Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Yasuhiro Kyoden

Dai Shintani

Yoshito Tanaka

Katsuyuki Nanba

Yutaka Maeda

Hirokazu Naruto

Shoji Kondo

Iwao Fujii

Takayuki Yokoyama

Shoji Konda

A camera system has a camera section, a reproduction section and a printer section, the printer section being separably attachable to either the camera section or the reproduction section to form an integral body. The camera system has photoelectric conversion elements and picks up an image of an object to produce image data. The reproduction section processes the image data so as to reproduce the picked-up image on a display screen, and the printer section prints the picked-up image on printing paper based on the image data. The reproduction section may include an output device which transmits the processed image data to a television set having a display screen, and it may also be integrally provided with a monitor having a display screen. The camera system further includes a recording portion electrically connected with the camera section and which records the image data. The recording portion has a first recorder which records the image data in an internal memory built in one or each of the camera section, the reproduction section and the printer section, and a second recorder which records the image data in an external memory removably mountable on one or each of the camera section, the reproduction section and the printer section.

Camera system including a camera section and a reproduction section

A still video camera includes a photographing device for photographing an object and a printer for printing a photographed image on print paper. The printer has a plurality of printing modes which can be desirably selected. A plurality of sorts of image data for the photographed image are produced. The sort of image data suitable for a selected printing mode is sent to the printer. The print paper is fed under a feeding condition suitable for a selected printing mode. The printing mode is selected in accordance with attachment of an ink ribbon and print paper to the printer.

Still video camera having a printer capable of printing a photographed

The present invention relates to apparatus for forming multicolor images in accordance with image data read by image reading unit which includes a photoelectric transducer. The apparatus of the invention has a printing device for printing in blue and red, and reproduces black by overlapping blue and red.

Apparatus for forming a three color image including a first, a second,

A thermal transfer color recording method of and an apparatus for recording a color image on a transfer paper by successively transferring inks of different colors from an ink film to the transfer paper at a recording station. A ink of one color is transferred from the ink film to the transfer paper by a thermal head based on an image to be recorded while the ink film and the transfer paper are moved through the recording station in a forward direction in intimate contact with each other. After the transfer of the ink of one color, the transfer paper in intimate contact with the ink film is transported in the forward direction with the ink film not taken up to thereby slacken the ink film. Then, the transfer paper is transported in the reverse direction to position the leading end of the recorded area of the transfer paper at the recording station to transfer an ink of another color from the ink film to the transfer paper from the leading end of the recorded area thereof. Further, the ink film may be moved to position the ink of another color at the recording station after transport of the transfer paper to position a non-recorded area of the transfer paper at the recording station.

Thermal transfer type color recording method and apparatus therefor

A thermal printer comprising a transfer section where an ink film is pressed into tight contact with recording paper for transferring ink from the ink film to the recording paper by means of a thermal head, thereby to form an image on the recording paper. When the printer is switched on, the ink film and the recording paper located at the transfer section are moved onward to a recording paper separating device. The ink film and the recording paper remain in tight contact with each other when the power is cut in a printing operation. However, when the power supply for the printer is resumed, the ink film and the recording paper are moved to the separating means to release the ink film and recording paper from the mutual tight contact, thereby facilitating ink film takeup.

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Osaka, Japan

Yasuhiro Kyoden