Television – Camera – system and detail – Support or housing
Reexamination Certificate
1997-08-05
2001-11-13
Garber, Wendy R. (Department: 2612)
Television
Camera, system and detail
Support or housing
C348S207110
Reexamination Certificate
active
06317156
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a printer incorporated type electronic camera and a member to be recorded thereof, and more specifically, to a printer incorporated type electronic camera which incorporates a printer therein and a member to be recorded thereof.
2. Description of the Related Art
Recently, electronic still cameras incorporating an imaging element therein have been put on the market by various manufactures and widely used. Further, various types of electronic still cameras in which a printer is incorporated have been also developed or put on the market.
The conventional printer incorporated type electronic still cameras, many of which are a monochrome type, employ a heat sensitive system using heat sensitive paper, a heat sublimation system using ordinary paper and an ink ribbon or a heat melting system as a print system. In any of the systems, a sheet-shaped or roll-tape-shaped recording paper for print is directly loaded to an electronic camera main body for making print thereon. Examples of the conventional camera employing roll-type shaped recording paper are disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 9-46563 (laid open; Feb. 14, 1997) and Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 62-188870 (laid open; Dec. 1, 1987).
Since many of the conventional printer incorporated type electronic still cameras are the monochrome type, however, when these cameras are arranged as a color type, they become expensive. In addition, since they incorporate a printer unit, there is a possibility that the external size of their camera main body is increased.
Further, the conventional printer incorporated type electronic still cameras also have a drawback that it is difficult for users to handle them because they must directly load the sheet-shaped or roll-tape-shaped recording paper for print to the camera main body.
OBJECT AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention made to solve the above disadvantages is to provide a printer incorporated type electronic camera including an imaging element to which a member to be recorded for print can be easily loaded and which is less expensive and a member to be recorded for the electronic camera.
A printer incorporated type electronic camera of the present invention having an image data forming unit for forming image data corresponding to the image of a subject imaged by an imaging optical system and a printer unit for printing an image represented by the picture data formed by the image forming unit with the image data forming unit and the printer unit being disposed in a case is arranged such that the printer unit carries out print operation using a tape cassette in which a recording tape is wound and accommodated.
A member to be recorded of the present invention is arranged to be suitable to a printer incorporated type electronic camera having an image data forming unit for forming image data corresponding to the image of a subject imaged by an imaging optical system and a printer unit for printing an image represented by the picture data formed by the image forming unit with the image data forming unit and the printer unit being disposed in a case. The member to be recorded is a tape cassette in which wound and accommodated is a recording tape composed of a heat sensitive recording paper having an adhesive agent applied to the back surface thereof and a base paper bonded to the back surface of the heat sensitive recording paper so as to be exfoliated therefrom. Further, the member to be recorded is a tape cassette in which wound and accommodated separately or together are a recording tape composed of a heat sensitive recording paper having an adhesive agent applied to the back surface thereof and a base paper bonded to the back surface of the heat sensitive recording paper so as to be exfoliated therefrom and an ink tape for executing print to the recording paper of the recording tape. A cutout is formed to the recording paper of the recording tape accommodated in the tape cassette to permit the recording paper to be easily exfoliated from the base paper corresponding thereto, the recording paper is accommodated in the tape cassette by being wound in such a manner that it is disposed to the outside of the recording tape and the base paper is disposed to the inside thereof and the maximum radius of curvature of the feed passage for the recording tape taken out from the cassette is set smaller than the maximum radius of curvature of the recording tape wound in the cassette.
Other features and advantages of the present invention will be sufficiently apparent from the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
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Adachi Yutaka
Ebihara Toshiyuki
Nagasaki Tatsuo
Saito Kuniaki
Shimizu Akira
Garber Wendy R.
Harrington Alicia M.
Olympus Optical Co,. Ltd.
Volpe and Koenig P.C.
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