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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 20, 1997
Kazuo Shiota, Tokyo, JP;
Shuichi Ohtsuka, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Nobuyoshi Nakajima, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Norihisa Haneda, Saitama-ken, JP;
Sugio Makishima, Saitama-ken, JP;
Hiroshi Tanaka, Saitama-ken, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A plurality of picture image data obtained from a film in one film handling operation by a film scanner with the automatic film feeding function are output as prints by a digital printer and also as files in a recording medium by a file outputting device. In the system for providing the above two kinds of output services, the numbers of film scanners, file outputting devices, and digital printers are determined so that the processing performance of each kind of apparatus in a unit time times the number of each kind of apparatus is almost the same, to make each kind of apparatus comprising the system demonstrate its full performance. A medium image obtaining device for obtaining an image file recorded in a medium and a digital camera image obtaining device may further be provided so that the above two outputting services are promptly provided for a picture image such as a processed image recorded in a medium and brought into a service provider by a customer and a picture image recorded by a digital camera, whereby one system can carry out film reading, image obtaining from a medium or a digital camera, picture print generation, and writing a picture image in a recording medium.