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US 6,609,135 B1Granted
Image file equipment, and database creating method in an image file equipment
AssigneeOlympus Optical Co., Ltd.
InventorsShinichi Omori, Masakazu Omoto, Kenichiro Nimoda
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Abstract
Image data is stored in any MO medium, and association information for associating image information in an MO medium with identification information for specifying the MO medium is managed by the respective image management tables of a plurality of image file apparatus. Each of the image file apparatus presents the identification information of an MO medium storing desired image data therein and thus makes a request for mounting the desired MO medium, thereby to obtain the desired image data. It is accordingly permitted to share image data among the plurality of image file apparatus.
Claims22
An image file apparatus, comprising:
- a recording-medium mount for exchangeably mounting a first recording medium on which first image information can be recorded;
- an image-information recorder for recording the first image information on said first recording medium which can be mounted in said recording-medium mount;
- a managing-data creation unit for creating first managing data for said first image information which is recorded on said first recording medium by said image-information recorder;
- a database for storing therein the first managing data which is created by said managing-data creation unit;
- a unit for additionally storing second managing data for second image information which is recorded on a second recording medium, in said database when said second recording medium on which the second image information not managed by said database is recorded is mounted in said recording-medium mount;
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- an image information searcher for searching image information which corresponds to said first or second managing data recorded in said database in said first or second recording-medium mounted in said recording-medium mount.
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An image file system, comprising:
- a first image file apparatus which is provided with a first recording-medium mount for exchangeably mounting a first recording medium capable of recording first image information thereon;
- a first image-information recorder provided in said first image file apparatus, for recording the first image information on the first recording medium which can be mounted in said first recording-medium mount;
- a first managing-data creation unit provided in said first image file apparatus, for creating first managing data for said first image information which is recorded on said first recording medium by said first image-information recorder;
- a managing-data recorder provided in said first image file apparatus, for recording on said first recording medium the first managing data which is created by said first managing-data creation unit;
- a second image file apparatus which is provided with second recording-medium mount means for exchangeably mounting a second recording medium capable of recording second image information thereon;
- a second image-information recorder provided in said second image file apparatus, for recording the second image information on the second recording medium which can be mounted in said second recording-medium mount;
- a second managing-data creation unit provided in said second image file apparatus, for creating second managing data for said second image information which is recorded on said second recording medium by said second image-information recorder;
- a database provided in said second image file apparatus, for storing therein the second managing data which is created by said second managing-data creation unit;
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- an additional-storage database provided in said second image file apparatus, for additionally storing the first managing data recorded on the first recording medium, in said database when said first recording medium on which the first image information is recorded in said first image file apparatus is mounted in said second recording-medium mount.
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A database creating method in an image file apparatus, comprising:
- an image-information record step of recording first image information on a first recording medium which can be mounted in recording-medium mount, by an image-information recorder;
- a managing-data creation step of creating first managing data for the first image information which is recorded on said first recording medium by said image-information recorder;
- a database storage step of storing said first managing data which is created by said managing-data creation step, in a database;
- a database additional-storage step of additionally storing second managing data for second image information which is recorded on a second recording medium, in said database when said second recording medium on which the image information not managed by said database is recorded is mounted in said recording-medium mount;
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- an image-information searching step of searching image information which corresponds to said first or second managing data recorded in said database in said first or second recording medium mounted in said recording-medium mount.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.