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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 17, 1999
Masahito Niikawa, Sakai, JP;
Kenji Nakamura, Takatsuki, JP;
Yasuhiro Morimoto, Takatsuki, JP;
Katsuyuki Nanba, Sakai, JP;
Masahito Niikawa, Sakai, JP;
Kenji Nakamura, Takatsuki, JP;
Yasuhiro Morimoto, Takatsuki, JP;
Katsuyuki Nanba, Sakai, JP;
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image processing device gives an alarm if deletion of image is directed in a state that the image has not yet been transferred from an image recording medium into a storage medium having a larger capacity. Also, when a deletion operation is performed for image, the image processing device compresses and stores the corresponding image file in accordance with an evaluation rank based on history data for the image. Therefore, the image processing device allows effective use of the storage medium having a limited capacity by contriving compression processing of the image file.