Print processing method, printing order receiving machine and print processing device

• US 20060119832A1
• Filed: 01/24/2006
• Published: 06/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Iida, Takayuki
• Granted Patent: US 7,199,865 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 355/77
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 2206/006 of the bar-code type
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 27/32 Projection printing apparatus, e.g. enlarger, copying camera
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 27/52 Details
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 27/521 Arrangements for applying a supplementary information onto the sensitive material, e.g. coding producing marks on the film in cameras G03B17/24
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 27/727 Optical projection devices wherein the contrast is controlled optically (e.g. uniform exposure, two colour exposure on variable contrast sensitive material)
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 27/80 in dependence upon automatic analysis of the original G03B27/73 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G03D 15/001 Counting; Classifying; Marking
• CPC Class Codes: G03D 15/005 Order systems, e.g. printsorter
• 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 1/00143 Ordering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00167 Processing or editing H04N1/00196 - H04N1/00201 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00188 Printing, e.g. prints or reprints H04N1/0019, H04N1/00196 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32122 in a separate device, e.g. in a memory or on a display separate from image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32133 on the same paper sheet, e.g. a facsimile page header
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3242 of processing required or performed, e.g. for reproduction or before recording H04N2201/3256 and subgroups take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/327 which are undetectable to the naked eye, e.g. embedded codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3271 Printing or stamping

Abstract

A method and a device are provided for automating receipt of orders for additional printing of a photographic print, including order information relating to desired image processing. In a print order receiving machine, when a photographic print is inserted, an image of the photographic print is read and displayed on a monitor (steps 150, 152). When order conditions are inputted, an image which is processed on the basis of the order conditions is displayed on the monitor (steps 154 through 158). Further, when input of the order conditions is completed, the order conditions and order information based on the order conditions are set. The set order information is printed onto a photographic print as an invisible two-dimensional bar code. Copying processing of the photographic print is carried out on the basis of the order information which is read from the photographic print.

Claims

1. A print processing method, wherein an order information for processing has been integrally associated with a recording medium on which an image has been recorded, the order information includes processing conditions and order conditions, the method comprising:

reading the image recorded on the recording medium;

reading the associated order information; and

processing the image based on the associated order information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the processing conditions include at least one of gray balance adjustment, gradation adjustment, density adjustment, saturation adjustment, sharpness processing, dodging processing, electronic magnification processing, geometric processing, peripheral quantity of light correcting processing, soft focusing processing, and red-eye correcting processing; and

the order conditions include at least one of a delivery destination, print size, number of prints, use of clip-arts, superimposition of a plurality of images, and affine conversion.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the new recording medium is a photographic print and the encoded order information is a bar code recorded on to the photographic print, wherein:

the step of reading the image recorded includes scanning the recording medium; and

the step of reading the associated order information includes scanning the bar code.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the bar code is a stealth bar code, and the step of reading the associated order information includes scanning the stealth bar code with an invisible light source.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the stealth bar code is superimposed in an area of the recorded image.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the bar code is a two-dimensional bar code.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the new recording medium is a photographic print, and the encoded information is recorded on an IC label and attached to the photographic print, wherein:

the step of reading the image recorded includes scanning the recording medium; and

the step of reading the associated order information includes reading the IC label.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the new recording medium is a photographic print, and the encoded information is recorded on an IC label and associated with the photographic print, wherein:

the step of reading the image recorded includes scanning the recording medium; and

the step of reading the associated order information includes reading the memory module.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising reading order information of a plurality of original images from the memory module.