Image service providing apparatus and recording medium
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorAkira Yoda
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Abstract
A video image file constituted by video data and attendant data formed by an image pickup device is input to an image service providing apparatus. Image services such as image distribution, medium recording, and printing are described in the attendant data. In the image service providing apparatus, an image service type is specified by a service selecting device on the basis of the attendant data, and a service switching device is switched to output the video data to any one of a distribution device, a recording device, an image forming device, and a video editing device. Therefore, any one of distribution, recording, image formation, and image editing of the video image file can be easily executed.
Claims11
An image service providing apparatus comprising:
- an input unit for inputting a video image file obtained by adding, to video data representing a plurality of continuous still images photographed by a photographing device, attendant data representing an image service corresponding to processing for the still images included in the video data;
- a setting unit for setting a type of the image service on the basis of the attendant data included in the video image file by the input unit;
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- a processing unit for processing the image service for the video data included in the video image file input by the input unit on the basis of a setting result obtained by the setting unit.
A recording medium on which attendant data representing an image service for a video image can be recorded or reproduced by a computer, wherein
- a video image file obtained by adding, to video data representing a plurality of continuous still images photographed by a photographing device, attendant data representing an image service corresponding to processing of the still images included in the video data is recorded.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.