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Generation of prints from an array of images and information relative to such images

US5504583A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateFeb 24, 1993
Grant dateApr 2, 1996
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Expiry dateFeb 24, 2013

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03G2215/0027
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In an electronic color printing process in which an array of multicolor images from a filmstrip is reproduced on print receiver sheets or alternative storage media from color information signals representing a plurality of sets of color separation image information, producing prints from the array of multicolor images. Such print production, comprises prescanning, at low resolution, an array of different multicolor images contained on a filmstrip. Information data, obtained during the prescan, of scene content of the respective image frames, and additional information data of at least one of where frames of the army are located in the filmstrip, what type of filmstrip is being scanned, and what are the conditions of each frame, is stored. Look-up-tables based on the stored information data are defined, and the stored information data is processed with the defined look-up-tables to produce prints of the army of multicolor images.

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