To prevent an image which is deteriorated in quality because it is photographed with a dirty photographing optical system from being provided to a customer, in an automatic photographing apparatus for automatically photographing a souvenir photograph or a snapshot of a visitor in amusement facilities such as a theme park or an amusement park.
A soil sensing means 20 for sensing soils on a photographing optical system of a photographing means 10 is provided. In a means 20, a differential detecting section 23 compares reference image data P1' which is obtained by photographing a predetermined object in a state that the photographing optical system is not soiled, is stored in a storage section 22 and has corrected low-frequency components with soil sensing data P2' which is obtained by differently photographing the object and has corrected low-frequency components, and the differential is sensed as the soil on the photographing optical system. Further, upon the detection of the soil, a photograph stopping means 30 instructs the photographing means 10 to stop automatic photographing to make an information output device 91 informs visitors of a break of the service. At the same time, a notifying means 40 transmits an alarm message based on the break of automatic photographing to a management center 90.
YAMAGUCHI HIROSHI
ENOMOTO ATSUSHI
SHINOHARA MAMORU
Go Sakuma