Image data dispensing system

An image data dispensing system comprising:

• an image obtaining apparatus for obtaining image data;
• an image data storing apparatus, adapted to be lent to a customer, for temporarily storing said image data obtained by said image obtaining apparatus;
• image manipulating means for manipulating said image data, which is stored in said image data storing means, by a predetermined manipulation process;
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• image data dispensing means for dispensing the resulting image data, which is the image data as the result of said predetermined manipulation process by said image manipulating means, to the customer for a consideration.

An image data dispensing system comprising:

• a transmitter, adapted to be lent to a customer, for transmitting a signal including identification (ID) information of the customer;
• an image obtaining apparatus, previously installed in predetermined position and having a receiver for receiving said signal from said transmitter, for obtaining image data in response to the receipt of said signal from said transmitter by said receiver;
• an image data storing apparatus for temporarily storing said image data obtained by said image obtaining apparatus;
• a communication network, communicably interconnecting said image obtaining apparatus and said image data storing apparatus, for communicating said image data and said ID information from said image obtaining apparatus to said image data storing apparatus;
• image manipulating means for manipulating said image data, which is stored in said image data storing means, by a predetermined manipulation process;
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• image data dispensing means for dispensing the resulting image data, which is the image data as the result of said predetermined manipulation process by said image manipulating means, to the customer corresponding to said ID information, for a consideration.

An image data dispensing system comprising:

• an image obtaining apparatus for obtaining image data that includes ID information of a customer in the form of an image;
• image manipulating means for manipulating said image data obtained by said image obtaining apparatus;
• ID information extracting means for extracting said ID information from said image data obtained by said image obtaining means;
• a database for holding personal information of the individual customer in correspondence with said ID information;
• customer specifying means for obtaining said personal information of the customer by retrieving said database using said ID information, which has been extracted by said ID information extracting means, as a key, and for specifying the customer based on said obtained personal information;
• notifying means for notifying an accessing technique to the customer who has been specified by said customer specifying means;
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• image data dispensing means for dispensing the resulting image data, which is the image data as the result of said predetermined manipulation process by said image manipulating means, to the customer, who has been notified of said accessing technique by said notifying means, for a consideration.