Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fujifilm Corporation

Makoto Hara

Michito Watanabe

Takashi Yatabe

Nobuyoshi Nakajima

Kazuo Shiota

Masamitsu Ishida

Kazuyoshi Tanaka

Yoshiki Kawaoka

Yuuma Adachi

Hitoshi Urabe

Shu Sato

Masakazu Hashiue

Katsuo Ogura

Shinichi Okano

Hideki Morikawa

Shuichi Otsuka

Naoki Ishikawa

Orders for prints of image data are received at an order receipt server connected to a user terminal by way of a network. A plurality of entry web pages each corresponding to one of a plurality of brands are prepared in the order receipt server, and the order receipt server is caused to receive orders for prints under the brand corresponding to the entry web page to which the user terminal is connected.

Method of and system for receiving orders for prints, and computer program for use in the method and system

In a printing system for printing image data based on orders from customers, a load of a laboratory having a large amount of orders can be reduced. A user transfers order information and image data from his/her personal computer to any one of customer service systems. The customer service system receiving the order information and the image data generates flow information indicating an address of the user, a logistic code, or a laboratory specification, and transfers the flow information together with the order information and the image data to an order assigning system. The order assigning system selects one of laboratories to carry out printing, based on the flow information and a table in a database representing a relationship between the flow information and the laboratories. The order assigning system transfers the order information and the image data to the selected laboratory. The laboratory prints the image data, based on the order information transferred thereto.

System, method, and apparatus for printing, and method and apparatus for assigning orders

In a printing service system for providing a service only to authenticated users by receiving authentication information from the users, authentication information issued by a service provider other than a provider of the printing service can be used. When a user who has not registered with the printing service system but has registered with a collaborating service provider uses the printing service, authentication information issued by the collaborating service provider is input from a personal computer to authentication means. The authentication means asks a system of the collaborating service provider about the authentication information and obtains information of affirmation or denial of the authentication information. Based on this result, the authentication means judges whether or not the user accessing the printing service system can receive the service. If the user is eligible for the service, the authentication means notifies printing service means of eligibility of the user for the service, and the printing service means provides the service to the user. If the user is not eligible for the service, the authentication means displays ineligibility of the user on the personal computer.

Method, system, and recording medium for printing service

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

At the time of ordering a print of image data via a network, agency information is input without carrying out a troublesome operation. Image data obtained by reading a film at a DPE store are written in a CD-R together with agency information representing the DPE store. By using a user terminal, a user orders the print of the image data written in the CD-R from a printing-order reception center. Upon ordering the print, the agency information written in the CD-R is transferred to an order reception server. After the print is generated, the printing-order reception center delivers the print to the agency represented by the agency information.

Method, system, and recording medium for ordering prints

Upon carrying out printing based on order information, a workload of an operator can be reduced. An order file transferred to a laboratory via a network is input to a printing controller and accepted by an order reception device. The order file is temporarily stored in temporary storage and input to a judgment device. The judgment device judges whether a print is a target of automatic printing or manual printing based on the order information described in the order file F. In the former case, the order information and image data to be printed are input to a printer and printing is a carried out. In the latter case, a confirmation device temporarily stores the order file F. An operator regularly confirms the order file of manual printing target and the content of printing by using the confirmation device, and inputs the image data to be printed and the order file to the printer to carry out printing.

Method, apparatus and recording medium for printing control

An image file is managed by a database of a system of a service provider (center server) on a network. The center server obtains various kinds of information (such as an image ID to specify the image to be transmitted and a destination address) input to the system by a service user who has viewed the disclosed image. Based on this information, the center server reads the specified image file from the database, converts the image file into an attachment document format, generates an image-attached electronic mail message, and transmits the electronic mail message to the specified address.

Network photograph service system

In a network photograph service which provides a digital photograph service on a network, a workload on a user to input a registration ID needed upon viewing an image is reduced. In a registration ID input screen , the registration ID and a registration password input to boxes and are stored by relating the two to the user ID of the user who has carried out the input. When the same user recalls the registration ID input screen , registration IDs having been stored are displayed as a list. By selecting one of the registration IDs by clicking a display button , display of images managed under the registration ID can be requested.

In a network photograph service which provides digital photographic services on a network, only selected images are shown only to people that a user wishes to show the images, without cost and time upon or after photographing the images. Images registered with a database and the names of albums having been registered (album , album , and album ) are shown on a screen of the user's personal computer. The user relates the names of the albums with the images and the correspondence set by the user is stored in the system. When the album name is specified by a user, only the images belonging to the album can be browsed in a unit of an album according to the stored correspondence.

A method for displaying autoradiograph having information on two-dimensional location of radioactively labeled substances resolved on a support medium, which includes the steps of:

Method for displaying autoradiograph

A signal processing method for determining base sequence of nucleic acid by subjecting digital signals to signal processing, said digital signal corresponding to an autoradiograph of resolved rows which are formed by resolving four exclusive groups of radioactively labeled base-specific fragments of the nucleic acid in one-dimensional direction on a support medium,

Signal processing method for determining base sequence of nucleic acid

A signal processing method for determining base sequence of nucleic acids by subjecting digital signals to signal processing, said digital signals corresponding to an autoradiograph of plural resolved rows which are formed by resolving a mixture of base-specific DNA fragments or base-specific RNA fragments labeled with a radioactive element in one-dimensional direction on a support medium,

A signal processing method for determining base sequence of nucleic acids by subjecting digital signals to signal processing, said digital signals corresponding to an autoradiograph of plural resolved rows which are formed by resolving a mixture of base-specific DNA fragments or base-specific RNA fragments labeled with a radioactive element in one-dimensional direction on a support medium, which comprises steps of:

In a method of reading out a radiation image stored in a stimulable phosphor sheet, preliminary read-out for approximately detecting the image is conducted. A cumulative histogram of the image information is created, read-out conditions in the final read-out are corrected based on a characteristic value of the cumulative histogram, then the final read-out is conducted using the corrected conditions. Alternatively, a standard image information range is determined from the characteristic value, and the read-out conditions are adjusted so that the standard range corresponds to a predetermined electronic signal range. In addition, in the read-out method where gradation processing is performed for electronic image signals obtained by photoelectrically detecting the phosphor light emitted by the sheet, histogram of the image signals is created, and a desired image signal range is determined therefrom. A cummulative histogram then is created, the desired range is corrected based on a characteristic value of the cumulative histogram, and gradation processing conditions are adjusted so that the corrected desired signal range corresponds to a predetermined electronic signal range. Alternatively, a standard signal range is determined based on the characteristic value, and gradation processing conditions are adjusted so that the standard range corresponds to a predetermined electronic signal range.

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