System and method of constructing a photo album
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1. A method of constructing a photocollage, comprising:
- a) providing a plurality of high resolution digital images;
b) storing the high resolution digital images;
c) generating a hardcopy index sticker sheet having a plurality of hardcopy stickers, each of the stickers comprising a reduced resolution thumbnail representing one of the high resolution digital images and means for uniquely identifying the sticker with the high resolution digital image that is associated with that reduced resolution image except for a single sticker that has means for identifying the cover image that is to be duplicated within the body of the photocollage;
d) providing at least one hardcopy photocollage cover and layout form for manually attaching the stickers to configure a photo collage representation;
e) manually assembling the photocollage representation by manually removing the individual stickers from the hardcopy index sticker sheet and manually attaching the individual stickers to the cover and layout form;
f) employing the means for uniquely associating the individual stickers with the stored high resolution digital image; and
g) generating the photocollage from the stored high resolution digital images according to the photocollage representation.
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Abstract
A method of constructing a photo album including the steps of: providing a plurality of digital images; generating an sticker sheet of reduced resolution images from the digital images, the sticker sheet including a machine readable means for selecting one or more of images represented by the thumbnails to be included in the photo album; selecting one or more of the thumbnail images on the sticker sheet; reading the selected thumbnails from the sticker sheet with a scanner; and constructing a photo album from the digital images represented by the selected reduced resolution images.
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1. A method of constructing a photocollage, comprising:
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a) providing a plurality of high resolution digital images;
b) storing the high resolution digital images;
c) generating a hardcopy index sticker sheet having a plurality of hardcopy stickers, each of the stickers comprising a reduced resolution thumbnail representing one of the high resolution digital images and means for uniquely identifying the sticker with the high resolution digital image that is associated with that reduced resolution image except for a single sticker that has means for identifying the cover image that is to be duplicated within the body of the photocollage;
d) providing at least one hardcopy photocollage cover and layout form for manually attaching the stickers to configure a photo collage representation;
e) manually assembling the photocollage representation by manually removing the individual stickers from the hardcopy index sticker sheet and manually attaching the individual stickers to the cover and layout form;
f) employing the means for uniquely associating the individual stickers with the stored high resolution digital image; and
g) generating the photocollage from the stored high resolution digital images according to the photocollage representation. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A system for creating photo collages comprising:
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a) means for acquiring a high resolution digital version for each of a plurality of images;
b) a storage medium that is operatively connected to the means for acquiring;
c) means for creating a reduced resolution version from the high resolution digital version, the reduced resolution version having a unique identifier that associates the reduced resolution version with its high resolution counterpart;
d) means for generating a hardcopy sticker sheet containing a plurality of hardcopy stickers, each of the stickers being representative of one of the reduced resolution and having the unique identifier associating that reduced resolution version with its respective high resolution version and a single sticker that has means for identifying the cover image that is to be duplicated within the body of the photocollage;
e) a hardcopy layout form for the stickers arranged such that a photocollage is created when the stickers are manually placed on the layout form;
f) means for reading the photocollage on the layout form and acquiring the high resolution version of the images contained within the photocollage from the storage medium; and
g) means for generating a high resolution photocollage from the acquired high resolution images. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method of constructing a photocollage, comprising:
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a) providing a plurality of high resolution digital images;
b) storing the high resolution digital images;
c) at a first location, generating a hardcopy index sticker sheet having a plurality of hardcopy stickers, each of the stickers comprising a reduced resolution thumbnail representing one of the high resolution digital images and means for uniquely identifying the sticker with the high resolution digital image that is associated with that reduced resolution image except for a single sticker that has means for identifying the cover image that is to be duplicated within the body of the photocollage;
d) providing at least one hardcopy photocollage cover and layout form for manually attaching the stickers to configure a photo collage representation;
e) at a second location remote from the first location, manually assembling the photocollage representation by manually removing the individual stickers from the hardcopy index sticker sheet and manually attaching the individual stickers to the cover and layout form;
f) employing the means for uniquely associating the individual stickers with the stored high resolution digital image; and
g) generating the photocollage from the stored high resolution digital images according to the photocollage representation.
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