Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture – Surface bonding means and/or assembly means therefor – With cutting – punching – piercing – severing – or tearing
Reexamination Certificate
2002-09-04
2004-05-25
Crispino, Richard (Department: 1734)
Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
Surface bonding means and/or assembly means therefor
With cutting, punching, piercing, severing, or tearing
C156S512000, C156S443000, C156S256000, C156S269000, C156S517000, C156S521000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06739368
ABSTRACT:
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application claims priority to Japanese Patent Application No. JP 2000-315966, and the disclosure of that application is herein incorporated by reference to the extent permitted by law.
TECHNICAL FIELD
This invention relates to an apparatus and a method for producing a print in which a holographic stereogram image or a hologram image is exposed and recorded, an apparatus and a method for cutting out a holographic stereogram image or a hologram image, an apparatus and a method for laminating with a protecting film a hologram recording medium on which a holographic stereogram image or a hologram image is exposed and recorded to, and an apparatus and a method for sequentially exposing and recording plural holographic stereogram images or plural hologram images onto a hologram recording medium.
BACKGROUND ART
Generally, a holographic stereogram is e.g. produced with a plurality of images obtained by sequentially capturing an object image from different observation points as original images and sequentially exposing and recording each of the original images as a stripe-shaped or a dot-shaped element hologram onto a single hologram recording medium.
For example, a holographic stereogram is produced by means of a holographic stereogram producing apparatus
200
as shown in FIG.
11
A. The holographic stereogram producing apparatus
200
is provided with a laser light source
201
which emits a laser light L
201
in which wavelength is formed by a single mode having optimum interference characteristic, a half mirror
202
which divides the emitted laser light L
201
into an object light L
202
and a reference light L
203
, optical elements
203
,
204
,
205
,
206
,
207
and a display apparatus
208
which constitute an optical system of object light L
202
, optical elements
209
,
210
, and
211
which constitute an optical system of the reference light L
203
, and an electromotive stage
213
which retains or supplies a record medium designed for hologram
212
onto which the object light L
202
and the reference light L
203
are converged.
The optical system including the object light L
202
is constituted by a total reflection mirror
203
, a first cylindrical lens
204
which has the object light diffused in one-dimensional direction, a collimator lens
205
which converts the diffused object light L
202
into a parallel light, a projection lens
206
, and a second cylindrical lens
207
which introduces the object light L
202
onto a recording medium
212
designed for hologram
212
in an exposing and recording section P
201
, which are arranged in order from a light incident side along an optical axle. A liquid crystal panel of transmission type, which is arranged between the collimator lens
205
and the projection lens
206
, constitutes the display apparatus
208
. The display apparatus
208
displays image data output from an image processing section not shown in the figure.
The optical system including the reference light L
203
is constituted by a cylindrical lens
209
which has the object light diffused in one-dimensional direction, a collimator lens
210
which converts the diffused object light L
203
into a parallel light, and a total reflection mirror
211
which reflects the object light L
202
to introduce the reflected one to a hologram recording medium
212
in an exposing and recording section P
201
, which are arranged in order from a light incident side along an optical axle.
A record medium designed for hologram
212
is e.g. made of a photosensitive film and retained by an electromotive stage
213
as shown in FIG.
11
B. The medium
212
designed for hologram is intermittently run in a direction of an arrow aa by drive of this electromotive stage
213
.
As shown in
FIG. 11A
, the laser light L
201
is emitted from laser light source
201
and incident on the half mirror
202
. The laser light L
201
is divided into the object light L
202
and the reference light L
203
by this half mirror
202
.
The object light L
202
is incident on the display apparatus
208
after traveling by way of the cylindrical lens
204
and collimator lens
205
. The image is modulated, depending on an element image displayed when transmitted through this display apparatus
208
. The modulated object light L
202
is incident on the record medium designed for hologram
212
arranged at the exposing and recording section P
201
after traveling by way of the projection lens
206
and the cylindrical lens
207
. The reference light L
203
is incident on the recording medium
212
designed for hologram arranged at the exposing and recording section P
201
, after traveling by way of an optical system of the cylindrical lens
209
, the collimator lens
210
and the total reflection mirror
211
.
Thus, interference fringes produced by interference between the reference light L
203
and the object light L
202
modulated by an image displayed by display apparatus
208
is sequentially exposed and recorded onto the hologram recording medium
212
as an element hologram in a striped or dotted manner.
The holographic stereogram produced by such holographic stereogram producing apparatus
200
is identified, with aggregate of pieces of the reference image information regarded as parts of each of element holograms, as two-dimensional image by an observer when the observer views the holographic stereogram with one of observer's both eyes from a certain position. The holographic stereogram produced thereby is identified, which is regarded aggregate of pieces of image information recorded as a part of each element hologram as the other two-dimensional image when an observer views the holographic stereogram with the other one of the observer's both eyes from any position except for the certain position. Thus, the holographic stereogram is identified, regarding an exposed and recorded image as a three-dimensional image owing to parallax effect between right and left eyes when an observer views the holographic stereogram with both his or her eyes.
An application as to such a holographic stereogram is e.g. stated in “Instant holographic portrait printing system” by Akira Shirakura, Nobuhiro Kihara and Shigeyuki Baba, in Proceeding of SPIE, Vol. 3293, pp. 246-253, January 1998 and “High speed hologram portrait print system” by Kihara, Shirakura, and Baba disclosed in “Three-dimensional Image Conference 1998”, July, 1998 and so on. As stated therein, there is a printer system or the like constituted by combination of a imaging apparatus/image capture apparatus which captures an image of an object and produces a parallax image sequence and a printing apparatus such as the above-mentioned holographic stereogram producing apparatus
200
which outputs a holographic stereogram or a hologram as a print. Such a system can provide a service that encompasses from capturing an image of an object to printing the captured result at the same location.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
By the way, the above-mentioned holographic stereogram producing apparatus
200
often uses a strip-like photosensitive film as the record medium
212
designed for hologram. In this case, usually, when a single holographic stereogram is exposed and recorded onto the image record medium
212
by the holographic stereogram producing apparatus
200
, the single one is cut out as a single unit and a predetermined fixation process is applied to the cut out stereogram.
However, such a method can not be efficiently performed when a print of a holographic stereogram image or a hologram image is mass-produced, thus constituting a barrier preventing the realization of a system that could meet such a demand for mass-production.
Further, when such a method is applied to a system for providing a service encompassing from imaging/image-capturing an object to printing operation of the captured result at a same location, the strip-like recording medium
212
designed for hologram
212
may have to be conveyed forwardly, bringing about more non-exposed sections in the recording medium
212
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Shirakura Akira
Suzuki Hirotsugu
Crispino Richard
Lazor Michelle Acevedo
Maioli Jay H.
Sony Corporation
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