Camera system
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorMakoto Shizukuishi
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Abstract
The present invention provides a camera system, which can simplify an ordering procedure. An IC memory comprising a contactless interface is mounted on a camera, or an image recording medium, such as memory card or film. In a case where a customer has carried the camera to a photo lab, image data is read out of the memory card or is acquired by reading the developed film, by an image data acquisition component. Moreover, individual information, order information, account information, and the like, are read out of the IC memory over wireless communication by a reader and writer and are affixed to the image data, whereupon the resulting image data is stored in a database.
Claims20
A camera system comprising:
- a camera, which photographs a subject;
- an image recording medium, which records an image of the photographed subject;
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- an information recording component, which is mounted on the camera or the image recording medium, and into and out of which information other than the image can be written and read, on the basis of an external signal.
A camera device for photographing a subject, the camera device comprising an information recording component, into and out of which information other than an image of the photographed subject can be written and read, on the basis of an external signal.
An image recording medium, which is used in a camera for photographing a subject and records an image of the photographed subject, the image recording medium comprising an information recording component, into and out of which information other than the image of the photographed subject can be written and read, on the basis of an external signal.
A printing system comprising:
- a printer, which prints an image photographed by a camera system including a camera device that photographs a subject, an image recording medium that records an image of the photographed subject, and an information recording component that is mounted on the camera device or the image recording medium, and that can have information other than the image written thereinto and read therefrom, on the basis of an external signal;
- a readout component, which reads out the information written in the information recording component;
- an image acquisition component, which acquires image data from the image recording medium;
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- a storage component, which stores the image data acquired by the image acquisition component, together with the information read out of the information recording component by the readout component.
A server characterized by:
- being connected to a network, which is connected to a printing system;
- the printing system comprising a printer, which prints an image photographed by a camera system including a camera device that photographs a subject, an image recording medium that records an image of the photographed subject, and an information recording component that is mounted on one of the camera device or the image recording medium, and that can comprise information other than the image written thereinto and read therefrom on the basis of an external signal, a readout component, which reads out the information written in the information recording component, an image acquisition component, which acquires image data from the image recording medium, and a storage component, which stores the image data acquired by the image acquisition component together with the information that is read out of the information recording component by the readout component;
- wherein the server apparatus receives order information, which orders the printing of the image and is transmitted from a terminal device via the network, and, on the basis of the received order information, the server apparatus transmits an instructing information, which instructs the printing system to execute the printing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.