Selecting an image bearing product requiring a particular size converted from a high resolution digital image

• US 20030058457A1
• Filed: 09/21/2001
• Published: 03/27/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Original Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Inventors: Parulski, Kenneth A., Fredlund, John R.
• Application Number:
  US09/960,678
• Publication Number:
  US 20030058457A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00127 Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00132 in a digital photofinishing system, i.e. a system where digital photographic images undergo typical photofinishing processing, e.g. printing ordering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00135 Scanning of a photographic original
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00137 Transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00145 from a remote location
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00172 directly from a still digital camera or from a storage medium mounted in a still digital camera H04N1/0018 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00175 from a still image storage medium H04N1/00172, H04N1/0018 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00188 Printing, e.g. prints or reprints H04N1/0019, H04N1/00196 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00196 Creation of a photo-montage, e.g. photoalbum H04N1/0019 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/393 Enlarging or reducing

Abstract

A method of selecting an image bearing product that requires a particular size of a digital image includes a user providing a high resolution digital image in a memory at a first location; a service provider providing information which is displayed at the first location, such displayed information including a plurality of options for image bearing products that can be provided by the service provider that require different sized digital images; the user selecting at least one image bearing product to be provided by the service provider after viewing the displayed images; converting the high resolution to a smaller sized digital image corresponding to the selected image bearing product; and utilizing the smaller sized digital image to provide the selected image bearing product to the user.

Claims

1. A method of selecting an image bearing product that requires a particular size of a digital image, comprising the steps of:

a) a user providing a high resolution digital image in a memory at a first location;

b) a service provider providing information which is displayed at the first location, such displayed information including a plurality of options for image bearing products that can be provided by the service provider that require different sized digital images;

c) the user selecting at least one image bearing product to be provided by the service provider after viewing the displayed images;

d) converting the high resolution to a smaller sized digital image corresponding to the selected image bearing product; and

e) utilizing the smaller sized digital image to provide the selected image bearing product to the user.

2. The method of claim 1 further including the step of transferring the smaller sized digital image from the first memory location to a memory location specified by the service provider.

3. The method of claim 1 further including using a digital camera to capture the high resolution digital image.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least two photo products include prints of different sizes.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least two photo products are different photo albums.

6. The method of claim 1 further including the step of:

f) establishing a service account for the user with the service provider to permit the user to have access to ordered services.

7. The method of claim 6 further including the step of:

g) providing payment for the selected photo product.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the converting step modified the number of pixels to produce the smaller sized digital image.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the converting step modified the number of bits per pixel to produce the smaller sized digital image.