Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fujifilm Corporation

Hirokazu Tsuji

Teruo Takanashi

Shuji Kuhara

Koichi Sugahara

Yoshihiro Adachi

Jae-Jung Chang

Steven S Loehnert

The photo laboratory management system manages a photo laboratory utilizing a digital photo print system and includes an order entry function of receiving an order from a customer by receiving order information that includes at least identification information of the customer, a type and a form of an original image from the customer, a type, a form, and a number of copies of an output image ordered by the customer, an order management function of managing the order information received from the customer and a workflow management function of managing a schedule according to which the order received from the customer is to be processed, and predicting a time required for finishing the output image ordered by the customer. Productivity in the digital photo print system can be improved and order automation is possible. The time required to process the order can be automatically estimated.

Photo laboratory management system

An operator can freely and easily designate a region, which the operator wishes to extract as an image to be outputted from an image, by designating the position and size of a region setting frame by using an enlargement/reduction handle. Accordingly, no carrier or mask is required for this purpose, and the number of parts required can be reduced. Operability at the time of cropping an image can also be improved greatly. Further, by operating rotation buttons and 90&deg;-rotation keys, the operator can, with simple operations, rotate an image displayed as a test image and can freely and easily designate an image within the region setting frame, i.e., an image to be outputted.

Image processing apparatus

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hirokazu Tsuji