Image signal reading operation control device
First Claim
1. An image signal reading operation control device, comprising:
- an electro-developing recording medium electronically developing an image formed thereon, and having a plurality of recording areas;
a system that forms a color image on each of said recording areas;
a plurality of line sensors that move long said electro-developing recording medium, so that each of said line sensors reads said color image, each of said line sensors generating pixel signals corresponding to said color image;
a system that reads out said pixel signals from said line sensors;
a system that stores said pixel signals in an image data recording medium; and
a system that controls an accumulating operation in which electric charge is accumulated in each of said line sensors for an accumulating period to generate said pixel signals, said control system being able to control said accumulating period independently for each of said line sensors.
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Abstract
An image signal reading operation control device has an electro-developing recording medium to electronically develop an image formed by a photographing optical system. The image is read out by a line sensor with the electro-developing recording medium being illuminated by a light source. Namely, pixel signals arranged along a horizontal scanning line are read by the line sensor while the line sensor is set at a predetermined position, and then the line sensor is moved in a direction perpendicular to the horizontal scanning line by a predetermined amount. When the image is read out by the line sensor, the light source is displaced along the longitudinal direction of the line sensor.
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22 Claims
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1. An image signal reading operation control device, comprising:
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an electro-developing recording medium electronically developing an image formed thereon, and having a plurality of recording areas;
a system that forms a color image on each of said recording areas;
a plurality of line sensors that move long said electro-developing recording medium, so that each of said line sensors reads said color image, each of said line sensors generating pixel signals corresponding to said color image;
a system that reads out said pixel signals from said line sensors;
a system that stores said pixel signals in an image data recording medium; and
a system that controls an accumulating operation in which electric charge is accumulated in each of said line sensors for an accumulating period to generate said pixel signals, said control system being able to control said accumulating period independently for each of said line sensors. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An image signal reading operation control device, comprising:
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an electro-developing recording medium electronically developing an image formed thereon, and having first and second recording areas;
a system that forms first and second color images on said first and second recording areas, respectively;
a single line sensor moving along said electro-developing recording medium, so that said line sensor reads said first and second color images, said line sensor generating first and second pixel signals corresponding to said first and second color images, respectively;
a memory for storing said first pixel signals; and
a system that records said first and second pixel signals in an image data recording medium, said recording system reading said first pixel signals from said memory to store said first pixel signals in said image data recording medium, and reading said second pixel signals from said line sensor to store said second pixel signals in said image data recording medium, said recording system storing said first and second pixel signals substantially at the same time that said first and second pixel signals are read. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. An image signal reading operation control device incorporated in a camera operable it a first mode to photograph an object and in a second mode, wherein in said second mode said camera is operable based upon a control signal from an external computer and in said first mode said camera is operable independently of the computer, comprising:
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an electro-developing recording medium electronically developing an image formed thereon;
a line sensor for sensing said image developed on said electro-developing recording medium;
a system that moves said line sensor along said electro-developing recording medium;
a mass memory for storing an image signal corresponding to said image, said mass memory usable as an external memory of the computer; and
a system that controls a storing operation, in which a signal is stored in said mass memory, in accordance with a command signal input from said computer. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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