Image commercial transactions system and method

• US 20070005442A1
• Filed: 08/25/2006
• Published: 01/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Snaptrack Incorporated (Qualcomm, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yoneyama, Shigeyuki, Toshikage, Hideki
• Application Number:
  US11/510,551
• Publication Number:
  US 20070005442A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/1235 with control of digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0609 Buyer or seller confidence or verification
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0613 Third-party assisted
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/32 on separate auxiliary tracks of the same or an auxiliary record carrier
• 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 1/00145 from a remote location
• 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 1/00209 Transmitting or receiving image data, e.g. facsimile data, via a computer, e.g. using e-mail, a computer network, the internet, I-fax
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00424 using a list of graphical elements, e.g. icons or icon bar
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00442 Simultaneous viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. using a mosaic display arrangement of thumbnails
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00453 arranged in a two dimensional array
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00456 for layout preview, e.g. page layout
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00461 marking or otherwise tagging one or more displayed image, e.g. for selective reproduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00912 : Arrangements for controlling a still picture apparatus or components thereof not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32128 : attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/34 : for coin-freed systems ; Pay systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 : Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2547 : Third Party Billing, e.g. billing of advertiser
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 : Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47815 : Electronic shopping payment schemes, payment architectures or payment protocols for electronic shopping systems G06Q20/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 : involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8113 : comprising music, e.g. song in MP3 format
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8153 : comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3204 : of data relating to a user, sender, addressee, machine or electronic recording medium H04N2201/3256 and subgroups take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3205 : of identification information, e.g. name or ID code H04N2201/3209 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3208 : of an e-mail or network address
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3226 : of identification information or the like, e.g. ID code, index, title, part of an image, reduced-size image
• 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 2201/3249 : data relating to a linked page or object, e.g. hyperlink
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3274 : Storage or retrieval of prestored additional information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17336 : Handling of requests in head-ends

Abstract

An image commercial transactions system and method that are able to implement sales to the purpose of the seller. An e-commerce system for selling a picture and a handling condition specific to the picture, both being recorded on a predetermined recording medium in a predetermined format. The picture to be sold and the handling condition are accepted by an acceptor in a digital format. When a transaction is established, an accounting company carries out an accounting electronically for a purchaser of the picture and the e-commerce condition, thereby both of the picture to be sold and the handling condition are sold as digital data so that the purchased picture is used in a handling manner as intended by the seller. Consequently, the selling of the picture can be made so as to satisfy the intention of the seller.

Claims

1. A photographic image commercial transactions method comprising the steps of

enabling a reception dealer to receive photographic image data and to store the photographic image data in a server;

selecting among a photographic printing service and a photographic image transmitting service;

enabling said reception dealer to transmit a stored position data in the server by electronic mail if the photographic image transmitting service is selected in the selection step; and

enabling said reception dealer to transmit the photographic image data to a print photographic shop if the photographic printing service is selected in the selection step, said print photographic shop operable to print an image corresponding to the photographic image data.

2. The photographic image commercial transactions method according to claim 1 further comprising the step of linking the photographic image data accessed by the stored position data to the reception dealer.

3. The photographic image commercial transactions method according to claim 1, wherein the stored position data is hypertext markup language (HTML) data.

4. The photographic image commercial transactions method according to claim 1, wherein the stored position data is uniform resource locator (URL) address data.

5. The photographic image commercial transactions method according to claim 1, wherein the reception dealer receives the photographic image data from a digital still camera, a digital video camera, or a scanning device.

6. The photographic image commercial transactions method according to claim 5, wherein said photographic image data is in a joint photographic experts group (JPEG) format, a tagged image file format (TIFF), or graphic interchange format (GIF).

7. The photographic image commercial transactions method according to claim 1 further comprising the step of enabling the print photographic shop to print the received photographic image data as a print.

8. The photographic image commercial transactions method according to claim 7 further comprising the step of enabling the print photographic shop to notify a user that the print is completed.

9. The photographic image commercial transactions method according to claim 7, wherein the photographic shop is operable to deliver the print to a user or is operable to mail the print to an address corresponding to the user.

10. A photographic image commercial transaction method comprising steps of:

enabling a reception dealer to receive photographic image data and to store the photographic image data in a server;

selecting among a photographic printing service and a photographic image transmitting service;

selecting a print photographic shop;

enabling said reception dealer to transmit a stored position data in the server by electronic mail if the photographic image transmitting service is selected in the selection step; and

enabling said reception dealer to transfer the photographic image data to the selected print photographic shop if the photographic printing service is selected in the selection step, the selected print photographic shop is operable to print an image corresponding to the received photographic image data.

11. The photographic image commercial transactions method according to claim 10 further comprising the step of linking the photographic image data accessed by the stored position data to the reception dealer.

12. The photographic image commercial transactions method according to claim 10, wherein the stored position data is hypertext markup language (HTML) data.

13. The photographic image commercial transactions method according to claim 10, wherein the stored position data is HTML data.

14. The photographic image commercial transactions method according to claim 10, wherein the reception dealer receives the photographic image data by a digital still camera, a digital video camera, or a scanning device.

15. The photographic image commercial transactions method according to claim 14, wherein said photographic image data is in a joint photographic experts group (JPEG) format, a tagged image file format (TIFF), or graphic interchange format (GIF).

16. The photographic image commercial transactions method according to claim 10 further comprising the step of enabling the selected print photographic shop to print the received photographic image data as a print.

17. The photographic image commercial transactions method according to claim 16 further comprising the step of enabling the selected print photographic shop to notify a user that the print is finished.

18. The photographic image commercial transactions method according to claim 16, wherein the selected print photographic shop is operable to deliver the print to a user or is operable to mail the print to an address corresponding to the user.

19. A photographic image commercial transactions method comprising the steps of:

enabling a reception dealer to receive photographic image data;

enabling said reception dealer to store the photographic image data in a server and to transmit a stored position data in the server by electronic mail if the photographic image transmitting service is selected in the selection step; and

enabling said reception dealer to transmit the photographic image data to a print photographic shop if the photographic printing service is selected in the selection step, said print photographic shop operable to print an image corresponding to the photographic image data.

20. The photographic image commercial transactions method according to claim 19 further comprising the step of linking the photographic image data accessed by the stored position data to the reception dealer.

21. A photographic image commercial transaction method comprising steps of:

enabling a reception dealer to receive photographic image data and to select among a photographic printing service and a photographic image transmitting service;

selecting a print photographic shop;

enabling said reception dealer to store the photographic image data and to transmit a stored position data in a server by electronic mail if the photographic image transmitting service is selected; and

enabling said reception dealer to transfer the photographic image data to the selected print photographic shop if the photographic printing service is selected in the selection step, the selected print photographic shop is operable to print an image corresponding to the received photographic image data.

22. The photographic image commercial transactions method according to claim 21 further comprising the step of linking the photographic image data accessed by the stored position data to the reception dealer.