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Index printing apparatus including exposure control means

US5838457A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 14, 1995
Grant dateNov 17, 1998
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Expiry dateJun 14, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03B2227/005
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A photographic printing apparatus capable of printing, as an index print, an inlaid composite image having images of a plurality of frames of a film. An exposure device 10 of this printing apparatus includes an exposure controller 104 for controlling this exposure device 10 according to exposure conditions determined based on image information read from the film. The apparatus incorporates an index printer 40 for printing an inlaid composite image. An image information converter 103 is provided for producing, from the read image information, index-print image information corresponding to an image which is expected to be obtained on a photosensitive material if the material is exposed under the determined exposure conditions, and also for sending this index-print information to the index printer 40. A monitor 30 is provided for displaying the image information produced by the image information converter 103 for allowing checking thereof.

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