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Auto-portrait photo studio

  • US 4,738,526 A
  • Filed: 11/21/1986
  • Issued: 04/19/1988
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/21/1986
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A microprocessor-aided portrait photography system for the exposure of one or more frames of photographic film to the image-forming light reflected from a portrait subject and simultaneous reception and recording to said image-forming light to produce identical video displays of the image of the portrait subject as captured by said film, said portrait photography system comprising:

  • (a) an automatic camera including a camera housing, multiple frame photographic film, auto-focus lens means, auto-exposure shutter means, auto-film-wind means, and circuitry means for operating said camera;

    (b) a video charge coupled device located within the camera housing and out of the path of image-forming light reflected from the portrait subject toward a frame of said photographic film;

    (c) beam splitting means within the camera housing between said lens means and said shutter means for diverting a portion of said image-forming light to said charge coupled device for reception and conversion of said diverted portion of said image-forming light to an exact video image of the portrait suject as viewed by said camera;

    (d) a microprocessor interconnected to the circuitry means of said camera to control the photographic functions thereof and interconnected to said charge coupled device to receive said video image and at the instant of exposure of said film frame record and store said image in the memory of said microprocessor;

    (e) a video viewfinder associated with said camera housing and interconnected with said microprocessor for the display of said video image and for directing the alignment of said camera with the portrait subject;

    (f) means associated with the circuitry means for said camera for actuating said shutter means to expose a frame of said film; and

    (g) a video potrait viewer in communication with said microprocessor and located remote from said camera, within viewing range of the portrait subject, for the display to said subject of an exact video image as recorded and stored by said microprocessor as a representation of the image of the portrait subject captured on a frame of said photographic film.

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