Abstract:
Control arrangement adaptable to any kind of professional-scale and/or amateur-scale colour-photograph development and printing laboratory for obtaining corresponding digital photographs. The arrangement comprises imaging means (24) for the formation of virtual digital images, which are operationally connected with a personal computer (13) and are adapted to receive from the latter the stored negative virtual digital images and to selectively reconstitute the same virtual digital images; a rotating disk (26) provided with colour filters (27, 28, 29) to colour each negative virtual digital image contained in the imaging means (24); piezo-electric actuators co-operating with said imaging means (24) so as to cause said imaging means to displace into such positions as to enable high-definition images to be formed; a moving-type diaphragm or shutter (25) co-operating with said imaging means (24) and movable from a first operational position to a second operational position to respectively bar or enable the passage of the light beam through said imaging means (24) and the colour-filter disk (26), and the resulting projection of the virtual digital images, with mutually overlapping colours, onto the photographic paper (60); as well as control and processing means (CPU 50) operated via at least an associated keyboard (61) and connected to said personal computer (13), said imaging means (24), said rotating disk (26), said piezo-electric actuators, said shutter (25), a lighting arrangement (20) for the illumination of the photographic paper (60) and the other parts composing the photo-finishing equipment of each photographic laboratory.
Abstract:
Lighting device (10) and method comprising a support structure (13, 113) which supports one or more groups of LEDs (15) which emit relative light beams, to light a determinate surface (S). The device (10) also comprises one or more arms (16, 116, 216) disposed independent and individually directed or directable with respect to the support structure (13, 113) so that each supports at least one of the group of LEDs (15), and a plurality of optic members (21) each of which is associated at least with a relative one of the LEDS (15) and has a determinate degree of collimation, to direct in a specific and uniform manner the light emitted by the relative LED (15), in a determinate sector of the surface (S) to be illuminated.
Abstract:
Apparatus (10) for the automatic printing of photographs starting from digital data defining the images to be printed onto the photographs, comprising at least: an acquisition device (20, 21, 30, 31) to acquire the digital data and associate the latter with specific information relating to the photographs; a printer device (22) for printing the photographs based on the digital data; a packing device (24) for inserting the printed photographs into respective containers (28), and associating the latter with identification elements defined at least according to the specific information and able to correlate univocally the photographs contained in each container (28) with a determinate user; a storage and dispensing device (26) for detecting the specific information contained in the identification elements, for storing the containers (28) at least according to the specific information and for rendering the containers-, selectively available on request from said determinate user.
Abstract:
Device (10) to effect micro-displacements of a support for digital images (11), in which the digital images are formed by a determinate matrix of pixels (37) arranged in lines and columns perpendicular to each other. Each pixel (37) has a determinate lateral size (l) and between adjacent pixels (37) there is a free space having a determinate amplitude (s). The device (10) comprises a fixed structure (39) having an optical axis (Z), support members (38) that keep the support for digital images (11) on a plane orthogonal to the optical axis (Z), and actuator members (40, 41, 42, 43) arranged between the fixed structure (39) and the support for digital images (11), in order to displace the support for digital images (11), along the plane and in the directions (X, Y) of the lines and columns, with respect to the optical axis (Z). The actuator members (40, 41, 42, 43) are associated with electronic control elements (31) and effect one or more unitary displacements, in the directions (X, Y), each one equal to or less than the determinate amplitude (s) of the free space between adjacent pixels (37).