Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Kaname Nihei

Masahiro Konishi

Hiroshi Igarashi

Yoshiki Kawaoka

Koichi Yahagi

Tadashi Fujii

Chiaki Ichikawa

Kazuki Iwabe

An image capture system is provided with a USB terminal to which a drive is connected. When a user drops a coin into a coin insertion slot, the fact that the user intends to use the system is verified. As a result, a message to the effect that image data can be read using the drive is displayed on the display screen of a display unit. By observing the display on the display screen, the user can ascertain that the drive has been added onto the image capture system.

Image capture system and method of controlling operation of same

A plurality of printers are used in an efficient manner. The printing time of each of a plurality of printers is detected, and so is the overall printing workload of printing performed using the plurality of printers. On the basis of the detected printing times and overall printing workload, print processing by the plurality of printers is controlled in such a manner that print processing executed by the plurality of printers ends approximately simultaneously. As a result, images of a plurality of frames can be printed promptly.

Multiple-printer control apparatus and method

The present invention is directed to identifying photographs to be handed to attendants at a wedding reception, for example. In front of a seat in which the attendant at the wedding reception sits, an Ir light emitting device which transmits a seat code for identifying the attendant is placed. The seat code is received, to record data representing the seat code, and the attendant is photographed, to record image data representing an image of the attendant in correlation with the seat code on a memory card of a digital camera. An attendant file including the seat code and the name of the attendant is previously created. The image of the attendant which is obtained by the photographing, the name of the attendant and so forth are related to each other using the seat code. A print is obtained from a composite image in which the image of the attendant and the name of the attendant is synthesized with a template image. The attendant to which the print is to be handed can be confirmed by seeing the name.

Digital camera, and image synthesizer and method of controlling the same

If a density adjustment command is applied to a control apparatus in a printing system having a plurality of printers, each of the printers outputs sheets of density adjustment paper on which has been recorded identification information (a color) indicating which printer produced the output, and a color for performing a density adjustment. Any one of the sheets of density adjustment paper is set in a densitometer. The identification information and the density-adjustment color on the set density adjustment paper are read by the densitometer and applied to the control apparatus. Density adjustment data obtained from the density-adjustment color is transmitted to a printer specified by the identification information of the density adjustment paper. The printer that has received the density-adjustment data performs a density adjustment based upon the density adjustment data. Density can be adjusted appropriately even though the system includes a plurality of printers.

Printing system

In a digital camera in which image data produced through a photographing operation is compressed to be written in a memory card, even if a shutter release button is depressed during the recording of the image data in the memory card, the photographing can be immediately achieved. While image data stored in a buffer memory is being compressed to be stored in the memory card, the depression of shutter release button is continuously monitored. If the release button is pressed, the recording operation in the memory card is interrupted to conduct the photographing. After the photographing is finished, the image data for which the recording is interrupted is compressed to be entirely written in the memory card beginning at the start point thereof.

Imaging apparatus

An accessory unit is mounted on an electronic camera, and a printer connects to the electronic camera via a SCSI terminal of the accessory unit. An image signal is captured from a CCD in response to the releasing operation, and the image signal is analog-to-digital converted before being transferred to the accessory unit. The accessory unit converts the image signal into RGB data suitable for the printer, and outputs the RGB data to the printer so that the captured image can be simultaneously with the image-capturing. Moreover, during sequential image-capturing, captured image data is sequentially stored in an uncompressed state in a frame memory of the accessory unit. After sequential image-capturing is completed, the image data is transferred to the camera in an order in which it is stored, and compressed. Further, a background image is recorded in a memory card in advance, and an image is composed from the background image and a captured image (or a reproduced image) in the accessory unit. The composite image data is then transferred to the printer.

Electronic camera accessory and image composition system

When images of several frames captured by an image sensing device such as an electronic still-video camera are displayed on a display unit, the images are made easier to view by rotating each image in conformity with the inclination of the horizontal scanning direction of the camera, with respect to the horizontal, which prevailed when the image was captured. Several frames of compressed image data stored in a memory card or external storage unit are decompressed by a compression/expansion circuit and then stored in a compression/expansion memory. The stored compressed image data thus is read out by a thin-out/rotation circuit and the data is then thinned out, processed for movement to a designated position and processed for rotation based on angle data. The processed image data is stored in a display memory. Under the control of a display control circuit, the display unit displays the image data that has been stored in the display memory.

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Asaka, Japan

Kaname Nihei