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G03B 15/00 (2006.01) G03B 17/53 (2006.01) H04N 1/21 (2006.01) H04N 7/18 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1290607
AUTO-PORTRAIT PHOTO STUDIO Abstract of the Disclosure A method and system (including a unique arrangement of computer and photographic apparatus) for automated or computer-aided portrait photography. The method and system utilize an automatic, between-the-lens 35mm camera including auto-wind, auto-focus and auto-exposure features. A beam splitter behind the camera lens captures a part of the image-forming light reflected from the portrait subject to provide a video pickup charge coupled device with an exact color video image of the subject as seen by the camera. On the outside of the camera housing a flat screen video viewfinder is provided which permits the operator (portrait photo- grapher) to view the image which is being received by the video pickup device. The camera and overall system components are interfaced with and connected to a microprocessor and are controlled by the flash circuitry of the camera. When the operator is satisfied with the subject's appearance and pose (as seen through the video viewfinder), press-button action trips the camera shutter for exposure of a frame of film, actuates the flash circuitry of the camera firing flash lighting apparatus and directs (through the microprocessor) the electronic storage (via solid state memory) of a video image identical to the image captured by the camera film. The stored video image can be outputed to a video portrait viewer (CRT screen) for subject viewing. The portrait viewer can also be utilized to display a multiplicity of the capture (stored) video images (each representing a film frame) for subject selection.
552294
Autostudio Corporation
Smart & Biggar
LandOfFree
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