CRT composite image printing method and apparatus

• US 4,712,909 A
• Filed: 08/21/1986
• Issued: 12/15/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fuji Photo Optical Co. Ltd (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Oshikoshi, Yuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Hix, L. T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rutledge, D.
• Application Number:
  US06/898,584
• Time in Patent Office: 481 Days
• Field of Search: 355/40, 355/41, 355/46, 355/77, 355/20, 364/523, 354/109, 354/110, 346/110 R, 358/302, 358/300
• US Class Current: 355/20
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/00 Information-bearing cards or sheet-like structures characterised by identification or security features; Manufacture thereof printing processes to produce identification or security features B41M3/14
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/42 by photographic processes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3871 the composed originals being of different kinds, e.g. low- and high-resolution originals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/508 using the same reproducing head for two or more colour components

Abstract

A CRT composite image printing method and apparatus for making a print of a composite image comprising a human figure and personal data relating to the human figure in order to provide a card with picture. The apparatus has a device for recording and reproducing a number of figure images and a device preparing a number of sets of personal data, these figure images and set of personal data being composed by a computer and displayed on a CRT as a composite image to which a printing paper is exposed to provide a print sheet from which the picture card is made.

Claims

1. An apparatus for making a print from an image on a CRT display device, which comprises:

video recording means for recording and reproducing a number of figure images in sequence, said figure images being produced by means of a TV camera;

memory means for storing personal data corresponding to each of said figure images which are entered therein with the aid of a computer;

means for retrieving said personal data as video signals from said memory means and said figure images as video signals from said video recording means as a composite of said retreved video signals;

means for displaying said composite video signals as a visible composite image on a screen of said CRT display device; and

means for producing a latent image of said visible composite image displayed on said screen of said CRT display device on a printing paper and then processing said printing paper, thereby providing a print of said composite image.

2. An apparatus as defined in claim 1, which further comprises memory means for storing computer graphic images entered therein, the stored images being able to be read out therefrom as video signals by said readout means so as to provide composite video signals on all of said readout video signals for displaying a visual composite image on said CRT display device.

3. An apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein said memory means includes a magnetic floppy disk.

4. An apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein said video recording-reproducing means includes a video tape.

5. An apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein said video recording-reproducing means includes a magnetic floppy disk.

6. An apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein said display means is adapted to display three primary colors of images of said visual composite image, namely blue, green and read, as black-and-white images thereon to which a color printing paper is exposed in sequence through corresponding colors of filters.

7. An apparatus as defined in claim 6, wherein said black-and-white CRT display device radiates energy lower in the wavelength range of red than in the wavelength range of blue.

8. An apparatus as defined in claim 7, which further comprises means for the correction of said figure image as to color and gradation.

9. An apparatus as defined in claim 8, wherein said black-and-white CRT display device has a screen which uses a mixture of P45 and P22 fluorescent substances in a ratio between 1:

3 and 1;

5.

10. An apparatus for making a print with a colored composite image on a black-and-white CRT display device, which comprises:

means for producing color images of a number of human figures;

means for recording said color figure images therein;

memory means for storing personal data corresponding to each of said human figures;

readout means for reading out one set of said personal data as video signals from said memory means and said color figure images as video signals in recorded order from said recording means so as to combine said video signals to produce a color composite image of said read out personal data and one of said read out color figure images which corresponds to said read out personal data;

means for displaying said combined video signals as black-and-white composite images which correspond in brightness to the three primary monochromatic composite images of said color composite image in sequence on said black-and-white CRT adapted to radiate energy which is less in the wavelength range of red than of blue;

an optical system for exposing a color printing paper in a roll to said black-and-white composite images on said black-and-white CRT in sequence;

three primary color filters which are selectively insertable between said optical system and said color printing paper for changing said black-and-white composite images to monochromatic composite images;

means for developing and processing said exposed color printing paper; and

means for cutting off said developed and processed color printing paper to provide a color print with said color composite image thereon.

11. An apparatus as defined in claim 10, which further comprises means for the correction of said color figure image as to color and gradation.

12. An apparatus as defined in claim 10, wherein said black-and-white CRT has a fluorescent screen whose fluorescent substance is a mixture of P45 and P22 flourescent substances in a ratio between 1:

3 and 1;

5.

13. A method for making a print from an image on a CRT display device, which comprises the steps of:

producing a number of figure images each of which is of the upper half of a human subject having a personal data plate below the face of said human subject;

recording said figure images on a recording medium;

storing personal data corresponding to said figure images in a memory;

reading out one set of said data from said memory and the corresponding said figure image from said recording medium and composing them as video signals with the aid of a computer;

displaying said composite video signals as a composite image selectively either on a monitor CRT or a printing CRT; and

exposing a printing paper to said composite image except a part of said image that includes said personal data plate.

14. A method as defined in claim 13, wherein said personal data on said plate include at least one of the name and an identifying number of said human subject.

15. A method as defined in claim 13, wherein an exposure mask is disposed under said printing paper so that said printing paper is not exposed to said part including said personal data plate.

16. A method as defined in claim 13, wherein said figure images are produced by a TV camera and recorded as video signals on a magnetic recording medium.