Automatic processing of photographs in a photographic laboratory
AssigneeSystel International S.p.A.
InventorVanni Leopoldo Beggiao
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Abstract
Method of processing photographs in a photographic laboratory by means of a photographic processing system, comprising the steps of: receiving customer orders and processing information respectively assigned to said customer orders, each customer order comprising at least one photographic image, controlling the processing of a customer order in accordance with an assigned processing information; checking each processing information to ascertain whether or not the processing information may be automatically processed by said processing system and identifying those customer orders which are to be processed according to a non-automatically processable processing information.
Claims17
Method of processing photographs in a photographic laboratory by means of a photographic processing system, comprising the steps of:
- receiving customer orders and processing information respectively assigned to said customer orders, each customer order comprising at least one photographic image;
- controlling the processing of each customer order in accordance with an assigned processing information;
- checking each processing information to ascertain whether or not the processing information can automatically be processed by said processing system;
- and
- identifying those customer orders which are to be processed according to a non-automatically processable processing information.
Processing system for processing photographs in a photographic laboratory, comprising:
- a receiving unit for receiving customer orders and processing information respectively assigned to those customer orders, each customer order comprising at least one photographic image;
- a control means for controlling the processing of a customer order in accordance with an assigned processing information;
- a checking means for checking each processing information to ascertain whether or not the processing information may be automatically processed by said processing system without the assistance of an operator;
- and
- an identifying means for identifying those customer orders which are to be processed according to a non automatically processable processing information.
A computer program product comprising a program which, when run on a computer which is part of a processing system in a photographic laboratory, or when loaded in said computer causes or is capable of causing the computer to carry out a method of processing photographs in a photographic laboratory by means of a photographic processing system, the method comprising the steps of:
- receiving customer orders and processing information respectively assigned to said customer orders, each customer order comprising at least one photographic image;
- controlling the processing of each customer order in accordance with an assigned processing information;
- checking each processing information to ascertain whether or not the processing information can automatically be processed by said processing system;
- and
- identifying those customer orders which are to be processed according to a non-automatically processable processing information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.