Photocopying – Projection printing and copying cameras – Identifying – composing – or selecting
Patent
1993-01-04
1994-05-31
Gellner, Michael L.
Photocopying
Projection printing and copying cameras
Identifying, composing, or selecting
G03B 2752
Patent
active
053173643
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for reproducing images recorded on a photographic filmstrip wound on a film spool contained in a cartridge, the photographic filmstrip having machine-readable frame numbers associated with the images recorded thereon and the photographic filmstrip being associated with a device for storing film related data including frame numbers identifying selected images to be reproduced. The apparatus characterized in that a control device includes determining whether a frame number of a first available frame on a photographic filmstrip removed from a film cartridge is equal to one or is greater than one; searching first for a highest of the respective frame numbers of the selected images on a photographic filmstrip removed from the cartridge and then in succession the next lowest frame number of the selected images until all of the frame numbers of the selected images have been found if the frame number of the first available frame of a photographic filmstrip is equal to one, or for searching first for a lowest of the respective frame numbers of the selected images on a photographic film strip removed from the cartridge and then in succession the next highest frame number of the selected images until all of the frame numbers of the selected images have been found if the frame number of the first available frame of a photographic filmstrip is greater than one, and printing each one of the selected images in response to its frame number being found.
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Eastman Kodak Company
Gellner Michael L.
Howley David A.
Malley D. P.
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