Patent ID: 6205294
Filing Date: 2001-03-20
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
A method of processing a film assemblage including a plurality of individual self-developing integral film units carried serially in spaced apart relationship on a strip in an image recording apparatus, said method comprising the steps of: acquiring and storing digital image data which is to be imaged onto film units; imaging electronically produced images on the film units; said imaging step includes the step of using an area imaging means for generating images, and optical means for directing the generated images to an image plane at which the film unit is exposed: manually applying a withdrawing force on a leading portion of the strip so that an exposed film unit at an exposure station is advanced through pressure applying means following exposure within the apparatus and then the exposed unit emerges from the apparatus; and, indexing generally simultaneously therewith the next successive integral film unit to the exposure station; said indexing step is accomplished by indexing means of the strip cooperating with the pressure applying means; said step of providing an area imaging means includes the step of providing an active matrix LCD.