Minolta Company, Ltd.

Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Tetsuo Yamada

Takehiro Katoh

Manabu Inoue

Katsuyuki Nanba

Hirokazu Yagura

Kyoko Kakudo

Shigeto Ohmori

Toru Ishii

Masayasu Hirano

Naohiro Kageyama

Yasuo Maeda

Hiroshi Ishibe

Yukari Maeda

Hiroko Ono

An electronic filing system which can record an image reproduced from a photographed image of a developed film together with a photographic information pertaining thereto on a recording medium such as an optical disk. The system includes a device for reproducing an image from the photographed image of the film, a reading device for reading the photographic information recorded on the film, and a writing device for writing the reproduced image and photographic information on the recording medium.

Electronic filing system capable of recording image reproduced from developed film

A camera is provided with a photographing device for setting various photographing conditions which determine a state of a subject image to be obtained as a picture, the photography device including an exposure device having a Plurality of selectively settable exposure modes for automatically setting at least one exposure value based on brightness of a subject, a mode selector for selecting one of the plurality of exposure modes, a calculation unit for calculating an amount indicative of the state of the subject image in accordance with the photographing conditions set by the photography device, an estimation unit for estimating visual effects which the subject image provides based on the calculated state amount, and a display device for displaying the visual effect corresponding to the exposure mode selected by the mode selection means in accordance with the estimated visual effects. Accordingly, an operator of the camera is allowed to conceive before an exposing operation what the final picture will look like in accordance with the photographing conditions set in a variety of exposure modes.

Camera capable of displaying the level of visual effect

In still frame images from a film, the first frame of an image block is produced in a fade-in manner for gradually outputting a picture. If the end of a beginning part of a theme block is detected from information for a next frame, the process is advanced to a step to select a production method including relevantly large movement on the assumption that the scene is moved to an intermediate part of the theme block. If the intermediate part is ended, a different production method including relevantly small movement is selected on the assumption that the scene is moved to an end part.

Apparatus for reproducing still images of a plurality of frames

A photographed image reproduction apparatus for reproducing photographed images recorded on a film includes an image reproducer for reproducing an image on the film, a music player for playing a music suitable for the image, and controller for controlling the image reproducer and the music player so as to execute the image reproduction and the music play coincidentally. The controller has a calculator device for calculating an image reproduction time and a selector device for selecting a music suitable for a reproduced image among a repertoire of musics.

Photographed image reproduction apparatus

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Toyonaka, Japan

Tetsuo Yamada