JPS63311341A - Composite image printing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To contrive to improve the workability by constituting the titled device so that a standard image determined as a standard format is recorded in a film, and thereafter, printed to photographic paper by the first exposing part, a figure image and a character image are synthesized and displayed on a CRT, and thereafter, printed in multiple in the same photographic paper frame. CONSTITUTION:The titled device is constituted of the first exposing part 14 for printing a standard image recorded as a photographic image 23 to photographic paper 10 by a projection or a contact exposure, and the second exposing part 15 for synthesizing a figure image and a character image for showing an individual data corresponding to its figure and displaying them on a CRT 25 and printing this composite image displayed on the CRT 25 to photographic paper 10. In such a way, the standard image, the figure image and the character image are printed in multiple on one sheet of photographic paper 10, and by bringing the photographic paper 10 which a printing processing is completed to a development processing, the standard image, the figure image and the character image appear, and a display sheet having a photograph for a certificate can be generated simply.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Field of Application] The present invention relates to a composite image printing apparatus for creating a printed photograph containing a mixture of human images and character images.

[Conventional technology]

Certificates that identify individuals, such as passports, include a photograph of the individual's face and the person's name.

Personal data such as date of birth is required. Up until now, when creating a passport, the face photo prepared in advance was laminated on the designated page of the booklet passport, and personal data was typed and printed on the designated page based on the information on the application form. ing.

In addition, on the required pages of the passport, there are fields divided by ruled lines, and characters to indicate which item of personal data this field is used to write.
Symbols etc. are written.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

However, with the above-mentioned passport, there are many tasks such as printing characters and symbols for ruled lines and item descriptions on the required pages of the passport, writing personal data to match the printed rules and item descriptions, and laminating facial photos. There are many steps. Furthermore, writing in personal data is complicated, as it requires looking at the application form, checking the correspondence with the facial photo, and making sure there are no typographical errors.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the drawbacks of the prior art, and it is possible to use certificates, etc., on which are recorded images such as ruled lines and headings, 9 person images, 2 character images representing personal data, etc.
It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus for accurately and efficiently producing composite images.

[Means for solving problems]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a first exposure section for printing the standard image recorded as a photographic image onto photographic paper by projection or contact exposure, and a character image representing a person image and personal data corresponding to the person. and CRT
The image synthesis and printing apparatus comprises a second exposure section that displays the image on the CRT, and prints the synthesized image displayed on the CRT onto the photographic paper.

[Effect]

According to the above-mentioned composite image printing, first standard images such as ruled lines and heading items recorded on the photographic film are clearly printed onto photographic paper, and then the human image and individual images are compositely displayed on the CR'T'. A character image representing the data is printed. Therefore, in this composite image printing, a standard image, a person image, and two character images are printed multiple times on a single sheet of photographic paper by the apparatus. Then, the printing process is completed and the photographic paper is developed to produce standard images of 9 people.

A text image will appear, allowing you to easily create a photo display sheet for your certificate.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

〔Example〕

FIG. 2 shows an example of a display sheet for a passport produced using the apparatus of the present invention. In this display sheet 2,
A standard image 4 including title characters 4a, ruled lines 4b, and item display 40 written in a field divided by the ruled lines 4b.
, character images 6 representing personal data such as a passport number 6a, surname 6b, name 6c, date of birth 6d, etc. written in correspondence with the character image 5 and the ruled line 4b and item display 4b are displayed. A part of the personal data is also recorded as OCR characters (characters identified by an optical character reader) 7 near the edge of the display sheet 4. In addition, O
0CR-, which has an easy-to-read form as CR character 7
When using B type characters, the 0CR-B type characters may be used as is in the character image 6 as well.

Color photographic paper is used for the display sheet 2, and each of the aforementioned standard images 41, human images 58, and character images 6 is recorded by printing and developing on the color photographic paper. The display sheet 2 on which these images are recorded is integrated into a mount 8 with a binding 8a by lamination processing, and is used by being bound onto a predetermined page of a booklet-type passport.

In FIG. 1, which schematically shows an apparatus for producing the display sheet 2, an inverted color photographic paper 10 is spread in a light-shielded state between a supply reel 11 and a take-up reel 12, and is rolled up. It is intermittently transferred to the take-up reel 12 side. In the path of the color photographic paper IO, there is a first exposure section 14. Second exposure section 15. η page processing device 16. Cutters 17 are arranged one after the other.

The first exposure section 14 includes a light source lamp 20. Shutter 21, condensing lens 22. It consists of a photographed lithographic film 23 and a projection lens 24. A standard image 4 consisting of title characters 4a, ruled lines 4b, item display 40, etc. is photographed on the lithographic film 23, and the image portion is recorded as a light-shielding portion. Then, the standard image 4 recorded on this lithographic film 23 is created when the shutter 21 is opened for a certain period of time.
The image is printed on reversible color photographic paper 24 in reduced size or at the same size. The second exposure section 15 includes a black and white CRT for printing 25.
Imaging lens 26. Three-color (blue, green, red) filter 27. The shutter 28 is used to print the image displayed on the monochrome CRT 25 for printing onto color photographic paper 10.

A face photograph 30 attached to the passport application form is set on a stage and imaged by a color TV camera 31. A video signal output from the color TV camera 31 is input to an image synthesis section 32 configured by, for example, a computer. This image synthesis section 32 further includes a character image input section 33. An OCR character input section 349 and a graphic image input section 35 are connected.

The character image input unit 33 consists of a console consisting of a CRT and a keyboard, and by operating the keyboard while looking at the CRT, inputs personal data such as the name and date of birth written on the passport application form, and also inputs the passport issuance. Enter data such as date and expiry date. OCR character input section 34
includes a character generator that stores OCR character patterns, and inputs only necessary data from the keyboard input of the character image input section 33 to the image synthesis section 32 as OCR character pattern data. The graphic image input unit 14 is composed of, for example, a digitizer, and is used to input patterns created by computer graphics (CC). This pattern or the like is faintly recorded over the entire area of the display sheet 2, and can be used to make it difficult to forge the display sheet 2.

The image synthesis section 32 combines person image data input from the color TV camera 31, character image data read out from the character image input section 33 in input order, and OCR character image input section 3.
The pattern data from 4 and the graphic image data from the graphic image input section 35 are added and synthesized. Coordinate data of the standard image 4, such as the ruled lines 4b and display items 40, which are predetermined in a certain format, are written in the memory provided in the image composition unit 32, and when compositing (layout), each image is Process the data from the input section so as to incorporate it into a predetermined position. The composite image data thus composited is then sent to the CRT controller 36.

The CRT controller 36 includes a color monitor 37;
It is used to control the monochrome CRT 25 for printing, and the composite image data is sent to the color monitor 37 before printing.
to display the positive image. When printing, the composite image data is sent to the monochrome CRT 25 for printing, and the composite image is displayed as a positive image.

When the shutter 21 is opened and closed at a certain time in the first exposure section 14, the standard image 4 recorded on the lithographic film 23 is
The color photographic paper 10 is projected and exposed. By performing projection exposure in this manner, the ruled lines 4b, display items 40 made of fine characters, etc. can be printed clearly. The color photographic paper 10 on which the standard image 4 has been printed by the first exposure section 14 is sent to the second exposure section 15.

Observe the color monitor 37 and compare the face photo and personal data pasted on the application form to determine the person image 5 and character image 6.
Make sure that they match.

If a discrepancy is found at this time, the data content can be easily corrected by keyboard operation, unlike type printing. Corrected like this.

After checking, operate the print key on the console. The CRT controller 36 extracts one color from the three-color composite image and displays it on the printing CRT 25.

The composite image displayed on the monochrome CRT 25 for printing is reduced and formed on the color photographic paper 10 by the imaging lens 26 while the shutter 28 is open. When printing this three-color black-and-white composite image, blue, green, and red color filters are selectively inserted, converting it into a single-color image of blue, green, and red, and then coloring it using the three-color sequential exposure method. The image is printed onto color photographic paper lO.

The color photographic paper 10 on which the composite image has been printed in the second exposure section 15 is sent to a photographic processing device 16, where it is sequentially subjected to a developing process, a fixing process, and a drying process. The photographically developed color photographic paper 10 is punched out one frame at a time by a cutter 17 to form a display sheet 2 and accumulated in a storage container 40. Note that the punched color photographic paper IO is wound up into a roll on the take-up reel 12 as waste paper.

The display sheet 2 created in this way is laminated onto a mount 3 and then bound into a part of a booklet-type passport for use. This display sheet 2 has an OCR that can be automatically identified by an optical character reader (OCR).
Since character 7 is also recorded, instead of the immigration officer checking the passport visually, they can open the relevant page of the passport and automatically read it using OCR, which is very useful when airports are busy. be. In addition, when printing the standard image 4 on the color photographic paper 10 at the same size, as shown in FIG. It is also possible to print by so-called contact exposure.

Furthermore, the present invention can be used not only for display sheets for passports, but also for creating general ID cards such as driver's licenses. If a large amount of processing is required, the facial photographs 30 may be connected and automatically fed one after the other while the human image 5 is displayed on a CRT, or instead of a printed facial photograph, a negative film may be used. It is also possible to obtain the person image 5 by capturing a photographic image recorded on the TV camera with a TV camera. Of course, the present invention can be similarly utilized when black and white photographic paper is used for the display sheet.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained in detail above, according to the present invention, a standard image determined as a standard format is recorded on a film and then projected onto photographic paper by the first exposure section or printed by contact exposure. Since the human images and character images that are replaced by images are synthesized and displayed on the CRT and then printed multiple times on the same frame of photographic paper, the procedure for creating display sheets is streamlined and work efficiency is significantly improved. In addition, since the standard image, which is the basic format, is always recorded clearly, it becomes possible to create display sheets with high-quality photographs.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a plan view of a display sheet produced by the apparatus shown in FIG. 1. FIG. 3 is a schematic cross-sectional view showing another example of the first exposure section. 2...Display sheet 4...Standard image 5...Portrait image 6...Text image lO...Color photographic paper 14...First exposure section 15...Second exposure section 25...Black and white for printing CRT 31...Color TV camera.

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) In a composite image printing device that prints a standard image representing ruled lines and heading items, a person image, and a character image representing personal information corresponding to this person image onto photographic paper, the standard image recorded on photographic film is A first exposure section that prints an image onto photographic paper by projection or contact exposure, and the above-mentioned human image and character image that are synthesized and displayed on a CRT screen within the same frame of the photographic paper printed by this basic image exposure section. A composite image printing apparatus comprising: a second exposure section for printing. (2) The character image is a character image for visual observation that is printed in a position combined with the ruled line or heading item;
2. The composite image printing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an OCR character image printed near the edge of photographic paper for identification by an optical character reading device. (3) The composite image printing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the person image displayed on the CRT screen is obtained by capturing a photographic image with a TV camera.