Fujifilm Corporation

Hideki Morikawa

Katsuo Ogura

Kazuo Shiota

Yoshiki Kawaoka

Makoto Hara

Hitoshi Urabe

Shizuo Habuta

Naoki Ishikawa

Shuichi Otsuka

The image storing apparatus stores an image uploaded from a customer via a network on a large-capacity medium by associating it with customer information indicating the customer, image attribute information or image selection information so as to manage the image of the customer. And if capacity, quantity, a recording period or a current date of the images of a certain customer exceeds a predetermined threshold, one image or a plurality of images of the customer are moved to another medium so as to secure storage capacity of the above described large-capacity medium.

Image storing apparatus and image storing program

Negative films and prints neglected in households are organized efficiently. A user [] requests of a DPE store [] image reading from negative films neglected in his/her home. The DPE store [] requests image reading from a laboratory []. In the laboratory [], images are read from the negative films by an image generation apparatus [], and image data sets are obtained. The time period of production of the respective negative films is specified by reading a code number recorded on the negative films, and information [J] including date/time information representing the time period is obtained. The image data sets are sent to an image storage server [] together with the information [J], and classified and stored according to the user and the time period.

Method, system, and program for storing images

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Hideki Morikawa