Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Sumio Yoshikawa

Kazuo Kamata

Yukitsugu Hata

Kuniharu Kitagawa

Katsuhiko Tanaka

Kanji Tokuda

Masayuki Shimizu

Yoshiharu Okino

Atsushi Shiraishi

Kaoru Uchiyama

Satoru Sawada

Yuji Takenaka

Minoru Saito

Takatoshi Otsu

The cartridge accommodates a shooting film therein, and includes at least an electrically connectable contact on an outer surface layer thereof, and said recording medium has a recording area for storing digital data of an index image based on images recorded on said shooting film. Therefore, by recording the digital data of images recorded on the shooting film in the recording medium of the cartridge a customer can read the image data and process the image data.

Cartridge, laboratory system, image data recording method, camera and photograph processing method

Cartridge, laboratory system, image data recording method, camera and

A lens-fitted photo film unit contains a cartridge shell into which an IC memory is incorporated, and a roll of photo filmstrip having a magnetic recording layer. Unit ID data and date-of-manufacture data are written in the IC memory in the factory. A data recording circuit is provided on a flash circuit board. The data recording circuit is connected to the IC memory through a printed circuit board mounted to a cartridge chamber of the film unit. A finder mask and a photo sensor for detecting the position of the finder mask are mounted in the film unit. The photo sensor is connected to the data recording circuit, to write photographic data corresponding to the output of the photo sensor in the IC memory at each exposure. Before printing, the data written in the IC memory is read to be recorded on the magnetic recording layer of the photo filmstrip by use of an external recording device which is connectable to the IC memory through an interface terminal which is exposed to an exterior of the film unit.

Lens-fitted photo film unit and data recording method therefor

A photographic processing system. On a photographic film used for photographing images, an ID for specifying the photographic film is recorded in advance by codes which are mechanically and visually readable. On an accommodating case for accommodating the photographic film therein, the ID for specifying the photographic film is recorded in advance by the codes which are mechanically and visually readable. A reader reads at least one of the ID recorded on the photographic film, the ID recorded on the accommodating case, an ID recorded on a photographic printing paper onto which the images recorded on the photographic film are printed, an ID recorded on a DP bag used for handling photographic materials between a DPE shop and a lab, and an ID recorded on an index sheet on which the images recorded on the photographic film are recorded. Since the reader is provided, the burden imposed on the operator in the reading operation is alleviated, and photographic materials can be delivered speedily and reliably between a DPE shop and a customer.

Photographic processing system and collating system

A print processing method used in a photographic printer which can print images on a negative film which have different aspect ratios. The print processing method comprises the steps of judging the aspect ratio of each of the images printed on photographic paper, and printing cumulative numbers of prints of each aspect ratio onto the photographic paper of a final printing. The number of prints per aspect ratio can be easily known, and the cost of the prints can be calculated more efficiently.

Print processing method, photographic printer, and print stacking device

An apparatus for conveying a photographic film is structured such that, when it is determined that an image frame does not exist, information indicating the image frame does not exist is recorded by a recording head onto a magnetic recording layer which corresponds to an image frame recording area. Accordingly, before the image frame is positioned at the subsequent processes for operation, by reading the information on the magnetic recording layer, it can be detected that the image frame does not exist in an image frame area. Further, it is not necessary to position the image frame area in which the image frame does not exist and only the image frame area in which an image frame exists are positioned for printing.

Apparatus for conveying photographic film

A print processing method used in a photographic printer which can print images on a negative film which have different aspect ratios. The print processing method includes the steps of judging the aspect ratio of each of the images printed on photographic paper, and printing cumulative numbers of prints of each aspect ratio onto the photographic paper of a final printing. The number of prints per aspect ratio can be easily known, and the cost of the prints can be calculated more efficiently.

A photographic film curling correcting method and apparatus for correcting curling of a photographic film generated when the photographic film is stored for a long time in a cartridge in a state in which the photographic film is taken up around a spool shaft in a form of a roll, comprising the steps of: curvilinearly conveying the photographic film, which is withdrawn from the cartridge, so that the curling of the photographic film generated by taking up of the photographic film around the shaft becomes an opposite direction; and relaxing the curling by heating the photographic film while the photographic film is being curvilinearly conveyed, and taking up the photographic film, whose curling has been relaxed, into the cartridge again while cooling the photographic film. The curling of the photographic film can be corrected before developing processing when the photographic film is initially printed and before printing processing when the photographic film is printed a second time or times thereafter.

Photographic film curling correcting method and apparatus

Print processing method

A process for collating photographic film with prints made therefrom. During a reception process of a photofinishing order, data indicative of a customer's ID number recorded on an envelope is recorded in a magnetic recording layer of a photographic film. During a printing process, the customer's ID number is read out from the magnetic recording layer, and is recorded on the rear of a corresponding photographic print. The customer's ID number on the photographic film read out from the magnetic recording layer is displayed on a display device, or is recorded in the form of manually readable symbols onto the photographic film or a cassette. In collating, the three customer's ID numbers are compared with one another, so as to judge the correspondence between the envelope and the photographic film and a set of photographic prints. If they correctly correspond to one another, the photographic film and the photographic print set are packed in the envelope. For automatic collation, the customer's ID number is recorded as a bar code on the envelope and the photographic prints.

Method of collating photographic prints with photographic film

Data relating to a customer's order for photofinishing are written on a mark sheet. The mark sheet is optically read in a photo-lab, thereby to record the customer's order data in a transparent magnetic recording layer of the photographic film to be processed. The photographic film is sorted with reference to the data read from the mark sheet and, thereafter, is processed according to the customer's order based on the data read therefrom by an appropriate processing apparatus.

Photofinishing method and reception apparatus for photofinishing order

A copying machine for forming images using either ordinary color photosensitive materials or thermodeveloping photosensitive materials. The copying machine reproduces color images of high quality using a simple and small-scale device without the need for several exposure stages or complicated development processing. The copying machine comprises an image reading device which obtains a trichromatic separated signal by reading an original by photoelectric scanning, an image processing device which effects the desired image processing on the trichromatic separated signal which has been read, an exposure device which trichromatically exposes thermodevelopment and color-sensitive materials by means of the output signal from the image processing device, and a thermodevelopment and transfer device which thermally develops the exposed color-sensitive material and thermally transfers an image to image-receiving materials.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Sumio Yoshikawa