Method, apparatus, and program for recording images

• US 20050254099A1
• Filed: 04/15/2005
• Published: 11/17/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ono, Shuji, Gotohda, Yukita, Yoda, Akira
• Application Number:
  US11/106,535
• Publication Number:
  US 20050254099A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/403
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 35/24 using apertured or refractive resolving means on screens or between screen and eye
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• 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 1/00175 from a still image storage medium H04N1/00172, H04N1/0018 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00193 to a portable storage medium, e.g. a read-writable compact disk

Abstract

From which recording medium image data sets have been obtained is enabled to be known, when image data sets are read out of recording media and recorded into a different recording medium. When recording image data sets, which have been read out of a recording medium, into a DVD-R, a unique ID of the DVD-R is added to the file names of the image data sets. When the image data sets are read out from the DVD-R to generate a new DVD-R, a unique ID of the new DVD-R is added to the file names of the image data sets.

Claims

1. An image recording apparatus, comprising:

image readout means, for reading out image data sets, which are recorded in a first recording medium identified by first unique identifying data, and which include the identifying data;

recording means, for recording the read out image data sets in a second recording medium identified by second unique identifying data; and

identifying data adding means, for adding the second unique identifying data to the image data sets in addition to the first unique identifying data, when recording the read out image data sets onto the second recording medium.

2. An image recording apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein:

the unique identifying data is written in meta data; and

the identifying data adding means adds the identifying data as meta data.

3. An image recording apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein:

additional data regarding the image data sets is recorded in the first recording medium as meta data; and

the recording means records date data, that represents the date when recording is performed, in addition to the additional data when recording the image data sets in the second recording medium.

4. An image recording apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein:

the unique identifying data is included in file names; and

the identifying data adding means adds the unique identifying data to the file names.

5. An image recording apparatus as defined in claim 1, further comprising:

management means, for keeping track of which recording medium the image data sets are recorded in, by employing the identifying data.

10. An image recording method as defined in claim 3, wherein:

the identifying data are employed to keep track of which recording medium the image data sets are recorded in.

6. An image recording method, comprising the steps of:

reading out image data sets, which are recorded in a first recording medium identified by first unique identifying data, and which include the identifying data;

adding second unique identifying data to the image data sets in addition to the first unique identifying data, when recording the read out image data sets onto a second recording medium identified by the second unique identifying data; and

recording the image data sets, having the identifying data of the second recording medium added thereto, in the second recording medium.

7. An image recording method as defined in claim 6, wherein:

the unique identifying data is written in meta data; and

the identifying data is added as meta data.

8. An image recording method as defined in claim 6, wherein:

additional data regarding the image data sets is recorded in the first recording medium as meta data; and

date data, that represents the date when recording is performed, is recorded in addition to the additional data, when recording the image data sets in the second recording medium.

9. An image recording method as defined in claim 6, wherein:

the unique identifying data is included in file names; and

the unique identifying data is added to the file names.

11. A program for causing a computer to execute an image recording method, the program comprising the procedures of:

reading out image data sets, which are recorded in a first recording medium identified by first unique identifying data, and which include the identifying data;

adding second unique identifying data to the image data sets in addition to the first unique identifying data, when recording the read out image data sets onto a second recording medium identified by the second unique identifying data; and

recording the image data sets, having the identifying data of the second recording medium added thereto, in the second recording medium.

12. A program as defined in claim 11, wherein:

the unique identifying data is written in meta data; and

the identifying data is added as meta data.

13. A program as defined in claim 11, wherein:

additional data regarding the image data sets is recorded in the first recording medium as meta data; and

date data, that represents the date when recording is performed, is recorded in addition to the additional data, when recording the image data sets in the second recording medium.

14. A program as defined in claim 11, wherein:

the unique identifying data is included in file names; and

the unique identifying data is added to the file names.

15. A program as defined in claim 11, wherein:

the identifying data are employed to keep track of which recording medium the image data sets are recorded in.

16. A computer readable medium, having the program defined in claim 11 recorded therein.

17. A computer readable medium, having the program defined in claim 12 recorded therein.

18. A computer readable medium, having the program defined in claim 13 recorded therein.

19. A computer readable medium, having the program defined in claim 14 recorded therein.

20. A computer readable medium, having the program defined in claim 15 recorded therein.