Appeal 2007-0017
Application 10/074,179
Content of Ina
Ina discloses a verifying camera, which is a type of hybrid
film-electronic camera in which the user has an opportunity to check the
captured film images immediately after capture using a concurrently
recorded electronic image. A shortcoming of such cameras is that the
exposure time required for the electronic array imager is often much shorter
than the exposure time for the film. This shorter exposure time "stops" a
motion of the photographic subject that is recorded on the film as a blur, so
that the captured electronic image is not fully accurate for verification
purposes. See col. 1, lines 24-35. For example, in Figure 14, if the "smiley"
face subject image 28 moves, the latent image 30 on the film shows a blur,
but an electronic (digital) image taken at the same time, say image 128,
would stop the motion and not show a blur. Ina's invention is to capture a
first electronic (digital) image 128 at the beginning of the film exposure time
interval and to capture a second digital image 130 at the end of the film
exposure time interval and to combine the images in an image 134 so that
the user may determine whether the resultant image is blurred. With
reference to Figure 2, the first digital image is stored in memory 98a, the
second digital image is stored in memory 98b, and the images are combined
by processor 92 and combiner 132 to be displayed on image display 40
(col. 7, l. 64, to col. 8, l. 23). Controller 100 calculates exposure parameters
for the film exposure, the shutter times for the electronic exposure of the
imager, and the aperture for the image paths (col. 6, l. 50, to col. 7, l. 6).
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