Device for controlling image signal recording operation

• US 5,857,125 A
• Filed: 11/08/1995
• Issued: 01/05/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Morisawa, Tahei
• Primary Examiner(s): Adams, Russell
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chizmar, John
• Application Number:
  US08/554,244
• Time in Patent Office: 1,154 Days
• Field of Search: 396/30, 396/429, 396/389, 396/392, 396/284, 396/285, 348/64, 348/220, 348/108, 348/110, 348/209, 348/231, 348/233, 348/344
• US Class Current: 396/429
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00249 with a photographic apparatus, e.g. a photographic printer or a projector photographic apparatus per se G03B, G03D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00257 with an electro-developing recording medium, e.g. generating image signals by reading such a medium in a still camera

Abstract

An image signal recording operation control device is provided in a still video camera. The control device has a photographing optical system by which an image is formed on an electro-developing recording medium, by which the image is electronically developed. The control device also has a scanner optical system by which the image developed by the electro-developing recording medium is formed on a sensor imaging plane. A line sensor is provided for scanning on the sensor imaging plane to read out the image. When the electro-developing recording medium is not mounted in the still video camera, i.e., when an aerial image formed by the photographing optical system is read by the line sensor, the scanner optical system is displaced by a predetermined amount along the optical axis, in comparison with a state in which the electro-developing recording medium is mounted, so that the scanner optical system can form an in-focus image on the sensor imaging plane.

Claims

1. A device for controlling an image signal recording operation, said device comprising:

a photographing optical system by which an image is formed on a photo imaging plane;

a scanner optical system that reads an image on a scanning plane to form an image on a sensor imaging plane;

a recording medium detachably mounted at a location containing said photo imaging plane and said scanning plane; and

a control system that adjustably controls a position of at least one of said photo imaging plane and said scanning plane so that said photo imaging plane and said scanning plane are coincident with each other whether or not said recording medium is mounted at said location;

a recording medium sensing system that senses whether or not said recording medium is mounted at said location.

2. A control device according to claim 1, wherein said control system moves said photographing optical system along an optical axis thereof so that said photo imaging plane is coincident with said scanning plane.

3. A control device according to claim 1, wherein said control system moves said scanner optical system along the optical axis thereof so that said scanning plane is coincident with said photo imaging plane.

4. A control device according to claim 1, further comprising a light source illuminating said recording medium, and an optical sensor movable on said sensor imaging plane to scan an image formed thereon, said scanner optical system being positionable on an optical path of a light beam which is outputted by said light source and which passes through said recording medium.

5. A control device according to claim 4, further comprising a moving body movable parallel to said recording medium and supporting said scanner optical system and said optical sensor, and a support member rotatably provided on said moving body and supporting said light source.

6. A control device according to claim 5, further comprising a mechanism that rotates said support member so that said light source is displaced from the optical axis of said scanner optical system.

7. A control device according to claim 6, wherein said control system moves said scanner optical system along the optical axis thereof so that said scanning plane is coincident with said photo imaging plane, and said rotating mechanism rotates said support member in accordance with the movement of said scanner optical system along the optical axis thereof.

8. A control device according to claim 1, wherein said recording medium has at least one sheet of glass, by which positions of said photo imaging plane and said scanning plane are changed in accordance with whether or not said recording medium is mounted.

9. A control device according to claim 1, wherein said recording medium is an electro-developing recording medium wherein said electro-developing recording medium electronically develops an image formed by said photographing optical system.

10. A control device according to claim 9, wherein said electro-developing recording medium comprises an electrostatic information recording medium generating an electric charge in accordance with an image formed thereon, and an electric charge keeping medium which generates a visible image in accordance with said electric charge and which can keep said visible image.

11. A control device according to claim 10, wherein said electric charge keeping medium comprises a dispersion type liquid crystal display.

12. A control device according to claim 10, further comprising a light source illuminating said electro-developing recording medium and an optical sensor, said scanner optical system being provided in an optical path of a light beam passing through said electro-developing recording medium, and said optical sensor being moved on an imaging plane, on which an image is formed by said scanner optical system, and in a direction different from a longitudinal direction of said optical sensor.

13. A device for controlling a recording operation in which an image signal is obtained by an imaging device, said device comprising:

a scanner optical system forming an image on said imaging device;

a photographing optical system by which a light beam from an object is condensed so that the object image is formed on a focusing position;

an electro-developing recording medium detachably mounted between said photographing optical system and said scanner optical system, so that the object image is recorded in said electro-developing recording medium;

means for sensing whether or not said electro-developing recording medium is mounted; and

means for controlling a position of at least one of said photographing optical system and said scanner optical system, in an optical axis thereof, in such a manner that said focusing position and a conjugate position of said imaging device with respect to said scanner optical system are always coincident with each other, based on an output signal of said sensing means.

14. A device according to claim 13, wherein said electro-developing recording medium records the object image on a predetermined position different from said focusing position when said electro-developing recording medium is mounted in said device, and said control means controls in such a manner that said predetermined position and said conjugate position are coincident with each other when said sensing means senses that said electro-developing recording medium is mounted, and controls in such a manner that said focusing position and said conjugate position are coincident with each other when said sensing means senses that said electro-developing recording medium is not mounted.

15. A device for controlling an image signal recording operation, said device comprising:

a photographing optical system which forms an image on a photo imaging plane;

a scanning optical system that scans an image provided on a scanning plane, and forms an image on a sensor imaging plane;

a recording medium detachably mounted at a location containing said photo imaging plane and said scanning plane, an image being optically recorded in said recording medium; and

a control system that controls a position of at least one of said photo imaging plane and said scanning plane by moving at least one of the photographing optical system and the scanner optical system along an optical axis in association with whether or not said recording medium is mounted at said location so that said photo imaging plane and said scanning plane are coincident with each other whether or not said recording medium is mounted at said location.