Patent ID: 8804186

Claim:
An automated lenticular photographic system comprising: an interface that permits a user to upload image files; image processing and printing equipment that is in communication with the interface for receiving the uploaded image files and processing the uploaded image files to create an interlaced print image file that is used to produce an interlaced print sheet containing interlaced print images, wherein a pair of registration marks is formed on the interlaced print sheet outside of borders of the interlaced print images; a processing station where the interlaced print sheet is aligned with a lenticular lens sheet with a registration system that detects whether the lenticular lens sheet is off-centered and skewed relative to the interlaced print sheet; and means for controllably adjusting the position of the lenticular lens sheet relative to the interlaced print sheet until proper registration between the lenticular lens sheet and the interlaced print sheet is achieved, wherein the lenticular lens sheet is at least selectively joined to the interlaced print sheet to provide a lenticular product that can be delivered back to the user; and wherein the registration system includes a display on which a target location axis and a lens axis are displayed, wherein a relative position of the target and lens axes shifts as the lenticular lens sheet moves relative to the interlaced print sheet, wherein optimal, desired positioning between the lenticular lens sheet and the interlaced print sheet result when the target location and lens axes overlap one another.