Electronic album producing and viewing system and method
AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
InventorYoshiko Shiimori
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Abstract
An electronic album is produced and viewed between a client computer 1 and an image server 30 capable of establishing data communication with each other. An electronic album file for viewing the electronic album is produced in the client computer 1, and is transmitted to the image server 30. The electronic album file is managed in the image server 30, and is transmitted to the client computer 1 which issues a request to view the electronic album. In the client computer 1, the viewing of the electronic album becomes possible.
Claims22
An electronic album system comprising:
- an image server;
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- a plurality of client computers for establishing data communication with each other,
- wherein frame image specific data for specifying a plurality of frame images and display order data representing an order in which the frame images are displayed are transmitted from a client computer to said image server, and
- wherein an electronic album file including said frame image specific data and said display order data are, in response to a request to transmit the electronic album file from said client computer transmitted from said image server to said client computer which has issued the request, and
- wherein said client computer comprises image data transmission requesting means for requesting said image server to transmit frame image data which said client computer does not have therein,
- the frame image data representing the frame image specified by frame image specific data included in an electronic album file which has been transmitted from said image server, and
- wherein said image server comprises frame image data transmission means for transmitting, in response to the request, the requested frame image data to said client computer which has requested to transmit the frame image data.
An electronic album image server for establishing data communication with a plurality of client computers, comprising:
- receiving means for receiving frame image specific data for specifying a plurality of frame images and display order data representing an order in which the frame images are displayed which are transmitted from one of said client computers and are correlated with each other;
- electronic album file transmission means for transmitting an electronic album file including frame image specific data and display order data, in response to a request to transmit the electronic album file from the one or other client computer, to said client computer which has issued the request;
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- image data transmission means for transmitting to said client computer, which has issued said request to transmit the electronic album file frame, image data representing the frame images specified by frame specific data included in the electronic album file in response to a request to transmit the frame image data from said client computer which has issued said request to transmit the electronic album file.
An electronic album producing client computer for establishing data communication with an image server, comprising:
- frame image selection means for selecting a plurality of frame images comprising an electronic album;
- display order determination means for determining an order in which the plurality of frame images selected by said frame image selection means are displayed;
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- electronic album file creating means for correlating frame image specific data for specifying the plurality of frame images selected by said frame image selection means and display order data representing the order determined by said display order determination means with each other, and creating an electronic album file which includes the frame image specific data and the display order data.
An electronic album viewing client computer for establishing data communication with an image server, comprising:
- electronic album file receiving means for receiving from said image server an electronic album file including frame image specific data for specifying a plurality of frame images comprising an electronic album and display order data representing an order in which the frame images are displayed;
- image data download means for downloading from said image server, of frame image data representing the plurality of frame images specified by the frame image specific data received by said electronic album file receiving means, frame image data which is not stored in said client computer;
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- first electronic album display control means for controlling a display device such that the images represented by the frame image data stored in said client computer and the frame image data downloaded by said image data download means are displayed in accordance with the display order data.
In an electronic album system comprising an image server and a plurality of client computers for establishing data communication with each other, a method of controlling said electronic album system, comprising:
- correlating frame image specific data for specifying a plurality of frame images and display order data representing an order in which the frame images are displayed with each other and transmitting the frame image specific data and the display order data to said image server from said client computer;
- transmitting an electronic album file including frame image specific data and display order data, in response to a request to transmit electronic album file from said client computer, to said client computer which has issued the request from said image server;
- issuing, from said client computer which has requested to transmit the electronic album file to said image server, when said client computer does not store frame image data representing a frame image specified by the frame image specific data which is included in the electronic album file transmitted from said image server, a request to transmit the frame image data;
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- transmitting, to said client computer from said image server, frame image data representing the frame image comprising the electronic album file in response to the request to transmit the frame image data from said client computer.
In an image server for establish at a communication with a plurality of client computers, a method of controlling operation of an electronic album image server, comprising:
- receiving frame image specific data for specifying a plurality of frame images and display order data representing an order in which the frame images are displayed which are transmitted from one of said client computers and are correlated with each other;
- transmitting an electronic album file including the frame image specific data and the display order data, in response to a request to transmit the electronic album file from the one or other client computer, to said client computer which has issued the request;
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- transmitting, to said client computer which has issued said request to transmit the electronic album file, frame image data representing the frame image specified by the frame image specific data included in the electronic album file in response to a request to transmit the frame image data from said client computer which has issued said request to transmit the electronic album file.
In a client computer for establishing data communication with an image server, a method of controlling operation of an electronic album producing client computer, comprising:
- selecting a plurality of frame images comprising an electronic album;
- determining an order in which the selected plurality of frame images are displayed;
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- correlating frame image specific data for specifying the selected plurality of frame images and display order data representing the determined order in which the frame images are displayed with each other to create an electronic album file.
In a client computer for establishing data communication with an image server, a method of controlling operation of an electronic album viewing client computer, comprising:
- receiving, from said image server, an electronic album file including frame image specific data for specifying a plurality of frame images comprising an electronic album and display order data representing an order in which the frame images are displayed;
- downloading from said image server, of frame image data representing frame images specified by the received frame image specific data, frame image data which is not stored in said client computer;
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- displaying the frame images represented by frame image data which is stored in said client computer and the downloaded frame image data in accordance with the display order data.
A recording medium storing a program for controlling a client computer for establishing data communication with an image server so as to:
- select a plurality of frame images comprising an electronic album;
- determine an order in which the selected plurality of frame images are displayed;
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- correlate frame image specific data for specifying the selected plurality of frame images and display order data representing the determined order in which the frame images are displayed with each other to create an electronic album file.
A recording medium storing a program for controlling a client computer for establishing data communication with an image server so as to:
- receive from said image server an electronic album file including frame image specific data for specifying a plurality of frame images comprising an electronic album and display order data representing an order in which the frame images are displayed;
- download from said image server, of frame image data representing frame images specified by the received frame image specific data, frame image data which is not stored in said client computer;
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- display the images represented by frame image data stored in said client computer and the downloaded frame image data in accordance with the display order data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.