Photocopying – Projection printing and copying cameras – Multicolor picture
Patent
1974-12-16
1977-05-24
Wintercorn, Richard A.
Photocopying
Projection printing and copying cameras
Multicolor picture
355 50, 355 68, 355 70, 355 71, G03B 2778
Patent
active
040251896
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for reproducing a half-tone image of an original comprises a support, preferably in the form of a cylinder, for a light-sensitive record medium, an exposing head for exposing a record medium on the support, and means preferably in the form of a mechanism for rotating the cylinder and a lead screw for moving the head axially of the cylinder, to produce a relative scanning motion between the exposing head and the record medium. The exposing head includes a row of side-by-side light modulators or light sources extending in a direction such that the areas illuminated by the modulators or sources on the record medium extend in a direction across the width of a scanning line on the record medium. The area of illumination of the record medium provided by each light modulator or source varies in the said direction and is of lower intensity at its ends than at its middle and each area overlaps the areas of illumination provided by adjacent modulators or sources. Illumination control means are provided responsive to the density variations of the original, which is also scanned, and to the desired half-tone screen pattern and this control means is operative to determine which light source units are to be illuminated and to select the intensity of illumination of at least any illuminated light modulator or source adjacent an unilluminated light modulator or source.
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Crosfield Electronics Limited
Wintercorn Richard A.
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