Photographic camera with information reading function

Details Photographic camera with information reading function Photographic camera with information reading function

1996-02-21

1997-06-24

Blankenship, Howard B.

Photography

Exposure data from film container

G03B 700

Patent

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056421800

ABSTRACT:
In a photographic camera with information reading function, a bar code sensor having a light projecting portion and a light receiving portion is provided in a magazine chamber in which a film magazine having a bar code plate bearing thereon information on the film is loaded. Information on the film is read by the bar code sensor on the basis of reflected light from the bar code plate while camera control information is read also by the bar code sensor on the basis of light projected from a light projecting portion of an information input system opposed to the light receiving portion of the bar code sensor. The arrangement of a signal processing circuit of the light receiving portion of the bar code sensor for processing signals obtained from light received by the light receiving portion is switched according to which of the information on the film and the camera control information is to be read so that the signal processing circuit is adapted to the signal to be processed.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5440363 (1995-08-01), Minnick et al.

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