System and method for taking, storing and printing digital pictures

• US 20040012811A1
• Filed: 07/22/2002
• Published: 01/22/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakayama, Fumiharu
• Application Number:
  US10/199,084
• Publication Number:
  US 20040012811A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• 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 1/0014 via e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00212 Attaching image data to computer messages, e.g. to e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3205 of identification information, e.g. name or ID code H04N2201/3209 takes precedence

Abstract

A system and method for storing images includes receiving an e-mail with one or more attached images from a cellular telephone, generating an identification number corresponding to the received one or more images, and storing the received one or more images in a memory. A message is received from a kiosk including the identification number. The one or more images are sent to the kiosk based on the received identification number.

Claims

1. A method for storing images, comprising:

receiving an e-mail with one or more attached images from a cellular telephone;

generating an identification number corresponding to the received one of more images;

storing the received one or more images in a memory;

receiving a message from a kiosk including the identification number; and

sending the one or more images to the kiosk based on the received identification number.

2. A method according to claim 1, further comprising receiving image size information from the kiosk.

3. A method according to claim 2, further comprising converting the one or more images based on the image size information.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein the cellular telephone includes a digital camera with which the images attached in the e-mail are formed.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein the kiosk includes a personal computer connected to the server via a network connection.

6. A method according to claim 5, wherein the kiosk includes a display through which the images sent to the kiosk can be viewed.

7. A method according to claim 1, further comprising sending a message to the cellular telephone including the identification number.

8. A method according to claim 1, wherein the message sent to the cellular telephone includes an acknowledgment that the e-mail has been received.

9. A computer readable medium operable on a computer system for storing images, the computer readable medium configured to:

receive an e-mail with one or more attached images from a cellular telephone;

generate an identification number corresponding to the received one or more images;

store the received one or more images in a memory;

receive a message from a kiosk including the identification number; and

send the one or more images to the kiosk based on the received identification number.

10. A computer readable medium according to claim 9, further configured to receive image size information from the kiosk.

11. A computer readable medium according to claim 10, further configured to convert the one or more images based on the image size information.

12. A computer readable medium according to claim 9, wherein the cellular telephone includes a digital camera with which the images attached in the e-mail are formed.

13. A computer readable medium according to claim 9, wherein the kiosk includes a personal computer connected to the server via a network connection.

14. A computer readable medium according to claim 13, wherein the kiosk includes a display through which the images sent to the kiosk can be viewed.

15. A computer readable medium according to claim 9, further configured to send a message to the cellular telephone including the identification number.

16. A computer readable medium according to claim 9, wherein the message sent to the cellular telephone includes an acknowledgment that the e-mail has been received.

17. A computer system for storing images, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory, coupled to the processor, the memory comprising a plurality of instructions executed by the processor, the plurality of instructions configured to;

receive an e-mail with one or more attached images from a cellular telephone;

generate an identification number corresponding to the received one or more images;

store the received one or more images in a memory;

receive a message from a kiosk including the identification number; and

send the one or more images to the kiosk based on the received identification number.

18. A computer system according to claim 17, the memory further comprising an instruction configured to receive image size information from the kiosk.

19. A computer system according to claim 18, the memory further comprising an instruction configured to convert the one or more images based on the image size information.

20. A computer system according to claim 17, wherein the cellular telephone includes a digital camera with which the images attached in the e-mail are formed.

21. A computer system according to claim 17, wherein the kiosk includes a personal computer connected to the server via a network connection.

22. A computer system according to claim 21, wherein the kiosk includes a display through which the images sent to the kiosk can be viewed.

23. A computer system according to claim 17, the memory further comprising an instruction configured to send a message to the cellular telephone including the identification number.

24. A computer system according to claim 17, wherein the message sent to the cellular telephone includes an acknowledgment that the e-mail has been received.