What is claimed is:
1. A single drum type heat-sensitive adhesive activating labeler comprising:
(a) a label sheet;
(b) a printer that prints a necessary item on a surface opposite to an adhesive surface of the label sheet;
(c) a feed roll that feeds a label piece to a suction hole of every other position of label suction holes of an adhering drum provided in front of the printer;
(d) a label sheet cutter disposed in from of the feed roll at a position where at least a tip of a label piece cut from the label sheet by the cutter is brought into contact with the suction hole of the adhering drum;
(e) a label adhering drum including a drum disposed in front of the cutter, having the label suction holes disposed at equal intervals in an odd number of places of a peripheral surface of the drum, and a ventilation hole having an open hole at one end opened to a top surface of the drum and another end connected to a pressure reducing device, the ventilation hole and the label suction holes being communicated with each other, and a closing rod freely detachably inserted from the opening of the ventilation hole at the top surface to close an unnecessary label suction hole;
(f) a feeder that feeds an article, to which the label piece is adhered, in synchronization with the label piece sucked to a label suction hole of the every other position;
(g) a pressing device provided at a position opposite to the drum in front of the cutter to press the article fed to the adhering drum and adhere the label piece according to rotation of the drum; and
(h) a heat-sensitive adhesive activation device to adhere the label piece onto the article, disposed along peripheral of the label adhering drum except locations where the label adhering drum sucks the label piece and where the article is pressed onto the adhering drum.
2. A single drum type heat-sensitive adhesive activating labeler according to claim 1, wherein the label suction holes disposed in the drum are formed into suction hole groups including a plurality of suction holes.
3. A single drum type heat-sensitive adhesive activating labeler according to claim 1, wherein the label sheet cutter includes a latch and a cutting blade disposed in the vicinity of suction holes at a rear part of the suction hole groups of the adhering drum when seen from an advancing direction of the drum.
4. A single drum type heat-sensitive adhesive activating labeler according to claim 1, the label sheet cutter includes a rotary blade and a rotary roller provided in the vicinity of the adhering drum opposite to each other by sandwiching the label sheet.
5. A single drum type heat-sensitive adhesive activating labeler according to claim 1, wherein the label suction holes are disposed in odd number of places of the peripheral surface of the drum and include wide suction portions for sucking large label pieces.
6. A single drum type heat-sensitive adhesive activating labeler according to claim 1, wherein the closing rod is freely detachably inserted into the open hole to close the unnecessary label suction hole and has a length reaching a suction hole of a lowermost layer from the open hole.
7. A single drum type heat-sensitive adhesive activating labeler according to claim 1, wherein the closing rod has a head that is large enough not to be inserted into the open hole.
8. A single drum type heat-sensitive adhesive activating labeler according to claim 1, wherein the closing rod includes an adjustable portion that length of insertion of the closing rod from the open hole is adjustable.
9. A single drum type heat-sensitive adhesive activating labeler according to claim 1, wherein the closing rod comprises a hollow part with a wall, the wall includes a through-hole at a position that matches the suction hole, the hollow part further has an opening end that is communicated with a ventilation path.
10. A single drum type heat-sensitive adhesive activating labeler according to claim 9, wherein the closing rod includes a plurality of through-holes that match suction holes suited for a label size.
11. A single drum type heat-sensitive adhesive activating labeler according to claim 1, wherein the pressure reducing device is connected to the suction holes of the drum, and stops suction at a stage where the article is pressed to the adhering drum, and the label piece is adhered by rotation of the drum.
12. A single drum type heat-sensitive adhesive activating labeler according to claim 1, wherein the heat-sensitive adhesive activation device is a far-infrared ray heater adapted to activate heat-sensitive adhesive of the label piece by radiant heat of far-infrared rays without contact.
13. A single drum type heat-sensitive adhesive activating labeler according to claim 1, wherein the pressing device comprises an arc shaped pressing member provided along the drum peripheral surface to guide the fed-in article to the adhering drum and press the article by rotation of the drum.
14. A single drum type heat-sensitive adhesive activating labeler according to claim 1, wherein a failed printing label adhered article detecting and discharging device is provided in a position in front of the pressing device.
15. A continuous label adhering method by a single drum type heat-sensitive adhesive activating labeler, comprising the steps of:
sucking the label piece with a label suction hole of a single drum type heat-sensitive adhesive activating labeler specified in any one of claims 1 to 14;
activating the adhesive by a heat-sensitive adhesive activation device;
adhering the label piece to the article fed by the pressing device, to which the label piece is to be adhered;
rotating the label suction hole once without having the label piece;
returning to a label sucking position to suck another label piece;
repeating the steps of sucking the another label piece, activating adhesive of the another label piece by the heat-sensitive adhesive activation device, and adhering the another label piece to another article fed by the pressing device, to which the another label piece is to be adhered.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An electronic image pickup apparatus comprising:
a color image pickup element which has a plurality of drive modes including at least a first drive mode and a second drive mode;
a color-conversion parameter storage section which stores a first color-conversion parameter for color-converting a color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the first drive mode;
a color-conversion parameter computing section which computes from the first color-conversion parameter a second color-conversion parameter in order to color-convert a color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the second drive mode;
a computation parameter storage section which stores a computation parameter for computing the second color-conversion parameter; and
a color-conversion section which color-converts the color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the first drive mode according to the first color-conversion parameter and also color-converts the color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the second drive mode according to the second color-conversion parameter.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first drive mode includes a drive mode for picking up a still image.
3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein
the second drive mode includes a drive mode for displaying a live view.
4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein
the color-conversion parameter computing section computes the second color-conversion parameter by linear transformation and the color-conversion section color-converts the color data by linear transformation.
5. An electronic image pickup apparatus, comprising:
a color image pickup element which has a plurality of drive modes including at least a first drive mode and a second drive mode;
an optical lens which converges light from a subject to the color image pickup element;
a spectral sensitivity characteristics storage section which stores the spectral sensitivity characteristics corresponding to the first drive mode of the color image pickup element;
a first color-conversion parameter computing section which computes a first color-conversion parameter for color-converting a color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the first drive mode according to the spectral sensitivity characteristics;
a second color-conversion parameter computing section which computes from the first color-conversion parameter the second color-conversion parameter for color-converting a color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the second drive mode;
a computation parameter storage section which stores the computation parameter for computing the second color-conversion parameter; and
a color-conversion section which color-converts the color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the first drive mode according to the first color-conversion parameter and also color-converts the color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the second drive mode according to the second color-conversion parameter.
6. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein
the first drive mode includes a drive mode for picking up a still image.
7. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein
the second drive mode includes a drive mode for displaying a live view.
8. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein
the second color-conversion parameter computing section computes the second color-conversion parameter by linear transformation and the color-conversion section color-converts the color data by linear transformation.
9. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein
the optical lens is adapted to be detachably fitted to the electronic image pickup apparatus and includes a spectral transmittance storage section for storing the spectral transmittance of the optical system of the optical lens; and
the first color-conversion parameter computing section computes the first color-conversion parameter from the spectral transmittance and the spectral sensitivity characteristics.
10. An electronic image pickup apparatus, comprising:
a color image pickup element which has a plurality of drive modes including at least a first drive mode and a second drive mode;
an optical lens which converges light from a subject to the color image pickup element;
a spectral sensitivity characteristics storage section which stores a first spectral sensitivity characteristics corresponding to the first drive mode of the color image pickup element;
a spectral sensitivity characteristics computing section which computes a second spectral sensitivity characteristics corresponding to the second drive mode of the color image pickup element according to the first spectral sensitivity characteristics;
a spectral sensitivity characteristics computation parameter storage section which stores the computation parameter for computing the second spectral sensitivity characteristics;
a color-conversion parameter computing section which computes a first color-conversion parameter for converting a color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the first drive mode according to the first spectral sensitivity characteristics and also computing a second color-conversion parameter for converting a color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the second drive mode according to the second spectral sensitivity characteristics;
a color-conversion computation parameter storage section which stores the computation parameter for computing the first and second color-conversion parameters; and
a color-conversion section which color-converts the color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the first drive mode according to the first color-conversion parameter and also color-converts the color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the second mode according to the second color-conversion parameter.
11. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein
the first drive mode includes a drive mode for picking up a still image.
12. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein
the second drive mode includes a drive mode for displaying a live view.
13. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein
the spectral sensitivity characteristics computing section computes the second spectral sensitivity characteristics by linear transformation and the computation parameter stored in the spectral sensitivity characteristics computation parameter storage section is a linear transformation coefficient.
14. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein
the optical lens is adapted to be detachably fitted to the electronic image pickup apparatus and includes a spectral transmittance storage section for storing the spectral transmittance of the optical system of the optical lens; and
the spectral sensitivity,characteristics computing section computes the second spectral sensitivity characteristics from the spectral transmittance, the first spectral sensitivity characteristics and the computation parameter stored in the spectral sensitivity characteristics computation parameter storage section.
15. An electronic image pickup method for a color image pickup element having a plurality of drive modes including at least a first drive mode and a second drive mode, the method comprising:
computing a second color-conversion parameter for color-converting the color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the second drive mode by subjecting a first color-conversion parameter to linear transformation; and
color-converting a color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the first drive mode by subjecting the color data to linear transformation according to the first color-conversion parameter and also color-converting a color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the second drive mode by subjecting the color data to linear transformation according to the second color-conversion parameter.
16. An electronic image pickup method for a color image pickup element having a plurality of drive modes including at least a first drive mode and a second drive mode, the method comprising:
computing a first color-conversion parameter for color-converting a color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the first drive mode according to a spectral sensitivity characteristics corresponding to the first drive mode of the color image pickup element;
computing a second color-conversion parameter for color-converting a color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the second drive mode by subjecting the first color-conversion parameter to linear transformation; and
color-converting a color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the first drive mode by subjecting the color data to linear transformation according to the first color-conversion parameter and also color-converting a color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the second drive mode by subjecting the color data to linear transformation according to the second color-conversion parameter.
17. An electronic image pickup method for a color image pickup element having a plurality of drive modes including at least a first drive mode and a second drive mode, the method comprising:
computing a second spectral sensitivity characteristics corresponding to the second drive mode of the color image pickup element by subjecting a first spectral sensitivity characteristics corresponding to the first drive mode of the color image pickup element to linear transformation;
computing a first color-conversion parameter for color-converting a color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the first drive mode according to the first spectral sensitivity characteristics;
computing a second color-conversion parameter for converting a color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the second drive mode according to the second spectral sensitivity characteristics; and
color-converting the color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the first drive mode to color-conversion according to the first color-conversion parameter and also color-converting the color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the second drive mode to conversion according to the second color-conversion parameter.