Patent Document ID: 4231069
Application ID: 05903878
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for the production of image combinations of a master wherein the image data of the images to be copied into each other are stored in digital memories, and a mask is produced from one of the images for superimposing and copying the images and said mask is scanned, comprising the steps of forming and storing intermediate recordings true to register and scale from first and second images to be combined, forming a mask signal from the second image to be inserted into the other image and forming said mask of a size of the second image to be copied, scanning the second image to be copied and storing the information; eliminating the image data located outside the mask, but within the data inventory of the second image to be copied under control of the mask signal; placing the masked intermediate second image recording on the intermediate recording of the first image into which it is to be copied, and shifting it into the proper position; measuring the shiftings in scanning direction and transversely to the scanning direction, that is in x and y direction to obtain measured .DELTA.x and .DELTA.y values; and combining the .DELTA.x and .DELTA.y values with the stored data of the first image with the stored second image data of the other image to form a total image.