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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 26, 1998
John R Squilla, Rochester, NY (US);
Stephen L Shaffer, Penfield, NY (US);
John K McBride, Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of constructing a photo collage wherein a plurality of digital images are provided in a low resolution format on sticker sheets that have a unique identifier that cross references the reduced resolution images digital images with a high resolution version that is stored in a data base. A page layout form is provided such that a plurality of pages each having a plurality of layouts on which to position the low resolution image stickers. The sticker sheet pages are loaded with low resolution stickers for creating the pages of the photoalbum by arranging the stickers in a desired manner on a page layout form resulting in one of the page layouts being used for each of the pages. The images on the page layout form is then correlated to the high resolution version of the images stored in the database to retrieve a high resolution version of the photo collage which is then produced using conventional photofinishing techniques.