and is a view seen from the rear surface thereof. In FIG. 2, 11 is a camera body, 12 is a back cover attached to the camera body 11, and the back cover 12 is provided with a data imprinting unit 20.
In the data imprinting unit 20, switches 30A and 30B for detecting the attitude of the camera body 11 and the data imprinting mechanism unit 4
0 and are provided.

Here, as shown in FIG. 3 (a), the attitude detection switch 30 encloses mercury 32 in a cylindrical glass tube 31 and penetrates the glass tube 31 with two conductive terminal rods 33. It will be done. In the attitude detection switch 30 configured as described above, FIG.
As shown in, when the 31a side of the glass tube 31 is on the upper side, the mercury 32 is on the lower 31b side, so that the two terminal rods 33
Is turned on by mercury 32, and the posture detection switch 30 is turned on. On the other hand, when the 31b side of the glass tube 31 is on the upper side, the mercury 32 moves to the 31a side, so that the two terminal rods 33 become non-conductive and the posture detection switch 30 is turned off.

When only one attitude detection switch 30 configured as described above is used, attitude detection in two directions is possible. In this embodiment, two attitude detection switches 30A and 30B are arranged in a "H" shape as shown in FIG. With such a configuration, the posture detection switch 30 is turned on / off as shown in FIG. 3 (b) with respect to the postures in which A, B, C, D are directed upward.
It is possible to detect postures in four directions.

Next, referring to FIGS. 4 and 5, the data imprinting mechanism section
40 will be described.

In FIG. 4, 51 is a film, 52 is a screen, 53 is an identification mark which is imprinted together with photographing data as described later, 54
Is shooting data. The data imprinting mechanism section 40 has a transmissive liquid crystal plate 41 and an illuminating device 42.
As shown in FIG. 5, an identification mark portion 45 and a 6-character data character portion 46 in which one character is composed of 7 segments are formed on the. The identification mark portion 45 is a light transmitting portion, and the data character portion 46 is composed of liquid crystal for each segment of 6 characters, and is configured to control light transmission and light non-transmission. Areas other than the mark portion 45 and the data character portion 46 are non-light transmitting portions. The data character portion 46 is set to a character shape to be imprinted by a data setting device (not shown), and the lighting device 42 is set by a device (not shown).
Flash and imprint the shooting data on the film.

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a control device for imprinting photographing data. The same parts as those in FIGS. 2 and 4 are designated by the same reference numerals for the description. In FIG. 1, 1 is a control unit for controlling the imprinting of photographed data, 2 is an imprinting signal output unit for transmitting the timing of imprinting to the control unit 1, and 3 is a mode for imprinting photographed data and the like. The imprinting mode setting section 4 for setting is a posture detecting section for performing a posture detecting operation by the posture detecting switch 30 shown in FIG. 3 and transmitting the state to the control section 1.

The control unit 1 functions as the data orientation determination unit and the attitude detection unit 4
Is a posture detecting means, and the data imprinting mechanism section 40 is a data imprinting means or a recording means.

Next, the operation of imprinting data will be described.

First, the contents to be imprinted are set in the imprint mode setting unit 3 or selected from a mode prepared in advance, and the set or selected data is transmitted to the control unit 1. On the other hand, the posture detection unit 4 detects the posture of the camera from the state table of FIG. 3 (b) and transmits the data to the control unit 1. Next, when a release button (not shown) is pressed to start photographing, a release signal is transmitted to the imprint signal output unit 2 through a signal path (not shown). The imprinting signal output unit 2 transmits the imprinting signal to the control unit 1 after a predetermined time has elapsed after receiving the release signal. The imprinting signal is the control unit 1
Then, the control unit 1 determines the content and direction of the data to be imprinted based on the data transmitted from the imprinting mode setting unit 3 and the posture detection unit 4, and the data imprinting mechanism unit Data transmission mechanism 40
Imprint this data in the margin between the screen 52 and the screen 52 of the film 51.

Next, the data to be imprinted will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 6 to 8.

6 and 7 show the case where the subject is imprinted on the screen 52 in the horizontal position. In FIG. 6, shooting data 54 (representing 88 19 and 125 16) and an identification mark 53 attached to this shooting data 54 are imprinted in a margin between screens 52. . The screen 52 in the arrow direction of the identification mark 53 indicates that it is a screen corresponding to the shooting data 54, and, for example, the shooting data 54a indicates that it is data corresponding to the screen 52a. Also, as shown in FIG.
The identification mark 53 is the decimal point, and the decimal point
It is also possible to identify by imprinting on the corresponding screen 52 side. As described above, the identification mark 53 may be any mark as long as the corresponding screen can be easily identified.

Further, FIG. 8 shows a case where the subject is imaged vertically on the screen 52.

In the screen 52b, the left side of the screen is in the upward direction of the subject, and in the camera posture of FIG. 2, B is in the upward state. C is in the upper state. The posture detection unit 4 detects the postures of these cameras, and the control unit 1 adjusts the orientation of the data so that the vertical direction (top and bottom) of the subject and the vertical direction (top and bottom) of the captured data 54 match and imprint. I am doing it. Further, since the orientation of the subject and the orientation of the captured data 54 match, the captured data 54 is not viewed upside down, and the captured data 54 is not misread. On the other hand, if this imprinting method is used, the captured data 54 will
If the top side of 52 matches the top-bottom direction of the screen (the film winding direction is above the text part), and if it matches the top-bottom direction of the screen on the ground side (the film rewind direction is above the text part) However, in the present invention, since the identification mark 53 is imprinted together with the photographed data 54, the identification method that the data on the top side of the screen is the corresponding data on the screen cannot be taken. However, the corresponding screen can be easily identified.

It should be noted that, in the above, in the case of the horizontal position shooting, the shooting data 54 is imprinted in the direction as shown in FIG.
Since 53 is also imprinted, the corresponding screen can be easily set so that it can be easily identified and is easy to see. Furthermore, in the case where the image is taken with the D direction facing up in Fig. 2 and the screen orientation is reversed, It is easy to identify the corresponding screen.

Further, although two mercury switches are used as the camera attitude detection switch 30, any means may be used as long as the attitude of the camera can be detected without being particular about the mercury switches and the number thereof. Further, it may be placed anywhere as long as the posture of the camera can be detected. Furthermore, although the description has been given of the type of illuminating the transmissive liquid crystal plate 41, various types such as a type of emitting light from a segmented light emitting diode can be used.

Further, the case where the data is imprinted on the silver salt film at the same time as the photographing is described, but in the case of recording the photographed image on the magnetic recording medium like the electronic still photograph, the photographed images of a plurality of frames in the recording medium are recorded. When printing with a certain margin between screens on a piece of photographic paper, when recording shooting data in that margin, the above-mentioned identification mark should be attached to facilitate identification of the screen corresponding to the shooting data. Is also possible.

G. Effect of the Invention According to the invention of claim 1, since it is possible to detect the orientation of the camera and match the orientation of the top and bottom of the screen with the orientation of the captured data to be imprinted in vertical position photography, When reading the shooting data while looking, the direction of the shooting data does not reverse, preventing misreading of the shooting data and the identification mark on the corresponding screen of the shooting data is also imprinted, so the shooting data is imprinted between the screens. If no, the corresponding screen can be easily identified even when the shooting data is aligned in the vertical direction when the shooting data is aligned on the top side of the screen and when the shooting data is aligned on the ground side. Have advantages.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, when the photographing data is recorded on the screen of the silver salt film and the margin of the screen, or when the images of a plurality of frames of the recording medium of the electronic still camera are recorded on one recording sheet. When the shooting data is recorded in the margin between the screens, the identification mark is attached, so that it is possible to easily know which shooting data corresponds to which screen.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIGS. 1 to 8 explain one embodiment of the present invention.
1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration, FIG. 2 is a rear view of a camera equipped with a data imprinting unit 20, FIG. 3 (a) is a sectional view of a posture detection switch 30, and FIG. 3 (b) is FIG. 4 is a view showing the posture of the camera and the state of the switch, FIG. 4 is a perspective view for explaining the data imprinting mechanism 40, FIG. 5 is a front view of the transmissive liquid crystal plate 41, and FIGS. It is a figure which shows the state of imprinting. FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a photographed data imprinting state by a conventional apparatus. 1: Control part 2: Imprint signal output part 3: Imprint mode setting part 4: Attitude detection part 11: Camera body 20: Data imprinting unit 30: Attitude detection switch 40: Data imprinting mechanism part 45: Identification mark part , 46: Data character part 51: Film, 52: Screen 53: Identification mark, 54: Shooting data

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A data imprinting device of a camera for imprinting photographed data on a margin between a screen of a film and a posture detecting means for detecting a posture of the camera, and a camera for detecting the posture of the camera. Data orientation determining means for determining, based on the posture information, whether the direction of the photographed data to be imprinted is in the film winding direction or the film rewinding direction in the margin, and the photographed data to be imprinted together with the photographed data to be imprinted. And a data imprinting unit imprinting an identification mark indicating a corresponding screen on the camera. 2. A data recording device for recording photographed data in a margin between screens, comprising recording means for recording, together with the photographed data to be recorded, an identification mark indicating a screen corresponding to the photographed data to be recorded. A data recording device characterized by.