Method and system for locating and accessing digitally stored images
First Claim
1. A hard copy print having a print side and a back side, said print side having an image thereon, location information is provided on said print which identifies the electronic location at which a digital record of said image that can be accessed electronically, said hard copy print includes authorization for the spending of a predetermined amount of money on goods and/or services with respect to said images.
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Abstract
A hard copy print, method and system for producing the hard copy print. The hard copy print has a print side and a back side. The print side has information thereon which identifies the electronic location at which a digital record of the image can be accessed electronically. This information is preferably written in a machine readable form so as to allow automatic accessing of the digitally stored images. The system includes a digital storage device for storing of a digital record file of the image on the hard copy print.
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28 Claims
- 1. A hard copy print having a print side and a back side, said print side having an image thereon, location information is provided on said print which identifies the electronic location at which a digital record of said image that can be accessed electronically, said hard copy print includes authorization for the spending of a predetermined amount of money on goods and/or services with respect to said images.
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16. A system for locating a digital record file of an image provided on a hard copy print comprising:
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a digital storage device for storing of digital images with respect to at least one customer, said digital storage device capable of being accessed electronically and having associated therewith a universal resource locator;
a remote access device for accessing said digital storage device using said URL;
a hard copy print having printed thereon a URL which can be read by said remote access device and allowing automatic access to said digital record file of said customer; and
a printer for printing of said images provided on said image retaining element and a second printer device for printing information for identifying and allowing access to said digitally stored images at said storage device. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A method of locating a digitized image stored in an digital image storage device comprising the steps of:
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attaching a unique identifier to a hard copy print having said image thereon;
registering said unique identifier in a database which associates the location of said digital image in said digital image storage device, said unique identifier being associated with an electronic address for accessing said digital image at said digital image storage device; and
providing information on said hard copy print which contains information regarding the amount of money available for ordering goods and/or services relating to said stored image.
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28. A method for storing and retrieving of a digital image comprising the steps of:
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obtaining a digital record of an image from an image retaining element;
creating a digital data file containing said digital image;
associating a customer with said digital file;
said digital file having an associated therewith a unique universal resource locator that can allow electronic access to said digital image;
providing a hard copy print of said image, said image having said URL for identifying access to said digital image, said URL being in the form of a machine readable code and also in human readable form.
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