Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fujifilm Corporation

Hiroshi Igarashi

Masahiro Konishi

Kaname Nihei

Koichi Yahagi

Sugio Makishima

Tadashi Fujii

Chiaki Ichikawa

Kazuki Iwabe

When an image to be printed is specified in a print system for printing images, a telephone number or e-mail address is entered as a contact destination to be contacted when printing ends. At the conclusion of printing, the entered contact destination is so notified. Upon being so notified of end of printing, the user returns to the location at which the print system has been installed. Since the user will thus know when printing ends, the user can make effective utilization of time until printing ends.

Print system and method of controlling operation of same

The image display apparatus reads image data, which is recorded by a digital camera etc., from a recording medium etc.; sets an in-focus frequency spectrum threshold for in-focus determination according to the resolution (pixel count) and compressibility of the inputted image data; analyzes a frequency spectrum of the image data; and determines whether a location where frequency components whose levels are higher than the threshold exist in an image. The location having the most frequency components whose levels are higher than the threshold is determined as an in-focus location. If an in-focus location exists, a mark showing the in-focus location is displayed on a screen of a display device. If no in-focus location exists in the image, the image display apparatus performs display of warning information and/or a warning by sound, and prompts the user to confirm necessity of printing.

Image display apparatus and print system

In a digital camera in which image data produced through a photographing operation is compressed to be written in a memory card, even if a shutter release button is depressed during the recording of the image data in the memory card, the photographing can be immediately achieved. While image data stored in a buffer memory is being compressed to be stored in the memory card, the depression of shutter release button is continuously monitored. If the release button is pressed, the recording operation in the memory card is interrupted to conduct the photographing. After the photographing is finished, the image data for which the recording is interrupted is compressed to be entirely written in the memory card beginning at the start point thereof.

Imaging apparatus

An accessory unit is mounted on an electronic camera, and a printer connects to the electronic camera via a SCSI terminal of the accessory unit. An image signal is captured from a CCD in response to the releasing operation, and the image signal is analog-to-digital converted before being transferred to the accessory unit. The accessory unit converts the image signal into RGB data suitable for the printer, and outputs the RGB data to the printer so that the captured image can be simultaneously with the image-capturing. Moreover, during sequential image-capturing, captured image data is sequentially stored in an uncompressed state in a frame memory of the accessory unit. After sequential image-capturing is completed, the image data is transferred to the camera in an order in which it is stored, and compressed. Further, a background image is recorded in a memory card in advance, and an image is composed from the background image and a captured image (or a reproduced image) in the accessory unit. The composite image data is then transferred to the printer.

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Asaka, Japan

Hiroshi Igarashi