Photocopying – Projection printing and copying cameras – Identifying – composing – or selecting
Reexamination Certificate
1999-06-10
2002-05-28
Adams, Russell (Department: 2851)
Photocopying
Projection printing and copying cameras
Identifying, composing, or selecting
C355S027000, C396S311000, C396S319000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06396564
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a photographic printing system and a photographic printing method in which a cartridge in which a photographic photosensitive material is accommodated is received from a customer, the photographic photosensitive material is removed from the cartridge, the photographic photosensitive material is developed, printing exposure onto a photographic printing paper is carried out in accordance with an image developed on the photographic photosensitive material, and finally, the cartridge, the photographic photosensitive material, and the photographic printing paper are collated and returned to the customer.
2. Description of the Related Art
In recent years, storing elements such as ICs or the like have been provided at cartridges for accommodating photographic photosensitive materials such as photographic films (such photographic photosensitive materials will be referred to simply as “photographic films” hereinafter), such that printing conditions for the respective frame images can be recorded in the IC. For such a cartridge provided with an IC, at the lab, information such as the printing conditions are read from the IC and a printing processing is carried out in accordance with the information. The cartridge is then returned to the customer which the photographic film accommodated therein.
When developing a photographic film accommodated in a cartridge, the photographic film is withdrawn from the cartridge, the photographic film and the cartridge are separated, and the photographic film is developed. There are also cases in which the photographic film is also left separated from the cartridge in the printing process which follows the developing process. In the printing process, a photographic film which is kept accommodated in the cartridge can be printed, but special carriers are needed in this case. In the case of a cartridge with an IC, the photographic film is separated from the cartridge. Thus, the photographic film may be erroneously printed on the basis of information stored in an IC for some other cartridge. Or, the photographic film may erroneously be accommodated back into a different cartridge after the printing processing is completed.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the aforementioned, an object of the present invention is to provide a photographic printing system and photographic printing method in which, even if the photographic film is separated from the cartridge in which the photographic film was accommodated, printing can be carried out with the photographic film and the cartridge surely corresponding to each other, and the photographic film and cartridge can be returned to the customer.
A first aspect of the present invention is a photographic printing system comprising: separating means which separates a photographic photosensitive material, which is accommodated in a cartridge provided with a storing element for storing printing information, from the cartridge; identification mark applying means which applies to the photographic photosensitive material an identification mark for having the photographic photosensitive material and the cartridge correspond to one another; first reading means which reads printing information stored in the storing element; storing means which stores the identification mark and printing information read by the first reading means in correspondence with one another; second reading means which reads, from the storing means, printing information corresponding to the identification mark applied to the photographic photosensitive material; and printing means which, in a state in which the photographic photosensitive material and the cartridge are separated, prints, on the basis of printing information read by the second reading means, an image recorded on the photographic photosensitive material onto a photographic printing paper.
In the first aspect of the present invention, when the photographic photosensitive material, which is accommodated in the cartridge provided with the storing element for storing printing information, is separated from the cartridge by the separating means, the same identification mark as that of the cartridge is applied to the separated photographic photosensitive material by the identification mark applying means so that the photosensitive material and cartridge correspond to one another. Then, the identification mark and the printing information, which is stored in the storing element and is read by the first reading means, are stored in correspondence with one another in the storing means.
Then, second reading means reads the printing information corresponding to the identification mark applied to the photographic photosensitive material. On the basis of the printing information, the image recorded on the photographic photosensitive material is printed onto a photographic printing paper by the printing means in a state in which the photographic photosensitive material and the cartridge are separated.
In this way, even if the photosensitive material and the cartridge are separated from one another, by applying the same identification mark as that of the cartridge to the photographic photosensitive material, printing processing can be carried out with the photographic photosensitive material and the cartridge reliably corresponding to one another.
A second aspect of the present invention is a photographic printing system comprising: separating means which separates a photographic photosensitive material, which is accommodated in a cartridge provided with a storing element for storing printing information, from the cartridge; identification mark applying means which applies to the photographic photosensitive material and the cartridge an identification mark for having the photographic photosensitive material and the cartridge correspond to one another; first reading means which reads printing information stored in the storing element; storing means which stores the identification mark and printing information read from the first reading means in correspondence with one another; second reading means which reads, from the storing means, printing information corresponding to the identification mark applied to the photographic photosensitive material; printing means which, in a state in which the photographic photosensitive material and the cartridge are separated, prints, on the basis of printing information read by the second reading means, an image recorded on the photographic photosensitive material onto a photographic printing paper; accommodating means which, after printing by the printing means is completed, accommodates the photographic photosensitive material in the cartridge to which is applied the identification mark corresponding to the identification mark applied to the photographic photosensitive material.
In the second aspect, when the photographic photosensitive material, which is accommodated in the cartridge provided with the storing element for storing printing information, is separated from the cartridge by the separating means, the same identification mark is applied to the separated photographic photosensitive material and cartridge by the identification mark applying means so that the photographic photosensitive material and cartridge correspond to one another. Then, the identification mark and the printing information, which is stored in the storing element and is read by the first reading means, are stored in correspondence with one another in the storing means.
Further, the printing information corresponding to the identification mark applied to the photographic photosensitive material is read by the second reading means. In the state in which the photographic photosensitive material and the cartridge are separated from one another, the printing means prints, on the basis of the printing information, the image recorded on the photographic photosensitive material onto a photographic printing paper. Then, after printing by the printing means has been completed, the accommodating means accommodates th
Adams Russell
Fuji Photo Film Co., LTD
Kim Peter B.
LandOfFree
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