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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 01, 1999
Yefim Massarsky, Newton, MA (US);
Foto Fantasy, Inc., Windham, NH (US);
Abstract
A photobooth/e-mail center for taking a digitized photographic image of a user at a first station and retrieving and electronically displaying the digitized photographic image at a second station comprising: one or more first stations, comprising, a unit for taking the digitized photograph of the user; a first display for displaying the digitized photograph; a generator for generating a code corresponding to the digitized photographic image; printer for printing and delivering a hardcopy of the photograph to the user at the first station; and a circuit for transmitting the digitized photograph and the code to a first database residing in one or more second stations; the second station, comprising, an input circuit for electronically entering the code; a circuit for retrieving the stored digitized photograph from the first database in response to the input circuit for electronically entering the code; a receiver for receiving and storing the digitized photograph in response to the circuit for retrieving the stored digitized photograph from the first database; and a second circuit for transmitting the digitized photograph to one or more third stations.