| 摘要 |
An apparatus for producing and printing a photograph includes touch-sensitive controls, a visual display, a currency receiving and/or dispensing device, a hand-held remote control device for adjusting location of a photo image area on the visual display and controlling capture of a photo image of the user from a video camera lens and controller board, a first printer and a second printer, all connected to a central processor. Video impressions viewed by the camera lens are converted into a series of electrical impulses, which are selectively captured and digitized. Thereafter, a digitized photo image of the user is either combined with a stored postage meter image for printing by the second printer to produce a printed photograph on one side of an adhesive-backed postage meter strip, or, alternatively, uploaded by a high-speed modem to a host computer for processing a passport, driver's license, or other government identification-type document requiring a photograph.
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