JP2005322039A - Photographic print system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily perform operation bringing images of one order into one recording medium to the utmost, in a photographic print system. <P>SOLUTION: This photographic print system having a photographic print device producing a photographic print on the basis of image data on the inputted image, and a writing device DR writing the image data into the recording medium is provided with a writing management device BC displaying information about the image designated to be written in the recording medium in one order on a monitor in a specifiable state of the image stored in one recording medium. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a photographic print system provided with a photographic print apparatus that produces a photographic print based on image data of an input image and a writing apparatus that writes the image data to a recording medium.

Such a photographic print system is inputted in accordance with a customer's print order (order) by, for example, reading image data input by reading a frame image of a photographic film with a film scanner or reading a photographed image of a digital camera. A system for producing a photographic print based on image data, etc., and if the customer desires, the customer can write an image of the order on a recording medium as described in Patent Document 1 below and The service provided is also available.
As described above, when a service for writing image data to a recording medium and providing it to a customer is performed, the file size of the image file increases as the image quality of the written image increases, and one order image is stored on one recording medium. There is a case in which an image of one order is divided into two or more recording media and is not written.
In such a case, conventionally, a plurality of recording media on which one order image is written are provided to the customer as they are.
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Therefore, it is necessary for the customer side to manage a plurality of recording media for one order, and the management of the recording media is often complicated.
The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to make it possible to easily perform an operation for collecting images of one order on one recording medium as much as possible.

According to a first aspect of the present application, there is provided a photographic print system including a photographic print apparatus that produces a photographic print based on image data of an input image and a writing apparatus that writes the image data to a recording medium. There is provided a writing management device for displaying information on an image designated to be written on the recording medium in the order on a monitor in a state where an image that can be contained in one recording medium can be specified.
Therefore, the operator of the photographic print system can recognize how many images can be written on one recording medium in one order from the information displayed on the monitor in a state where the individual images are specified.
As a result, if it is found that it will not fit on one recording medium as it is, for example, an image that has been designated by the customer as an insignificant image is removed from the object to be written on the recording medium. It is possible to perform an operation for collectively writing the images on one recording medium.

According to a second invention of the present application, in addition to the configuration of the first invention, an image processing device for correcting image data of an input image is provided, and the writing device includes an image processing device. The image data after the correction process is written.
In other words, when a service is provided in which a high-quality image corrected by the image processing apparatus is written on a recording medium and provided to a customer, an operation for collectively writing images for one order on one recording medium is performed. Is possible.

According to a third invention of the present application, in addition to the configuration of the first or second invention, the write management device can reduce the file size of an image to be written on the recording medium to be smaller than a standard file size. It is configured.
In other words, as described above, the operation for collecting the images for one order on one recording medium can be performed by removing the unimportant images from the writing target. By providing a function that can reduce the file size, it is possible to avoid the task of removing the image that was initially designated as the writing target from the writing target, or to minimize the occurrence of an image that is excluded from the writing target. can do.

According to a fourth invention of the present application, in addition to the configuration of the third invention, the writing management device is configured to be able to set the necessity of the reduction operation for each image.
In other words, the operation for reducing the image file size can be realized by reducing the image size or increasing the compression rate of the image. In any case, such an operation causes a reduction in image quality in some way.
Therefore, by making it possible to perform for each image whether or not it is necessary to reduce the file size of the image beyond the standard state, such a reduction operation is not performed for an important image, and an image that is not very important Executes a reduction operation, and images for one order can be combined into one recording medium.

According to a fifth aspect of the present application, in addition to the configuration of the third or fourth aspect, the writing management device is configured so that a reduction condition in the reduction operation can be set for each image.
By enabling each image to have a reduction condition that reduces the file size of the image from the standard file size, it is important to perform a reduction operation with a small reduction rate and a small reduction in image quality for important images. For non-images, it is possible to perform a reduction operation with a large reduction ratio and a relatively large reduction in image quality, and to combine the images for one order on one recording medium.

In addition to the configuration of any one of the first to fifth inventions, the sixth invention of the present application does not produce a photo print in the screen display for accepting a reprint order for a photo print displayed on the monitor. The writing management apparatus is configured to execute a writing process to the recording medium for an image whose reprint number input on the reprint order receiving screen display is not zero.
That is, when an image to be written on a recording medium is individually specified in one order image, the information of the individual image is displayed in an identifiable state on the monitor display, and the image is individually displayed on the display. It is convenient to perform the specified operation.
It is possible to incorporate processing for performing such input operations in a state independent of other processing, but if there are other processing portions that perform similar operations, specify the image to be written to the recording medium. The development burden of the system can be reduced by integrating the processing to be performed in the processing part.
The processing part for displaying the information of each individual image includes a processing part in which the operator inputs the color correction conditions for each image at the time of the first photographic print production work, and a print request from the customer. A processing portion for designating which image of one order is to be reprinted.

Among these, in the former, due to the nature of the process of inputting color correction conditions, it is necessary to display the image itself, and the number of images that can be displayed on one screen is limited. Therefore, it becomes necessary to specify individual images.
On the other hand, with respect to the latter, the reprint order acceptance screen display including a screen for designating the number of reprints for each image does not require such image display, and input fields for a large number of images are provided. The information can be displayed in a lump and the operator can access the information.
Therefore, it is possible to easily specify an image to be written on the recording medium, and to incorporate a function for designating whether to write to the recording medium for each image with high consistency.

According to the first aspect, when an image of one order does not fit on one recording medium as it is, it can be identified for each image whether or not the image fits on the recording medium. As a result, it is possible to easily perform an operation for collecting images of one order on one recording medium as much as possible.
According to the second aspect of the present invention, when a service is provided in which a high-quality image corrected by the image processing apparatus is written on the recording medium and provided to the customer, one order is written on the recording medium. It has become possible to perform an operation for grouping into one recording medium, and a recording medium on which a high-quality image is recorded can be provided to a customer in a form that is easy to handle.

In addition, according to the third invention, the image initially designated as the writing target can be maintained as much as the writing target image as much as possible, and the service provided on the recording medium for one order image is more meaningful. Can be offered as a thing.
According to the fourth aspect of the invention, the reduction operation is not performed for an important image, the reduction operation is executed for an unimportant image, and the image quality is as high as possible for an important image. Thus, it is possible to combine images for one order on one recording medium.

According to the fifth aspect, the reduction ratio is reduced as much as possible for important images, and the reduction in image quality is suppressed as much as possible. It is possible to combine the images on the recording medium into one recording medium.
According to the sixth aspect of the present invention, input fields for a large number of images are collectively displayed, and the operator accesses the information to easily specify an image to be written on the recording medium. In addition, it is possible to reduce the development cost of the system by incorporating a function for designating whether to write to a recording medium for each image with good consistency.

Embodiments of a photographic print system according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
The photographic print system DP exemplified in the present embodiment is known as a so-called digital minilab system. As shown in the block diagram of FIG. 2, a developed photographic film, memory card, magneto-optical disk, or An image input device IR that captures image data from a recorded image such as a CD-R media, and the image data captured by the image input device IR is printed on photographic paper 2 that is an image form target member to produce a photo print The photo print apparatus EP is connected to the network.

[Schematic configuration of image input device IR]
As schematically shown in FIG. 2, the image input device IR includes a film scanner 3 for reading a frame image of a photographic film, a control device 4 constituted by a personal computer, a photograph input from the film scanner 3 and the like. And an image processing device 5 for correcting image data for print production.
The control device 4 includes an external input / output device 4a having a memory card reader, a magneto-optical disk drive, a CD-R / RW drive, etc., a simulated image simulating a finished print image, and various control information. A monitor 4b to be displayed is connected to a console 4c for manually setting exposure conditions and inputting control information, and further includes a mouse (not shown).
The external input / output device 4a can take in image data from each drive provided, and can record image data or the like on a recording medium corresponding to each drive. Therefore, the external input / output device 4a functions as a writing device DR that writes input data to a recording medium.

[Schematic Configuration of Image Processing Device 5]
As shown in FIG. 1, the image processing device 5 generates an input buffer memory 21 that temporarily stores and holds image data input from the film scanner 3, and a reduced image of the image stored in the input buffer memory 21. A thumbnail generation circuit 22 that performs correction processing on the image data read from the input buffer memory 21, and an output buffer memory that temporarily stores and holds image data that has been corrected by the correction processing circuit 23. 24, and transmission / reception interfaces 25 and 26 for performing data communication with the control device 4 are also provided.

On the control device 4 side, two communication expansion boards 31 are attached to the main body board 32 of the control device 4 in order to communicate with each of the transmission / reception interfaces 25 and 26.
On each communication expansion board 31, a transmission / reception interface 41 for data communication with each of the transmission / reception interfaces 25 and 26, and reception for receiving image data for storing image data input via the transmission / reception interface 41. A memory 42 is provided.

[Overall configuration of photo printing apparatus EP]
As shown in FIG. 2, the photographic printing apparatus EP includes an image forming apparatus EX, a development processing apparatus PP for developing the photographic paper 2 exposed and formed by the image forming apparatus EX, and a housing. There is provided a photographic paper transport system PT for transporting the photographic paper 2 drawn from the arranged photographic paper magazine 6 to the development processing apparatus PP by a number of transport rollers 9 or the like.
Although not shown, a sorter is provided outside the housing of the printing apparatus EP to sort the photographic paper 2 that has been developed and dried by the development processing apparatus PP for each order. The photographic paper 2 discharged from the discharge port is conveyed to the sorter by the conveyor 10.
Further, in the middle of the transport path of the photographic paper transport system PT, a cutter 11 for cutting the long photographic paper 2 drawn out from the photographic paper magazine 6 into a set print size, and the photographic paper 2 are distributed to a plurality of transport rows. And a sorting device 12 for this purpose.

[Configuration of Image Forming Apparatus EX]
The image forming apparatus EX includes an image forming head 14 that forms an exposure image on the photographic paper 2 and a print control device 15 that controls the image forming head 14 as main parts.
The image forming head 14 is attached so that an intermediate position in the conveyance path of the photographic paper 2 cut to the set print size is an image formation position, and is orthogonal to the photographic paper conveyance direction (sub-scanning direction) at the image formation position. The laser beam is scanned in the direction (main scanning direction).
The print control device 15 emits a laser beam intensity-modulated based on image data input from the image processing device 5 through a dedicated communication line or image data input from the control device 4 via a network from the image forming head 14. In this manner, the image forming head 14 is controlled.
By scanning the photographic paper 2 transported and driven by the photographic paper transportation system PT with the laser beam whose intensity is modulated as described above, an image is exposed and formed on the photographic paper 2, which is a development processing apparatus. When developed with PP, it is finished as a photographic print.

[Schematic operation of the control device 4 and the like]
Next, operations of the control device 4 and the like will be described with reference to flowcharts of FIGS. 3 to 6 executed by the control device 4 and screen display examples of the monitor 4b of FIGS.
The control device 4 functions as a write management device BC that manages the writing of image data to the recording medium by executing the processes shown in FIGS.

When accepting the first print order from the customer, an “order input screen” is displayed on the monitor 4b, and the operator operates the console 4c, mouse, etc. from this “order input screen” to obtain necessary information. Enter.
Information input on this “order input screen” screen includes information for setting whether or not to write image data to a recording medium such as a CD-R medium for the order. Here, an order is an order unit of a print order. In general, one photographic film and one memory card are often handled as one order.

The case where the order to be handled is production of a photographic print from a photographic film will be described.
When predetermined information is input on the “order input screen” and the operator instructs to start reading the film, reading of the frame image of the photographic film on which the film scanner 3 is set is started. The image data is sequentially input to the image processing device 5.
In the image processing device 5, when frame images of photographic film are read from the film scanner 3 and image data is sequentially input, the input image data is sequentially stored in the input buffer memory 21.

The image processing apparatus 5 has a function of automatically correcting the input image under a predetermined correction condition. Further, the image processing device 5 is necessary if the operator visually determines whether or not the correction processing is appropriate on the monitor 4b. If it exists, the photo print system DP has a function for inputting correction processing conditions.
For this reason, the thumbnail generation circuit 22 reads an image from the input buffer memory 21 in units of six frames when the operator is set to input correction processing conditions by viewing the image displayed on the monitor 4b. The reduced image is prepared, subjected to predetermined image correction processing on the reduced image, and transmitted to the control device 4 side via the transmission / reception interface 25.
On the control device 4 side, when image data of a reduced image is sent from the transmission / reception interface 25, it is sequentially written into the reception memory 42 of the communication expansion board 31 connected to the transmission / reception interface 25.

In the control device 4, an image correction program for manually correcting an image by an operator of the photo print system DP is executed. When the reduced image is written in the reception memory 42, the reduced image is used. A screen for image correction work is displayed on the monitor 4b.
When the operator completes the necessary correction instructions on the screen display, the correction instructions input for the six frames are transmitted to the correction processing circuit 23 of the image processing apparatus 5 via the transmission / reception interface 25. The color correction instruction information at this time is recorded and stored in the control device 4 in association with the order number and frame number of the order so that it can be used when a reprint order (reprint order) is received.
As the correction instruction is received from the control device 4, the correction processing circuit 23 reads the six frames for which the correction instruction has been issued from the input buffer memory 21, and corrects predetermined correction processing conditions according to the input correction instruction. Various correction processes such as color correction and sharpness are performed.

In parallel with the processing of the correction processing circuit 23, the thumbnail generation circuit 22 generates a reduced image of the subsequent six frames, transmits it to the control device 4, and the above processing is repeated.
When further image data is input from the film scanner 3, the image data is written into the storage area of the input buffer memory 21 where the image data is sent to the correction processing circuit 23 and a space is generated.

The image data that has been corrected by the correction processing circuit 23 is written to the output buffer memory 24. When the correction processing is completed for the one-order image, recording on a CD-R medium or the like is performed on the “order input screen”. When the setting is made to write image data on the medium, the image processing device 5 notifies the control device 4 of a signal indicating that the correction processing for one order image has been completed.
The control device 4 starts executing the “image data output processing” shown in FIG. 3 in response to the reception of this signal, and requests the image processing device 5 to transmit the corrected image data (step # 1). ), Sequentially receiving the transmitted image data (step # 2), and receiving all the images for one order (step # 3), the received image data is written to a recording medium such as a CD-R medium. The data is organized (step # 4), and the write data is sent to the drive of the external input / output device 4a designated as the output destination to be written (step # 5).
At this time, all images for one order are to be written to the recording medium.

Next, a process for producing an extra print will be described.
When a reprint print request is received from a customer, the operator of the photo print system starts a program for executing reprint processing in the control device 4 and displays a group of reprint order reception screen displays on the monitor 4b. Enter the necessary information.
The group of reprint order reception screen displays includes an operation setting for only producing a photographic print, an operation setting for performing only a writing process on a recording medium such as a CD-R medium, and the production of the photographic print and the recording medium. A screen display for specifying one of the operation settings for performing both writing processes is included.
In other words, it is based on the processing when an order for extra prints is received, but it also has a function to execute the writing process to the recording medium, and also executes the writing process to the recording medium without producing a photo print. It also has a function to do.

When any of the above operation settings is designated, the control device 4 starts the “reprint process” shown in FIGS. 4 and 5.
First, if it is necessary to produce a photo print according to the specified contents of the operation setting (step # 11), data indicating that is registered (step # 12), and writing processing to the recording medium is required. If there is (step # 13), data indicating that is registered (step # 14), and the screen of “reprint input” shown in FIG. 7 is displayed on the monitor 4b (step # 15). This “reprint input” screen display is also one of the reprint order reception screen displays.
In the “Reprint Input” screen display, there is a reprint number input field 51 for inputting the number of reprinted prints for each frame corresponding to the arrangement of piece films (photographic film cut into six frames) on the negative sheet. In addition to the display, a color correction information display field 52 for displaying color correction information for the frame selected by the mouse or the like in the reprint number input field 51 is displayed. In the color correction information display field 52, in principle, the color correction information set at the time of the first print order is read and displayed. However, the operator can correct and input the color correction information according to the customer's request or the like. It also has a function as an input field.

The numerical value input in the reprint number input field 51 means the number of photo prints produced for each frame when the operation is set to only produce photo prints, and is a recording medium such as a CD-R medium. When the operation is set so that only the writing process is performed, if the input value is zero, it means that the image of the frame is not written to the recording medium, and the input value is a non-zero numerical value of 1 or more. Sometimes it means that the image of the frame is written into the recording medium.
Furthermore, when the operation is set to perform both the production of the photo print and the writing process to the recording medium, the input value means the number of photo prints to be produced, and when the input value is zero, the image of the frame Is not written to the recording medium, and when the input value is a non-zero numerical value of 1 or more, it means that the image of the frame is written to the recording medium.

When the input on the screen display of FIG. 7 is completed (step # 16), the input data on the input screen is taken in (step # 17), and then the film scanner 3 is requested to transmit image data (step # 17). # 18).
In response to this transmission request, the film scanner 3 starts reading the frame image of the set photographic film, and sequentially outputs the read image data to the image processing device 5.
The image processing device 5 corrects the image data received under the correction conditions (inputted in the color correction information display field 52) instructed from the control device 4, writes the data into the output buffer memory 24, and writes all of one order. When the process for the frame image is completed, the control device 4 is notified of this.

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When the control device 4 receives a signal indicating that the correction process has been completed (step # 19), if it is not registered to perform the write process to the recording medium (step # 20), the image after the correction process is displayed. The image processing apparatus 5 is instructed to send the data to the print control apparatus 15 for print processing (step # 41 in FIG. 5). At this time, information on the number of prints is also transmitted.
Upon receiving this instruction, the image processing device 5 transmits image data from the output buffer memory 24 to the print control device 15 together with information on the number of prints. Subsequent corrected image data is written in the memory area freed by this transmission.

On the other hand, when it is registered to perform the writing process on the recording medium (step # 20), the image processing apparatus 5 is requested to transmit the corrected image data (step # 21). In response, the image data of each frame image transmitted by the image processing device 5 is sequentially received (steps # 22 and # 23).
When the reception of the image data from the image processing apparatus 5 is completed (step # 23), when registration is made to produce a photo print (step # 24), the photo print is produced in the same manner as in step # 41. When it is instructed (step # 25) and it is not registered to produce a photographic print (step # 24), the image data that has been transmitted to the control device 4 is stored in the image processing device 5 Then, a signal indicating that the subsequent corrected image data is allowed to be written in the memory area is transmitted (step # 26).

Next, the output image adjustment screen display shown in FIG. 8 is displayed on the monitor 4b (step # 27).
The output image adjustment screen display of FIG. 8 is a screen display for displaying and receiving various information when image data is written into a recording medium, and an output for selecting and specifying the type of recording medium to be written at the top. A destination medium designation field 55, a used capacity display field 56 indicating the amount of data of an image already registered as an image to be written on the recording medium to be written, a free capacity display field 57 for displaying the free capacity, and its free capacity And a writable frame number display field 58 for estimating and displaying how many frames can be recorded, and a check box 59 for setting whether to automatically adjust the file size of the image file according to the writing capacity of the recording medium; A bar graph 60 that displays the usage amount of the recording medium is displayed.

  Below that, a display switching button 61 for instructing to switch the output image adjustment screen display between the display state of FIG. 8 and the display state of FIG. 9, and an image display for displaying thumbnails of images received from the image processing device 5. A field 62 and a frame information display field 63 for displaying information about the frame image selected by the mouse or the like in the image display field 62 are displayed, and further below the frame image displayed in the image display field 62 All selection buttons 64 for registering as a target for writing to the recording medium, a selection canceling button 65 for removing the frame image selected by the mouse or the like from the target for writing to the recording medium, and a target for writing to the recording medium And a setting change button 66 for changing the writing condition for the frame image registered as, and the necessary input operation is completed and the writing process to the recording medium is started. An OK button 67 for making, are displayed and a cancel button 68 for stopping the process to cancel the input operation.

In the image display field 62, the frame image designated to be written to the recording medium on the reprint input screen in FIG. 7 is displayed with a colored frame such as yellow (in FIG. 8, with a left-up diagonal line). The information of the image designated to be written on the recording medium in one order is displayed by the image itself.
Further, the frame image selected by the operation of the mouse or the like is surrounded and displayed by a colored frame of different colors such as amber (indicated by a diagonal line rising to the right in FIG. 8).
In the image display field 62, the displayed frame images are replaced by a vertical scroll operation.
The operator compares the presence / absence of the colored frame of the frame image in the image display field 62 with the bar graph 60 and the like, thereby recording the information of the image designated to be written on the recording medium in one order. It is possible to grasp an image that fits on the medium in a state where it can be specified.
The bar graph 60 is configured to notify the operator by changing the display color when the total file size of the frame image designated to be written to the recording medium exceeds the capacity of one recording medium. Has been.

In the control device 4, standard generation conditions are set in advance as the generation conditions of the image file when writing the image data of the frame image to the recording medium. Unless the operator changes the settings, the standard generation conditions are used. Then, an image file for writing to the recording medium is generated.
The operator can change the setting of the image file generation condition by operating the check box 59 or the setting change button 66.
The check box 59 is displayed with the check box unchecked by default. When the operator operates the mouse to check this box (step # 28), the check box 59 is within the range that can be written to one recording medium. The total file size of the frame images registered so as to be written into the recording medium at the time is maximized (step # 29). Specifically, when there is free capacity, the compression rate of each image is reduced to improve the image quality, and when there is still room in capacity, the output image size (number of pixels) is increased. Conversely, when there is no free space and the capacity of one recording medium has already been exceeded, the compression rate of each image is increased to lower the image quality, and when the capacity is still insufficient, the output image size is reduced. By doing so, the file size is reduced from the standard file size.
This processing operation is uniformly applied to images registered so as to be written into the recording medium.

On the other hand, by operating the setting change button 66, the image file generation conditions can be set independently for each frame image.
When the setting change button 66 is pressed (clicking operation with the mouse, etc.) with the piece image to be processed being selected (step # 36), the “setting change process” shown in FIG. 6 is started (step # 37). ).
In this “setting change process”, first, the setting change screen display shown in FIG. 10 is displayed in a window on the monitor 4b (step # 41).
In the setting change screen display of FIG. 10, a format designation field 70 for selecting and designating an image format, an image size designation field 71 for selecting and designating an image size (number of pixels), and an image file in the setting state at that time A file size display field 72 for displaying the file size, a slider 73 for setting and changing the compression ratio of the image, and an image for previewing the image when the image file is generated under the set generation conditions (excluding the image size) A display field 74, an OK button 75 for instructing completion of the input operation, and a cancel button 76 for invalidating the input operation and returning to the processing of FIG. 5 are displayed. In the image size designation field 71, parameters that can be set at a plurality of levels smaller than at least the standard image size are prepared, and the slider 73 is configured to be set at a plurality of levels at least at a compression rate higher than the standard compression rate. ing. In other words, it is possible to set for each frame image whether or not a reduction operation for reducing the file size of the image to be written to the recording medium is smaller than the standard file size, and also set the reduction condition for the reduction operation for each frame image. I am trying to do it.
In practice, the standard image file generation condition is configured such that the quality of the generated image is set to an intermediate level, and the setting can be changed on both the reduction side and the enlargement side of the file size of the image file.

When the operator performs a necessary input operation and presses the OK button 75 (step # 42), the setting states of the format designation field 70, the image size designation field 71 and the slider 73 are taken in (step # 43), and the setting conditions thereof Then, the image file is recreated (step # 44), and the display data such as the bar graph 60 of FIG. 8 is updated with the file size information obtained as a result (step # 45).
When the total file size of the frame images registered to be written to the recording medium exceeds the capacity of one recording medium under the standard image file generation conditions (the free capacity display field in FIG. 8) 57 is displayed in red and the capacity over value is displayed), the customer designates less important frame images, and for each of these images, the image quality deteriorates from the screen display of FIG. By setting the image processing and the image size reduction processing to reduce the file size of the image file from the standard file size, high quality is maintained for important images, and one order image is 1 It is possible to operate on one recording medium.

In order to store a frame image for one order on one recording medium, in addition to the above-described method of reducing the image quality and reducing the file size of the image file, the writing process to the recording medium is more simply performed. This can also be done by canceling the registration of the registered frame image.
In other words, a less important piece image is requested by the customer, and the piece image designated by the customer is selected from the piece images displayed in the image display field 62 in the screen display of FIG. When the selection cancel button 65 is pressed and operated (step # 34), the selected frame image is canceled from the registration processing for writing to the recording medium (step # 35), and the required capacity can be reduced accordingly.

On the contrary, when there is enough free space on one recording medium, a frame image that has not been designated as an image to be written to the recording medium in the screen display of FIG. Can be additionally registered.
That is, when the mouse is double-clicked with the mouse cursor positioned on the frame image displayed in the image display field 62 (step # 32), the frame image is newly registered as a write processing target on the recording medium. (Step # 33), the display of FIG. 8 is also updated accordingly.

The screen display of FIG. 8 has been mainly described above, but the screen display can be switched to the screen display shown in FIG. 9 (step # 31) by pressing the display switching button 61 (step # 30).
In the output image adjustment screen display of FIG. 9, in place of the image display field 62 of FIG. 8, a detailed information display field 80 for displaying a list of detailed information of each frame image displayed in the frame information display field 63 of FIG. In addition, in place of the frame information display column 63 of FIG. 8, a selected image display column 81 for displaying the selected frame image as a thumbnail is displayed.
In the detailed information display column 80, for the frame image designated to be written into the recording medium in correspondence with the display state in FIG. 8, for example, yellow or the like of the sequential display position (left column) of the frame image Detailed information such as the file name of the image, which is displayed in the background color (displayed with a diagonal line rising to the left in FIG. 9) and designated to be written to the recording medium in one order. It is displayed as.
Further, for the frame image selected by the operation of the mouse or the like, for example, the entire display line of the frame image is displayed with a background color of a different color such as amber (indicated by a diagonal line rising to the right in FIG. 9). it's shown.
Note that the detailed information display field 80 is configured to replace the information of the displayed frame images by a vertical scroll operation, similarly to the image display field 62.
The other displays and functions of the output destination media designation column 55 and the like are the same as those in FIG.

  When the operator completes the input operation of necessary information on the output image adjustment screen display of FIG. 8 or FIG. 9 and presses the OK button 67 (step # 38), the image of the order is written to the recording medium. Only the frame images registered for processing are organized into data to be written on a recording medium such as a CD-R medium (step # 39), and sent to the drive of the external input / output device 4a designated as the output destination. Write data is sent and written (step # 40).

[Another embodiment]
Hereinafter, other embodiments of the present invention will be listed.
(1) In the above embodiment, the case where the read image data of the film scanner 3 is input to the image processing device 5 and the read image of the photographic film is written on a recording medium such as a CD-R medium is illustrated. For example, the present invention can also be applied to a case where image data of an image photographed with a digital camera is read from a memory card and corrected by the image processing device 5 and the corrected image data is written to a recording medium. .
(2) In the above embodiment, the case where the reprint order acceptance screen display is constituted by a plurality of screen displays is exemplified, but necessary information may be input from a single screen display.

(3) In the above embodiment, the image forming apparatus EX is exemplified by the laser beam exposure type image forming apparatus EX that scans a laser beam to form an image by exposure, but a PLZT including a PLZT optical shutter array is exemplified. Other exposure formats such as an optical shutter method may be used, and further, an image forming apparatus of a print format that does not use exposure such as an ink jet method may be used.
(4) In the above embodiment, the case where the function for assisting the operation of storing the image of one order on one recording medium is integrated into the reprint processing is illustrated. A function may be provided.

Main part block block diagram concerning embodiment of this invention 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a photo print system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The flowchart concerning embodiment of this invention The flowchart concerning embodiment of this invention The flowchart concerning embodiment of this invention The flowchart concerning embodiment of this invention The figure which shows the reception screen of the reprint order concerning embodiment of this invention Screen display for setting processing conditions for frame images to be written to the recording medium according to the embodiment of the present invention Screen display for setting processing conditions for frame images to be written to the recording medium according to the embodiment of the present invention Screen display for setting processing conditions for frame images to be written to the recording medium according to the embodiment of the present invention

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5 Image processing device BC Writing management device DR Writing device EP Photo printing device

Claims (6)

A photographic print system comprising a photographic print device for producing a photographic print based on image data of an input image, and a writing device for writing the image data to a recording medium,
A photographic print system provided with a writing management device for displaying information on an image designated to be written to the recording medium in one order on a monitor in a state where an image that fits in one recording medium can be specified. An image processing device for correcting image data of an input image is provided,
2. The photographic print system according to claim 1, wherein the photographic printing system is configured to write image data after correction processing by the image processing device to the writing device.   The photographic print system according to claim 1, wherein the write management device is configured to be capable of reducing a file size of an image to be written to the recording medium to be smaller than a standard file size.   4. The photo print system according to claim 3, wherein the writing management device is configured to be able to set whether or not the reduction operation is necessary for each image.   5. The photo print system according to claim 3, wherein the writing management device is configured to be able to set a reduction condition for the reduction operation for each image. In the screen display for accepting reprint orders for photo prints displayed on the monitor, it can be configured not to produce photo prints.
6. The writing management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the writing management device is configured to execute a writing process to the recording medium for an image having a non-zero number of reprints input on the reprint order receiving screen display. The photo print system described in 1.

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