Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fujifilm Corporation

Shigekazu Fukada

Kazuo Shiota

Norihisa Haneda

Kiyotaka Kaneko

Takashi Soga

Minoru Arai

Izumi Miyake

Kazuhiko Takemura

Kazuo Miyaji

Tadashi Fujii

Syusuke Mogi

When a picture image recorded by a digital camera is reproduced, a high quality picture image is immediately reproduced without repetitive test prints for enhancing a picture quality or repetitive minor adjustments based on a confirmation via a monitor. Recording is carried out by a digital camera having a function of adding recording information representing a recording condition (a recording information adding unit) to digital image data obtained by the recording. A set-up processing unit in an image reproducing apparatus carries out image processing on the image data obtained by the recording for enhancing a picture quality using the recording information added to the image data, and the image reproducing apparatus reproduces the image data in the form of a print or a display on a monitor.

Method and apparatus for reproducing image from data obtained by digital camera and digital camera used thereof

Using a picture image printing system, both types of pictures recorded by a camera using a film and a digital camera are effectively printed. The printing system comprises a film scanner for inputting a picture recorded on a film, and a card reader for inputting a picture recorded by a digital camera. By switching between the scanner and card reader upon necessity, digital image data is obtained. An image processing apparatus performs pixel number conversion on the digital image data by keeping an aspect ratio of the image constant, so that the picture image data is printed in a width almost the same as a width of rolled paper. The digital image data whose pixel number has been converted are subsequently printed on the rolled paper by a printer.

Picture printing system

Using a picture image printing system, both types of pictures recorded by a camera using a film and a digital camera are effectively printed. The printing system comprises a film scanner for inputting a picture recorded on a film, and a card reader for inputting a picture recorded by a digital camera. By switching these upon necessity, digital image data are obtained. An image processing apparatus carries out a pixel number conversion on the digital image data keeping an aspect ratio of the image constant so that the picture image data are printed in a width almost the same as a width of rolled paper. The digital image data whose pixel number has been converted are printed in the form of a print on the rolled paper by a printer.

An image medium is attached in an image input unit of a printing system, and an image to be printed and its number of prints are set through an operation panel. As contents of an order is determined, a credit card is inserted in an ID reading unit, and the printing system identifies a customer, and registers the order, then settles a payment. If the payment is done in cash, the printing system issues a magnetic card and the like on which a number is recorded for the customer to verify. The printing system has a plurality of container boxes for storing the printed material related to the customer's order by separating and keeping the printed material for each customer. A host unit verifies the properness of the person who comes to receive the prints by his/her credit card or the magnetic card and the like, and opens a corresponding outlet among the container boxes, so that the customer can receive his/her prints.

Printing system

Pictures recorded by a digital camera can be stored and utilized by a method convenient and appropriate for the situation. The system comprises variety of means for transferring picture image data recorded by a variety of digital cameras to an image server installed in a DPE or the like and a variety of accessing means for enabling the picture image data stored in the image server to be accessed.

System for storing and utilizing picture image data recorded by digital camera

When picture image data recorded by a digital camera are transferred from a memory of the digital camera to another medium, filing is carried out in a short time and easily by determining a file name with no complete overlap with another file name, which is easy to understand, and easy to search for later. A file name including recording property information included in an image file and image file identifying information for identifying the image file is automatically determined, and copying (transfer) of the file to another medium is carried out using the determined file name as the file name in the medium.

Picture image filing method and device and storage medium

Pictures recorded by a digital camera can be stored and utilized by a method convenient and appropriate for the situation. The system includes a variety of devices for transferring picture image data recorded by a variety of digital cameras to an image server installed in a DPE or the like. It further includes a variety of accessing devices for enabling the picture image data stored in the image server to be accessed. As such, a user of a digital camera can transfer images, via this system while the user is away from home, thereby enabling continual use of the digital camera.

A user takes in digital image data and photographing information added thereto into a personal computer, and instructs, on a printing instruction screen, a printing format such as whether or not the photographing information should be printed and where the photographing information is to be printed. The content of the instruction is added to the digital image data as printing information and transferred to a printer via a recording medium, for example. The printer prints the photographing information on a picture print based on the printing information when the picture print is generated.

Method and apparatus for instructing printing of recorded information on picture image prints, and program recorded medium used therefor

Method and apparatus for reproducing image from data obtained by digital

In a method of and apparatus for split photometry, a plurality of split photometric areas are established by setting a plurality of horizontal and vertical photometric intervals respectively within intervals in a horizontal scanning direction and a vertical scanning direction of the solid-state electronic image sensing device. An extracted luminance-signal component is integrated over a horizontal integration interval designated by an integration control signal. Integrated values obtained by the integration operation are summed, in every split photometric area, over the corresponding vertical photometric interval, and a photometric value is calculated for every split photometric area based upon the value obtained by summing the integrated values in another embodiment, data for controlling exposure or controlling the focusing of an image pick-up lens can be obtained for each of a plurality of blocks set in a photographic area. From data representing the image of a subject, a luminance signal is generated and converted into digital luminance data which is applied to a gate array. The luminance data is summed block by block in the gate array and the summed data is outputted in block units. Only the necessary data is selected from the summed luminance data of every block and a photometric value is calculated. A diaphragm and an electronic shutter is controlled based upon the photometric value calculated. A high-frequency component signal for focusing control can be calculated for each and every block in a similar manner.

Video camera and photometric method therein, image pick-up apparatus and

A video signal, which is obtained from a solid-state electronic image sensing device, is used to obtain a photometric value corresponding to the environment in which a subject is present. Photometric areas that differ for every field in one frame are set within a photographic area of a CCD. A luminance-signal component extracted from the video signal by a Y.sub.L synthesizing circuit is integrated by an integrating circuit, under the control of a CPU, with respect to a horizontal scanning interval and vertical scanning interval corresponding to the photometric area. Obtained integrated values are added field by field and a photometric value is calculated field by field from the value resulting from adding the integrated values.

Video camera, method of photometry therein, and method of focusing same

An Apparatus and method of writing a video signal in a memory is provided in an apparatus of the type in which an analog video signal read from a magnetic recording medium is converted into digital image data that is then written in the memory, wherein the operation of a circuit which generates a timing clock signal for converting the video signal into the digital image data and for writing the digital image data in the memory is synchronized at every horizontal synchronizing signal separated from the video signal by application of a trigger signal. The apparatus and method includes enabling a control of a time constant of an automatic frequency control circuit, to which the horizontal synchronizing signal separated from the video signal is applied, for generating a trigger signal synchronized to the horizontal synchronizing signal and applying this trigger signal to the circuit which generates the timing clock signal, and making the time constant relatively large in the vicinity of a vertical synchronizing signal of the video signal.

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Tokyo, Japan

Shigekazu Fukada