Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1997-04-07
1998-12-01
Kemper, Melanie
Boots, shoes, and leggings
396311, 396310, B42F 500
Patent
active
058447970
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
THIS INVENTION relates to photographic albums and it is an object of the invention to provide a photographic album particularly adapted to provide a personalised or enhanced record of an individual's visit to a geographic location, building or the like.
According to one aspect of the invention there is provided a photograph album with spaces for pictures or views specified in the album and which pictures or views are to be photographically recorded by the user for application to said spaces.
In one embodiment, the album is in the form of a guidebook appropriate to a geographic location, historic building or the like, with spaces to receive photographs of specified parts of the location, building or the like. The user of the album may thus follow the guidebook and take personalised photographs of the parts of the location indicated to fit in the spaces provided so that the completed album will provide a personalised yet organised record of the visit to the location or building concerned (personalised, for example, in that friends or relatives may be included in the respective photograph). At the same time, the completed guidebook will provide additional interest for third parties viewing the album in the way that a disorganised collection of individual photographs will not.
According to another aspect of the invention there is provided the combination of a photographic album and guide book as disclosed above with an inexpensive or disposable camera and photographic film. Such a combination may be sold in the form of a pack, for example, contained in a cardboard box or encapsulated in transparent plastics shrink film.
It is envisaged that such guidebooks, or the packs including such guidebooks, would be sold at gift shops or the like in the vicinity of the location or building to which they appertain, for purchase by visitors to that location or building. Alternatively, such albums or packs may be supplied by mail order, so that customers could order the album or pack relating to an area or building which they intended to visit, in advance of such visit.
It is further envisaged that an index of the various categories of such photograph album/guide books or combination packs available would be displayed at sales outlets for photographic film and materials and at establishments accepting photographic film for processing so that customers might be encouraged to acquire such albums and to take photographs, for insertion in such albums, which they would not otherwise have taken. Likewise mail order film processors might, in sending out to customers prints made from customers' films, enclose free catalogues or indices of such album/guide books or combination packs available from the processors, as a means of promoting sales of photographic film and utilisation of the processors' services.
In a further development of the invention, the camera/film combination incorporates a coding arrangement whereby a particular code marking is applied to the film, for each frame exposed, and the camera includes means for providing to the user or means whereby the user can provide to the camera, an indication of the corresponding code, corresponding in turn to a respective code marking assigned to the respective space in the album, the film processing apparatus being controlled by program means so as to produce, for each frame of film exposed, a respective print of the size appropriate for the corresponding space allocated in the album, the apparatus being arranged to vary the size of print produced according to such program.
Thus, in such arrangement, the album may have relatively large areas provided for, for example, photographs of notable views or buildings and may have relatively smaller areas reserved for individual features or details of interest, for example particular statues. The simplest coding arrangement envisaged might simply utilise the frame marking conventionally provided on photographic film, the disposable camera ideally being pre-loaded with such film so as to ensure that the first frame exposed coincides exact
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Durand Limited
Kemper Melanie
Lazzara Michael D.
Silverman Arnold B.
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