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

• US 6,900,882 B2
• Filed: 12/04/2001
• Issued: 05/31/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Iida, Takayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, HUNG
• Application Number:
  US10/000,368
• Publication Number:
  US 20020089653A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,274 Days
• Field of Search: 355 40- 41, 355/77, 355 27- 29, 396567-570
• 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 for carrying out print processing in which an image which corresponds to a visible image recorded on an image recording medium is formed onto a new image recording medium, said method comprising the steps of:

reading and displaying the image which is formed on the image recording medium;

changing the displayed image by carrying out image processing on the basis of processing conditions which are set in accordance with inputted order conditions;

electronically recording order information, which includes the processing conditions and the inputted order conditions onto one of the image recording medium on which the visible image is formed and an order information recording medium; and

forming the image which is formed on the image recording medium onto the new image recording medium on the basis of the electronic order information,

wherein the order information electronically recorded onto the image recording medium is invisible.

2. The print processing method according to claim 1, wherein the image recording medium on which the image is formed is used as the order information recording medium.

4. The print processing method according to claim 1, wherein copy information including the order information is electronically recorded onto the new image recording medium.

6. The print processing method according to claim 1, wherein the new image recording medium is a photographic printing paper.

8. The print processing method according to 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.

10. The print processing method according to claim 1, wherein the order information electronically recorded onto one of the image recording medium and the order information recording medium is invisible.

11. The print processing method according to claim 1, wherein the order information is electronically recorded onto a semiconductor memory which is borne in one of the image recording medium and the order information recording medium.

12. The print processing method according to claim 1, wherein the order information is made into a bar code and recorded onto one of the image recording medium and the order information recording medium.

13. The print processing method according to claim 12, wherein the order information electronically recorded onto one of the image recording medium and the order information recording medium is invisible.

3. A print processing method for carrying out print processing in which an image which corresponds to a visible image recorded on an image recording medium is formed, onto a new image recording medium, said method comprising the step of:

electronically recording inputted order conditions and processing conditions as order information onto the image recording medium on which the visible image is formed, and

forming the image which is formed on the image recording medium onto a new image recording medium on the basis of the order information,

wherein the order information electronically recorded onto the image recording medium is invisible.

5. The print processing method according to claim 3, wherein copy information including the order information is electronically recorded onto the new image recording medium.

7. The print processing method according to claim 3, wherein the new image recording medium is a photographic printing paper.

9. The print processing method according to claim 3, 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.

14. The print processing method according to claim 3, wherein the order information is electronically recorded onto a semiconductor memory which is borne in the image recording medium.

15. The print processing method according to claim 3, wherein the order information is made into a bar code and recorded onto the image recording medium.

16. The print processing method according to claim 15, wherein the order information electronically recorded onto the image recording medium is invisible.